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What’s It Like Playing Nightclubs With Your Dad?

Minimal techno legend Robert Hood and his daughter Lyric Hood, who perform together as Floorplan, on navigating clubland as a father/daughter duo.

With its late nights, loud clubs and standard diet of drugs and alcohol, electronic music generally ranks among the least family friendly genres. While the elder Hood debuted Floorplan in the early 2000s, Lyric joined the project years later, when her parents realized that the scion of Detroit techno royalty simply had DJ-ing in her blood. “It’s like taking the message to the streets,” Robert says “I’ve seen people who minister in places like New Orleans during Mardi Gras, but our approach is probably a lot less preachy, and more of a Trojan horse.

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