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Almost a year after the release of Peter Van Hoesen’s highly acclaimed album 'Perceiver' on his Time to Express imprint, the Belgian producer returns with ‘Life Performance' - a brand new live recording which was captured into a single, long- form listening experience during a specially curated Time to Express label night at Tresor on July 19, 2013.

Coming in October on Berlin's techno institute and record label, Tresor, this new live album represents an important step forward for the producer. Since 2006, Peter has played live in a variety of different settings and situations, from festival circuits and dark, sweaty venues to working with dance and theater companies on stage. Each live performance brought with it a necessary evolution in approach, which led to a varying sense of real ‘live’ interaction. At first, with a setup centered around a laptop, a drum machine was added, then slowly more and more machines entered into proceedings. 

Ultimately though, it was the computer that was to hold central guard in the coordination of each disparate sonic element.

Now, the laptop is being pushed aside, making way for the hardware to be brought fully to the fore, allowing for greater artistic freedom and expression. The focus is to be placed upon live improvisation in the creation of something wholly unique and ever-evolving. Sculpting this sound in real-time, allowing for the exploration of a multitude of possibilities and contorting parameters, in essence, a child-like approach to the idea of ‘playing’, of not being limited by the world around, is what drove this project forward. As Peter explains,

“Making the tracks with the setup in mind as opposed to transposing tracks made in the studio into a live setting is much easier, and much more fun. You can improvise with it freely - and for me that [improvisation] was most important - then decide, in that specific moment, about its tonality and its synthesis. I’m a big fan of synthesis. I don’t work with samples often. If you use samples, there’s no way to really sculpt them - not just from a technical perspective, but also from an artist viewpoint. There’s a freshness and directness you get from being able to interact with the music and audience on a much deeper level than normal.”

Over the course of sixty minutes, the listener is exposed to a broad palette of sounds and patterns. Textural shifts, gentle rhythmic blends, dynamic synths, hooks and arpeggios coagulate into an exceptional aural experience, exemplifying an approach to music production in a live context that is both personal and unique.

11. Peter Van Hoesen - Force Withdrawn

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BC Pre-order: https://gypnotica.bandcamp.com/album/quadraphonous

pi pi pi premiere: Eli Høff - 1t6e8k (Tommy Lewis Remix) {Gypnōticå}

Tracklisting : 

01 - Fhase 87 - God Hands (Original Mix)
02 - Hecticslowpoetic - Strategy (Original Mix)
03 - Linear System - Enclosure (Original Mix)
04 - Noise From Beyond - Cellular Affairs (Original Mix)
05 - ROI - Hermes (Original Mix)

MM015 - Layout 006 - Various Artists - PREVIEWS

Full stream of Polygonia's remix of "Masquerade," taken from Mentrat Noihr's Masquerade EP on SF Records, out February 16.

Pre-order: https://sfrec.bandcamp.com/album/masquerade
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Masquerade

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Premiere: Mentrat Noihr - Masquerade (Polygonia Remix)

At what point does a new tool or technology become so integral to a process as to be intrinsic? And what happens if that technology starts to subordinate its user? 

By reflecting on these questions Machine Alliance, the new EP by Irish producer Kerrie on Tresor Records, connects her music to the sci-fi origins of techno and electronic music in general.

With inspiration from classic books and films of the genre such as The Machine Stops, The Matrix, and Blade Runner as well as modern explorations in art and philosophy like Free Your Mind and Technopoly, the EP's title takes on two opposing but intersecting meanings. 

One, based on the potential for machines to take over or replace humans, is a key idea of sci-fi that seems closer to reality with the arrival of machine learning and real artificial intelligence.

The second has a much more positive view, one where the "alliance" is between the artist and machine to create the music, a process she places immense value on, being both cathartic and therapeutic, whilst also being a vehicle of addition and expansion:


"I feel that it's a collaboration&hellip;the machines are precise in their timing and I add the human touch (literally) in the live performance which adds natural imperfections, so we both provide something the other can't. There's also an element of growth; the machines get updates and so are always expanding in terms of their musical capabilities. And the more I push my own technical abilities I feel we are growing together in a constant synchronised dance."

This "dance" results in four tracks (plus three digital-only bonuses) of classic machine funk which combine the aforementioned ideas in sci-fi with a deep lifelong affection for techno. Tracks like Ode to the D, and Technopoly Dream display this love through her choice of sounds and structure, both intentional and subconscious, while Replicants, and Human in the Loop project into other genres to fully round this release off as a contemporary example of music rooted in both past and future.

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Kerrie - Human In The Loop

Also known as Omrann, Adam Rajab debuts his powerful 8 track album "DEALER" featuring a heavy club focus and some impressive fast percussion work.

Support the album via Bandcamp through this link

Adam Rajab - Martyr

Polygonia - Shadow Cave 
V.A - Chakravyūh [QR100 / Qilla Records]

Produced by Lindsey Wang aka Polygonia
Mastered by Vipul Angirish at Audiosol
Artwork by Aniruddh Mehta at Studio Bigat
Released by Qilla Records from Goa, India
Release Date : May 20th. 2024

Presenting Qilla Records' centennial release. 

'Chakravyūh' (चक्रव्यूह), in ancient Sanskrit, evokes the imagery of a spinning wheel, embodying interpretations of rotating defence formations, mathematical constructs, and symbolic cyclical journeys, all mirroring movement through frequencies and time.

This compilation weaves together the essence of 34 artists from 12 countries. Spanning 222 minutes, each track leads deeper into a collective sonic exploration, blending introspective techno with vibrant psychedelia.

The artwork's radial constellation of 100 spheres represents the interconnectedness of the human experience, with each sphere symbolizing a pivotal step in our journey, highlighting the perpetual motion of creation and evolution.

‘Chakravyūh’ stands as a testament to the Qilla ethos: forging new frontiers while remaining grounded in a community with a shared vision—a reflection of the past, present, and the boundless future.

Immerse yourself in the eternal dance of the cosmos.

Polygonia (Munich, Germany)
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V.A - Chakravyūh

Shadow Cave

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Polygonia - Shadow Cave [Qilla Records]

MM027 - Layout 09 - Various Artists - OUT NOW

MM028 - F.LJ - Kerberos incl. Falling Echoes, Hattori Hanzō, SCHRZØ, Yrsen Remixes - OUT NOW

MM029 - Yrsen - Alien Pursuit - OUT NOW

MM030 - Smbr - Passing Scenery incl. Linear System & Subtil Remix - OUT NOW

Linear System & Subtil - Gravity Shift LP - LIVE SET

Growing up on the north Atlantic island of Iceland bestows one with an unusual and often intense relationship with light and colour: Summers come with endless days, Winters with scant sunlight yet increased sightings of the Aurora Borealis; the mysterious and awe-inspiring glow across the sky. Channelling these energies, Exos comes to Tresor with his Green Light EP, a five-track collection of the sort of spectrally rich techno synonymous with the Northman's 27-year career.

Across the EP, the five tracks fizz and pulsate driving ever forward, making the release's title a three-way play on words referencing the continuous travelling of photons, the verdant warping of the Northern Lights, and the universal colour for Go, for forward propulsion. Smart wordplay can also be found in titles like Gr&aacute;tt Silfur, a term in &Iacute;slenska (literally "grey sliver") which signifies a tension between two parties, further extending the colour metaphor and dark/light dichotomy found elsewhere.


The digital release comes with three extra tracks that continue the dynamic energy, pushed along by the same shifting, mutating force where the music often feels like voices calling out from the darkness or the shimmer of light as the sun rises across the horizon.

Green Light EP continues this year's blazing return from an artist who, similar to his output, is never stagnant: ever changing form yet ever moving forward.

Exos - Dark Light

Body Reflections Pt.1

B2. BNJMN - Syzygy

Tresor Records is proud to present a brand new EP by Pacou. The latest edition on the label's everlasting catalogue marks the first release from Pacou in more more than five years. His last 12", the excellent Sense EP, came out in 2011. 

Three recently produced tracks in the true sound that defines the work of the German techno expert, meet a remix of ‘A Texture’. Initially released on his 1998 Symbolic Language album, ‘A Texture’ is a distinctive interlude, so supreme that it remains a Tresor favorite.

Tresor.292 releases on 12" vinyl and digital, March 24th, 2017.

Pacou – A Texture (Remix)

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