The new Tresor Club is set in an industrial
former power station. It consists of three floors: the Batterieraum
(successor to Globus), the +4 Bar which has views of the old
power station ruins; and a basement which can be reached through
a 30-meter long tunnel.
Tresor
Information...
Tresor (German for safe or vault) is
an underground techno nightclub and record label. The club
was founded in March 1991 in the vaults of the former old
Wertheim department store in Mitte, the central part of the
former East Berlin, next to the famous Potsdamer Platz, however
the history of the club goes back to 1988 when the electronic
music label Interfisch opened the UFO Club in Berlin. UFO
was the original centre of Berlin house and techno, but due
to financial problems that club closed in 1990.
After UFO closed, Interfisch's head, Dimitri Hegemann and
some investors in the club found the new space in East Berlin.
This was advantageous timing, as it was only a few months
before Germany unified. The vaults under the Wertheim department
store proved to be the perfect location for a club, and Tresor
quickly became the place to be in Berlin. Tresor continued
to be a popular club to this day, having expanded and reconstructed
continuously several times to include an outdoor garden area,
and a second "Globus" floor. The concept for the
Tresor floor in the basement was specifically hard techno,
industrial and acid music while Globus was featuring mainly
more mellow house sound. The recordlabel Tresor Records was
founded soon after the club first opened, in October 1991.
Featured artists on the label include Jeff Mills, Juan Atkins,
Robert Hood, Stewart Walker, Joey Beltram, Pacou, Blake Baxter,
Cristian Vogel and many others.
In 2004 the documentary "Tresor Berlin: The Vault &
the Electronic Frontier" was released. Directed by Mike
Andrawis, it features interviews with Hegemann, Carola Stoiber,
and DJs & artists associated with the club & label.
[1] The film covers the period from Hegemann's involvement
with the Fishladen and UFO clubs in Berlin-Kreuzberg to the
final months prior to Tresor's closure.
Tresor closed on the 16th April, 2005, after several years
prolonged short-term rent. The city sold the land to an investor
group to build offices on the Leipziger Straße location.
It was open for each night of April 2005, with the final event
starting the Saturday night with queues stretching all the
way down the road, and still going Monday morning.
Tresor reopened on 24th May 2007 in a renovated power plant
on Köpenicker Straße in Mitte.
DJ Mag Club Review...
Back when Panorama Bar wasn't even a kick drum in its owner's
ears, the original Tresor was founded in the vaults of a former
department store in Berlin's Mitte area, in 1991. Like Leeds'
Orbit, London's Lost and Brussels' Fuse, the name of Tresor
resonated as a true techno touchstone across the mid-'90s
with first and second wave DJs like Derrick May, Juan Atkins,
Jeff Mills and Joey Beltram counting it as one of their best
gigs around.
Now relocated to a disused power station it might not be
the enigma it once was, but it continues to offer uncompromised
underground techno in a post-industrial setting with DJs like
Woody, Dubfire and Slam among recent guests.
N0. 46 RATED CLUB IN THE WORLD BY 
