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

World: javier@analog-a.com
North America: john@analog-a.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.

Biographie
Bereits im jungen Alter von 15 Jahren entdeckte Björn Polk,
alias Dj Chrome, die faszination der electronischen Tanzmusik für sich. Im Alter von 16 Jahren begeisterte ihn das dj-ing, sodass er ihm selben Jahr seine ersten Vinyls und Turntables und einen Mixer kaufte. In den nächsten Jahren entwickelte er anhand seines Ehrgeizes und durch positive Statements von Freunden und anderen Djs seinen eigenen Stil aus einem Mix von Techno und Electro.
Mit 18 Jahren startete er mit Freunden und anderen Djs die er in der Lernphase kennen lernte die erste Partyreihe namens
L.I.S, durch die er wachsende Erfolge mit einer immer größer werdenden Fangemeinde erreichte.
2000 legte er das erste mal auf der Time Warp (Yamaha Base) auf.
Danach folgten einzelne Bookings in Szenenclubs wie Connexion
in Mannheim, Vibration Club in Forst und offiziellen Partyreihen mit Djs aus der Umgebung. Silvester 04/05 buchte ihn der Sinus-Club in Maximiliamsau worauf er einen Platz als Resident Dj bekam. Dort legte er unteranderem mit Hauptacts wie Dj Rush, Marco Remus und Pet Duo den härteren Techno auf.
In den darauffolgenden Jahren veränderte er seinen Musikstil in Richtung Minimal-Techno. Ende 2008 entdecke er das Produzieren für sich.
Bis heute ist er seinem Stil von rockigem Techno treu geblieben und heizt den Leuten auf der Tanzfläche ordentlich ein .



www.chicochiquita.com
DJ, PRODUCER, LABELMANAGER

Sometimes he is the man in the background, and sometimes the stage hog: As a label owner since 2009, producer since 2004, DJ since 2001 and trained musician since childhood, Chico Chiquita has meanwhile become an institution of the German dance scene. For 7 years he was responsible for the Saturday evening on Electronic Music Radio #1 sunshine live and is still part of the sunshine live DJ team. As co-founder and label boss of 120dB and IONIC Records he discovered and built up acts like Laserkraft 3D, Le Shuuk, Bazzflow or Timbo and was awarded with Gold for his first big signing "Nein, Mann!“ by Laserkraft 3D.

Chico has also compiled countless compilations over the last 10 years (including for Nature One, Mayday and sunshine live), and has released tracks and remixes with numerous partners such as Jewelz, Markhese, Greg Silver, Nicky Jones, Bragaa and Falko Richtberg on different labels like P.I.A.S., RUN DBN, ZYX, Tokabeatz, SonyBMG Poland, Toptrax, Amused Records and of course 120dB Records. As an expert, Chico (as he has been called almost exclusively since his school days) is in great demand at conferences such as Mixcon and BPM Heroes, as well as for academic papers. The experienced DJ has always left an enthusiastic audience with his energetic sets at events such as Ruhr in Love, Parookaville, Neonsplash, Word Club Dome / Hypercat, Holi Gaudi or Farbgefühle!

How would one describe Thomsen... 

Some would say frugal and cautious. But this is a matter of opinion. 
In short, he is a minimalist, which brings the daily maximum out from the minimum. 

Once Thomsen is on the turntables, he does it for one reason only. He wants to relieve the people´s daily grinds and sells all worries and problems of listeners with his music, at least for the duration of his set! 

His favorite quote sounds like: music is my life and my feeling, you can not stop me. 

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