Dream Sequence X by Blake Baxter
In 2025, Tresor Records will digitally reactivate Blake Baxter's extensive catalogue in chronological order, starting with 1992's Dream Sequence, then his 1995 album Endless Reflection.
To inaugurate and celebrate this retrospective of one of the genre's true founders, an artist whose connections to Tresor go back to the very beginning, the label announces this special 12" release, Dream Sequence X, featuring remastered tracks from the early days and highlighting the harder side of his output.
Baxter started making music as early as 1985. His DJ style was Alternative Industrial Synth Pop, Acid House, and Techno. By 1991, he had already released several seminal records on classic labels like DJ International Chicago, KMS, Underground Resistance, and Incognito, as well as providing multiple tracks to the groundbreaking UK compilation Techno! The New Dance Sound of Detroit which was many European listeners' introduction to the genre, solidifying the term techno, and launching the international careers of many of the contributors.
1991 saw Baxter make the first trip to play Tresor, on the first UR Europe tour ever, thereby pioneering the now legendary Berlin-Detroit Connection. This visit led to a long and fruitful partnership with the club's new-fledged label beginning with Mills', Banks' & Hood's X-101 and Baxter's Dream Sequence, from which the first four tracks on the new 12" come.
Whilst he would become more renowned for his signature seductive vocals and a smoother music style closer to house music, these early tracks are heavier, classic 90s techno, revealing the influence of industrial, post-punk, and pop of the time. Indeed, the collection is something of a time capsule: jacking 909 drums, intense, ravey synth stabs, samples from classic soul breakbeat, and the Speak & Spell voice synthesizer; classic sounds and styles of the era all make appearances on the record.
In a world where longevity is difficult and superlatives are too easily deployed, it is still difficult to overstate the long-lasting influence that Blake Baxter has had on modern music. His visionary output can be heard across modern electronic and pop to this day and with this series of remasters, there has never been a better time for the world to hear it at source.
Blake Baxter - Dream Sequence X
Release Date 20th June 2025
Label Tresor Records
Tracklist
1. Blake Baxter - The Warning (Remastered)
2. Blake Baxter - Ghost (Remastered)
3. Blake Baxter - Ex- (Remastered)
4. Blake Baxter - Dark Bässe (Remastered)
5. Blake Baxter - Luv Is Blind (Remastered)