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Robert Hood | Point Blank

A rather uncompromising piece of angry techno from Detroit's secretive samurai.
CD, Peacefrog/Lowlands

Tekst: da volgaBabe

Publicatiedatum: 07 september 2002

Robert Hood has been travelling many different roads the last few years. His very personal brand of entrancing minimal techno having its roots in Mills' Axis and his own M-Plant, lately he had been investigating the possible permutations of techno with deep house, jazzy vibes and hip hop, along the way founding a new label when he had the time. Consequently the man now has four different imprints, all of which (with the exception of M-Plant on a few occasions) release almost nothing but his own stuff. And, may we say it, his newest full-length for Peacefrog is about the hardest thing he's done since Waveform Transmissions 2. He starts out in aggro mood with the Advent-style industrial percussion of Memo From Thunder and the haunting strings of the equally tense Pitch Black. Sauna offers some relief with moody yet nervous tech-house that eventually succeeds in laying down a kind of Zen techno thing. Then Wrath Meditation is more storming assault techno with an intriguing sitar bit happily taking away our attention from the incessantly pounding beat. Who Taught You Math, the single, returns to the early Robert Hood of The Protein Valve and Internal Empire, while the slower Escapes combines a sneaky house rhythm with dark and hypnotizing patterns. The Body Human brutally obliterates the shelter provided by the previous tracks with jerky and ravaging psycho-techno. The pace is tempered again with the Philip Glass arpeggios of the ambient Method B and the playful collision of sonic electrons that is The Art Of War. With an obligatory Untitled and the hectic violence of The Pipes this session is concluded in the same explosive way as it began. Point Blank is one mean and uncompromising piece of unadulterated techno.

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