TECHNOLOGEEK

yet is a slippery word in English. Amorphous, these three letters in different contexts can define contrast or emphasis, set a place in time, show an expectation that something will occur or, paradoxically, that it is likely to stop. 

It is this mercurial nature that makes yet the perfect title for Tresor's latest compilation: the label follows on from the more explorative sections of 2021's landmark Tresor 30 boxed set with a compilation, featuring 13 artists making music that resists easy definition. 

Every track hints at and borrows from the familiar yet none follow the expected path: halfway through Deserto, Nandele &amp; A-Tweed dramatically reveal a very different sonic landscape that was initially suggested; DJ Sotofett collaborates with Tamil artist Kavadi with results that are unlike anything in the Norwegian producer’s catalogue as yet.

Further invention can be found as Jean Redondo's Hypersonic moves across spaces inhabited by digital hardcore and hyperpop before swerving off-road and into a futuristic hip-hop section; on No Longer Human, Ireen Amnes takes a different path at the crossroads melding hyperpop, trance, and sci-fi soundtrack atmospherics, Significant Other heads towards UK Bass and Dubstep, and France's Willis Anne skims by the outskirts of footwork with a piece that is almost completely uncategorisable.

Yet more sonic experimentation comes from E-Saggila, Nadia Struiwigh, NVST, Solid Blake, and Viikatory who offer unique takes on the well-established electro blueprint, while Ryan James Ford, and Nit. both find ways to blend elements normally found in ambient pieces with those heard on a dancefloor.

The feel of the compilation is yet again reflected in the enigmatic artwork by Malik Arbab, where shapes and colours suggest animals and plants but in a world that appears to be transient and constantly evolving.

BANDCAMP

Nandele & A-Tweed - Deserto

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🛒 https://splot.bandcamp.com/album/crystalline
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SPLOT is back with the most extensive body of work to date. We’re proud to present Crystalline: 10-track VA with gems from the talent of Polish underground scene. Spanning over a variety of styles and genres. Crystalline is truly an encapsulation of different musical inspirations that gave birth to SPLOT. And a sign of what’s to come.

Crystalline moves towards the urban dancehall and mutant bass with opening track ‘kostomłoty’ from the local underground musician repmeis. Next up is don dadan karambolo, SPLOT ambassador who brings cold bassline and one-of-a-kind dub-stepping business in ‘dym’. Drum and bass professor continues his multigenre journey. Mighty Satl rolls out dubby, techno-flavoured and syncopated rhythms in ‘Noodles142’.

Wrocław based Michał Łoboda comes next with an introspective broken techno tool. ‘evergreen’ explores the spaces of soothing bass and damp ambiance. The vibe is continued by another local talent. Rethe presents sophisticated production skills on his deep and spaced-out track. Dominated by massive drums and absorbing textures, ‘Under Construction’ is a first-class heady dancefloor destroyer. Prime cuts of UK-inspired rhythms are provided by holoe. Driven by powerful bassline, garage keys and rude electro, ‘screwface’ fulfills promise in the title.

One-half of a cult Warsaw duo Private Press, 2Shy comes with a hybrid of dubstep-influenced techno, rolling drums and trance structures that plunge the listener into a mental rollercoaster with ‘Nexu Modes’. Fischerle brings his tape-ambient feeling to a stomping, dub-heavy ‘Omoluzu’, which twists organic percussions and dense atmospheres together into a spiral.

A long time live-act performer Adam Salamøn puts together his first track ‘Elegy for the Clouds’, being a captivating ambient piece, which guides us through a misty tropical forest, finished with emotive pads. Representing Warsaw, Cafe de la Jungle brings cyberspace-tribal energy on the title track ‘Crystalline 99’. Channelling the futuristic and psychedelic sounds of early 1990s jungle, he closes the release and leads us into the sound of the new millennium. 

Tracklist:

1. repmeis – kostomłoty
2. dadan karambolo – dym
3. Satl – Noodles142
4. Michał Łoboda – evergreen
5. Rethe – Under Construction
6. holoe – screwface
7. 2Shy – Nexu Modes
8. Fischerle – Omoluzu
9. Adam Salamøn – Elegy for the Clouds
10. Cafe de la Jungle – Crystalline 99

Nexu Modes

PREMIERE: 2Shy - Nexu Modes [SPLOT]

"I've always loved mistakes; it's the hidden beauty in all art" - Andrew Weatherall

Transparent Sound are the original dons of UK electro, not exactly household names yet an act with so many under-repped classics that once you dive into their catalogue you might end up emptying your bank account on Discogs. 

To save you going down this calamitous path as well as to finally, raise TS to the level of notoriety they deserve, Tresor Records is very proud to announce the release of Accidents 1994-2023.

Formed by Orson Bramley and Martin Brown in Bognor Regis in 1994, Transparent Sound have managed to create 30 years' worth of some of the best electro from the British Isles, despite claiming to not know what they were doing nor how their instruments work. 

It's likely that it's this lack of knowledge that led to the quality and longevity of their output - the pair experiment and tinker with the machines until something pleasing appears then follow that sound down whatever path seems fruitful: "the confidence of ignorance" as a slightly more-famous Orson, Orson Welles, once put it. 

This tactic has paid off well and found them stumbling into many notable adventures, from remixing The Cure to performing during an intermission between two halves of a lecture - none of which they understood as it was in Spanish.

The compilation collects a lucky-for-you 13 of their most glorious electrical accidents on a three-disc set including the dancefloor hits Punk Mother Fucker (a mainstay of Villalobos sets at the time of release), and No Call From New York (as heard on Helena Hauff's perfect 2017 Essential Mix).

The package also comes with 'Windows To Your Sole' from the unreleased white label Transparent Sound 007, other unreleased tracks, and special 2023 edits as well as six digital bonus tracks.

PREMIERE: Transparent Sound - Awful Mutation (V.23)

PREMIERE: Transparent Sound - Windows To Your Sole (V.23)

Transparent Sound - Music Noir

"I've always loved mistakes; it's the hidden beauty in all art" - Andrew Weatherall

Transparent Sound are the original dons of UK electro, not exactly household names yet an act with so many under repped classics that once you dive into their catalogue you might end up emptying your bank account on Discogs. 

To save you going down this calamitous path as well as to finally, raise TS to the level of notoriety they deserve, Tresor Records is very proud to announce the release of Accidents 1994-2023.

Formed by Orson Bramley and Martin Brown in Bognor Regis in 1994, Transparent Sound have managed to create 30 years' worth of some of the best electro from the British Isles, despite claiming to not know what they were doing nor how their instruments work. 

It's likely that it's this lack of knowledge that led to the quality and longevity of their output - the pair experiment and tinker with the machines until something pleasing appears then follow that sound down whatever path seems fruitful: "the confidence of ignorance" as a slightly more-famous Orson, Orson Welles, once put it. 

This tactic has paid off well and found them stumbling into many notable adventures, from remixing The Cure to performing during an intermission between two halves of a lecture - none of which they understood as it was in Spanish.

The compilation collects a lucky-for-you 13 of their most glorious electrical accidents on a three-disc set including the dancefloor hits Punk Mother Fucker (a mainstay of Villalobos sets at the time of release), and No Call From New York (as heard on Helena Hauff's perfect 2017 Essential Mix).

The package also comes with 'Windows To Your Sole' from the unreleased white label Transparent Sound 007, other unreleased tracks, and special 2023 edits as well as six digital bonus tracks.

Transparent Sound - Analogue Deliverance

One Eyed Jacks ceased activity in 2017 with a record by Photonz released under a different alias. It was the right time to let go: when the label started, in 2010, there were few electronic music labels in Portugal and a growing new wave of artists that needed to be documented and shown. Along the years, new labels - more capable ones - developed to cater to that need while projects like Rádio Quântica, co-founded by Photonz and Violet, seemed better instruments to carry on the vision of elevating and documenting a fledgling scene. But the itch for editorial expression was never gone and come 2023, One Eyed Jacks is back to life, animated by a renewed trust in the music and visions of how to apply its mysterious power to move, inspire and heal.

As the first single of a larger body of work to be presented later in the year, “Orpheus” is an expression of that same trust: no rushing, no over-production, no masking. Just a minimalistic dance track cooked up over an attempt to use the kick drum sample as also the source for the bassline and the melodies. The result is a bass-heavy, slow-paced house track with playful polyrhythmic layering and a melancholic emotional undertone. Adding to it we’ve got three exceptional producers on the remix: Lisbon’s Kara Konchar and Lake Haze, and Zambia’s SHE Spells Doom.

Photonz
Soudcloud: https://soundcloud.com/photonz
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Photonzland
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/markurphotonz/

Lake Haze
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/lakehaze
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lakehaze
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lake_haze/

One Eyed Jacks
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/oneeyedjackslabel
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/oneeyedjackslabel

OEJII001

PREMIERE: Photonz - Orpheus (Lake Haze remix) (One Eyed Jacks)

Tresor is proud to present the debut split 12" from Chloe Lula and Ireen Amnes. Meeting in the darker, harder-edged side of the Berlin techno scene in 2019, the pair have regularly collaborated and performed together, but Synergy marks the first time they've shared a record sleeve. Amnes describes Synergy as "the world we built while thinking about our journey as friends and the connection we share as people and artists," and while the record highlights their relationship and shared influences, it also showcases how each has grown into their respective lane. 

Amnes' tracks lean into significantly more distorted territory, characterized by a dense fog of grainy pads punctured by sharp, expertly-programmed percussion. On "Our Bodies," these fragments are sculpted into driving hardware gear, replete with distant vocals and acidic squelches, where "Fragments of Desire" makes space for a more somber attitude, descending into murky, psychedelic electro. 

In counterpoint to Amnes' deep atmospherics, Lula's contributions are driven by intricate sound design and a focus on dancefloor impact. Taking cues from Regis and the Birmingham techno sound, she reins in the distortion of 2021's Errant Bodies for aufnahme + wiedergabe in favor of rolling techno and breakbeat-inspired rhythms that nod to her EBM influences. Making use of the extra space, she builds tension through heaving, textured basslines and crescendos of noise, and on EP closer "Event Horizon," she carves through the beat with her own metallic vocals. 

Synergy includes a digital bonus track from each artist. Lula's sees her pushing deeper into finely-tooled techno territory, her drums at a swift, driving gallop, surrounded by ominous swaths of reverb. In contrast, Amnes crafts a gritty warehouse trip, sharpening the angles of her drums and detuning her synths until they sound bent and alien. Complete with the EP's physical cuts, these tracks are a testament to how the pair can simultaneously complement and contrast with each other, departing from their shared sonic origins and ending up in wildly different destinations.

Together

Chloe Lula - Together

@bardouinmusic 𝑉𝐴003 will be out on June 30th ☆ 6 monstrous tracks straight from the oven including E-Talking, Mézigue, Jan Loup, ESBA, Mud Deep, and UfO, mastered by Aldan Tyrell. Pre-purchase limited vinyl copies and digital ones on Bandcamp!

Pre-purchase: https://bardouinmusic.bandcamp.com/album/bardouin-va003

𝐄𝐒𝐁𝐀 𝐻𝑂𝑃𝐸
Bardouin Music founder alongside Hyas, ESBA is obsessed with the sounds of the TB-303 and the SH-101. Nothing was coming out of his DAW since his track in collaboration with Charleeps, it only takes one afternoon for track IDM to be born.

PREMIERE: ESBA - Hope [BVA003]

Mind Games is an underground techno label from Italy ran by Luca Maniaci that has featured artists like Linear System and Esteban Miranda.

Antidote MT is a promising Malta-based producer with releases on Robert Hoff's trau-ma, Linear System's Modern Minimal, Juan Trujillo's Simplecoding, Bruno Ledesma's Concepto Hipnotico and Fon's Subsist amongst others.

Label boss Luca Maniaci is an established artist who lists labels such as Florian Meindl's FLASH Recordings and Josh Wink's Ovum in his back catalogue.

Expect to hear raw, hypnotic, analogue techno with spacey atmospherics and modular elements...

https://mindgamesrec.bandcamp.com/album/nebula-incl-luca-maniaci-remix

https://soundcloud.com/antidote_mlt
https://soundcloud.com/lucamaniacidj
https://soundcloud.com/mindgamesrec

PREMIERE: Antidote MT - Eutropium (Luca Maniaci Remx) [Mind Games Recordings]

Tresor Records is fortunate enough to be sitting on a catalogue of past releases that no other label in electronic music would turn down.
Three of the finest in this collection were contributed by Surgeon "Basictonalvocabulary", "Balance" and "Force + Form", which all came out between 1997 and 1999.

Surgeon's inimitable combination of Detroit techno and post-industrial sounds emanating from his British homeland found its fullest expression in these masterful trio of releases.

Following the release of Surgeon's first album in 5 years "Crash Recoil" earlier in 2023, Tresor Records have decided that it is high time to give these seminal albums another airing.

Surgeon - Set Two

Surgeon - Dialogue

"Following on from his appearance on one of the label’s launch compilations, Versalife (aka Conforce) releases his first full EP for Natural Selection. ‘Genetic Cluster EP’ releases in September and takes up the torch from Kamikaze Space Programme and Rommek, whose prior releases via the London based imprint saw support from the likes of James Ruskin, Tommy Four Seven, Takaaki Itoh, The Advent, Alienata and more.

Genetic Cluster is an impeccably crafted Electro release that maintains bite and aggression, whilst its textures and atmospheres spiral into the ether, taking the listener on an unpredictable emotional journey.

Based in Rotterdam, Versalife has seen his music released by the most highly esteemed of Electro labels such as Frustrated Funk, Clone, Delsin & TRUST. He returns to Natural Selection after releasing via their inaugural VA compilation release ‘NS001’ in 2021, with his track ‘Nostalgia’, which has gained support by some of the most respected DJ's worldwide, inc. Dave Clarke, Plant43, Annie Hall and more."

Versalife
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/conforce
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/versalife.electro
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/conforce_aka_versalife/ 

Natural Selection
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/naturalselectionlondon
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/naturalselectionlondon
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/naturalselectionlondon1/

PREMIERE: Versalife - Ghosting (Natural Selection)

Party Mover 5000

Acid House was the first EDM music I heard back around 1988. My older brother introduced me to the Stakker Huminoid track and I was hooked.

Unleash the acid

DerteeDisco steps into the shadows with a weighty cut that merges swung garage percussion, warped low-end pressure, and chopped vocal fragments into a stripped-back weapon. Let Go of Me captures the tension and drive of classic UKG while leaning into the darker edge of bassline. Out today, this one is built for dim rooms, late hours, and sound systems that know what they're doing.

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DerteeDisco - Let Go of Me

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.

PREMIERE: Transparent Sound - Awful Mutation (V.23)

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