Robert Hood
Internal Empire

Listening notes

Robert Hood's Internal Empire appears on Tresor under catalog number TRESOR 27LP, released in 2019 on vinyl. The record spans three sides of programmed material across genres catalogued as Electronic, Minimal Techno, and Techno, with a fourth side completing the set.

The tracklist opens on the A side with the title track, running three minutes and twenty-six seconds, followed by "Minus" at five minutes and twenty-five seconds. The B side carries "Within" at three minutes and eleven seconds and "Home," the longest track on that side, at seven minutes and thirty-three seconds. Side C is occupied entirely by "Rek," a single ten-minute-and-twenty-three-second piece that takes up the full side. The D side closes the record with "Chase" at five minutes and fifty-five seconds and "Spirit Levels" at five minutes and seven seconds.

Taken together, the seven tracks account for roughly forty-one minutes of material distributed across a double LP configuration. The sequencing places the record's longest individual piece, "Rek," alone on a dedicated side, while the remaining tracks are distributed across the other three sides in pairings of varying length. "Home" on Side B and "Chase" on Side D are the longest tracks on their respective sides.

Internal Empire is issued on Tresor, the Berlin-based label with a longstanding association with Detroit and European techno. Hood himself is a Detroit-based artist, and this release represents a pairing of those two contexts under the Minimal Techno and Techno genre designations applied to the record.

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