Tresor veteran TV Victor returns with two EPs in the midst of Tresor's 30th anniversary. Being an integral part of Tresor even before it all began, Udo Heitfeld founded No Zen Orchestra in 1987 together with Dimitri Hegemann, Günther Schickert and Piers Headley. The first releases on Interfisch, which would later become Tresor Records, saw the crew gathering around Fischbüro (a space for eclectic and dada experimentation) releasing non-comforming hypnotic psychedelic rock experiments, followed by Heitfeld’s solo debut Album Moondance on Big Sex in ‘89 as well as Trance Garden 1-3, his first release on Tresor in ’94. 

TV Victor's new releases GRV Vol. 2 + 3 continue this saga three decades later. This new chapter picks up where GRV Vol.1 left off in 2010, with its release on Tobias Freund and Max Loderbauer's Non Standard Productions label. The sound harkens back to classic downbeat, trip hop and tape loop workouts of the early days. Crystal plateaus float in unison with the pulsating grooves, just like the ebb and flow of the tide, the shifting sand and the lively sea coincide. Even when the waters seem resting at times, the interlocking rhythms move far below their surface. You can't stop these waves, but you can learn how to flow. 

These four tracks show TV Victor at what he does best: major effects with minor changes, micro-timed steps in the grooves, macro-steps in cognition. This is dance music for the mind - an awakening from another world.

GRV Vol. 2

GRV Tr 7

BANDCAMP

TV Victor - GRV Tr 7 (preview)

Preorder now on Juno:  https://www.juno.co.uk/products/ufo95-backward-improvement-vinyl/993800-01/ 

Tresor is a titanic techno brand that has very much had a large say in how the genre has sounded over the last few decades. The German club and label now welcomes Parisian artist UFO95 into the fold with his Backward Improvement EP which draws on elements of all the genre's many niches from London to Detroit to Berlin. 'Cogitor' is thumping and wried up with warped lines, 'Sexual Tension' has a more seductive sound with a rubbery and funky bassline and 'Fragment' then brings panel-beating loops for peak time showdowns. There is pure sci-fi atmosphere to the bells and the sonorous synths of 'Solar' and 'Gargk' closes down with a glitchy and ambient-laced breakbeat monster. Great variation makes this a useful EP.

More from the label: https://www.juno.co.uk/labels/Tresor+Germany/

Backward Improvement

PREORDER

PREMIERE: UFO95 - Fragment [Tresor]

Further information and tracklist: https://bleep.com/bleep-mix-278-ufo95

Leading up to his debut Tresor release Backward Improvement, @ufo95ufo95 has prepared a mix of ultra forward motion and cavernous four to the floor thumps. Starting with tense dissonant chords and sparse hits reverberating in a sci-fi atmosphere, the mix launches us into an hour of hefty techno shuffles, and rebounding rhythms and rumbles. Alongside the unreleased cuts are select tracks from the Sandwell District crew, like ‘Hunting Lodge’ with icy grains flowing between synth stabs while heaving kicks pulsate and implode. “I made this mix on Ableton and added some 909 jams. The major part of the mix contains my unreleased tracks mixed with techno classics from Sandwell District, Silent Servant, Shifted & more. I went through deep, hypnotic, dub and club oriented techno during these 60 minutes.”

Bleep Mix #278 - UFO95

Tresor Expansions: Silent Servant - Chloe Lula - 04 Mar 2024

Parisian producer @ufo95ufo95 debuts on @tresorberlin with six cuts of pared-back techno tackle

The ‘Backward Improvement’ EP is out 8th March – hear the metallic heater ‘Wallon’ now

More info: https://djmag.com/listen/premiere-ufo95-wallon

Premiere: UFO95 ‘Wallon’

Datashader emerges from the shadows with a striking breaks- and bass-heavy debut release that challenges the fabric of our digital existence. Replete with a Dopplereffekt remix, it nods to the legacy of revered anonymous acts such as Scopex, Drexciya and Underground Resistance, pushing the boundaries of both electronic music exploration and its conceptual underpinnings. As a critique of the erosion of genuine human connection in the digital age, Datashader delivers a barrage of billowing subs, infectious electro, recontextualized jungle, and techno, serving as a poignant counterbalance to current dance floor-centric norms. It’s a contemporary anti-soundtrack that offers a haunting mirror to the societal costs of technological convenience.

In a world engulfed by the digital realm, where social media platforms thrive and dominate every aspect of our lives, the enigmatic project known as Datashader was founded to reflect on the pervasive erosion of authentic human connection through various virtual realities.

Artistically, Datashader seeks to critique the impact of technology on human identity and relationships, breaking with an archetype of digital conformity and expressing a profound disillusionment with the superficiality of online interactions through music. Genuine human connection and art cannot be quantified by likes, comments, or followers but rather thrives in the visceral realm of shared sonic experience and human emotion. This idea is at the core idea of Datashader, whose artistic expression ranges from avant-garde composition and electronic experimentations to art, installation, film and more.

Expressed within the varied contexts of diverse artistic mediums, Datashader explores the concept of “technological gentrification”, which describes the gradual displacement of human interaction by technology. Just as gentrification alters the urban landscape, driving out communities and cultures, digital gentrification transforms the social landscape, replacing genuine connection with curated online personas.

Musically, Datashader’s practice confronts this dystopian reality, highlighting the alarming consequence of people becoming mere nodes in a network, reduced to a collection of data points. This is manifested sonically by a blistering assault of breaks, recontextualized IDM, abstract electronics and otherworldly synthscapes, conceived as the aesthetic counterbalance to much of contemporary electronic music’s dancefloor focus.

Datashader dives deep into genres and influences which stand for a form of sonic resistance: A contemporary anti- soundtrack – a sonic mirror of the price we pay for convenience and instant gratification. A self-image in constant flux. No false technological idols. 

#electronic #premiere #electronicmusic #newmusic #hypnoticgroove  #tresor #dopplereffekt #datashader 

Datashader
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/datashader
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/datashader/

Dopplereffekt
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/dopplereffektofficial
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/__dopplereffekt__/

Tresor
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/tresorberlin
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tresorberlin
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tresorberlin/

PREMIERE: Datashader - Breath Controller (Dopplereffekt Gravitational Remodel) (Tresor)

Here's a cut from my recent set, recorded at Tresor's 33rd anniversary <3
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Viikatory @ Tresor Berlin Anniversary [16-03-2024]

Recorded at Tresor Berlin for Tresor Meets Surgeon Klubnacht

2300 - 0300

3x CDJs + Allen & Heath Xone 92

Full tracklist on my substack: https://jurango.substack.com/p/opening-tresor-double-radio-sharing

Jurango @ Tresor Meets Surgeon - 23052024

Tight Gate - Datashader - TRESOR Records [PREMIERE]

Irish-born, Manchester-based Kerrie is a multi-disciplinary artist, incorporating live sets, DJing, producing and running her label Dark Machine Funk across her repertoire of work.
Having garnered a rich musical education through working at and holding a DJ residency for one of the UK's most respected record shops Eastern Bloc, Kerrie's in-depth knowledge and unwavering dedication to music shines through her notable back catalogue and bolshy, unforgiving DJ and Live sets. Honing her craft for over a decade, Kerrie has played worldwide in celebrated venues such as Tresor (resident since 2024), Berghain, fabric, FOLD, Elsewhere NYC and festivals including Freedom Medellin, Freerotation, Drift and Basilar.

ORDER:
https://tresorberlin.com/label/catalogue/

https://soundcloud.com/kerrie_dj
https://soundcloud.com/tresorberlin

PREMIERE: Kerrie - Symbiosis [Tresor Records]

Premiere: Lady Starlight - "Chapter 23" [Tresor Records]

At midnight, on March 13th 1991, a basement door opened at Leipziger Strasse 126, Berlin. Through this door, many passed, on their way to defining new terrains in electronic music. There they found a dance floor in the vaults of a closed-down department store, with a unique sound bound to dense fog, building night after night a history that was also a vision of the future. 

This history has seen in Jeff Mills’ first sets on three turntables, Underground Resistance's first live appearances in Europe, grandiose Tresor Park parties, to various chapters of the Loveparade with Sven Väth in the 90s and since then countless generation-spanning parties. These moments represent the highlights of infinite personal clubbing experiences. It is the manifestation of the Berlin spirit, emerging from its considerable strife. This history is not without its complications - from temporary closure by the authorities and several raids in the early years to closure and demolition of the old location in 2005. What followed was years of wandering in exile and, finally, resurrection in the new home in Kraftwerk Berlin.

These stories, conversations and shared experiences within our walls forge a resilience that drives towards a shared ideal, the Tresor sound: community, resistance, and the world to come. This was observed in the newly re-unified German youth, who danced and celebrated together from the club’s inception, and into the present day through ongoing community work in Detroit. 

Tresor Records was founded in the same year and began to serve as a platform for exporting the new sounds associated with Tresor all around the world. Emergent musicians from Michigan, such as Juan Atkins, Underground Resistance and Drexciya, were pivotal in shaping these early years. Their visits to Berlin would kick-start dialogue between the youth movement in Europe and these musicians. This story is one of friendship and community-building, inextricably linked with cities like Detroit, Birmingham or Edinburgh, where like-minded friends built something truly special, where revelatory rhythms soundtrack decaying industry in corrupted metropoles. 

Tresor Records has been the fertile soil for dozens upon dozens of creative minds, from the very luminaries of the scene who developed electronic music over the last three decades through to contemporary protagonists who are currently defining the sound of the future -  A more than 300 strong catalogue displays an unmistakable identity - the Tresor spirit.

To those that have danced before, and to those that will dance in the future: the light at the end of the long Tresor tunnel is a signal. A flicker amidst the fog. This is our future. This is our place.

TV Victor - GRV Tr 7 (preview)

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