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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 allsorts of music from Soul, Hip Hop and Pop to House. In 1993, buying hisrecords at Downtown Records in Giessen, he discovered the moreelectronic side of music, and one year later, he decided to open up aTechno Club, called "Spinclub".

Already beginning of 1995 the club had to close down and Chris beganworking for Eye-Q Records in Frankfurt. During that period, he met hisfriend and partner Andre Walter. Together they started to built up astudio and worked on music. Later that year, the first record on GlobalAmbition was released. Also together with Tommy Bingel from DowntownRecords and Toni Rios, they founded the house Label SOAP. Variousrecords and remixes were released, like Traveller onHarthouse, 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 Frankfurtand shortly after became Resident DJ. About a year later, influenced byhis DJ-ing, he created "fine Audio Recordings" together with Under CoverMusic Group. Chris gained first worldwide recognition with releases likeAudio 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 theU60311 and started his residency every first Friday of a month with "Esist Freitagaaabend!", playing along with his favourite DJ's and liveacts from around the world.

He joined the Cocoon Agency in Frankfurt to take care of his growingbooking schedule and also in that same year, he moved on with his labelwork and created his own record company "CLR". From then on the labelsCLR, Clretry, CLAU, Stigmata and Soap were distributed by Prime inEngland.

Since August 2000 you can hear Chris and Pauli Steinbach in their "PitchControl" on HR XXL every Thursday night.In may 2001 he mixed his first double CD Techno Divison Vol. 01 incooperation with his residency Club U60311 and their label. The CD runswent well and were charted on #18 of the German dance chart directly.Also Chris started working to produce for his first album. But he stillreleased production on his own labels in 2001/ 2002.

In 2002 he left Cocoon Booking to manage the booking schedule byhimself. From now on CLR is taking care of his labels and bookings.

Chris Liebings Debutalbum EVOLUTION got released in June 2003national and October 2003 worldwide. The reaction is immense and mostmagazines support the album and producer behind it. Next to releases in2003 on his labels CLR, CL Retry, CLAU and Stigmata (for moreinformation watch Chris Liebing's discography) Chris decided to built uphis own Party row ES IST FREITAGAAABEND (means its friday night) in theU 60311 in Frankfurt.

In August Chris played Nature One Festival in Germany and got voted tobest DJ of the festival, second year in row.

After a successful year (2003) Chris decided to take off a completemonth in January 2004; he wants have a few weeks off for vacation andstudio work. In that take off Chris have had the idea to arrange aremix contest for all tracks he released on his debut albumEvolution. Chris put all parts of the tracks on his site fordownload; and within a few days CLR received more than 2000registrations of producers who wanted to do a remix. After three monthCLR received more than 500 remixes; and on August 2004 Chris releasedthe best four tracks on CLR evo.

In July 2003 Chris Liebing is nominated for the German dance award inthe category best national DJ, also nominated were Paul van Dyk, SvenVth & Westbam. Chris flew in to be part of the award show wichhappened in Berlin; really happy about the nomination; - nothingaspected and WON the award for best national DJ!

A few weeks later Chris and Pauli receives the information that theradio channel where they run their weekly radio show, that the radiochannel was switching name and products; their radio show PITCHCONTROL should move from a Thursday night slot to Saturday night. Pauliand 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 theweek and to broadcast it Saturday night instead of doing it live, wouldmean they'd lose loads of spontainous vibe. So inDecember 2004 the last Pitch Control went on the air before they bothclosed the radio show after three years.. The reaction were massive, butthere were no chance to hold the Thursday night.

In the beginning of 2004 Chris Liebing was voted "best remixer" byRaveline Magazine's yearly readers poll. In the categories best DJ andbest Producer Chris runs number two.

In May 2004 Chris released his second double mix CD for his residencyClub U60311 on their Label Techno Divisions; the Mix CD by Chris wasVol. 4. in this mix CD Chris goes on as he would in a DJ performance,with all technical equipment and effects he usually uses; FinalScratch; Ableton Live, Faderfox, Air FX, etc. Also the cover of the CDshows his laptop with Final Scratch running.

In March Chris received a request if he would be interested inhosting a weekly night from July to September together with MauroPicotto on Ibiza at the Privilege Club. Chris and Mauro decided to doso; even with loads of critics in back; they did, and the Meganitecombinazione were born. The night turned out as a success and the firstseason on Ibiza were made, both hosts will go on with MeganiteCombinazione at Privilege in 2005 every Wednesday.

In October 2004 Chris release the STIGMATA CHAPTER ONE Mix CD, for wichhe used all 44 tracks he has released on his Label Stigmata for thefirst Chapter ( 01 10) in cooperation with Ableton live. The mix CDis sold as The complete Collection, -Chapter one . Chris Liebing andhis partner Andre Walter will start in second half of 2005 latest withthe Stigmata Damon Chapter, Chapter two.

Together with the incredible dutch producer Speedy J Chris produced arelease on Speedy J's label COLLABS in which Speedy J releases always incooperation with some other producer on the renommated Novamute label.Chris and Speedy J released Collabs 300 in November 2004. The resultswere good and Speedy J and Chris Liebing realized that they shouldcontinue to work together. So they started the collabs 300 series; inJanuary 2005 they will release their next 12. Collabs 301. Also acomplete album is scheduled for November 2005 via Novemute.

In November 2004 the international recognized readers poll of the Top100 DJs of the world from DJ Magazine happened. Chris Liebing climbed onat number 23! He climbed 65 steps; which has him as the highest climberof the Top 100 readers poll history of DJ Magazines.

In January 2005 Chris received the message that he is again nominatedfor two German Dance Award; Best DJ and best Techno Artist. The Awardshow will happen on March 11th 2005. Also in 2005 ChrisLiebing will host a second month residency at Avalon in New YorkCity.His night ES IST FREITAGAAABEND at the U 60311 will happen in 2005again for sure, for the 6th year!

January Chris signed endorsement deals with Final Scratch 2 andShure. Chris will play at the german release party in Berlin for FinalScratch and in Miami in March for the American release party of FinalScratch 2. In Febuary 2005 Chris will relaunch his website; new updatesartwork, new press shoots.

In Summer 2005 Chris and Mauro celebrated their second year in Ibiza withMeganite.

In November Chris released his Mix-CD LIVE IN BEOGRAD and his studio albumtogether with Speedy J called METALISM.