Insane techno tunes

A segment of my 3 hour set that was recorded live during the 2013 Ostgut Ton resident's night at Berghain.

Ben Klock - Berghain 10th Aug 2013

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.

3 Decks & Drummachine

Jeff Mills Live @ Tresor, Berlin Germany 14-12-2000 Part 1

NTS Radio - Marcel Dettmann - 1 h @Trouw, Amsterdam

Recorded at a great warehouse rave in Prague – should have released this earlier, but hey, better a year late than never – enjoy! :)

SOUND w/ Ben Klock (DE) – 1.3.2024, Prague
🔊 Underground Techno | Warehouse Rave | DJ Mix

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Ben Klock - Sound Warehouse Rave Prague 01/03/2024

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Pan - Pot at Awakenings Festival Day Two, June 28th 2015 (Spaarnwoude, Houtrak)

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Pan - Pot @ Awakenings Festival 2015 - Day Two(28 -06-2015)

Underground

Tracklist and download here: http://blrrm.tv/Gfu4uY

It wouldn't be a Boiler Room birthday without inviting back one of Berlin's biggest weapons, Dystopian frontman Rødhåd. And man did he deliver.

Rødhåd Boiler Room Berlin 5th Birthday DJ Set

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SNTS Boiler Room Berlin Live Set

Berlin techno heavyweight Rødhåd makes his eagerly anticipated Essential Mix debut, featuring some of his all-time favourite records and lots of unreleased material.

01 Intro
02 Ø [Phase] - Alone In Time (Unreleased Stripped Version) [Token]
03 Redj - Object Of Desire [Swap White]
04 Kobosil - They Looked On [Ostgut Ton - OSTGUTLP21]
05 Amandras - Achante Guadalupe [Ahrpe]
06 Markus Suckut - A Shibuya Crossing [Sckt - 04]
07 Woo York - Alien Worlds [Dystopian - Forthcoming]
08 Monoloc - Muted [Dystopian - Forthcoming]
09 Rødhåd - Like Tears In The Rain [Dystopian - 010]
10 Daniel Avery - Sensation [Phantasy Sound - PH 50D]
11 Turner - When Will We Leave (Robert Hood Remix) [Ladomat 2000 ‎– LADO 2177-1]
12 Tobias - Like A Drug [Ostgut Ton ‎– OSTGUTLP20]
13 Plastikman - Purrkusiv [Plus8]
14 Marlon D - Jesus Creates Sound [Strictly Rhythm]
15 Blawan - Mine Oh Mine (Pariah Remix) [Ternesc]
16 A&S - Solar Eclipse [A&S]
17 James Priestley & Marco Antonio - Speed (Trevino Remix) [Secret Sundaze - SECRET 007]
18 Jon Hester - Constellations [Dystopian - Forthcoming]
19 Andres Zacco - Beighty [Ilian Tape - ITX06]
20 Samuel L. Session - Loops & Dubs [Hardgroove]
21 Cobblestone Jazz - Wishes [Itiswhatitis]
22 Emmanuel - Cargo [Enemy - EVA 001]
23 Ben Klock - Grip [Ostgut Ton - OSTGUTLP03]
24 Vakula - Modulation 02 [Arma]
25 Gecko - Just Close Your Eyes [Federation Of Drums]
26 Answer Code Request - Modal [Marcel Dettmann - MDR 018]
27 Antigone - Hiraeth [Token - 59]
28 Rue East - Birmingham (Surgeon Remix) [Pure Plastic]
29 Cagedbaby - Hello There (Radio Slave Remix) [Southern Fried - ECB 171DD]
30 Steve Bug - A Night Like This (Octave One Remix) [Poker Flat - PFRDD 21]
31 Trap10 - Tale Of Stu [A.R.T.Less]
32 Electric Rescue - Texture Shot (Inigo Kennedy Remix) [Skryptom]
33 Blawan - Lit Up Communicat [Ternesc]
34 Rommek - Beyond Desire [Blueprint - BP 043]
35 Drumcell - Terminus Effect [Dystopian]
36 Vril - Paradikma [Dystopian - Forthcoming]
37 Plant43 - Emerald Abyss [Shipwrec - SHIPLP 02]
38 Depeche Mode - Peace (Ben Klock Remix) [Mute]




Rødhåd - Radio One Essential Mix

Mixmag In Session: Dax J

Full feature - http://www.mixmag.net/feature/in-session-dax-j/

“Techno is a genre known for its dark and powerful sound, but even in a sphere dedicated to no-holds-barred production, Dax J’s tracks stand out as particularly robust and intense.

Take ‘The Wonk’, from his most recent EP ‘The Invisible Man’, which lays down a tough low-end that ploughs forward with relentless energy. A frantic outer texture sounds like an accordion made out of titanium alloy, quivering in-and-out to disorientating effect. It’s a face-melting cut that that bends the mind of any dancefloor that hears it. Last month he took dancers in Berghain through to Monday afternoon with a 10-hour closing set which was undoubtedly transcendental.

The producer is based in Europe’s techno capital Berlin nowadays, but travelling back to his teen years spent listening to d’n’b and jungle while growing up in London provides insight into his vigorous approach to production.

Dax took up DJing aged 15 as a hobby that soon turned into an obsession. He would gather with friends on school playgrounds to listen to Kool FM radio recordings on their walkmens, until he could no longer confine his passion to break times and would skip lessons to shop for vinyl at Black Market Records in Soho.

Looking for an outlet to publicly air the wax he was buying by the shedload, he came into contact with one of the founders of the Time FM pirate radio station and pestered him with phone calls for a month until he was offered a show. It was hardly a prime slot – the 6-8am Saturday graveyard shift – but he accepted with enthusiasm and set his alarm early every weekend for months to broadcast his sets.

His next pirate stint was on Origin FM, which he held down for four years and in that time began to release music under the name Dangerous, with records arriving through outlets such as Mickey Finns’ Urban Takeover label and his own Xplicit Sound. But while studying Music Technology at university he began to fall out of love with the d’n’b scene, finding the move towards jump-up sounds to be at odds with the rawness and darkness of the music he fell in love with.

Musically disillusioned after graduating, he decided to spend the summer in Ibiza and it was there that he was introduced to techno. Dax was blown away by the spectacle of the clubs and the new music he was hearing, describing his response to Stray Landings as “this music is like drum 'n' bass but slower, I love it!” He returned to producing invigorated with a new direction to follow, yet he didn’t completely forego his roots and regularly works old breaks and the classic amen sound into his techno exploits, making for some of the most high-octane records going.

Dax J’s contribution to the genre since has been massive, co-founding the EarToGround label and going solo with his Monnom Black imprint, curating and contributing to a stacked release schedule that never falters in quality. His work ethic is so strong that he even sets up a micro studio on planes on the way to gigs.

2015 saw the release of debut full-length ‘Shade Of Black’ which was awarded Album of the Month in Mixmag and showcased an artist with an assured vision and uncompromising attitude. It’s a mindset that he carries over to his DJ sets that are characterised by rigid rhythms and forays into pulsating acid. Check out his slamming In Session mix below for a prime example.”

Words - Patrick Hinton, Mixmag


Dax J - Mixmag In Session - Podcast 2016

As broadcasted on Dave Clarke's White Noise Radio.

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Kobosil @ Awakenings Festival 2017 (25-06-2017)

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Kobosil @ Awakenings Festival 2017 (25-06-2017)

Set recorded at PAL last month in Hamburg. Quality sound is poor but good enough for sharing it.

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DJ Hell Plays Techno ! - About Blank - Berlin, 20.10.2017

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