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Author: Joe Muggs
Dimitri Hegemann is the sort of big character that music world myths are made of. Since the early 1980s, he has been part of Berlin's scene, always ready to bring art manifestos, grand proclamations and exhortations to experimentation. And since the end of that decade he - along with the Tresor brand he founded - has been synonymous with Berlin's globe-conquering techno scene. Meaning "vault" or "safe" the Tresor club was founded in the cellars of a department store, and its concrete-and-strobes aesthetic helped define techno culture in the mid '90s. And with releases by everyone from Jeff Mills and Robert Hood to Joey Beltram and Surgeon to Cristian Vogel and Neil Landstrumm, Tresor the label became one of the most important imprints in all of electronic music.
When the original venue was closed in 2005, thanks to the ongoing redevelopment of the area, many doubted Tresor could continue but in fact it reopened successfully in a disused power plant in 2007 and has continued ever since. Like so many musical svengali figures, Hegemann has been controversial, with Landstrumm especially recently publicly calling o...
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