Since 1991, Tresor has provided a home for artists to develop their ideas for advanced new sounds and broadcast them to the world. The pioneers that first traversed the Detroit-Berlin connection and were at the forefront of a new cultural movement gave to Tresor its original and continuing mission: community, resistance and reshaping the world to come.

The Tresor 30 compilation represents a major landmark in this continuing history of electronic music. This unique collection of music profiles some of the artists that gave the previous three decades of Tresor its sound and foundation, but it also casts its gaze forward. Writing new postcards from the future, this collection brings new artists who maintain a connection to that original mission to the fore, charting ways in which this ethos can continue to build bridges and break walls in the next 30 years.

Bringing together 52 essential tracks - both classics and exclusive commissions - each of the 12 records in this box-set charts a unique line of flight from those artists that helped define the shape of this new music to those who continue to pattern its landscape further.

The future is bright and it’s now.

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Jeff Mills - Late Night (preview)

Jeff Mills, along with Robert Hood, Carl Craig, and Joey Beltram, is one of the biggest American names in techno. Championed for his music's relentless pursuit of hardness and his stripped-down, almost industrial DJ sets, Mills is the latest in a long line of Detroit-bred talent to take on an international reputation.

A founding member of noted Motor City institution Underground Resistance, Mills helped build the artist roster and label ideology (as well as much of its back catalog) with partners "Mad" Mike Banks and Robert "Noise" Hood before moving to New York in 1992 to pursue more vigorously his solo and DJ career (with a resident spot at the legendary Limelight and a recording contract with the noted German label Tresor). (Although rumors of bad blood between the early UR crew have been denied by all involved, Mills' decision to split was apparently total, with Banks all but repudiating his involvement with Mills and Mills distancing himself from the continuing political militancy of Banks and the UR organization.) 

Mills' UR-related releases (including "The Punisher" and "Seawolf") are stripped-down and erratic, fusing elements of hardcore acid and industrial techno to the sparse Detroit aesthetic. Not surprisingly, his post-UR sound hasn't eased a bit, although UR's penchant for the four-track has been replaced by higher-quality production.

Prior to his involvement in UR, Mills was a DJ at Detroit public radio station WDET (he was also studying architecture at the time), spinning everything from Meat Beat Manifesto and Nine Inch Nails to Chicago house and underground Detroit techno. He began producing in the mid-'80s, working with Tony Srock on the project the Final Cut. 

Mills met Banks through a local garage group Members of the House, who Banks was working with in the late '80s. Mills remixed a track on a Members 12-inch, and his and Banks' shared love for Chicago soul and the harder edge of Detroit techno blossomed into Underground Resistance as a combined business and creative enterprise. The pair, along with Robert Hood, recorded several EPs and singles together, including tracks such as "Waveform," and "Sonic," before Mills defected to New York in 1992 to pursue a residency at the Limelight club and a solo career recording for Tresor and his own label, Axis. Mills' discography includes two full-length volumes of Waveform Transmissions for Tresor, a live album and rarities collection for the British label React, and the first album in a new contract with Sony Japan, as well as a handful of 12-inch EPs on Axis and several collaborations with Robert Hood on his M-Plant label. In 2000, Mills took more memorable action by scoring a new soundtrack for Fritz Lang's 1926 film Metropolis, screened around the world at venues including the Museum of Music in Paris, London's Royal Albert Hall, and the Vienna International Film Festival.

Jeff Mills @ The Fire Burning, Cherry Moon, Lokeren  01.04.1994

W&p by
Mathias D. Clain
Created, recorded, mixed at Sound Sculptures studio Belgium - Recorded in real-time - All rights reserved (C) 2025 Sabam

A49 Untitled

W&p by
Mathias D. Clain
Created, recorded, mixed at Sound Sculptures studio Belgium - Recorded in real-time - All rights reserved (C) 2025 Sabam



A65 Untitled

A69 Version Untitled

W&p by
Mathias D. Clain
Created, recorded, mixed at Sound Sculptures studio Belgium - All tracks recorded in real-time and mixed afterwards as this set with DAW - All rights reserved (C) 2025 Sabam

Recordings End October 2025 Mixed

tape recording at rave satellite radio fritz, late 90ies

Robert Hood - Kiss FM Special Love Parade 199x (a-side)

Live At The Liquid Room, Tokyo pt3 - Jeff Mills

The ongoing importance of this album is indisputable, essential both to techno and to Tresor. It is a history intertwined. 

Waveform Transmission Vol.3 initially came out in 1994 on Tresor Records and is a significant piece within Jeff Mills’ masterwork. The eight titles on the album marked a turning point for Jeff Mills. It indicates a transition from the straightforward sound he had created through the early 1990’s, into the different facets and sound pallet he will develop through the remainder of the decade.

"As barriers fall around the world, the need to understand others, the way they live, think and dream are tasks that's nearly impossible to imagine without theory and explanation. As we approach the next century with hope and prosperity, this need soon becomes a necessity rather than a recreational urge. Theories and subjects of substance are the elementary elements that fuels the minds of our Axis”.  – Jeff Mills

This edition is a stamped and hand-numbered run, limited to 1500 units.  

Tresor.25 releases November 2nd on 180g. vinyl 2LP.

Waveform Transmission Vol.3

Jeff Mills - DNA (preview)

jeff mills - dna

Mathias D. Clain - Sound Sculptures, Belgium
Soul and raw analog Techno..

A69 Version Untitled

Mathias D. Clain

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