Motto Sono Records presents: (MOTTO13) Memory Decay, by Beth Alana. With her second EP on Motto Beth dives deeper into UK/2 Step grooves, including a deep House remix by Toof. https://soundcloud.com/bethalana

Cover art by http://lijasilins.com

Memory Decay (MOTTO13)

Gib Mir Ne Kippe, by Beth Alana (MOTTO13)

Propulsive techno solicitations are abounding on Ideoma, the debut EP from Oscean, a collaboration from Sebastián Galante, also known as Seph, and Andrés Zacco. The two are figureheads of Argentina's techno sound, with releases on labels such as Insurgentes, Echocord Colour and Illian Tape over the last decade.

Galante and Zacco join forces for the first time with inspiring effects, moving forward with vast paces, unshifting footsteps, with uneven prisms of electronic rhythm. Its direct intent and crisp sonic detail conjure a cinematic and nocturnal drive, unearthing subterranean pulses that leave all in its wake.

Propulsive techno solicitations are abounding on Ideoma, the debut EP from Oscean, a collaboration from Sebastián Galante, also known as Seph, and Andrés Zacco. The two are figureheads of Argentina's techno sound, with releases on labels such as Insurgentes, Echocord Colour and Illian Tape over the last decade.

Galante and Zacco join forces for the first time with inspiring effects, moving forward with vast paces, unshifting footsteps, with uneven prisms of electronic rhythm. Its direct intent and crisp sonic detail conjure a cinematic and nocturnal drive, unearthing subterranean pulses that leave all in its wake.

With Ideoma, Tresor Records presents a whirlwind of dense movement and cosmic energy that twists on percussive bends and distorting spirits. Spiral recalls natural phenomena, bound tight, with a rugged texture like no other, as flickers of sound processing suggest lift-off. The flanging Feral exudes a potent demeanour, wicked and unceasing. The ebbing melodics of Spacion hark back to 90s ambient techno and yet possessing a rhythmic cut and thrust that navigates unchartered terrain. Transmuting beyond planet earth, further into the extra-terrestrial, Galante and Zacco mask fractal brushstrokes with hurrying rhythms. They smear primitive and sharp sonics, pressed with dizzying resilience. The nosediving FM synths of Austraal beckon a haunting trip, cloaked in a trance of motion and forever eschewing all prediction.

@sephmusic
@andres-zacco

Ideoma

Feral

BANDCAMP

Oscean - Feral (preview)

Tresor veteran TV Victor 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 and Günther Schickert amongst others. 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. GRV Vol.3 shows an even more hypnotic and trance-inducing side of Heitfeld's sonic universe.

It starts off with „GRV Tr 5", an ever growing drone piece interspersed with drums reminiscent of Jaki Liebezeit's "Motorik Beat"-drumming from the days of Can. Relentless drums and layers of percussion are present throughout the whole EP. While the moods and states of mind are ever changing - sometimes soothing, sometimes threatening - they still convey a universal feeling: things are moving forward in steady waves while the repetitive and subtly shifting atmospherics - much like looking at the stars - crumble any sense of space and time into infinity.

A lot of magic happens, when nothing happens next.

GRV Vol .3

CD120 GRV5

PREMIERE: TV Victor - CD120 GRV5

Alexander Kowalski is back on Be As One with a 5 tracker EP of 90’s influenced Detroit techno stompers.

A1 - Taking Back The Dawn
A2 - Black Box Treatment
B1 - Silversun Waves
B2 - Silversun Waves (Synthapella)
DIG - A State Of Mind

Vinyl - 21st February
Digital - 3rd March

Alexander Kowalski - Taking Back The Dawn (BAO080)

Tresor’s long-standing connection to Detroit continues with Black Majik - the solo EP debut from Ann-Marie Teasley aka The AM (@amx313), one of the Motor City’s newest techno ambassadors.

Over four tracks the EP takes you on an odyssey of sorts, traversing the big three of Detroit’s electronic music history: Funk, Electro, and Techno

Black Majik, the title track sets us off with a groove bringing to mind a car ride through the city as the sun sets; the looping yet subtly-changing beats reminiscent of road markings and scenery that flit past on our journey, the vocals acting as the road signs that keeps us on our route.

Our next stop is On Joy Road, an Electro-influenced track named after the long, dual-carriageway street that connects the centre of Detroit to Nankin Lake and the enclaves on the city’s west side. Of this personal favourite from the EP The AM says, “Classic electro has never gone out of style in Detroit, and if it's hot outside, or you're at a cookout you're going to hear some form of electro, especially on Joy Road…infamous for its drag races. It can be a beautiful street by day, but it can turn very sinister at night which also influenced the writing of this track.” Third track, Shadow Werk, continues our drive into the night with an all-pistons-firing techno track recalling classic Detroit-Berlin axis tracks like UR’s Punisher or Joey Beltram’s Ten Four.

Our tour comes to an end as we are joined by fellow Detroiter’s Scan7 who turbo-charge Shadow Werk with a remix that adds accelerating trance-induction arpeggios evocative of Techno’s earliest beginnings in Italo Disco and tracks like Number of Names seminal Shari Vari.

As with all releases during Tresor’s 30th anniversary celebrations the artwork is a photograph of significance to the artist; for a release so rooted in its origins, both in terms of genre and theme, it is only fitting that The AM chose an image of Mack & Bellevue, an unassuming brick building disguising a venue that was integral to the city’s underground Techno scene at the turn of the millennium.

Black Majik

Shadow Werk

PREMIERE: The AM - Shadow Werk

Listen to the exclusive GROOVE-Premiere of @merino Track „The Solution", taken from the „Green Trax 1 EP" on @discosesmeralda. Released on 1st of April 2022.

Read our introduction here: https://bit.ly/3iIE7UQ

Green Trax 1 _ ESMERALDA003

Merino - The Solution

Meandering between electro, UK breakbeat and house, the two boys from Germanys capital are connected not only through their shared passion in music but also a long lasting friendship. Meeting in their teenage years they’ve gone through a long journey together experiencing different genres of electronic music and thus finding what they want for their DJ sets: a proper bassline. Besides DJing @lupaal1 are part of the Berlin collective @sonntagsinstitut that is planing and promoting events on the intersection of party and politics.

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@lupaal1
@sonntagsinstitut

Artwork: 171717171717i7 
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PVC Podcast 068 Lupaal

Nebula Podcast #48

mixed and recorded by @momo1312

Nebula Podcast #48 - MOMO

Psychedelic intimate 2-deck vibes in my set at Space Deich Festival.  Perfect for those looking to relive the festival’s magic or dive into a slightly different sonic adventure from myself. This one is in total contrast of the recent recordings from Tresor and the Live PA. Deeper, slower and more heady vibes from many years of techno history :)

Ritual Cycles @ Space Deich Festival 2024

Serenidad

Reiterate

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: TV Victor - CD120 GRV5

Tresor Records

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