Excerpt from Talk on techno and art: Robert Hood, Arthur Jafa and DeForrest Brown Jr. at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago: https://youtu.be/FlxakRTbxkg
Robert Hood, Tresor artist and founding member of Detroitās Underground Resistance (UR) who created the commissioned soundtrack for artist Arthur Jafaās APEX (2013), joins Jafa in conversation. They discuss the social, aesthetic, and technological relationships between techno and what Jafa refers to as a desire to create āa cinema capable of matching the power, beauty, and alienation of Black music.ā The conversation is moderated by DeForrest Brown Jr., musician, representative of the campaign to Make Techno Black Again, and author of Assembling a Black Counter Culture (Primary Information, 2022), a comprehensive history of techno through a Black theoretical framework.
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Tresor Garden since 1991. From Loveparade afterparties at Leipziger StraĆe, to early club morning gatherings at Kƶpenicker StraĆe. Tresor Records added eight tracks to the Tresor Garden playlist with old and new laid-back classics from the Tresor catalogue, dedicated to this special place: lnkfi.re/tresorgarden
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Terrence Dixon - Early Space Pioneers
Blake Baxter - Drum Major
Surgeon - Dying
Sender Berlin - Liveaufnahme
Savvas Ysatis - Alright (Surgeonās āKeith 4 Nat Mixā)
Infiniti - Never Tempt Me (Flowing Mix)
Surgeon - At the Heart of It All
Neil Landstrumm - Wax Melts Me
Photo from 1995 by G.V. Horst
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Ben Sims b2b Surgeon at Globus, Berlin on 10th May, 2025.
Part 1: https://youtu.be/tJpbb8nlmjw
Part 2: https://youtu.be/4YpKEE6jUkk
"Me and Ben thought it would be fun to play a long DJ set together at Globus, the upstairs floor at Tresor in Berlin. We last played together (as Frequency 7) in May 2013. This time we played a āback to backā DJ set, Iām pretty sure playing 2 tracks each for the whole six and a half hour set. All we had in mind beforehand was to start with some Dub and āsee where it goesā. It was a lot of fun so we wanted to share the recording with you." (Surgeon)
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The 'Globus Trax' EP by LNS & DJ Sotofett is out now: album.link/globustrax
The duo's third release on Tresor Records consists of real TR-909 workouts, rude and driving basslines, live runs through the mixing desk, and a Blake Baxter cover version with LNS on vocals.
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Watch DJ Plant Texture celebrate his EP 'Life', recently released on Tresor Records, with a fully improvised live jam: https://youtu.be/v3OVSWtfTV0
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On June 27, a long-dormant signal reactivates from Hamburgās hidden places: Helena Hauff and F#X return as Black Sites with R4 on Tresor Recordsātheir first full-length album and the first release under the moniker since 2014. Preorder: album.link/R4
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To celebrate the retrospective of Blake Baxter, an artist whose connections to Tresor go back to the very beginning, the label announces a special 12ā release, Dream Sequence X, featuring remastered tracks from the early days and highlighting the harder side of his output: album.link/dreamsequencex
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Surgeon's new album 'Shell~Wave' is coming on May 2nd. The first track 'Soul Fire' is out on digital platforms: album.link/shellwave
Two years after releasing the acclaimed Crash Recoil, Anthony Child aka Surgeon returns to Tresor with new LP, 'Shell~Wave'. Retaining the minimal equipment list and studio-version-of-live-show-sets approach of the previous album in order to focus on the work itself, Shell~Wave is a deeply personal document of both where Surgeon is and has been, converging three decades of experience with a continued curiosity in the untested.
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Music video for 'stadion progg' by LDS, directed by Max Schwarz. Filmed with a KUKA robotic arm and expanded by AI prompts: https://youtu.be/kryOyd_Sj18?si=ooSpo...
Track taken from the EP 'power of 2', to be released via Tresor Records on April 18th
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This is the Official YouTube channel of Tresor Records.
Tresor Records was founded in 1991, the same year a basement door opened at Leipziger Strasse 126, Berlin. Through this door, many passed, on their way to defining new terrains in electronic music.
The label pushed deeper connections beyond Germany, emergent musicians from Michigan, such as Juan Atkins, Underground Resistance and Drexciya, were pivotal in shaping these early years. Their visits to Berlin would kickstart dialogue between the youth movement in Europe and these musicians.
This story is one of friendship, inextricably linked with cities like Detroit and Birmingham, where like-minded friends built something truly special, where revelatory rhythms soundtrack decaying industry in corrupted metropoles.