About Robert Hood
Robert Hood is a Detroit-born techno DJ and producer who co-founded Underground Resistance as its self-styled Minister of Information alongside Mad Mike Banks and Jeff Mills, forming one of the genre's most influential collectives. After leaving UR in the early 1990s, Hood pioneered a minimalist strain of techno alongside contemporaries including Daniel Bell and Richie Hawtin, developed in reaction to the increasingly hardcore, high-energy direction techno was taking at the time.
In 1994 he founded M-Plant, his own minimal techno label based in Detroit, which became a vehicle for his stripped-down productions and DJ output over the following decades. Hood has continued to tour internationally, performing at institutions across Europe and releasing on Fabric's mix series, and has spoken about the future of Detroit and the evolution of the genre in interviews tied to his ongoing releases.
Now based in Alabama, he remains an active touring DJ whose influence on minimal techno's development is widely cited by artists across the scene. Hood is often described within techno circles as the genre's head minister, a figure whose Detroit roots and Underground Resistance history continue to inform both his production style and his outspoken commentary on techno's direction.