For BASEMENT’s first show of 2025, we’re inviting the master: Robert Hood returns for a headlining set. Hood’s credentials are indisputable. The Detroit artist was one of the original members of Underground Resistance and worked closely with Jeff Mills to pioneer the modern techno sound - taut, loop-based, minimalist and edgy. His albums “Internal Empire” and “Minimal Nation” are unquestioned, canonical masterpieces that helped set the template for thousands of producers who followed, and his landmark track “Minus” was so influential that Richie Hawtin named a label in honor of it. “This is real trance music,” he once said in an interview. “I don’t know about that other stuff. This is the real deal. My thing was to not make everybody in the club go crazy with this spiritual movement but to have that one guy in the back of the room just lose it and just start to scream. That was my whole focus.” Let Robert Hood take you there. KYRUH picks up the mantle for the next generation with pure swagger and unerring focus. The NY artist keeps it hard and lean, teasing out a vital energy with the vision of an ascendant master. Elle Dee drives it home with a dose of raw, brooding and cathartic techno. She’s a BASEMENT regular for a reason; Elle Dee captures the essential spirit of the genre and brings it forth with nervy authority. Roi Perez returns to lay it out. The Berlin-based selector is a key figure in the house underground. An artist of staggering depth and free-wheeling range, Perez embodies the best of the genre. His sets have the finely-woven depth and varied textures of a tapestry; disparate genres intertwine in intuitive harmony, expressing the full-range from hypnotic, druggy psychedelia to sleazy, down-and-dirty funk to euphoric bliss. Freaky, indelible, perfect; Roi Perez is on his own level. Lyric Hood makes her debut. For years, she’s been by her father’s side in Floorplan, joining Robert Hood on stages around the world to deliver the message of divinely-inspired house. Her own releases on M-Plant echo that project’s searing energy, with soulful, and at times confrontational, vocal flips married to pumping rhythms that capture the timelessness of Detroit. Makadsi returns to set it off. The Lebanon-born, NY-based FUNCTION organizer is a major fixture of NY’s queer underground. With equal footing in the world of subterranean house and iconic pop, Makadsi holds nothing back.