Conspicuously missing from last year's poll after consecutive appearances, Tresor is back once again like the renegade master it really is.

Symbolic of techno in the truest sense of the word, it's continued to represent the scene it helped kick start over the past 12 months, keeping the purists happy with Jeff Mills, Juan Atkins and Joey Betram, and injections of house coming from Marshall Jefferson and DJ Deep.

Set up under the ruins of Wertheim — once Europe's biggest department store — in 1991, Tresor emerged from the shadows of the falling Berlin Wall.

These days, after moving to an old power station, Kraftwerk Mitte, in 2007, it reigns on as a regular retreat for the city's most cultured clubbers — a gateway to techno therapy: the wildest there is.