The term annex typically describes a structure joined to a main building, offering extra space or function. In this spirit, Tresor Records revives the ANNEX series with a new end-of-year collection that serves as an extension of the label and club’s output, adding to the creative life that has unfolded within Köpenicker Str. 70 over the past years.

Since the club moved in 2007, the Kraftwerk complex has been repurposed from its original use as a power station to fulfil multiple functions that bring people together to collaborate and congregate: Office, venue, club, exhibition space, and home to the Berlin Atonal festival, the Tresor Foundation, and the Academy of Subcultural Understanding. With the arrival of the Hard Wax record shop in 2023, the building now offers another way for the like-minded to come together and to share ideas in a common space.

ANNEX echoes the many roles of the building by fostering introduction, connection, and creation: all of the music within was created by individuals directly linked to Tresor: from club staff and residents to Hard Wax employees and long-time friends.

Across 28 tracks, the compilation unites artists from various backgrounds and generations, some collaborating for the first time, creating a moment in motion as Tresor heads into a new year.

BANDCAMP

Max Watts - Test Of Time

authentic music with a big heart, #vinylonly

post-club music
An intimimate participant in this divine comedy
sounds.of.buben@gmail.com

Strictly Techno 
No shufflers 
No tech-house 
No EDM
No do you need beats 

Non-binary DJ & Visual Artist based in Berlin 🎆

My style is weird, sexy, fun, sometimes hard, sometimes soft, and definitly queer. It is modern, mostly digital, but also inspired from the 90's rave culture, from which I bring to life again vinyl gems in my sets. 

My sets ignore borders between genres and offer a high variation of BPM. 
Most of the time at the intersection between techno and trance, I like to spice it up with underrepresented genres such as gabber, drum and bass or rap music. 

I intend to tickle the senses of my audience, put them through a wide range of emotions, what makes my sets feel like a wonderful life-long journey!

Booking via Insta or e-mail below

AKA MX
ML1/GGOW (SOON FULLY)

enquiries / best way to communicate - zolfbiz@gmail.com

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.

MOAV transcends the boundaries of time and space, spinning cosmic rhythms from an undisclosed location in the universe. Shrouded in mystery, their sound weave ethereal melodies with pulsating beats, echoing the silent symphony of the stars. Little is known about MOAV, but their music is said to connect listeners to the very fabric of the cosmos, making every performance a journey through the unknown.

In Europe everyone plays on Electricity! Will he not kill? No, they play with rubber gloves..