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Berlin-based techno label started in July 1991 by Dimitri Hegemann, taking its name from the techno club set up in an underground vault following the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Formerly a division of Interfisch Records.
Beyond legendary, and above any conceivable descriptive terminology. The label dropped its first release twenty five years ago, and is still going strong. For a genre that is so subdued to sudden twists and changes, to stay on top of the game for quarter of a century, and continually release interesting music is barely imaginable. That is all there is to it.
You can literary build a respectable collection of techno music out of Tresor's back catalog. Furthermore, you can see how the genre has evolved, and ramified, by starting with Tresor 1 moving on through to Tresor 283. No need to look elsewhere. So much quality material has been released under this flagship that pointing out some favorites and essentials would be ridiculously redundant. This imprint has literary encompassed everything from Detroit to Birmingham, from Tokyo to London, from Edinburgh to Madrid and then back to South America, coming full circle in Berlin. The artistic vision is always there. Undeniable professionalism. The sound palette of releases published is vast, yet the focus is always there.
Not everything is classic, but then again with such a back log, who expects it'd be? Furthermore, if memory serves correct, there were no duds either. No rushed, iffy 12" slabs of wax here. So many of Tresor's records reside proudly on my shelf. So so many. I have never in my life met a fan of techno music without at least one record issued under the Berlin based power house. Backed up by one of the finest, highly venerated techno clubs ever, the people behind it have really been at it for a while now, and watch the music and the scene grow into the global phenomenon it has become today. The label's logo is a symbol. A symbol of true, dedicated techno, regardless of the city of origin, united as one. Under Tresor.
You will feel the warmth around your heart when you stand in front of the club. The beaming "dot" shining above the club's entrance. Tresor. Here is to another twenty five years!
Tresor has numerous of legendary artists and releases on the label. They merged Detroit and Berlin as the Berlin-Detroit connection. The cities were the most influences came from at the dawn of techno. Legendary albums like 3 Phase - Der Klang Der Familie, Jeff Mills - Waveform Transmission Vol. 1, Drexciya - Neptune's Lair, Fumiya Tanaka - Unknown Possibility Vol. 2 and i could go on. From melodic Detroit techno to the hard as nails Birmingham sound, tresor has it all. In 1999 they started the mix cd series Globus. Globus was the room above the Tresor.
Before Tresor was opened the club was it was called the UFO but it closed in 1990. Tresor first opened in march 1991. Tresor closed on the 16th of April 2005. The last parties took place from 2nd of april till the 16th of April. The last party started at Saturday Night and was still going on Monday Morning with a back2back marathon set from Richie Hawtin and Ricardo Villalobos, Robots!. In the summertime there was an outdoor stage called Tresor park it was just outside the club. The club was seated in a big business district surrounded by banks and companies at the Leipziger Strasse.
The influence this label (and the club) has had on electronic music, not just techno, cannot be understated. They are true innovators, pushing things into new places and new directions. All the big techno DJs have links with Tresor, and should be damn proud of it, because they don't associate themselves with anyone - only the best. The recently released "Headquarters_Berlin" compilation is just what you need if you want to hear something that pushes boundries.
Berlin, Germany is the home for Europe's longest running techno label and it's associated club - Tresor. When the Berlin Wall finally came down in 1989, the euphoria and celebration of the reunification coincided with the rise of the sounds of Detroit techno among it's youth. Dimitri Hegemann and his Interfisch label opened the Tresor club in Potsdamer Platz - a series of underground, subterranean rooms with iron bars, which were once the vaults for the largest department store in Europe in the 1920's. 'Tresor' is a German word meaning 'vault' or 'safe'. Detroit legends like Juan Atkins, Eddie 'Flashin' Fowlkes and Blake Baxter were among the club's first bookings, and Tresor, the record label, was also built on the sounds of Detroit, starting with the 1991 X-101 project from Underground Resistance (Jeff Mills, Mike Banks, Robert Hood). This influence and inspiration jump-started the local scene, and early productions by Berliners notably included Maurizio, Thomas Fehlmann and DJ Hell.
By the mid-nineties, artists from outside the Berlin-Detroit axis were released on Tresor. Herbert, Neil Landstrumm, Tobias Schmidt, Joey Beltram, James Ruskin, The Advent, Cristian Vogel and Surgeon all contributed to the growing catalogue of continually stunning and ground-breaking releases on the label, mainy drawing a blueprint that is still being followed today.
In 1998, the 100th Tresor record was released, and now the catalogue numbers exceed 180 - incorporating electro, house, experimental, minimal and pure, dancefloor techno.
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30 avril 2016You can literary build a respectable collection of techno music out of Tresor's back catalog. Furthermore, you can see how the genre has evolved, and ramified, by starting with Tresor 1 moving on through to Tresor 283. No need to look elsewhere. So much quality material has been released under this flagship that pointing out some favorites and essentials would be ridiculously redundant. This imprint has literary encompassed everything from Detroit to Birmingham, from Tokyo to London, from Edinburgh to Madrid and then back to South America, coming full circle in Berlin. The artistic vision is always there. Undeniable professionalism. The sound palette of releases published is vast, yet the focus is always there.
Not everything is classic, but then again with such a back log, who expects it'd be? Furthermore, if memory serves correct, there were no duds either. No rushed, iffy 12" slabs of wax here. So many of Tresor's records reside proudly on my shelf. So so many. I have never in my life met a fan of techno music without at least one record issued under the Berlin based power house. Backed up by one of the finest, highly venerated techno clubs ever, the people behind it have really been at it for a while now, and watch the music and the scene grow into the global phenomenon it has become today. The label's logo is a symbol. A symbol of true, dedicated techno, regardless of the city of origin, united as one. Under Tresor.
You will feel the warmth around your heart when you stand in front of the club. The beaming "dot" shining above the club's entrance. Tresor. Here is to another twenty five years!