Set Report AMFM 293

This week I go back in time again, this time to the year 2015, location Edinburgh. What an insanely beautiful town. Actually I cannot tell you many stories about that night, but I watched some videos and that reminded me once more how much I miss playing in front of you and what an amazing history I also have with the United Kingdom. I chose this set, because when I just read some comments about my last AMFM, someone mentioned "how about a set from the Arches in Glasgow", so I was digging through some hard disks and only found one where the left channel was missing, damn I though, but then I stumbled upon this one here. A two hours set that I played for the 6th Birthday of La Belle Angles in Edinburgh and since I didn´t post a set from the UK for a while, this one seemed to be the perfect fit. Hope you enjoy that little trip back in time. Please, universe, let us do this again soon! In the meantime I keep digging in olds hard disks…

Chris Liebing - Tracklist AM/FM 293

MG - Hum (Original Mix) - MUTE
2000 and One - Kawasaki	
Petrichor - State Function (Original Mix) - Soma Records
Robert S (PT) - The Void from Planet (Re:Axis Remix )	
Andrea Belluzzi - 75 (Original Mix) - Synewave
Lucy – Phasing - CL Edit 20
Andre Kronert - ODDEVEN001_B1_Andre Kronert_Terminus (Pfirter Remix)	
Ambivalent - Chronos (Truncate Remix) - Valence Records
Fixeer	Fahrenheit - (Kyle Geiger Beat Tool Remix) - Vector Functions Records
Nina Kraviz - Ghetto (Regal 303 Dub) - CL Edit	
Luis Flores - Fotgot	
Motor - Hyper_Lust_(Pfirter_Remix) 
Miss Sunshine - MS001 (Attemporal Remix) - Kaputt
Julian Jeweil	- Concept (Original Mix) - Minus
Shackleton - Blood on My Hands (Ricardo Villalobos' Apocalypso Now Mix) - Skull Disco
Truncate - B2_Untitled_DavidsMaster TOMbomb	
Charles Fenckler - District Two (Original Mix) tom truncate - Soma Records
Markus Suckut - Turn On	
Aphrohead - 1king 1queen (Original Mix) - Crosstown Rebels
[ Wex 10 ] - Quizz (Original Mix) - Coincidence Records
Jerome Sydenham - Vanishing Point	
Marco Faraone - Rotaryknobs (Radio Slave Remix)

AMFM | 293

Collabs3000 '2025 EP': https://mute.ffm.to/collabs3000-2025ep
Collabs3000 'Metalism': https://mute.ffm.to/collabs3000-m20

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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