Tresor Records

Tresor Records

Tresor Records

On April 3rd, 2026, Fireground returns to Tresor Records with Refreshing Part 2. As with the band's 2023 release of the same name, Refreshing Part 2 is a decisive and fierce collection of percussive techno that nonetheless travels its path with a heightened level of funkiness.The Italian duo describe theconcept behind this collection as being "not about resetting, but about balancing. Refreshing means reconnecting with the present and with the future...focusing on one's own way in order to preventthe flow from becoming automatic, uncontrolled, and without orientation. It is more a direction than a path."The four tracks on the 12" are hypnotic dives into a full spectrum of club music: the rhythms and sound design guiding the subconscious into visions of past, present and future intermingled, a reminder that all moments co-existsimultaneously. Side A passes from the stripped-down intensity of The Way through to Elisir (Elixir), which manages to pull off a trick of feeling light and floaty while maintaining the power of its predecessor. The flip side opens with the forceful drive of Activate before making way to the percussive elasticity of Family Tree, a track which closes out the EP by recalling, in both name and sound, how that which came before deeply affects the now, though often in ways only subliminally perceived.Digital-only track Fixed in Flux continues this concept, and the overall themes of Refreshing Part 2, with further evocations of intent and movement; remainingpresent in change, without resisting it, yet without dissolving into it.

Tresor Records

Tresor Records

On April 3rd, 2026, Fireground returns to Tresor Records with Refreshing Part 2. As with the band's 2023 release of the same name, Refreshing Part 2 is a decisive and fierce collection of percussive techno that nonetheless travels its path with a heightened level of funkiness.The Italian duo describe theconcept behind this collection as being "not about resetting, but about balancing. Refreshing means reconnecting with the present and with the future...focusing on one's own way in order to preventthe flow from becoming automatic, uncontrolled, and without orientation. It is more a direction than a path."The four tracks on the 12" are hypnotic dives into a full spectrum of club music: the rhythms and sound design guiding the subconscious into visions of past, present and future intermingled, a reminder that all moments co-existsimultaneously. Side A passes from the stripped-down intensity of The Way through to Elisir (Elixir), which manages to pull off a trick of feeling light and floaty while maintaining the power of its predecessor. The flip side opens with the forceful drive of Activate before making way to the percussive elasticity of Family Tree, a track which closes out the EP by recalling, in both name and sound, how that which came before deeply affects the now, though often in ways only subliminally perceived.Digital-only track Fixed in Flux continues this concept, and the overall themes of Refreshing Part 2, with further evocations of intent and movement; remainingpresent in change, without resisting it, yet without dissolving into it.

On April 3rd, 2026, Fireground returns to Tresor Records with Refreshing Part 2. As with the band's 2023 release of the same name, Refreshing Part 2 is a decisive and fierce collection of percussive techno that nonetheless travels its path with a heightened level of funkiness.The Italian duo describe theconcept behind this collection as being "not about resetting, but about balancing. Refreshing means reconnecting with the present and with the future...focusing on one's own way in order to preventthe flow from becoming automatic, uncontrolled, and without orientation. It is more a direction than a path."The four tracks on the 12" are hypnotic dives into a full spectrum of club music: the rhythms and sound design guiding the subconscious into visions of past, present and future intermingled, a reminder that all moments co-existsimultaneously. Side A passes from the stripped-down intensity of The Way through to Elisir (Elixir), which manages to pull off a trick of feeling light and floaty while maintaining the power of its predecessor. The flip side opens with the forceful drive of Activate before making way to the percussive elasticity of Family Tree, a track which closes out the EP by recalling, in both name and sound, how that which came before deeply affects the now, though often in ways only subliminally perceived.Digital-only track Fixed in Flux continues this concept, and the overall themes of Refreshing Part 2, with further evocations of intent and movement; remainingpresent in change, without resisting it, yet without dissolving into it.

Tresor Records

Tresor Records

Tresor Records

Tresor Records

Tresor Records

Tresor Records

Two years after releasing the acclaimed Crash Recoil, Anthony Child aka Surgeon returns to Tresor with new LP, Shell~Wave. Retaining the minimal equipment list and studio-version-of-live-show-sets approach of the previous album in order to focus on the work itself, Shell~Wave is a deeply personal document of both where Surgeon is and has been, converging three decades of experience with a continued curiosity in the untested. To make this project, I had to dig really deep in terms of what my relationship was to techno; Ive been involved with it for a really long time and theres a lot about it I feel dislocated from, so I had to really think hard about what techno is to me. I often get asked what is techno to you? but I cant answer that with words; this album is the answer. From the complex, twisting track Infinite Eye to the caustic Soul Fire, the eight tracks that make up the body of the album are single-take explorations of the vast, hard yet minimal techno Child is synonymous with. Neatly dividing the record in two, the emotional centre of the record comes in the form of Dying, a vibrating, beatless piece that witha mantra-like vocal loop steeped in reverberating effects. Further echoes of dub production appear throughout the record as tracks like Divine Shadow, and Empty Cloud have an almost ever-present mist of reverberation, driven by the appearance of a new delay unit in the equipment list; while much of the philosophy of Crash Recoils creation is present, the process and the instruments have changed as Child again switches up his approach to studio work. This insistence on trying novel techniques doesnt preclude returning to old ones, as this use of modern digital machines with live, hands-on takes that are as inspired by 60s producer Joe Meek and 70s reggae as they are by this years synthesiser expos. For me, its an interesting experience returning to old techniques again after 30 years. [Im] always exploring and finding myself back at the beginning. Connecting the present with the past. This philosophy of time travel is inherent to the music itself as the synchronised loops repeat while the delay and effects branch out, forming unique eddies; distinct quantum moments within the circular whole; the future leaking through the spaces between the sounds. All of the concepts on the album are perfectly communicated through the painting by Taiwanese artist Jazz Szu-Ying Chen which suggests the movement of water, sound waves, and the chitinous shells of sea creatures.

On April 3rd, 2026, Fireground returns to Tresor Records with Refreshing Part 2. As with the band's 2023 release of the same name, Refreshing Part 2 is a decisive and fierce collection of percussive techno that nonetheless travels its path with a heightened level of funkiness.The Italian duo describe theconcept behind this collection as being "not about resetting, but about balancing. Refreshing means reconnecting with the present and with the future...focusing on one's own way in order to preventthe flow from becoming automatic, uncontrolled, and without orientation. It is more a direction than a path."The four tracks on the 12" are hypnotic dives into a full spectrum of club music: the rhythms and sound design guiding the subconscious into visions of past, present and future intermingled, a reminder that all moments co-existsimultaneously. Side A passes from the stripped-down intensity of The Way through to Elisir (Elixir), which manages to pull off a trick of feeling light and floaty while maintaining the power of its predecessor. The flip side opens with the forceful drive of Activate before making way to the percussive elasticity of Family Tree, a track which closes out the EP by recalling, in both name and sound, how that which came before deeply affects the now, though often in ways only subliminally perceived.Digital-only track Fixed in Flux continues this concept, and the overall themes of Refreshing Part 2, with further evocations of intent and movement; remainingpresent in change, without resisting it, yet without dissolving into it.

Tresor Records Techno (Raw / Deep / Hypnotic)

Tresor Records Techno (Raw / Deep / Hypnotic)

Tresor Records

Tresor Records