Various – True Spirit.

Late Night (Mills Mix) is a vinyl rip, apparently the master tapes for Jeff Mills - Berlin are lost. Jeff Mills later re-released it with 3 unreleased tracks on the reissue of Jeff Mills - Waveform Transmission Vol. 1 but it doesn't sounds as good as this vinyl rip imo so I don't think this is a proper remaster.

Lol, it's been released 20 years ago.. All the tracks included were already 10 years old a the release date. XD

Some real classics innit !

So many great records on this and the other true spirit double. Some of the very best to come out of Detroit, Chicago and Berlin across the packs. Get it!! Get em both!!

A1: Old school techno. Huge screaming synth loops, driving hoover, rapid beat climaxes. It's all here in this ground braking release. production is excellent for it's time. Aggressively dated though. [SEVEN]
A2: Proper techno. As opposed to the A1 this is astoundingly fresh in it's loop, beat building and pitch changing. Perhaps the breakdown reveals it's age but is no less effective for it. Dynamite dancefloor destroying stuff. The sound cuts at the end are legendary. [GOLDTEN]
B1: Old school. More high pitched synth loops but there's a lot more going on here. Huge variation in use of LFO's and deep growling synths. Epic stuff but the breakbeat section though common still sounds particularly out of place in the present. [EIGHT]
B2: Old Techno. Moody bass track is juxtaposed with smile inducing synthloops. Definately a peculiarity but one i can't help loving. A real one off as far as i'm concerned, making it even more enticing. [TEN]
C1: Loopy Techno. Pounding relentless stuff building to almost a wall of noise. Nicely teased and treated and there's always the haunting detroit loveliness bursting to break out and dominate the track which it rightfully does at the finale. Fierce but tameable. [NINE]
C2: Spacey techno. Has that spacey bleepy detroit sound and "drugs work" vocal sample. Rather understated soreally to be played as a curiosity that a dancefloor mover. [EIGHT]
D1: Classic Detroit Loopy techno (45RPM). Maybe not as fresh as Mills' A2 but still massively influential and massively enjoyable. Basic synth loop and pounding 4/4 brought in and out with good effect and and bit of higher pitch synth work to add bite doesn't sound like a great deal but it still manages to be a monster. [TEN]

This collection is a compilation in a way a compilation should be. Not only the music is great, the whole concept of the release is high above average. We have three discs here, packed in a great designed cardboard box with a thick booklet in it, containing interesting informations about all the artists and the history of the Tresor label/club itself.
"True Spirit" was my introduction to the sound of Tresor Records and it made me addicted from the first track on.
Disc one contains basically the hard techno sound of the first half of the 90s, disc two contains very hard techno, mainly from the second half of the 90s, and the third disc presents the more house oriented kind of techno.
Highlights? Well, there is no bad track on any of this discs, there are all essentials. Tresor addicts will probably have many of these tracks, but for beginners this compilation is the perfect guide.
A dignified birthday sampler for Tresor!

100% Tresor Techno with fine track-selection form past to present. There's also a more elaborate 3-cd-box that contains more hard to get tracks. This one was meant as sort of a "best of the best" & ofcourse that's very hard to do in just a dozen of tracks. I guess everybody's Tresor Top 10 would be different?
I was able to pruchase this one in a plastic sleeve at one of my last visits ever to Tresor's legendary Love Parade-afterparties, but I've never seen it in any shop, so I guess it's pretty rare.

My favourites are: the über-classic "Der Klang der Familie", Mills' "The Extremist", the melancholic electro of Drexciya's "Lost Vessel" & the pure abstract madness of Surgeons "Intro (Version II)"