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Kern Vol.2 mixed by DJ Hell
CD // 2 x 12”s

Kern Vol.2 – The Mix
1. Odori – Movements 1-4
2. Code 6 – Quad 1
3. Dan Diamond – Club Therapy (Peace Division Unreleased Mix) 
4. Dark Comedy – War Of The Worlds (Epic Mix)
5. DJ Yoav B. – Energize
6. The Horrorist – Wet & Shiny (DJ Hell's 2013 Rework)
7. Literon – Machine 1
8. QX1 feat. Emanuel Pipen – Love Injection (Wild Child)
9. Robert Hood – Sleep Cycles
10. No Smoke – Koro Koro
11. SubCulture – Dreams (Tribal Life Mix)
12. Inner City – Ahnongay
13. Halogen – Bliss (DJ Hell's 2013 Rework)
14. Major Problems – Overdose
15. Recondite – DRGN
16. Jonas Kopp – X
17. Shivers – Fornax
18. DJ Spookie – Home Jam
19. Steve Poindexter – Whiplash
20. N.Y. Connection – N.Y.C - The Dub
21. DBX – Blip (Chicago Style - '92 Unreleased)
22. Lisa Cadena – Untitled A1
23. Sebastien San – Arp Madness
24. Recondite – EC10
25. Capracara – Flashback '86 (DJ Hell's 2013 Rework)
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Kern Vol.2 – The Exclusives
A. Jonas Kopp – X
B1. Capracara – Flashback ‘86 (DJ Hell’s 2013 Rework) 
B2. Halogen – Bliss (DJ Hell’s 2013 Rework)

Kern Vol.2 – The Rarities
A. Daniel Bell – Blip (Chicago Style – ‘92 Unreleased) 
B1. Major Problems – Overdose
B2. Sub-Culture – Dreams (Tribal Life Mix)

Hot on the heels of DJ Deep’s inaugural Kern mix for Tresor comes ‘Kern Vol.2’, selected and mixed by Gigolos boss DJ Hell. Hell has a track record of releasing benchmark mixes, most notably the wildly eclectic mix for Belgian club FUSE in 2000, and 1995’s ‘X-Mix 5: Wildstyle’, whose concept he feels is ‘not far away from Kern Vol.2’.

For ‘Kern Vol.2’, the Munich / Berlin machine dug deep into his vast collection to unite early House and Techno with the new wave. To start the process, he searched in the most obvious place: his basement.

“I was finding records I didn’t know that I still owned,” he explains, adding that there are “so many stories behind each track. It’s not just the music – after 20 years there are so many memories that come back”.

The first 12” comes packed with exclusive tracks, specially crafted for Kern Vol.2 and carefully selected and re-edited by DJ Hell.

Argentinean producer extraordinaire Jonas Kopp offers his own interpretation of the Hell sounds with ‘X’, an incendiary and wreckless number of instant gritty appeal.

On the flip, two reworks operated by Hell specially for the occasion. The infamous Flashback ‘86 by Capracara receives a raw treatment, for full dancefloor effect. The 1993 classic by Halogen (aka Zach Roberts), Bliss gets extended and reconstructed with complete new drums.

Hell feels that ‘Kern Vol.2’ is a product of crate digging and vinyl culture, but rather than keeping it to him- self, he wants to share it with as many people as possible: “This music is very powerful & timeless and had a huge influence on me.

I have been Djing since the late 1970s and playing house since 1985 - this is my life.” As autobiographies go, ‘Kern Vol.2’ makes for a compelling opening chapter.

Kern Vol.2 mixed by DJ Hell - The Exclusives

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After more than two decades of behind the scenes collaboration Juan Atkins & Moritz von Oswald present Borderland - their debut collaborative album to be released this summer on Tresor Records.

The album - made up of 8 sequences, which seamlessly blend the styles of both masters - was recorded at the beginning of 2013 over various studio sessions in Berlin and will be released as a series of three 12"s and a CD album. Limited to 500 units, pressed on heavy vinyl and packed in hefty sleeves, the three part vinyl series, gathers all but one title present on the CD format. 

Together with a series of live shows debuted in May at MUTEK festival, with follow-ups in Berlin, Amsterdam, London, Paris - the record gives common voice to two independent yet mutually supporting musical journeys, achieving a singular expression of club-orientated electronic music and the freedom of organic musical experimentation.

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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.

Kern Vol.2 mixed by DJ Hell - The Exclusives

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