Gregor Tresher, Jil Tanner, The Reason Y & Ele Luz - Saturday, September 20 2025

Gregor Tresher
In the trend-driven universe of electronic dance music, Gregor Tresher is the rare artist who transcends such cycles. His secret? A relentless focus on melody and timbre, timeless musical elements that other producers often undervalue. Just as a painting or a photograph appears to move if one stares at it long enough, close listening to the stratified grooves and melodies in Tresher's music reveals an organic universe of shifting sound. "Melody always allows you to bring something new to the music," opines the producer. "It is where you can create something real and different, whereas the beat, well, either a record grooves or it doesn't." Tresher's approach to writing music eschews obvious eight-bar earworms that soon grow tiresome in favor of musical lines that repeat and intertwine in myriad patterns, unfolding to reveal their secrets as you listen. In addition, another almost imperceptible element of motion has been integrated into Gregor Tresher's music via the integration of vintage machines and their tendency to drift ever-so-slightly out of tune. "It adds this human touch to the music, even though it was made with machines."
Gregor Tresher began his career as a DJ in Frankfurt in the early '90s; today, he can be found plying that trade at venues around the world, from Berlin to Tokyo, from Sydney to Los Angeles. Following two critically-acclaimed albums credited to his Sniper Mode alias, Tresher broke through as a producer under his real name via his 2005 releases Still and Neon. His 2008 classic "A Thousand Nights" was the year's best-selling Techno track on Beatport and introduced Gregor to a larger audience. Besides releasing music on high-profile labels like Drumcode, Ovum, Turbo, Intacto, Moon Harbour, Bedrock and Cocoon, Gregor launched his own eclectic imprint "Break New Soil" in 2009 on which his studio albums The Life Wire (2009), Lights From The Inside (2011), Nightcolors (2013) and Quiet Distortion (2016) were released. His remix history includes artists like Depeche Mode, Moby, The Streets, Sven Väth, Laurent Garnier and Extrawelt amongst many others. Continually pushing creative boundaries, Gregor has applied his expertise to some of the most influential names in electronic music by producing artist albums such as Sven Väth's „Catharsis" or Monika Kruse's „Changes Of Perception". Creativity, magic, and techno infused with strokes of genius – that’s The Reason Y, the project of Frederik L. Since 2007, he has been turning heads with his raw, hypnotic, and minimalist sound. "The magic of techno and the connection with the crowd are what drive me. But musically, I’ve never been tied to a single genre – you’ll also hear Drum’n’Bass and breakbeats woven into my sets." His passion began in the far north, where he started collecting vinyl and refining his mixing skills. Today, he shapes the scene with his unique productions, supported by heavyweights like Pan-Pot and Gregor Tresher, as well as with his own event series TRY Land, formerly hosted at Watergate. He’s also a regular behind the decks at Berlin’s Sisyphos, Fridas Pier in Stuttgart, and many more. Whether in the studio or on stage – The Reason Y is unstoppable.
See you on the dancefloor!

• Musicstyle:

  Techno, Minimal