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Floorplan 'Victorious' (M-Plant)
If he’d only ever made one record – the still-perfect-sounding 1994 reinvention of techno ‘Minimal Nation’ – Robert Hood’s place in music history would still be assured. But he’s kept on keeping on over the years, and particularly thanks to his disco-influenced Floorplan guise, is now at least as popular as he’s ever been. Here, he’s obviously gearing up for demolishing big dancefloors – notably with filter disco, jacking house grooves and inspirational gospel – but even though the dynamics are obvious, the panache in the delivery is something else. There’s even some ‘Minimal Nation’-style techno licks in ‘Mmm Hmm Hmm’ and ‘Ha Ya’ for the heads. It’s all pretty irresistible.
8/10
