In 1992, Hood left Detroit (and UR) with Jeff Mills, setting up shop in New York and recording a series of 12" EPs with Mills. Throughout the mid-'90s, Hood focused on his solo work, setting up M-Plant in 1994 and releasing singles such as "Internal Empire," "Music Data," and "Moveable Parts." Although his desire to remain underground was replaced by an urge to reach a wider audience, Hood remained fiercely critical of artistic and economic movements destructive to inner-city communities and combined his musical enterprises with outreach and social activist ends. Over the course of two decades, Hood built and sustained a reputation for being one of techno's most reliable album artists, beginning with a pair of crucial 1994 releases: Internal Empire (Tresor) and Minimal Nation (Axis). Cheap released Nighttime World the following year, and it was followed by M-Plant's release of Nighttime World, Vol. 2 in 2000. An association with Peacefrog yielded 2002's Point Blank and 2003's Wire to Wire.

Following several Hoodmusic EPs, Hood released mix CD Fabric 39 in 2008. After the 2010 and 2011 M-Plant releases Omega and Omega: Alive, Hood linked with Music Man for 2012's Motor: Nighttime World, Vol. 3. He then released two albums under his disco- and gospel-influenced house alias Floorplan, Paradise (2013) and Victorious (2016). For the latter release, Floorplan became a duo with the addition of Hood's daughter, Lyric. In between both Floorplan albums, triple-CD anthology M-Print: 20 Years of M-Plant Music was released. In 2017, Hood's solo album, Paradygm Shift, was released by Dekmantel. ~ Sean Cooper, Rovi