Tresor means “vault” in German, a highly suitable name for the house and techno club founded in March 1991 in the catacombs under a former department store in central East Berlin, near Potsdamer Platz. A few months later, after the Berlin wall came down, Tresor became renowned as the quintessential heaving techno dungeon and, by the end of the year, had started a record label. Even then, a strong link had been forged with Detroit techno giants such as Jeff Mills, Eddie Fowlkes, Blake Baxter and Underground Resistance, whose X-101 LP was to be the imprint’s first release.
Tresor soon became a highly-regarded magnet for the world’s leading techno producers, now ranking as Europe’s longest-running electronic dance label, along with Soma. The label has a meteor storm of releases lined up to celebrate its 20 years, including one-off 12” singles and a CD series of highlights, starting with Detroit veteran Mike Huckaby roping together heavyweights including Mills, Surgeon, Robert Hood, Drexciya, Joey Beltram, Christian Vogel, Cisco Ferreira and Chris ‘Bam Bam’ Westbrook, along with his own The Tresor Track. Huckaby brilliantly captures the white hot intensity of the club and the music that fuels it, packing in both funky and hair-raising moments. Monumental in every sense.
