Oliver Lieb
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Oliver Lieb (born 1969) is a prolific electronic music producer based in Frankfurt, Germany (primarily techno and trance). He has produced hundreds of tracks on over 100 records and has remixed tracks for the likes of Sven Väth, Yello, Sparks, Human League, Marc Oh, Mory Kante. He also frequently performs as a DJ.
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[edit] Biography
Oliver began his musical career as a bass player with great ambitions, playing in funk and soul bands. However, he often left the bands he played in before they found any real success. Eventually he wisened up to the future of traditional rock bands and started exploring electronic music.
His first own records, under the alias “Force Legato”, were released by ZYX Music. In 1992, Oliver Lieb met Matthias Schindehutte, A&R man for the newly formed Harthouse label, who contracted him for the Spicelab project. Spicelab went on to become one of the most important Harthouse projects and the figurehead of the Frankfurt techno scene. At the same time, Oliver started work on harder tracks, released using the alias Psilocybin. 1993 saw his first releases under the alias L.S.G., which he continues to use today. In 1994, he first cooperated with Harald Großkopf (whom he later also performed with live), releasing tracks using the alias The Ambush.
[edit] Production
Superstition Records have described Oliver Lieb's studio as one of the most exciting equipment collections of the entire techno scene. It contains dozens of synthesisers, many of them rare or unusual, but not a single popular device such as the Roland TB-303 or TR-909, whose musical character is well known. He prefers analogue equipment, valuing especially oscillators capable of producing extraordinarily deep bass frequencies. His music typically consists of atypical sound tapestries and melodies intervowen with very straight, familiar techno rhythms.
[edit] Aliases
Oliver has recorded as:
- Alpha Omega (Phoolish)
- Antimon (Federation of Drums, with W.J. Henze)
- Archon (Le petit prince)
- Arte Bionico (Superstition, with Marcos Lopez)
- Azid Force (Superstition, with Pascal F.E.O.S.)
- Ecano (Bonzai, Tetsuo, Avantgarde)
- Force Legato (ZYX)
- Genetix (Millennium)
- Gobiman (Jerk)
- Infinite Aura (Harthouse, with Pascal F.E.O.S.)
- Java (Eye Q, with Dr. Atmo)
- L.S.G. (Superstition)
- Mark III (Methane)
- Mindspace (No Respect)
- Mirage (Eye Q, with Ralph Ruppert)
- Multiplicity (Dimension)
- Music to films (“Fax +49-69/450464”, with Dr.Atmo)
- O.L. (Delirium)
- Paragliders (Superstition, with Thorsten Stenzel)
- Phools Inc (Phoolish, Sidewalk)
- Psilocybin (Delirium, with W.J. Henze)
- Radical Impression (Swop)
- S.O.L. (Superstition)
- Sentinel (Logic, with R. Flex)
- Smoked (Jerk)
- Snakemen (Universal Prime Breaks)
- Solieb (Maschine)
- Spicelab (Harthouse)
- Strike (Contacted)
- Superspy (Noom)
- The Ambush (Harthouse)
- … and countless others
