Ever since its earliest pioneers sought to link the techno of Detroit and Berlin back in 1991, Tresor has long been a home for those seeking to push boundaries, a space where electronic innovators can tinker in the presence of like-minded peers. Tresor 30 represents glances both at the past and towards the future, a mammoth 12-disc set featuring… well, everyone; Basic Channel, K-Hand, Underground Resistance, Porter Ricks, Moritz von Oswald, Jeff Mills — the list goes on. It’s a landmark release for the label and a living history of world techno.

Coming in hot on the tail of his Editions Mego debut Peel, Nairobi born and Berlin-based ambient creator Joseph Kamaru aka KMRU signs to Injazero to tell the story of the old days, back when he was still self-releasing his richly textural washes of sound. Giving the lie to the dominance of Westerners in the global ambient circuit — as well as the erroneous term ‘fourth world’ — Kamaru’s Logue offers a compendium of beautiful antiphony between glimmering electronics and field recordings from his native Kenya and the surrounding East African countries. Bilious drones and simmering arps add a certain poignancy — and menace — to the innocuous chatter of everyday life.