- Chris Liebing
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Chris Liebing Birth name Christopher Liebing Born December 10, 1968 Origin Gießen, Hesse, Germany Genres Techno, Tech-house, Minimal techno Website Chris Liebing Recordings Chris Liebing is dj, producer, radio host of a weekly show and the driving force behind the labels CLR and Spinclub Recordings. His sound has continuously evolved during his dj career, always true to his Techno roots. He was one of the first djs that used the new possibilities in the course of the digitalization of music in a consequent and creative way. The real-time manipulation of the individual elements plays an important role in his sets. Due to the good co-operation with various software and hardware makers, his current setup offers him practically endless possibilities. He is a worldwide requested dj and also part of the Collabs live act, together with the Dutch producer Speedy J His productions and remixes appear in the play lists of numerous renowned djs. Hereafter some milestones in his career:
It all started 1990 in the area of Giessen / Germany when he was mainly playing Hip Hop, Soul, Pop and House. His growing passion for electronic music caused the opening of his own club named Spinclub in 1994. At this time he also gathered his first studio experiences and founded the label Soap Records alongside with friends. A job at Eye Q Records in Frankfurt provided him with useful experiences and contacts in the Techno scene. When he was called to fill in for a friend at the legendary Omen club, he received enthusiastic reactions from the crowd. From this day until the closing of the club in 1998, he used to play there on a regular basis together with many international djs.
In 1996 Chris left Eye Q and founded his first label called Audio. Before the label´s closure in spring 1999, they released 17 tracks, amongst them his productions Audio 07 and Audio 11, which received worldwide recognition. At the same time Chris developed a new passion by presenting his first radio show Evosonic Update which supplied the party crowd every Friday afternoon with party tips and vinyl critics on the radio station Evosonic. In 1999 his well-established label CLR was founded. This was the time when he also started to receive top rankings in various categories of the reader polls of the popular music magazines, amongst them “best national dj”, “best remixer” and “best producer” on a regular basis.
In the beginning of 2001 he founded the pure remix label “CLRetry” and released mixes by producers like Marco Carola, Gaetano Parisio, Adam Beyer, Steve Rachmad, Speedy J, Chris Mc Cormack, DJ Rush, Ian J Richardson and Ben Sims. In 2002 he started to work on his first artist album and the CLR website www.clr.net went online. From then on the CLR office took care of his exclusive booking and the labels. When his album “Evolution“ was released by the middle of 2003 it received massive media attention and enthusiastic critics.
In 2003 many things started moving, for example on Ibiza. After playing for the first four Cocoon Ibiza residencies, this year Chris played for Carl Cox. In the following years 2004 and 2005 he co-hosted Mauro Picotto´s Meganite at Privilege, where he also hosted the first and promising Spinclub season (named after his club in Giessen) in 2006. In the following year the Spinclub continued at Space. Inspired by the successful season at Space, the label Spinclub Recordings was founded in the beginning of 2008. The first residency of the Spinclub Radio Show started in summer of the same year on the radio station Ibiza Sonica. Due to the big success, another weekly slot on Ibiza Global Radio followed in December.
Since 2005 Chris produces in his own (obviously “state of the art” :) studio in Frankfurt. In the same year a productive and still persisting friendship between him and Speedy J. began, which so far resulted in the album Metalism on Novamute and various singles. The current releases have just come out and there are plans for another Collabs album.
2009 was a year of many changes for CLR. Chris Liebing and his team celebrated the 10th anniversary of CLR, restructured the label, opened an office in Berlin and celebrated many great parties on Chris´ club- and festival gigs. The residency at the BE nights at Space / Ibiza became a big success. In the beginning of the year, Chris had begun with the production of the weekly CLR podcast, which by now counts more than 250.000 monthly listeners. He officially renamed CLR into CREATE LEARN REALIZE (as this is what he did most of his life) and by doing so he finally got rid of his ego in the label name.
2010 CLR starts off with a new distribution by Word And Sound. The first common project is the 10 Years CLR Compilation with 10 exclusive tracks by some of the finest techno producers of our time.
Contents
Releases
Albums
- Early Works, Fine Audio Recordings (2002)
- Evolution, CLR (2) (2003)
- Chris Liebing / Speedy J - Collabs 3000 : Metalism, NovaMute (2005)
- Selected Remixes Of The Last 10 Years, CLR (2) (2008)
Singles & EPs
- No Time To Waste E.P., Primate Recordings (1998)
- Dandu Groove, Fine Audio Recordings (1998)
- Dandu Groove (Remixes) (2x12"), Fine Audio Recordings (1998)
- Drumcook (12"), Fine Audio Recordings (1998)
- Chord Dive / Master Malt / Drum Kitchen, Energy Industries (1999)
- Stigmata E.P., CLR (2) (1999)
- The Real Schranz (Part 2), CLAU (1999)
- The Real Schranz (Part 3), CLAU (1999)
- The Real Schranz (Part 1), CLAU (1999)
- Koller (12"), Molecular Recordings (1999)
- The Real Schranz (Part 3) (10", Ltd, Promo, W/Lbl) CLAU (1999)
- Advanced Audio E.P. (12", EP), Primate Recordings (1999)
- New Beginnings E.P. (12", EP), CLR (2) (1999)
- Chris Liebing & Umek - Downtown E.P., Primate Recordings, Primate Recordings (2000)
- Call It What You Want (Part 4), CLAU (2000)
- Locke, Molecular Recordings (2000)
- The Order Of Art, Ground (2000)
- Geushky At Night (12"), Geushky (2000)
- Analogon E.P. (12", EP), CLR (2) (2000)
- Analogon E.P. (Remixes 1), CLRetry (2001)
- Analogon E.P. (Remixes 2), CLRetry (2001)
- Analogon E.P. (Remixes 3), CLRetry (2001)
- Es Ist Freitag-aaabend... 2nd Anniversary Night (12", S/Sided, Promo, Etch), CLR (2) (2001)
- Next Try E.P. (12", EP), CLR (2) (2001)
- The Biggest Ten Inches I Have Ever Seen (12"), CLAU (2001)
- Weather E.P., CLAU (2002)
- October, CLRetry (2002)
- Es Ist Freitag-aaabend... 3rd Anniversary Night (12", S/Sided, Promo, Etch), CLR (2) (2002)
- Next Try E.P. (Remixes) (12", EP), CLRetry (2002)
- The Shaker E.P. (12", EP), Masters Of Disaster (2002)
- Next Try E.P. / The Biggest Ten Inches I Have Ever Seen (Remixes) (12") , CLRetry (2002)
- Too Much Talk / Weather E.P. (Remixes), CLRetry (2003)
- The Remixes: Part 1, Evolution (2) (2003)
- Gassenhauer / Waiting For The Rain (Remixes), CLRetry (2003)
- Talkshow E.P., CLAU (2003)
- American Madness, Evolution (2) (2003)
- Es Ist Freitag-aaabend... 4th Anniversary Night (12", S/Sided, Promo, Etch), CLR (2) (2003)
- SpeedyJ* _ Chris Liebing - Collabs 300, NovaMute (2004)
- Es Ist Freitag-aaabend... 5th Anniversary Night (12", S/Sided, Promo, Etch), CLR (2) (2004)
- The Remixes: Part 3 (12"), Evolution (2) (2004)
- The Remixes: Part 2 (12"), Evolution (2) (2004)
- Ping Pong Pineapple (Remixes) (12"), Masters Of Disaster (2004)
- Chris Liebing & Ben Sims - CLR 13, CLR (2) (2005)
- SpeedyJ* _ Chris Liebing - Collabs 301, NovaMute (2005)
- Es Ist Freitag-aaabend... 6th Anniversary Night (12", S/Sided, Promo, Etch, Ltd), CLR (2) (2005)
- Es Ist Freitag-aaabend... 7th Anniversary Night (12", S/Sided, Promo, Etch, Ltd), CLR (2) (2006)
- A, B, C, D EP Part 2, CLR (2) (2007)
- Bangbop / Puckelbop (12"), CLR (2) (2007)
- A, B, C, D EP Part One (12", EP), CLR (2) (2007)
- Turbular Bell / Turbular Chord, CLR (2) (2008)
- Auf... E.P., CLR (2) (2009)
- Chris Liebing Feat. Markus Sprengler / Tommy Four Seven - Ataraxia / Sor (10"), CLR (2) (2010)
DJ Mixes
- Progressive Nation - The 4th Generation (CD, Comp, Mixed), interGROOVE, interGROOVE (1997)
- Audio Compilation Vol. 2 (CD, Comp, Mixed), Fine Audio Recordings (1999)
- U60311 Compilation Techno Division Vol. 1 (2xCD, Comp, Mixed), V2 Records, Inc. (2001)
- Labelcompilation 1 & 2 (2xCD, Comp, Mixed, Ltd), Fine Audio Recordings, Fine Audio Recordings (2003)
- U60311 Compilation Techno Division Vol. 4 (2xCD, Comp, Mixed), V2 Records, Inc. (2004)
- Live In Beograd, CLR (2) (2005)
- Live @ Womb - Tokyo (CD, Mixed, Comp), CLR (2) (2006)
- Spinclub, XMAG, CLR (2) (2007)
- Live In Zurich // Rohstofflager, CLR (2) (2007)
- Live At Nature One 2008 (CD, Comp, Mixed), CLR (2) (2008)
- Chris Liebing Presents Spinclub Ibiza - Season 2 - The Complete Collection (2xCD, Mixed, Comp + DVD-V, PAL), Spinclub Recordings (2008)
- 10 Years CLR, CLR (2) (2010)
Miscellaneous
- Interview (File, MP3, 56 ), Not On Label (Techno.de) (2004)
- Chris Liebing / Speedy J - Discombobulated / Klave, REKIDS (2009)
- Chris Liebing & Tommy Four Seven - Bauhaus, Bauhaus (2009)
- Chris Liebing vs. Green Velvet / Alex Bau - Auf Und Ab Und Kinda High (Dustin Zahn Mix) / Arctica, CLR (2) (2010)
- Auf Und Ab... Remixed, CLR (2) (2010)
External links
Categories:- Living people
- German DJs
- German electronic musicians
- German techno musicians
- 1968 births
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