Tresor meets Diffuse Reality
Tresor / Globus, Berlin
This night happened — Fri 22 May
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Who was billed9 artists
In the order the promoter listed them.
- Diffuse Reality
- next: OST, Thu 31 DecDr. Rubinstein
- next: Fri 27 NovLiza Aikin
- next: Berghain, Sat 31 OctTobias.
- Squaric
- Volpe
- Dying & Barakat
- next: Renate, Fri 30 OctMASCHA
- GL3W
Set times were not published.
Most of these pairings were meeting for the first time that night.
the pairs that have met
35 of the 36 pairings on this bill were first meetings.
- Liza Aikin and Squaric — 1 shared bill before that night, first on Fri 22 May 2026.
Who they are
“Acid Doctor from Berlin”
their own biography
Their RA profile lists Uppers and Downers.Recently at Berghain, Sound Metaphors, RSO.BERLIN · often with VINVAR, Juliana Huxtable, Supergloss, none of them here that night
“After a decade of experience in djing, Liza Aikin's focus moved on production and live performance in order to recreate the sound and the message she was missing.”
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After a decade of experience in djing, Liza Aikin's focus moved on production and live performance in order to recreate the sound and the message she was missing. Her favorite tools: field recordings, and modular synthesizers, are just a fragment of the meticulous work she dedicates to her production and Live sets. Over a short period of time her technicality and attention to detail landed her a number of releases on relevant labels such as: Mord Records, Emetic , Decoy Records, Ohm Resistance.Their RA profile lists Decoy, Mord, Platz fur Tanz, Emetic and 3 more.Recently at ÆDEN, OXI, Humboldthain Club · often with Ottoman Grüw, Substencia, Incendie, none of them here that night
“In the case of Tobias Freund, all the answers are there, yet they will most probably not apply to anybody but him.”
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In the case of Tobias Freund, all the answers are there, yet they will most probably not apply to anybody but him. Sure, it might help to gather encyclopedic knowledge through the years about music ranging from Post Punk to Stockhausen and all points in between (and much beyond), but if you are not able to shape that into a personal artistic vision, it is very likely that your potential audience might prefer the artists your very knowledge consists of. In the works of Tobias Freund, inspirations are more to be suspected than to be pinned down. You feel they must be there. They just have to, if only for lack of better explanations. Still, his works are so original and individual that they have become a part of said knowledge themselves. Nobody else sounds like him, they just try to. He owns his sound. Certainly, it might help if you know what you are doing in terms of creating music. Tobias Freund’s process of learning what you are doing stretches back to 1980. Since then, he worked as engineer in the high-end studio of German producer legend Frank Farian for many years, getting to know everything on the mixing desk you could tweak. And he gathered more analogue hardware than others have plugins installed, and got to know it as well. And when he felt he was ready to become an artist himself, he knew exactly what to do with the ideas he had in mind, and thus his music made an impact right from the very start. Transferring his overground work into underground output, his aliases since the early nineties read like an inventory of German electronic music: Metazone, Zoon, Phobia, and especially Pink Elln. Then he put the full stop behind his first name and started releasing tracks that refined the live approach to his broad variety of music between Acid, Ambient and Techno to reduced but jacking grooves that displayed as much attention to detail as to floor impact and became an integral part of the defining sounds emanating from Germany to rule the clubs worldwide since the turn of the millennium. And it might help as well to extend your abilities to the work with other artists. Tobias Freund already started this as part of the electronic cassette circuit in the 80’s in groups like Vo Ese or Hypnobeat, but a decade later his much loved group Sieg Über Die Sonne (with Martin Schopf aka Dandy Jack) graced the clubs with twisted and multi-faceted Techno Pop, and when it went on hiatus two decades later the project NSI. (with Max Loderbauer) and the Non Standard Productions imprint were initiated, to quickly become an institution for groundbreaking explorations in freeform electronic experimentalism. And there is Odd Machine, a joint venture with Ricardo Villalobos and Uwe Schmidt (aka Atom™) in particular, with whom he also forms a live and recording act that puts the weight of their experience into according action, Atom™ & Tobias. His latest collaboration is with his wife Valentina Berthelon named Recent Arts, an audiovisual project that explores the performance of audio and video in real time. He produced and remixed international stalwarts like Efdemin, Ellen Allien, Los Updates, Delano Smith, Margaret Dygas or Aérea Negrot, on seminal labels like Sähkö, Playhouse, Ongaku, Cadenza, Perlon, Logistic, Wagon Repair, Mule Musiq, and, of course, Ostgut Ton. And this is just an excerpt. With Tobias Freund a lot of things fall into place. He knows sound from the inside out, thus he is able to develop his own as well as lend his expertise to others. And even if the studio might be his favourite instrument, he knows so much about any hardware to produce electronic music that he can push the music forward any way he wants to. There is no need to divide his works into avant-garde or club contexts, because he effortlessly merges his whole spectrum into a performance that is all him, transforming the complex textures and gripping rhythms that make his music so fascinating into experiences where listening and dancing are one, and a whole life of music leads to ever new innovations. As it happens. On the spot. Tobias Freund may be non-standard, but he sure set many.Their RA profile lists Cadenza Records, Ostgut Ton, Wagon Repair, Logistic Records and 6 more.Recently at Haus der Visionäre, Berghain · often with Berghain, Snad, Gerd Janson, none of them here that night
“Squaric is an Argentinian-born Disc-jockey, producer, and label owner based in Barcelona, who has made vinyl the core of his artistic language.”
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Squaric is an Argentinian-born Disc-jockey, producer, and label owner based in Barcelona, who has made vinyl the core of his artistic language. Active since 2008, his sound navigates through different moods while exploring the union between rhythm, energy, euphoria, and hypnosis — a deep, minimalist form of Techno built on precision and intuition. Every performance becomes a unique and collective experience — a dialogue between accuracy of the mixtures, and the shared pulse of the dancefloor. Always hydrated!Their RA profile lists Subsist, Diffuse Reality, Krake, Tripalium Records and 1 more.Recently at Marmorbar, KitKatClub, Studio55 · often with Just1, Fac3less, Catem, none of them here that night
Recently at Tresor / Globus, Haus der Visionäre, Alte Meierei Berlin · often with Katy De Jesus, Naomi (Berlin), Daisy Weweh, none of them here that night
“Coming from a musician family—her grandfather a composer in the GDR, her grandmother his lyricist, and her mother a DJ & former club worker in Berlin—she grew up surrounded by music and the pulse of nightlife.”
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Coming from a musician family—her grandfather a composer in the GDR, her grandmother his lyricist, and her mother a DJ & former club worker in Berlin—she grew up surrounded by music and the pulse of nightlife. Her sound is raw yet refined, emotional yet physical—a fusion of hypnotic, tribal, and industrial techno, staying true to her rhythmic roots while carving out a distinct space in the underground. With a background in dance, she approaches music as movement—each set unfolding through tension and release. Splitting her time between Berlin and Mexico City for the past 7 years, MASCHA has become a vital force in both scenes. She hosted LIEBE on Aire Libre 105.3 FM, curates MUSTER on THF Radio, and in 2025 debuted her first live set with an orchestra, merging classical instrumentation with techno’s raw pulse. A dedicated advocate for queer and FLINTA* communities, MASCHA has led DJ workshops and panels in Germany, Mexico, and Honduras, fostering inclusion and amplifying new voices in electronic music. With over a decade behind the booth, MASCHA is more than a DJ, she stands as a connector, innovator, and storyteller, shaping the future of club culture through the unifying power of rhythm.Recently at Spartacus Potsdam, Renate, ://about blank · often with Ursula Prawn, Elis, Mango, none of them here that night
names these artists often play with — not that night
- Mattone2 with Squaric and 1 with Liza Aikin
- Orion (FI)2 with Squaric and 1 with Liza Aikin
- YETI2 with Squaric and 1 with Liza Aikin
- Juliana Huxtable4 with Dr. Rubinstein
- Shaun J. Wright4 with Dr. Rubinstein
- Berghain3 with Tobias.
- Ellen Allien3 with Dr. Rubinstein
- Fac3less3 with Squaric
615 said they were going — much busier than a usual Friday at Tresor / Globus.
how this compares
- Median final count, Fridays at Tresor / Globus237
- Middle half finished between164 and 366
- Past Fridays at this venue counted51
The room
Tresor / Globus — 286 events and 1,149 distinct artists since Aug 2025.
Most-tagged here: Techno (18). genre tags on this room’s listings
Who put it on
Diffuse Reality Records — 14 events and 65 artists since Aug 2025.
Tresor Club — 282 events and 1,140 artists since Aug 2025.