PARADISE by FLOORPLAN AKA ROBERT HOOD

2015 repress! Double pack with full colour outer & inner sleeves. 'Paradise' is Robert Hood's debut album release as Floorplan !'Paradise' is Robert Hood's debut album release as Floorplan, a dancefloor alias he has used since he announced his Drama imprint with the highly sought after 'Funky Souls' EP in 1996. Taking Hood's minimal techno approach and embellishing it with elements of house, disco, funk and gospel Floorplan now realizes its full-length potential some 17 years since its inception. Good things, indeed, come to those who wait. The last five years have seen Robert Hood in astonishingly prolific form with an album release every year since the 2009 re-issue of the genre defining 'Minimal Nation'. This was swiftly followed a year later by new artist album 'Omega', then Robert's first live album 'Omega:Alive' in 2011 and last year's highly lauded 'Nighttime World 3' which graced end of year charts across the world. Now Robert Hood focuses his attention firmly on the dancefloor. Since the 2010 'Funky Souls' re-press on Rush Hour re-introduced the hibernating project, Hood has since released three Floorplan EPs including 'Living it Up', the 'Sanctified EP' and last year's 'Altered Ego' EP. The three EPs subsequently spawned the massive club hits 'Baby Baby', 'We Magnify His Name', 'Altered Ego' and 'Living it Up', taking Robert Hood's name across the techno/house divide. You could even say that Robert Hood could be a victim of his own success: Floorplan, which started off as a side-project, is starting to sound as vital as the searing minimal techno he releases under his own name. New album 'Paradise' takes us through a mixture of house, soul, funk and gospel � all underpinned by Hood's trademark driving minimal techno approach. 'Altered Ego' is a perfect example of Hood's tough view of house music; over an insistent groove a building chord sweeps in, taking with it a repetitive vocal sample. But it's the nagging, relentless filtering of these elements, coupled with the deep resonance of the backing rhythm that make 'Ego' so memorable.