Chris Liebing had his first Residency as a DJ in a small club called
"Red Brick" 1991 in Giessen, near Frankfurt. There he was playing all
sorts of music from Soul, Hip Hop and Pop to House. In 1993, buying his
records at Downtown Records in Giessen, he discovered the more
electronic side of music, and one year later, he decided to open up a
Techno Club, called "Spinclub".
Already beginning of 1995 the club had to close down and Chris began
working for Eye-Q Records in Frankfurt. During that period, he met his
friend and partner Andre Walter. Together they started to built up a
studio and worked on music. Later that year, the first record on Global
Ambition was released. Also together with Tommy Bingel from Downtown
Records and Toni Rios, they founded the house Label SOAP. Various
records and remixes were released, like Traveller on
Harthouse, Noosa Heads and E.H.R. on Soap, Strictly Ryth, and others.
In November 1995, Chris had a chance to play at the OMEN in Frankfurt
and shortly after became Resident DJ. About a year later, influenced by
his DJ-ing, he created "fine Audio Recordings" together with Under Cover
Music Group. Chris gained first worldwide recognition with releases like
Audio 07 and Audio 11.
Between 1997 and 1999 he hosted his weekly radioshow on Evosonic Radio.
Very much happened then in 1999, Chris played the first time for the
U60311 and started his residency every first Friday of a month with "Es
ist Freitagaaabend!", playing along with his favourite DJ's and live
acts from around the world.
He joined the Cocoon Agency in Frankfurt to take care of his growing
booking schedule and also in that same year, he moved on with his label
work and created his own record company "CLR". From then on the labels
CLR, Clretry, CLAU, Stigmata and Soap were distributed by Prime in
England.
Since August 2000 you can hear Chris and Pauli Steinbach in their "Pitch
Control" on HR XXL every Thursday night.
In may 2001 he mixed his first double CD Techno Divison Vol. 01 in
cooperation with his residency Club U60311 and their label. The CD runs
went well and were charted on #18 of the German dance chart directly.
Also Chris started working to produce for his first album. But he still
released production on his own labels in 2001/ 2002.
In 2002 he left Cocoon Booking to manage the booking schedule by
himself. From now on CLR is taking care of his labels and bookings.
Chris Liebings Debutalbum EVOLUTION got released in June 2003
national and October 2003 worldwide. The reaction is immense and most
magazines support the album and producer behind it. Next to releases in
2003 on his labels CLR, CL Retry, CLAU and Stigmata (for more
information watch Chris Liebing's discography) Chris decided to built up
his own Party row ES IST FREITAGAAABEND (means its friday night) in the
U 60311 in Frankfurt.
In August Chris played Nature One Festival in Germany and got voted to
best DJ of the festival, second year in row.
After a successful year (2003) Chris decided to take off a complete
month in January 2004; he wants have a few weeks off for vacation and
studio work. In that take off Chris have had the idea to arrange a
remix contest for all tracks he released on his debut album
Evolution. Chris put all parts of the tracks on his site for
download; and within a few days CLR received more than 2000
registrations of producers who wanted to do a remix. After three month
CLR received more than 500 remixes; and on August 2004 Chris released
the best four tracks on CLR evo.
In July 2003 Chris Liebing is nominated for the German dance award in
the category best national DJ, also nominated were Paul van Dyk, Sven
Väth & Westbam. Chris flew in to be part of the award show wich
happened in Berlin; really happy about the nomination; - nothing
aspected – and WON the award for best national DJ!
A few weeks later Chris and Pauli receives the information that the
radio channel where they run their weekly radio show, that the radio
channel was switching name and products; their radio show PITCH
CONTROL should move from a Thursday night slot to Saturday night. Pauli
and Chris decided not to go on, because both are mostly booked DJ wise,
and the Pitch Control team decided that to record the show under the
week and to broadcast it Saturday night instead of doing it live, would
mean they'd lose loads of spontainous vibe. So in
December 2004 the last Pitch Control went on the air before they both
closed the radio show after three years.. The reaction were massive, but
there were no chance to hold the Thursday night.
In the beginning of 2004 Chris Liebing was voted "best remixer" by
Raveline Magazine's yearly readers poll. In the categories best DJ and
best Producer Chris runs number two.
In May 2004 Chris released his second double mix CD for his residency
Club U60311 on their Label Techno Divisions; the Mix CD by Chris was
Vol. 4. in this mix CD Chris goes on as he would in a DJ performance,
with all technical equipment and effects he usually uses; Final
Scratch; Ableton Live, Faderfox, Air FX, etc. Also the cover of the CD
shows his laptop with Final Scratch running.
In March Chris received a request if he would be interested in
hosting a weekly night from July to September together with Mauro
Picotto on Ibiza at the Privilege Club. Chris and Mauro decided to do
so; even with loads of critics in back; they did, and the Meganite
combinazione were born. The night turned out as a success and the first
season on Ibiza were made, both hosts will go on with Meganite
Combinazione at Privilege in 2005 every Wednesday.
In October 2004 Chris release the STIGMATA CHAPTER ONE Mix CD, for wich
he used all 44 tracks he has released on his Label Stigmata for the
first Chapter ( 01 – 10) in cooperation with Ableton live. The mix CD
is sold as “The complete Collection, -Chapter one . Chris Liebing and
his partner Andre Walter will start in second half of 2005 latest with
the Stigmata Damon Chapter, Chapter two.
Together with the incredible dutch producer Speedy J Chris produced a
release on Speedy J's label COLLABS in which Speedy J releases always in
cooperation with some other producer on the renommated Novamute label.
Chris and Speedy J released Collabs 300 in November 2004. The results
were good and Speedy J and Chris Liebing realized that they should
continue to work together. So they started the collabs 300 series; in
January 2005 they will release their next 12”. Collabs 301. Also a
complete album is scheduled for November 2005 via Novemute.
In November 2004 the international recognized readers poll of the Top
100 DJs of the world from DJ Magazine happened. Chris Liebing climbed on
at number 23! He climbed 65 steps; which has him as the highest climber
of the Top 100 readers poll history of DJ Magazines.
In January 2005 Chris received the message that he is again nominated
for two German Dance Award; Best DJ and best Techno Artist. The Award
show will happen on March 11th 2005. Also in 2005 Chris
Liebing will host a second month residency at Avalon in New York
City.His night ES IST FREITAGAAABEND at the U 60311 will happen in 2005
again for sure, for the 6th year!
January Chris signed endorsement deals with Final Scratch 2 and
Shure. Chris will play at the german release party in Berlin for Final
Scratch and in Miami in March for the American release party of Final
Scratch 2. In Febuary 2005 Chris will relaunch his website; new updates
artwork, new press shoots.
In Summer 2005 Chris and Mauro celebrated their second year in Ibiza with
Meganite.
In November Chris released his Mix-CD LIVE IN BEOGRAD and his studio album
together with Speedy J called METALISM.
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