Chris Liebing - Evolver Chris Liebing
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Chris Liebing's first full solo techno LP, 'Evolver' is released on 27th March 2026, via his own CLR imprint. The German techno don's LP features a host of collaborators across music, images, and artwork. Luke Slater, Charlo`e De Wi`e, Speedy J, The Advent, Terence Fixmer, Pascal Gabriel, Daniel Miller contribute to the music, while long-Jme collaborators Studio Bergfors deliver design, and legendary photographer Anton Corbijn shot Liebing for the project.
The Evolver LP is the sum total of Chris Liebing's three decades at the beaJng heart of techno. It's the record only someone whose first break as a techno DJ was playing five hours at Sven Väth's infamous Omen in Frankfurt - and who has ridden out every twist and turn of life and subcultures since, while remaining rooted in the true school, dark, sweaty techno sweat pits of the world - could have made. It's the result of deep introspecJon, but it's about u`er immediacy. It's the sound of someone previously driven along by compulsion and happenstance at last finding the confidence to be u`erly intenJonal about their pracJce, allowing them to take the most classic, familiar, proven elements from the past and render them completely new.
Evolver is also Liebing's first completely solo album. There are collaboraJons, yes: with old friends from the OG techno generaJon, Luke Slater, Speedy J, and The Advent, all on uncompromising form, and with new generaJon figurehead Charlo`e De Wi`e, who provides a thrilling narraJon of total surrender to the moment on acid clarion call "Symphonie des Seins". But unlike all Liebing's albums to date, there's no co-pilot. Every structure, every mixdown, every choice serves his singular vision of how his untold immersion in the surging currents of the world's greatest clubs should sound. The elements are all those forged in the white heat of Omen and Tresor in the mid 90s – brutal repeJJon, Jtanium kick drums, industrial atmospherics, but also dark rave euphoria, ever present surging acid lines just on the cusp of trance, and just enough human voices to remind you of bodies on the dance floor - but rendered with all the extraordinary accumulated skill and technological developments since then.
It's Chris's vision enJrely, his musings on sound, technology, and life birthing tracks like "Roy Ba`y." Inspired by thoughts of AI becoming senJent and hungering for more life like Rutger Hauer's Jtular Blade Runner character, it was one of the first tracks to emerge and a foundaJon stone for the album. And in pursuit of that vision, it's built like a "proper album". The anJcipaJon and menace of intro "Unfold" Jp over into the glowing hot high drama psychedelia of "Symphonie…" then the breathless headlong
rush of The Advent collab and on through an unfolding narraJve that goes deep, goes dark, opens out into grand vistas, takes strange turns before finally landing on the alien landscape of… well… "Endtrack".
Not everything is pummelling on Evolver - the dazzling Jtle track feels like you've been welcomed into the courtly dance of a higher dimension civilisaJon, and the audacious Speedy J collab "Shaping Frequencies" is a beatless flow that tests the boundaries between signal and noise. But for all its complexity, conceptualism, and stylisJc branching out, every last part unmistakably powered by that dark techno- cavern energy above all else. All of it posiJvely radiates the qualiJes of Liebing's greatest work and sets to date - but somehow even more so than before. Whether you're listening for aestheJc inspiraJon, cerebral sJmulaJon or just that raw physical power, this album will sweep you up into its momentum and won't let go of you unJl it's done.
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