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Not just Hawtin , Josh Wink and Ricardo Villalobos aswell , I left at 08:30am and Hawtin was going into his fifth hour , there was no sign of an end to the night and it only cost me the equivalent of about six quid.
Do we get ripped off here or what??
ON A WEDNESDAY NIGHT?
CAN IT STAY OPEN TILL WHENEVER?????
I WISH I LIVED IN THE BASEMENT TO THAT CLUB?
I HAVE THE TRUE SPIRIT CD WICH TALKS ABOUT THE VAULT, BUT TELL ME MORE ABOUT THE CLUBS LAYOUT/ SOUNDSYSTEM/ EVERYTHING.
I WANT A 4 PAGE REPORT IN BY THIS TIME TOMORROW PLEASE ANGRYMAN
ive enver been to tresor but i know people who have been there as clubber or dj .. the place seems to be pretty old & industrial ... some warehouse atmospehre though its in the basement of a building ... very small and dark, not that good soundsystem (at least monitors are told to be bad).
the place is kinda mythical for their techno line ups ... the djs enjoy the palce so they are happy to spin there (i dont thnik they take big fee as the club is quite small)... so that explains the kind of line up angryman described happen really often and the entrance stays cheap
The entrance is just off the main drag in Potzdamer Platz , you have to really look to see the sign , if you didn't know it was on that street you possibly wouldn't find it. It's a sort of turnstyle type entrance , very narrow when your paying in. Once in you are in a courtyard type idea with benches and wee stalls. Think they were selling food and water and stuff , no beer outside if I remember rightly.
There are a couple of hidden entrances (graffiti walls with hidden door handles) which I think were for the dj's ,just off the courtyard , plus an entrance into the main bar area. The bar itself is fairly large , the bar just to the left and a large dancefloor in the middle , with the dj booth just off to the side on the left.
The Vault is to the righthand side of the club and as you walk down you should get quite scared , or alteast get some sort of shivver down your spine. It's quite eery. The walls are coated in white damp shit and it basically looks like you are about to be led into a Thai Prison or something like that. It smells quite musky too , like a sumo wrestler's arm pit ( I should imagine).
As it wasn't open I can't really say what it would have been like , but I hear they don't use very much lighting , just pitch black and the occasional flash of a strobe , just so as you can half see what you are doing. It's all about the music ( and quite possibly about getting felt up in the dark without having a clue who's doing the feeling)
The upstairs was ok , but like I said it was just like any other club in Berlin. The sound was really good , pretty loud and clear. The crowd are failry up for it , in fact very up for it , it was a ****ing wednesday night after all. I stayed as long as I could , but I had a bit too many large gay german men come up to me whilst I was on my own ( mate refused to come with me as he hates Techno) and as I don't speak any German , the paranoia set in and I decided to go whilst I could still walk properly.
Not 4 pages but should be enough detail.
The upstairs main bit is called "Globus", the basement is the "Tresor" (Literally "Bank Vault" in German)Globus has more housey and leftfield stuff on if the basement is open... The tresor itself is very dark and has a real underground vibe to it, really dark and dank, walls crumbling, and bars everywhere so it looks like the inside of a prison.. There's also the "Fish Bar" and an outdoor area they use in the summer... heres some pics of Tresor (Just the bunker by the way):
http://www.ranx-gmbh.de/images/party...12-1251-xl.jpg
http://www.ranx-gmbh.de/images/party...14-1403-xl.jpg
looks f*cking good!!! :D