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OLIVER LIEB |
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Oliver Lieb is a very productive music creator.
This is a detailed Biography/discography about all releases by him known by us, including the projects L.S.G., Spicelab, Ambush, Superspy, S.O.L., Paragliders, Java, Mirage, Azid Force, Arte Bionico, Force Legato, and many many many more.
Oliver Lieb is a maniac, a music production maniac. He's a phenomenal electronic musician. He is a creator of flawless transdimensional sound sculptures and hypnotic voyages... His experimental music is composed with analogue synthesizers and programming without limits or boundaries. Oliver Lieb's music production and distribution is limited. There are many rare and hard to find projects he has released like Mindspace... Rainald Goetz... Psilocybin... Metrixx... Azid Force... DP-SOL, and Superspy... There are also projects which were never released to the public like Nitro: Nitro 1.1. He has mixed and remixed music tracks for several artists including Yello... DNC... Cygnus X... and Hallucinogen...
Some Oliver Lieb fans have become addicted to his music since the release of Force Legato: System. Oliver Lieb's latest projects includes the development of 3 new record labels... Methane + Phoolish: for Progressive Trance... Testified: for In Between Things... and Cooma & Mezzanine: for Hard Stuff...
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Oliver Lieb's music encompasses a broad range of electronics from Experimental: Ambient...Drum & Bass... Techno... House... and Trance.Frankfurt based
Top-Producer Oliver Lieb was born in 1969.
Since 1989 hebelongs to the most renowned producers of electronic music. Nomatter if it/s Techno, House, Eurodance, Elektro or just "music electronics", within seven years Oliver made it to the premier league of international Dance-Producers. Until today he released more than 100 tracks on about 80 sound carriers incl. successful remixes for SNAP, SVEN VATH; YELLO, SPARKS, HUMAN LEAGUE, MARC OH, MORY KANTE and ANDREAS DORAU. Which way leads to this kind of job and what guarantees this well balanced, always convincing output of Oliver Lieb ? |
| One answer is to be found in Oliver/s new studio in Frankfurt, which is without question one of the most exiting equipment collection of the whole Techno scene. However, looking for standard machines like Roland TB-303 or TR-909 is in vain here. Instead of this, Oliver Lieb prefers noble production-equipment and analogue
sound-sources with very own character (e.g. Syncussion, EMS A...altogether more than 30 machines) which all must have a certain important feature for being lodged in his homebase: Oscillators to produce ultra-deep bass frequencies. This love towards abyssy sound-spectrums has its reason in the fact that Oliver Lieb used to play bass in different Funk /n Soul bands before he started as an electronic musician. |
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When he was aged 14, his favourites were for example Stanley Clark and Mark King and Oliver had the ambition to rise to a top bass player.
A few years later Oliver explored the possibilities of the infrasound and
ordered a noble bass from the instrument builder Matthias Schindehutte. However, the real success of Oliver/s bands stayed out.
"Often I went off before the bands celebrated any triumphes..." The dark perspective to make his life with
this kind of music made Oliver cancel all his band activities to work on his own. "From this point of time I never did again any music-compromises." |
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| He got in touch with electronical music (KRAFTWERK, Electric Cafe, JEAN-MICHEL JARRE Concerts in China) and discovered suddenly a new and endless horizon of sound-expression. Oliver Lieb has never been the type of a classic bass player. Therefore he was much more impressed of the possibilities of programmable sampler technology connected with serial kind of production of modern sequencers. Equipped with such technology, Oliver could better realise his feeling for grooves and breaks. Soon he had tinkered his first hit: System, signed and produced by Torsten Fenslau using the pseudonym FORCE LEGATO (on Abfahrt) just hit the spirit of these days and sold more than 60 000 copies. Oliver tried to tie up, but without great success. In 1991 he seperated from the Abfahrt-label and produced together with SWIFT, who later became Rapper in the group MAGIC AFFAIR (The Omen). Oliver/s sound became more and more experimental. In the beginning of 1992 Oliver/s carreer reached another turning point: Again he met Matthias Schindehutte who now was at the new founded label HARTHOUSE. |  |
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Oliver played his tracks and the groundwork for the project SPICELAB was done.
In the years to follow, SPICELAB developed to one of the most important HARTHOUSE-projects. At the same time, multifunctional Oliver Lieb released
quite hard & wild tracks under PSYLOCIBIN on the DELIRIUM-label of Jorg Henze.
But the SPICELAB-project was appreciated more and developed an enormous dynamic. The shouts for live-performances became louder and louder and Oliver
created a cunning set-up of live sequencing and realtime programming in a time when 80% of the Techno live-acts worked with
DAT-playbacks. This gave him more than 300 bookings on/in all important raves/clubs all over the world. |
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However, Oliver Lieb never wanted to determine on a certain style so he created a special forum for each of his different Styles: SPICELAB for rough & experimental sound, THE AMBUSH for ethno-percussive style, PARAGLIDERS for harmonic trance and L.S.G. for flying & drifting Techno-Trance. For Oliver it/s very important to be always flexible and be able to develope in all genres he likes. In 1994 his career rised once more: Next to remixes for YELLO (Desire; Crashdance) and Andreas Dorau, together with Rainald Goetz he worked on the KRONOS-play. Furthermore his first album of THE AMBUSH was worldwide appreciated and nearly each of his productions made it into the Dance- and DJ-charts. |
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Musically he changed his way of easy arrangment structures to more deepness and more subtile grooves. The sound of Oliver Lieb which is based on equipment like Korg MS 50, Pearl Syncussion and Teisco 607, connected to analogue sequencers, developed on constantly.
One of the most impressive experiences in Oliver/s career was the invitation for performance on the renowned Jazz-Festival of Montreux in 1994.
The live-performance of the album act THE AMBUSH was realized together with
Harald Grosskopf (DISSIDENTEN), Bas Broikhus (RON ROOTS GROUP) and percussionists, dancers, pyro-tech and stage-deko. In 1995, after long disputes,
Oliver decided to seperate from the Harthouse to found his own label: Spy vs. Spice. As a sublabel of Undercover, distributed by Intergroove with outlets in the UK and USA his new SPICELAB-album appears in the beginning of 1996 demonstrating even more progressive sounds. |
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OLIVER LIEB • DISCOGRAPHY
| 1989-1998S.O.L. Force Legato System Abfahrt (1989) System Remix Abfahrt (1990) Staccato Zyx (1991) True Minds Underground Prophet Zyx (1991) Freddy Spins Ola-Ola-Ola Zyx (1991) E.S.P. Once Upon A Time In The West DSB (1992) Psilocybin Psilocybin Pt 1 Delirium (1992) Voice From Outer Space Delirium (1992) Sublevel 6 EP Delirium (1992) Steroids Black Series (1998) Spicelab EP Harthouse (1992) Quicksand EP Harthouse (1992) Spirit Of Fear EP Harthouse (1993) Lost In Spice LP Harthouse (1993) Spice Is A Fulltime Occupation Harthouse (1994) One Day On Our Planet LP Harthouse (1994) We Got Spice Remixes Harthouse (1994) Spy vs.Spice EP Spy vs. Spice (1995) Spy vs. Spice LP Spy vs. Spice (1996) Feathers Mixes Spy vs. Spice (1996) Spy Hard EP Spy vs. Spice (1996) Spicelab & Will E. Tell Frankfurt-Melbourne Conn. Spy vs. Spice(1997) Spicelab Blue Manna EP Global Ambition (1997) |
The Ambush Ambush Harthouse (1993) Ambush Pt.2 Harthouse (1993) Aton Remixes Harthouse (1994) The Ambush LP Harthouse (1994) Mindspace Mindspace EP No Respect Rec. (1993) Two Minds EP No Respect Rec. (1994) L.S.G. L.S.G. EP Superstition (1993) The Remixes Superstition (1994) Blueprint EP Superstition (1994) My Time Is Yours Superstition (1995) Rendezvous In Outer Space LP Superstition (1995) Venus/Fontana Remixes Fragile Part 2
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Mirage Airborne Eye-Q (1993) O. Lieb Constellation Recycle Or Die (1993) Infinite Aura Infinite Aura Harthouse (1993) Azid Force Azid Force EP Superstition (1993) Magic Mushroom EP Superstition (1994) Java Cosmos Eye-Q (1993) Paragliders Paraglider EP Superstition (1993) Paragliders Remixes Superstition/Rising High (1994) Oasis EP Superstition (1995) Share Of Bitterness Dos Or Die (1996) Music To Films Koyaanisqatsi Fax (1994) Rainald Gotz Kronos Eye-Q (1994) Arte Bionico Arte Bionico EP Superstition (1994) Deep Vision Strike |
OLIVER LIEB • REMIXES
| Sven Vath Ritual Of Life Eye-Q (1992) An Accident In Paradise Eye Q (1993) Interactive A.M.O.K. Dance Street (1993) Taucher Happiness Crash Rec. (1993) Messiah Thunderdome American (1993) Illuminatus Hope 23 (1994) Play You A Song 23 (1994) Velocity Lust Superstition (1994) Talla 2XLC |
Mory Kante Mogo Djolo Going Global (1994) Cygnus X Superstring Eye-Q (1994) Headman Work My Mind Millenium (1994) Buck Tick Dress Risng High (1994) Andreas Dorau Stoned Faces Don't Lie Motor (1994) Pulse Move Harthouse (1994) Amorph Sunday Afternoon
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Liquid Is Liquid Tease Me Sony (1995) Yello Desire Motor (1995) Crash-Dance Motor (1995) Marc Oh Tears Don't Lie Low Spirit (1995) Lazonby Wavespeech 3 Lanka (1995) Sparks When I Kiss You Logic (1995) Headman We Love You Sony (1995) Energy 52 Commander Tom |
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