Tresor (German for safe or vault) is an underground techno nightclub in Berlin and a record label.

History:

The club was founded in March 1991 in the vaults of the former department store Wertheim at Leipziger Strasse 126-128 in Mitte, the central part of East Berlin, next to the Potsdamer Platz. The history of the club goes back to 1988 when the electronic music label Interfisch opened the Ufo Club in Berlin. Ufo was the original centre of Berlin house and techno, but due to financial problems that club closed in 1990.
After Ufo closed, Interfisch's head, Dimitri Hegemann, and some investors in the club found the new space in East Berlin. This was advantageous timing, as it was only a few months before Germany unified. The vaults under the Wertheim department store proved to be the perfect location for a club, and Tresor quickly became the place to be in Berlin. Tresor continued to be a popular club, having expanded and reconstructed continuously several times to include an outdoor garden area, and a second "Globus" floor. The Tresor floor in the basement was reserved specifically for hard techno, industrial and acid music, while Globus was featured mainly more mellow house sound. The record label Tresor Records was founded soon after the club first opened, in October 1991. Featured artists on the label include Jeff Mills, Blake Baxter, Juan Atkins, Robert Hood, Drexciya, Stewart Walker, Joey Beltram, DJ Surgeon, Pacou, Cristian Vogel and many others.
In 2004 the documentary "Tresor Berlin: The Vault & the Electronic Frontier" was released. Directed by Mike Andrawis, it features interviews with Hegemann, Carola Stoiber, and DJs & artists associated with the club & label. The film covers the period from Hegemann's involvement with the Fishladen and UFO clubs in Berlin-Kreuzberg to the final months prior to Tresor's closure.
Tresor closed on 16 April 2005, after several years' prolonged short-term rent. The city sold the land to an investor group to build offices on the Leipziger Straße location. It was open for each night of April 2005, with the final event starting the Saturday night with queues stretching all the way down the road, and still going Monday morning.
Tresor reopened on 24 May 2007 in the decommissioned southern tract of the combined heat and power plant Heizkraftwerk Berlin-Mitte in Köpenicker Straße. 
Since November 2019 the club has a subsidiary in the city of Dortmund called Tresor.West. 
In September 2022, Tresor published a photobook, Tresor: True Stories, to document the past 30 years of its history.

Techno Mixes

British Murder Boys Live @ Tresor, Berlin Germany 11-07-2003

Interview: https://djmag.com/features/recognise-085-sol-ortega

Buenos Aires’ breakout techno star @sssolortega cuts thunderous grooves with an old school sense of swing for the Recognise mix series, and speaks to Claire Francis about hometown loyalty, staying true to her tastes, and nurturing a passionate underground community with her Máquina Latina party.

Interview

Recognise 085: Sol Ortega

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 ‘back to back’ DJ set, I’m 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 ‘see where it goes’. 

It was a lot of fun so we wanted to share the recording with you.



Ben Sims b2b Surgeon at Globus, Berlin 10th of May, 2025

Red Room, Closer #104 Amelia, Milan, IT 24 May 2025

Speedy & Steve - Reddo (Mote-Evolver - MOTE065)
Justin Berkovi - Echoes Of Subversion (MB Elektronics - MBE190)
Dj Dextro - Vacuum Decay (CLR - CLR129)
Mark Broom - Flanger (Beard Man - BMD050)
Chris Liebing - Kaizen (CLR - CLR128)
Goran Kan - Sirens (TuneCore - 859797688959)
Robert Hood - Art Form (M-Plant - MPMD2502)
Ian Pooley - Celtic Cross (Len Faki Remix) (Figure - FIGURE 75.5)
Jackin Trax & Don Rimini - Red Alert (RSPX - RSPX76)
Lewis Fautzi - Modified Experiments (Faut Section - FAUT066)
Toni Alvarez - Groove System (Planet Rhythm Records - SPSERIES009)
Ø [Phase] - Nonphysical (Modwerks - MDWXLP000DD)
Dj Rush - Sex Me All Night Long (Charlie Hall Remix) (Pro-Jex - PROXLP4)
Mark Broom - Dated (RSPX - RSPX73)
Nastia Reigel - If So Then (Falling Ethics - FEX021)
Pres - Mutual Ideas (Kr!z Remix) (Evilgroove Records - EGLP002)
Björn Torwellen - March Of The Transients (Nachtstrom Schallplatten - NST184A)
Justin Berkovi - Rage (MB Elektronics - MBE190)
Risa Taniguchi & Black Asteroid - Gunk (CLR - CLR105)
D.A.F. - Der Mussolini (Turbo Turbo Remix) (CDr)
Burglar Tom - Means To The End (Burglar - BURGLAR003)
Emmon - Machines (Terence Fixmer Remix) (International Deejay Gigolo Records - GIGOLO366)
Steve Bicknell - Easing Into Tomorrow (KR3 Records - KR3016)
The Advent - Passive Aggressive (Truncate Remix) (Truncate - TRUNCATEDGTL44)
Jeff Mills - DNA (Sims JFF Edit) (CDr)
Dj Funk - Happy Feet (Remix) (International House Records - IHR9023-1)
Dj Geto Man - Acid Space (Urban Kickz Recordings - UKR398)
Video Dave - Booty People (Wilko Remix) (Pimp Records - PIMP 007)
Dj Geto Man - Acid Space (Urban Kickz Recordings - UKR398)
Gary Beck - Lost Angel (Code Records - CODE39)
Lester Fitzpatrick - Manipulation (Urban Kickz Recordings - UKRSS248)
Zoot Woman - Living In A Magazine (Paper Faces Remix) (Wall Of Sound - WALL T 072)
Rosa Damask - Adore You (Dave Clarke Club Solitaire Remix) (Downwards - DNDS1)
The Southern - B2basic (CLR - CLR126)
Pushmann - That Modern Loop (Truncate - TRUNCATEDGTL43)
Steve Bicknell - The Power Pyramids (KR3 Records - KR3016)
Bendik Baksaas - Do Easy (Lewis Fautzi Remix) (Snick Snack - SNACK042)
The Southern - Myself Yourself (Iturnem Music - IT35)
Renato Cohen - Pontapé 2013 Remake (Drumcode - DC108)
Risa Taniguchi - Hypes Come Hypes Go (Mind Medizin Records - MDZN032)
Surgeon - Soul Fire (Tresor - TRESOR373)
Harvey McKay - Addicted (BEK Audio - BEK062)
Bloody Mary - Reality Three (Slam Mix) (Dame Music - DAME050)

Closer 2025 (Exclusive)

Next up on the GROOVE Podcast is Estella Boersma (@estellaboersma). Go to bit.ly/BoersPod for interview and track list.

GROOVE Podcast 469 – Estella Boersma

Deftly merging her background in sound design with techno and its real world applications, Toxido Mask is a shadowy DJ/Producer who calls Berlin home and has been challenging the fringe of her craft for over a decade. Her fastidious selections and skill on the decks are nothing short of legendary, providing experiences that rumble and vibrate with mystical power, characterised by a raw intensity and fragile balance between ‘harmony and disharmony, clarity and distortion’, a testament to the transformative nature of the genre and her keen understanding of it. She’s a Tresor resident and curator of the OMM Transmission Podcast and party series, an outlet for further explorations into the murky world of this defiant sound. Productions too have offered a glimpse into the shifting sands of her percussive mayhem with releases on Semantica Records, Aneelhi and Pregnant Void. Toxido’s paradigm has found form wherever possible and proven her singular vision can constantly change and provoke. Bassiani Podcast 274 is a dose of primal techno that radiates and consumes its listener, expansive and potent beats from a formidable talent. 

@toxido-mask

Bassiani invites Toxido Mask / Podcast #274

Alexi Delano - Club NEU_Summer Closing 2025_p1

Half of boundary-pushing production outfit Voices From The Lake and co-founder of Spazio Disponibile, Neel is an Italian producer with a keen ear for complex, enveloping sonics; his ample, elegant pieces of music sitting right at the junction of beatless abstraction and intricate webs of electronic pulsations. Boasting his works’ most dynamic side, Neel’s debut transmission on RYC ushers us into a smouldering pit of molten steel and glassy membranes. Playing with echoes and latency as he builds his own multi-sensory experience out of eclectic fragments, Neel transports us to a zone where movement and inertia rule in concerted harmony, and your suddenly weightless body feels eventually free from today’s iteratively chaotic burden. Uplifting.

soundcloud.com/neel


Reclaim Your City 661 | Neel

Project313 Live at Bar Americas, Guadalajara MX May 13 2017 @baramericas

Project313 Live at Bar Americas 2017

Performed live at Club Cool - Orense, Spain 05.21.2005 

Elton D - El Paso - Sway 
Kobaya - Douglas Track - Recon Warriors 
Cave - Speleon - Spilo 
Pratap - A1 - Mankind 23 
Frank Biazzi - Introspection - Invasion 
Chipi - Coracao - Manuke 
Paul Mac - uknowit - C-Side 008 
Valentino Kanzyani - Sala Global - Recycled Loops 
Valentino Kanzyani - Sheraton-Impulse - Tronic 
Dylan Drazen - Beacon 2 - White 
WJ Henze - 1500 tc Scan - Bound 
Michael Lambart - Kellerspiele - Apwood 
Makantonio & Rino Cerrone - Total Impact - Analytic Trail 
Chris Liebing - Disorder And Chaos (Titanium rmx) - CLR 
Reeko - Divina Venganza - Mental Disorder 
Invexis - The Bat - Expanded 
Invexis - A2 - TST20 
Invexis - Substratum - Expanded 
Invexis - B1 - TST20 
WJ Henze - Care Free Handling - Bound 
Invexis - A1 - TST20 
Monokilla - Brothers - Ghostwriter 
Ben Long - Prodrive Rmx - Mastertraxx 
Ogi - Klan - Giant & Dwarf 
Roku Remixes (Ben Simms/Mark Broom rmx) - PGVR-04 
Dean Rodell - Empty Skin - Fresh Grind 
A. Johansson & M. Fridell - Renascent - Audio Assault 
Invexis - Kalibreur - Salpeter 
Cole - It Came From The Darkness - Holzplatten 
Patrik Skoog - Revolt - Audio Assault 
The Postman - Nuclear Rectal Drill - Overdrive 
Lars Klein - Bend In The River - Arms 
Andreas Kremer - Drums From Hell - LFR 
Ryuji Takeuchi - Climax Control - Arms 
Robert Natus - Das Letste Gefecht - Blitzkrieg 
DJ Rush & Robert Natus - For The Kids- Bitshift 
Invexis - Loop Forever - Salpeter 
Masters of Disaster - Babaa - Beat Disaster 
Dylan Drazen - On Tilt - Ascend

Cool (2005)

Older Damon Wild Mix for 611 Records (1998) Phily, USA. Uploaded on request. Will be here for only a while.

Damon Wild 611 Records -New York Session Vol. 1

No discussion of underground techno purism and technical DJ mastery would be complete without the mention of Dylan Drazen’s uniquely remarkable life and career, and the myriad of musical influences it has brought. Conforming to no one person, genre or entity, Dylan has fiercely charted his own path since his sonic journey began over thirty years ago.

With the outset of Drazen’s path arriving in the early 90’s at the age of 18, a crescendo would already manifest by the late 90’s when Spain took note of his visionary methods and pioneering sound during the earliest days of the Internet, and he quickly became an originating stalwart of its nationwide underground techno scene for years, putting in over a million air miles commuting from his New York base, crisscrossing the Iberian peninsula many times over, as fans couldn’t get enough of his relentlessly energetic, organic and authentic rhythms that were so novel to a generation of partygoers.

Yet at the height of all this in the mid 2000s Dylan became swept up in the worldwide poker boom and found himself at a crossroads with dual careers. Maintaining both for nearly a decade, he decided to relocate to South Florida in 2012 to take poker more seriously and music took a back seat. By 2020, Dylan’s poker talent would bring him over $1 million in cash and tournament winnings. Then the pandemic hit, the world ground to a halt and everything was reset as he noticed fans begging for his return, bringing him to yet another crossroads…

So let’s reset.

Dylan’s exposure to multiple forms of music began at the age of 16 getting his first job working at his local record store on Long Island, NY. He quickly gravitated to electronic music, heavily inspired by what New York’s FM airwaves had to offer well before the hiphop era would take over. That summer he would sneak out to NYC and into his first club experience, The Limelight, where he instantly fell in love with its debaucherous environment and DJ booth, which he vowed to get into.

By graduation in 1993 he was beyond hooked. Before heading off to college, he took that summer to intern at a few Manhattan based labels: Todd Terry’s Freeze Records, as well as Astralwerks and Instinct Records. All the while insatiably crate digging through NY’s various vinyl shops, Dylan’s teen self was already swimming in local contacts and influences.

But college awaited, and throughout his time at Boston’s Emerson College (obtaining a degree in audio engineering) he launched a weekly radio mix show called “Underground 88” on WERS 88.9 FM through 1997, working his contacts and continuing to hone his technical skills live on air. During these formative years Dylan maintained working at various vinyl shops in NY and Boston doggedly advancing his exposure to every genre imaginable, thus contributing to his encyclopedic knowledge of electronic dance music and all of the wide-ranging influences it would bring him. As a byproduct, his position enabled him to recommend tracks to and influence the taste of bedroom DJs and a myriad of luminaries alike.

Through these years, he even made good on his promise to play at The Limelight before it shuttered, as well as other infamous New York megaclubs like The Tunnel, Twilo and Save The Robots. And thanks to his stint as assistant engineer at The Looking Glass Studios where David Bowie was recording his latest album in 1997, Dylan was hired to DJ Mr. Bowie’s private 50th birthday party after his sold out birthday performance at Madison Square Garden.

But by the turn of the millennium it was off to the races and Dylan was spending more time on the road than at home, as he found himself in demand not only in Spain, but also in The Netherlands headlining the Awakenings festival three times, as well as other major events and festivals in Germany, Brazil, Japan, and Colombia, spreading his unique form of techno gospel one city at a time. 

Between journeys Dylan made the most of his audio degree by building out his own studio in Brooklyn, releasing a handful of original releases and remixes on some of America’s more influential labels of the era: François K.’s Clicktracks; Ascend; Blueline; Remains; and Ultra Records. Even after moving to South Florida in 2012, Dylan continued to work on remixes for other Spanish and European labels.

Then as Dylan began to go dark quietly diving head first into South Florida’s world of high stakes poker, he made sure to finalize the curation of his life’s work on his website and SoundCloud page, with that nagging feeling he would one day return…

That day arrived in 2021 when Dylan decided to look for work as a local DJ in Fort Lauderdale and its saturation of gay nightlife. His bimonthly residency at the legendary Ramrod helped pave his way back, growing just as comfortable in today’s booths as he did 20 years prior.

After a couple years of this and then launching The Techno Files podcast, he realized it was time for more. So in 2025 Dylan decided to relocate once again, this time to the birthplace of where it all began: Detroit.

Within his first year as Detroit resident, Dylan was already playing events for Detroit Techno Militia & Bang Tech 12, along with multiple appearances at Spot Lite, Spkrbox & TV Lounge.

New York-born, Miami-tested, now Detroit-welcomed: Dylan Drazen is primed and ready to return to the world’s electronic stage showing modern audiences how 30 years of sonic mastery, experience and musical influence can be put on brilliant display in a single set.