yeeeeehaaaa zugabe 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

The track coming in here with those chords. WHAT IS IT?!?!?! Soooo gooooood!

Whats the name of the first song here, lovee it !

This week´s #AMFM is the third and last hour of my set at Guendalina Club in the south of Italy on July 29th 2017. For about 15 years now I have had the pleasure to play on a regular basis in Italy, but never played at that beautiful open air club before. For me this Saturday, July 29th, had 3 gigs planned. I started at the playdifferent stage at Tomorrowland and afterwards I flew directly to Stuttgart airport, where they sadly had some repairs on the runway, which caused some heavy delays, making me miss my gig at the WET Festival. Things like this can happen and are beyond anyone´s control, yet they are really frustrating, not only for me, also I believe for all of the people waiting at the event. Luckily my good friend Dubfire was willing to fill in and what I heard he smashed it. After all, the trip continued and I arrived a little late, but very psyched to play at Guendalina. And what a good time we had, what a beautiful place and what an amazing crowd. South of Italy never disappoints in the summer. I am so blessed and thankful for these moments. Grazie Mille once more. For those of you who glue the weekly AMFM hours together, I need to tell you that due to the fact that my set was just a little short of 3h, I needed to overlap the 2nd and the 3rd hour to make it fit for three shows. So if you really wanna fit it together, be aware that the first 15 min of the 3rd hour are the same as the last 15 min of the 2nd hour. Sorry for this inconvenience, but I couldn’t find any other way. Hope you will enjoy the set as much as I did playing it …

AM/FM 128

OUT NOW: Chris Liebing 'Phantom Rider EP'
https://lnk.to/CLR128

World: javier@analog-a.com
North America: mariesa@liaisonartists.com
Latin America: larissa@liminal.ag
Italy: alex.ravizza@vivoconcerti.com
MGMT: roland@rlcgmbh.com

Chris Liebing is synonymous with techno. His legacy is long assured, but his craft never stops evolving. Whether as label head, podcast curator, DJ or producer, he continues to challenge himself and his audience to explore new realms in the electronic world. And often ahead of the curve, too, from the early, hard-edged and loopy 90s sound which is back en vogue today, through his more stripped-back turn of the millennium minimalism and onto the cinematic atmospheres and broader alternative electronica of his latest albums on Mute. It's no stretch to say, then, that Chris Liebing's story is closely connected to the story of techno itself. 

Liebing is considered a global techno ambassador, but his ambitious album projects and direct club tracks excite and innovate as much as any new school star. A proudly forward-thinking attitude ensures that is the case as his DJ tools and studio setup constantly evolve. He continues to be an early adopter of emerging technology, too, just as he was with vinyl controllers, Traktor and when leading the way with full hybrid/live DJing. 

These days, Liebing incorporates an ever wider sphere of sound into his own work. After an eight-year break from full lengths, 2018's Burn Slow on Mute was a creative rebirth that received critical acclaim and confounded all expectations. It was a melancholic mediation on gothic moods, looming apocalyptic landscapes and optimistic broken-beat techno that drew from his childhood love of Depeche Mode, Gary Numan and the New Romantic movement. 

Remixes for Depeche Mode and Goldfrapp followed alongside a collaborative single with Charlotte De Witte, and 2021 brought a second album on Mute, Another Day. It found Liebing exploring all new ways of expressing both his euphoric and melodic side, all with high-grade technical skill and meticulous sonic craft with a range of collaborators from Miles Cooper Seaton to Polly Scattergood. This exceptional form continued into 2023 as he returned to the club with his Love Those Who Fight With Passion And Faith EP on CLR, a passionate and politically charged call to the dance floor that joined Liebing and Luke Slater’s remix of Depeche Mode’s iconic ‘Ghosts Again’ in the first half of the year. 

Born in Giessen and active ever since the 1990s, Liebing has always platformed the talent around him as much as himself: a long time before they were commonplace, he famously helmed his own CLR podcast. For many years, it was the scene's most influential series, with a who's who of international pioneers at the helm. After that came the equally important AM/FM radio show, but now following a hiatus, the CLR podcast is back and pushing a fresh techno agenda, as is his iconic label of the same name.

In its first chapter, CLR stood for Chris Liebing Records, then Create Learn Realize, and now Create Learn Repeat - a subtle evolution that is at the heart of everything Liebing does. The label will always be synonymous with exciting techno and is now back hosting parties and festival stages. 

Though his music is underpinned by pulsating menace and a stomping sense of drama, Liebing himself is friendly with a famous smile. It is the music that motivates him and the freedom that comes with increased experience. These days there are no limits, no expectations, but a continued love for the art and craft of techno that is taking him down all new creative pathways.

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