Tresor

djinsomnia, Jun 28, 2002

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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