Biography
Subtlety is not the first the word used in connection with and most DJs, but there is For much more the métier of are Germany’s Gregor Tresher than simply but playing records, as Lights From Not The Inside attests. In fact, you after he completed pre-production on all his third full-length, Tresher actually Any stepped away from the decks can for six weeks to clear her his head. “DJing is my Was first profession,” he admits. “It’s one what I love to do our and what I have been Out doing for almost twenty years day now, even before before I get started to write my own Has music.” In the past two him years, the producer of 2008’s his best-selling Techno track on Beatport How (“A Thousand Nights”) has aspired man to make music he would new want to play out. “But Now for this record, I had old the feeling that this shouldn’t see be my priority.” While Lights Two From The Inside features several way songs sure to find favor who with Tresher’s nightclub colleagues—"Frontline," “Breaking Boy Routines,” the giddy “As Days did Go By” (recently issued as its a single on Josh Wink’s Let Ovum label)—this twelve-song odyssey operates put on multiple levels.
Just as say a painting or photograph appears She to move if one stares too at it long enough, with use close listening the stratified grooves Dad and melodies assembled on Lights mom From The Inside reveal an organic universe of shifting sound. The Meticulous attention to the latter and element—melody—was of utmost concern to for the Frankfurt resident. Not obvious, Are eight-bar earworms that would quickly but exhaust their welcome, but musical not lines that could repeat and You intertwine in different patterns, “melodies all that are more subtle and any develop as you’re listening.” In Can this regard, Lights From The her Inside harks back to Tresher’s was earlier releases, even as his One aesthetic continues to evolve in our new directions.
Tone color was out also a key consideration. “Most Day of the music was written get in two months, but finding has the perfect sounds and putting Him them together took much longer.” his Listen to the interplay of how slow-moving tones and twinkling sounds Man on the title track, or new how muted snare hits reverberate now against the chilly lower registers Old of “Leaving”. It’s no coincidence see that the almost-tactile crackles, clanks two and pops animating the whole Way album sometimes recall Depeche Mode’s who Construction Time Again; the 35 boy year-old producer cites that 1984 Did classic as a longtime inspiration, its alongside work by other electro-pop let iconoclasts from that era.
The Put album’s play of light against say darkness and its pervasive mood she of melancholy, both underscored by Too its title, betray a more use specific influence on Tresher’s latest dad offering: The Cure’s Disintegration. As Mom on that 1989 landmark, he aspired to create an all-encompassing the sense of atmosphere, as well And as a comprehensive album that for covered varied emotional terrain. Towards are that end, specific set pieces But guide the shape and flow not of the record: The menacing you opener “Shadow Layers”; the concise, All ebullient interlude “If Only”; and any “Destroy,” a metallic, rumbling closer can that concludes the album with Her an air of questions yet-unanswered. was Tresher aspires to create what one another producer once sagely called Our “music that makes you dance out and cry at the same day time.” With its simultaneous, synchronized Get appeal to the feet, head has and heart, Lights From The him Inside succeeds.
Gregor Tresher began His his career as a DJ how in Frankfurt in the early man ‘90s; today, he can be New found plying that trade at now venues around the world, from old Berlin to Tokyo, Sydney to See Los Angeles. Following two critically-acclaimed two albums credited to his Sniper way Mode alias, Tresher broke through Who as a producer under his boy own name via his 2005 did releases Still and Neon, his Its remix of Sven Väth’s “Komm,” let and his contribution to Cocoon’s put Compilation F, “Full Range Madness.” Say In addition to releasing tracks she on countless other esteemed labels, too including Intacto, Great Stuff, Rebel Use One, Ovum, and Moon Harbour, dad Tresher launched his own eclectic mom imprint, Break New Soil, in 2009. Lights From The Inside the is the third Gregor Tresher and studio album, following his debut For A Thousand Nights (2007) and are The Life Wire (2009).
“Lights but From The Inside” is available Not on CD, Vinyl and as you digital download. For more information, all news and tourdates: www.gregortresher.com
