@kkrow

ℱ𝓊𝓃 𝐼𝓈 𝒮𝓉𝒾𝓁𝓁 𝒯𝓇𝒶𝓃𝓈𝑔𝓇ℯ𝓈𝓈𝒾𝓋ℯ, 𝐕𝐨𝐥. 𝟏

Fun Is Still Transgressive, Vol. 1

Tilt

Fucked up a few times because of the neighbours complaining about the noise, but I perservered and dare I say... ate?

Ankali 8th Anniversary recording

FIST MIX 94 – smother

Australia’s electro master shows another side with a mature, experimental IDM sound.

A haiku:

Broken bones
A time to reset
A new way

Jensen Interceptor isn’t normally one to stay still but after a freak accident left him with multiple fractures in his foot he was forced to stop and take a few months off. Luckily for us he put all the pent-up energy into his new LP, Interception, out this week on his International Chrome imprint. The LP pulls in influence from IDM, Footwork, and Baile Funk to create his most experimental work yet.


 
“Since I started making music I’ve always made music geared towards use in my DJ sets but there’s always been an urge to explore the deeper side of electronic music. That time off after the accident gave me the space to dive into genres and really experiment.”

https://www.theransomnote.com/music/premieres/premiere-jensen-interceptor-hes-cute/

@internationalchrome

PREMIERE: Jensen Interceptor - He's Cute [International Chrome]

“With Lumen, Amor Satyr returns to Wajang, delivering four fast, sharp and hypnotic cuts where breaks, bass, and organic drums converge into a luminous trip.”

Bandcamp

Amor Satyr - Inner Bass

“It's not possible to constantly hold onto crisis. You have to have the love, and you have to have the magic. That's also life." - Toni Morrison

On 23rd of September, Jamaican artist Dion McKenzie aka TYGAPAW will join with Tresor Records to release IMMIGRANT, a two-track digital EP that marks a new chapter in their artistic journey.

With emotions to the fore on both cuts, TYGAPAW uses their music to detail two journeys they have undertaken over recent years: 

M32 riddim is a sonic representation of the pulse that races when survival mode kicks in; a pulse that is ever present as an immigrant in the United States of America. As such, the music is alert, verging on oppressive: fast-paced and constructed of waves of synths that feel like alarms and sirens heralding drums that could represent the heavy footfall of escape.

In stark contrast, second track Black Trans Masculine Experience is a vulnerable, intimate, melodic piece composed of loop-based overdubs and speech that gives profound insight into the isolation and erasure that comes while transitioning. Through a recorded conversation that took place in TYGAPAW’s living room in the fall of 2024, Kings-Lee Rose describes the process of becoming invisible as he transitions from being perceived as a Black woman to a Black man, and the drastic social shift that takes place during that process.

The message of Black Trans Masculine Experience is further enhanced by the self-directed and produced video which illustrates the emotional content and the feelings of solitude whilst also making space for the love and magic.

Together, the two pieces demonstrate the broad palette of an artist who takes their struggles and transmutes them into a powerful statement, or as McKenzie states, into “the sound of resilience”.

BANDCAMP

TYGAPAW - M32 Riddim

The phantom scent of poppers and concrete dust sets the scene for “Everybody,” the new single by artist duo M&R.

Forged in the afterglow of a New York rave in late 2024, Junior M and Henry R fused their distinct energies into a debut track for Los Angeles imprint Gyration Station. It is an introspective journey bridging hard house and tribal rhythms, coyly hovering over an iconic vocal sample, an inside joke between the two, from the film The Devil Wears Prada. The release is bolstered by two formidable remixes: one from NYC based multimedia artist Tr!ggered and another from France’s Nymed under his new alias, Dirty Mirage.

Henry R is a cartographer of feeling. With a decade spent crisscrossing the Midwest, Northeast, and his native Texas, he carries an arsenal of rare, unarchived vinyl and an ear for the specific frequency that unlocks a room’s ecstasy. His reputation is built on taste, a surgical attention to detail, and a proven ability to ignite any space he touches.

In that same span of time, Junior M has been on a parallel pilgrimage, shedding old skins and moving toward a playful dancefloor friendly sound that weaves Italo Disco, Dembow, and Synthwave into the broader American House and Club music tapestry.

Together, as M&R, their first collaborative work distills this shared history into a potent, warehouse-centric dance record. Their track is muscular, washed in red light, and dripping in sweat. It asks, with a knowing grin, “Where’s the Beef?” Henry R takes it one step further with his own ‘Tweaking Dub’, tried and tested at NYC’s darkest nightlife spaces.

The remixes refract their vision through two different prisms. Tr!ggered is not just a DJ. He is a visual artist, a live electronic instrumentalist, and a force of nature. His remix is a live, one take shot, a document of unbridled creative passion that highlights his raw expertise with the analog tools at his disposal. From Nymed emerges Dirty Mirage, a new project characterized by a deep, devotional love for old school techno and house. His contribution plugs directly into the current electrifying the queer nightlife hotspots of Paris, Athens, and beyond, a sound that is both timeless and urgently now. 

M&R - Everbody (Original Mix)

A decade in the making - INFERNO 10 is a transmission from London's queer underground.

Born from the dancefloor, forged in sweat, ritual, rage and ecstasy, this compilation marks ten years of INFERNO - London’s longest-running queer art-rave. Across industrial, techno, trance, electro-pop, and drill, each track is a portal into our ecosystem of sound and survival.

A celebration of queer futurism, community and the flames that refuses to burn out.

Schacke - Lezzgo

UNCLE JACK- DARK EDGE

AJ98 - Moonlight

Subcurrent

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.