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Nighttime World Vol. 2
ReleaseProduct
Nighttime World Vol. 2
Artist
Robert Hood
Label
M-Plant
Catalogue Number
M-P318
Release Date
April 17, 2000

Review taken from: techsoul July 22, 2008 on Discogs.com

Amazingly intense from its beginning to its end, 'Nighttime World Volume 2' easily can be called Robert Hood's masterpiece. It shows the amazing range of his musical talent. As already mentioned, Hood's focus clearly is set towards Jazz on this album. Still, this is as Techno as Jazz can get.

The interesting thing here is that Hood connects Techno and Jazz mainly through melody and arrangement. For most of the time, he wisely avoids the temptation of just throwing obviously jazzy sounding samples of real instruments and drums into his tracks, and the few times he does, as on 'The Key To Midnight', it makes sense and is on purpose.

However, synthetic instruments remain his first choice almost throughout the whole album. Synthetic brass sounds, synthetic pianos, synthetic drums - but it doesn't make things sound cheap for one moment, because you can hear it's a part of the concept. I believe that this is the reason why even straight minimal Techno tracks like 'Teflon' or 'Dark Room' seem perfectly in place between the variety of other styles this albums has to offer.

There are bassdrum-driven jazz hybrids like 'Stepping out' or the amazing 'Weight Of The World' which has some resemblances with Hood's later piece 'Who Taught You Math?' on Peacefrog. 'Desire', 'Still' and 'Peace' are close in both quality and depth to Neil Oliverra's releases under his Detroit Escalator Company moniker - beautiful, calm ambient tracks. 'After Hours' could be labeled as Future Jazz, while 'The Key To Midnight' and 'Untitled' tend towards jazz-inspired Hip Hop.

The album ends with 'Blackness' on which Robert Hood's wife Eunice gives an impressive and touching spoken-word performance that really makes you think.

I strongly hope that Mr. Hood will consider to give this album a second release sometime in the near future.

This one really, really deserves to be heard.

Digital Tracklist

  1. 1 1 Black Hollywood 0:28 Buy

    1 Black Hollywood

  2. 2 2 The Key To Midnight 3:04 Buy

    2 The Key To Midnight

  3. 3 3 Stepping Out 4:59 Buy

    3 Stepping Out

  4. 4 4 Desire 5:39 Buy

    4 Desire

  5. 5 5 After Hours 6:02 Buy

    5 After Hours

  6. 6 6 Teflon 6:44 Buy

    6 Teflon

  7. 7 7 Formula Galore 7:10 Buy

    7 Formula Galore

  8. 8 8 Weight Of The World 5:11 Buy

    8 Weight Of The World

  9. 9 9 Still 7:13 Buy

    9 Still

  10. 10 10 Untitled 6:05 Buy

    10 Untitled

  11. 11 11 Silent Hill 3:40 Buy

    11 Silent Hill

  12. 12 12 Darkroom 8:29 Buy

    12 Darkroom

  13. 13 13 Peace (Closing Theme) 4:47 Buy

    13 Peace (Closing Theme)

  14. 14 14 Blackness 4:26 Buy

    14 Blackness

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