Detroit’s finest, the legendary minimal master Robert Hood presents ‘Motor: Nighttime World 3’, arguably some of his best material in a long while. Returning to the project he first started with Austria’s Cheap label back in 1995 and subsequently continued in 2000 on M-Plant, Hood blends his trademark minimal techno manipulations with jazz inflections and smoke-lit downbeat pathways. He shakes up his timeworn approach further with snapshots of rhythm that don’t rely heavily on the 4/4 and instead on occasion opts for more arresting hip-hop flourishes. But don’t let that put the techno heads off, it’s still Hood through and through and is pretty much as sublime as it gets..