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out now: Shlomi Aber – Schema EP [CLR]

Artist:
Shlomi Aber

Title:
Schema EP

Label:
CLR

Cat#:
CLR139

Release Date:
24th April 2026

Format:
vinyl, download & streaming

Tracklist:
A1.
Schema

A2.
Schema
(James Ruskin Remix)

B1.
Gasolina

Press Info:
Be As One boss Shlomi Aber returns to Chris Liebing’s CLR with the ‘Schema’ EP, arriving 24th April 2026 alongside a remix from James Ruskin. Active since 1994, Aber has been a cornerstone of underground techno for over three decades, with his focused, hypnotic approach in both the studio and DJ booth. With the ‘Schema’ EP, he follows his recent ‘Retrospective’ EP for Ben Klock’s Klockworks, as well as previous CLR outings such as the ‘Limelight’ EP (2025), and the ‘Remote 101’ EP (2023), which both kept a spot in the Beatport Techno chart for over two years after release, while winning support from the likes of Carl Cox, Alienata, Dave Clarke, and many more.

Shlomi Aber’s ‘Schema’ EP opens with the title track and heads straight into subterranean territory, pairing weighty low-end pressure with tightly controlled tension. Rattling bass foundations are offset by sharp hi-hats and static-laced textures that flicker through the mix, keeping the groove locked and the atmosphere charged.

On remix duties, James Ruskin, founder of the seminal Blueprint, delivers a shadowy, atmospheric rework. Eerie pads hang in the background as swampy bass anchors the rhythm, with haunted melodic elements slowly unfolding to create a deep, immersive take built for late hours and dark rooms.

Closing track ‘Gasolina’ sees Aber shifting into broken-beat territory, where warm, glitchy rhythms loop with hypnotic precision. Ghostly synth motifs drift in and out of focus, giving the track a cinematic, heady quality that rounds out the release with understated intensity.

Founded by influential techno lynchpin Chris Liebing in 1999 and reemerging in 2021 after a five-year hiatus, Create Learn Repeat (CLR) has hosted a range of artists like Dubfire, Flug, Bjarki, DJ Dextro, and more while also focusing on developing newer acts in the scene, such as Risa Taniguchi, The Southern, and Klint.

Full Track Streaming:

Special:
“CLR Podcast 417”

Recommendations:
Shlomi Aber’s “Can’t Sleep EP” on CLR
Shlomi Aber’s “Remote 101 EP” on CLR
Shlomi Aber’s “Limelight EP” on CLR
“Sonic Underworld EP” by Shlomi Aber & Kashpitzky on Blueprint Records
all featured releases on CLR

Buy Vinyl:
CLR @ Bandcamp
Deejay
Decks
OYE Records
Juno
Red Eye Records
iMusic
more soon

Buy Download:
CLR @ Bandcamp
Qobuz
JunoDownload
Beatport
TraxSource
iTunes
more soon

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Tidal
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Booking:
Shlomi Aber

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Shlomi Aber
CLR

out now: Chris Liebing – Evolver [CLR]

Artist:
Chris Liebing

Title:
Evolver

Label:
CLR

Cat#:
CLRLP015

Release Date:
27th March 2026

Format:
2xVinyl, download & streaming

Tracklist:
01.
Chris Liebing
Unfold

02.
Chris Liebing & Charlotte de Witte
Symphonie des Seins

03.
Chris Liebing & The Advent
Subjective Immortality

04.
Chris Liebing
Roy Batty

05.
Chris Liebing
Evolver

06.
Chris Liebing
John Connor

07.
Chris Liebing & Luke Slater
Double Split

08.
Chris Liebing & The Alte Stuben Modular Ensemble
Entangled Circuits

09.
Chris Liebing
Higher Things

10.
Chris Liebing & Speedy J
Shaping Frequencies

11.
Chris Liebing
Brooks Ave

12.
Chris Liebing
Eye C

13.
Chris Liebing
Endtrack

Press Info:
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, Charlotte de Witte, Speedy J, The Advent, Terence Fixmer, Pascal Gabriel, Daniel Miller contribute to the music, while long-time 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 beating 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 introspection, but it’s about utter immediacy. It’s the sound of someone previously driven along by compulsion and happenstance at last finding the confidence to be utterly intentional about their practice, 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 collaborations, yes: with old friends from the OG techno generation, Luke Slater, Speedy J, and The Advent, all on uncompromising form, and with new generation figurehead Charlotte De Witte, who provides a thrilling narration 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 repetition, titanium 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 entirely, his musings on sound, technology, and life birthing tracks like “Roy Batty.” Inspired by thoughts of AI becoming sentient and hungering for more life like Rutger Hauer’s titular Blade Runner character, it was one of the first tracks to emerge and a foundation stone for the album. And in pursuit of that vision, it’s built like a “proper album”. The anticipation and menace of intro “Unfold” tip over into the glowing hot high drama psychedelia of “Symphonie…” then the breathless headlong rush of The Advent collab and on through an unfolding narrative 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 title track feels like you’ve been welcomed into the courtly dance of a higher dimension civilisation, 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 stylistic branching out, every last part is unmistakably powered by that dark techno-cavern energy above all else. All of it positively radiates the qualities of Liebing’s greatest work and sets to date – but somehow even more so than before. Whether you’re listening for aesthetic inspiration, cerebral stimulation, or just that raw physical power, this album will sweep you up into its momentum and won’t let go of you until it’s done.

Full Track Streaming:

Special:
“CLR Podcast 440”

Recommendations:
Luke Slater’s “Wireless” on NovaMute
Luke Slater’s “Freek Funk” on NovaMute
Luke Slater’s “Love (Remixes)” on Mote-Evolver
“Liquid Slow EP” by Chris Liebing & Charlotte de Witte on KNTXT
Charlotte de Witte’s “The Healer EP” on NovaMute
Charlotte de Witte’s “Brussels EP” on NovaMute
Collabs 3000’s “Metalism (20th Anniversary Edition)” on NovaMute
Collabs 3000’s “2025 EP” on NovaMute
Chris Liebings “Another Day” on Mute
Chris Liebings “Burn Slow” on Mute
Speedy J’s “Public Energy No. 1” on NovaMute…
Speedy J’s “Ginger (Remastered 2021)” on Warp Records …
Speedy J’s “Transparent” on Stoor
all stuff by Chris Liebing we featured
all stuff on CLR we featured

Buy Vinyl:
CLR @ Bandcamp
Juno
Deejay
Decks
HHV
Red Eye Records
OYE Records
WOM
iMusic
more soon

Buy Download:
CLR @ Bandcamp
Qobuz
TraxSource
JunoDownload
Beatport
7Digital
TraxSource
Clone Digital
more soon

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Websites:
Chris Liebing
Chris Liebing @ Instagram
CLR

out now: Chris Liebing & Charlotte de Witte – Symphonie Des Seins EP [CLR]

Artist:
Chris Liebing & Charlotte de Witte

Title:
Symphonie Des Seins EP

Label:
CLR

Cat#:
CLR138

Release Date:
27th February 2026

Format:
vinyl, download & streaming

Tracklist Vinyl:
A1.
Symphonie Des Seins

B1.
Symphonie Des Seins
(Chris Liebing Dub Edit)

Press Info:
Chris Liebing and Charlotte de Witte announce their second-ever collaborative release, ‘Symphonie des Seins’ (Symphony of Existence). The release, taking in an original alongside a Dub mix from Liebing, follows 2019’s ‘Liquid Slow’ from the pair and marks the second release ahead of Chris Liebing’s ‘Evolver EP’ releasing in late-March.

A surging acid-beast channelling mid-90s techno energy, ‘Symphonie des Seins’ sees de Witte delivering a tweaky, spoken
vocal comprising the hallucinogen-fuelled diaries of ayahuasca and DMT trip reports that Liebing stumbled upon online. Crisp
but heady, old school but utterly contemporary with its delivery, ‘Symphonie des Seins’ sees two techno artists with very
di?erent formative eras converge perfectly with a razor-sharp piece of dancefloor mayhem.

Following January’s ‘Roy Batty’ EP, Chris Liebing and Charlotte de Witte’s ‘Symphonie des Seins’ is the last single before Liebing’s thirteen-track ‘Evolver’ LP lands on March 27th. The ‘Evolver LP’ features additional collaborations with Luke Slater, Speedy J, The Advent, The Alte Stuben Modular Ensemble aka Daniel Miller, Terence Fixmer, and Pascal Gabriel and is Liebing’s first solo Techno LP, having focused on long-form electronica output alongside co-writer Ralf Hildenbeutel for 2018’s ‘Burn Slow’ and 2023’s ‘Another Day’ for Mute Records, and the André Walter co-produced ‘Evolution’ in 2002.

Note: some digital services added the “Roy Battey” EP to this release.

Full Track Streaming (Vinyl):

Specials:
Charlotte de Witte – “Tomorrowland Daybreak Session 2025”

Chris Liebing – “CLR Podcast 449”

Recommendations:
“Liquid Slow EP” by Chris Liebing & Charlotte de Witte on KNTXT
Charlotte de Witte’s “The Healer EP” on NovaMute
Charlotte de Witte’s “Brussels EP” on NovaMute
all stuff by Chris Liebing we featured
all stuff on CLR we featured

Buy Vinyl:
CLR @ Bandcamp
Deejay
Red Eye Records
Juno
Decks
HHV
OYE Records
more soon

Buy Download:
CLR @ Bandcamp
Qobuz
JunoDownload
Beatport
iTunes
TraxSource
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Booking:
Charlotte de Witte
Chris Liebing

Websites:
Chris Liebing
Charlotte de Witte
CLR

out now: Chris Liebing – Roy Batty EP [CLR]

Artist:
Chris Liebing

Title:
Roy Batty EP

Label:
CLR

Cat#:
CLR137

Release Date:
30th January 2026

Format:
download & streaming

Tracklist:
01.
Roy Batty

02.
Brooks Ave

Press Info:
Chris Liebing has announced the thirteen-track ‘Evolver’ LP for release on March 27th, with its first EP, the double-A ‘Roy Batty’ EP, available now. While the ‘Evolver LP’ features collaborations with Charlotte de Witte, Luke Slater, Speedy J, The Advent, The Alte Stuben Modular Ensemble aka Daniel Miller, Terence Fixmer, and Pascal Gabriel. This is Liebing’s first solo Techno LP, having focused on long-form electronica output alongside co-writer Ralf Hildenbeutel for 2018’s ‘Burn Slow’ and 2023’s ‘Another Day’ for Mute Records, and the Andre Walter co-produced ‘Evolution’ in 2002.

Comprising ‘Roy Batty’ and ‘Brooks Ave’, the ‘Roy Batty’ EP sees Liebing set out the stall for the upcoming ‘Evolver’ LP in uncompromising style. The title cut, one of the foundations of the upcoming LP, began with Chris’ musings on how Rutger Hauer’s character in Blade Runner “becoming sentient and asking for the possibility to experience this life longer.” That vision seems more vital than ever in the current age, and cuts right to the core of the sci-fi understandings that have always driven techno. “These moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.” But the energy of the track gives you the flipside of that, reminds you that these moments happened, and matter.

The super direct and linear acid of ‘Brooks Ave’ is named for the spot where Chris stays in LA – a place where the ‘Evolver’ feeling was really strong: it just emerged from trusting the process, letting the universe do its work – finished oﬀ in his own studio, but ultimately almost entirely created in, and inspired by, the Californian apartment.

Full Track Streaming:

Special:
“CLR Podcast 457”

Recommendations:
Chris Liebing’s “Phantom Rider EP” on CLR
Chris Liebings “Another Day” on Mute
Chris Liebings “Burn Slow” on Mute
“Metalism (20th Anniversary Edition)” by Collabs 3000 on NovaMute
all featured releases on CLR

Buy Download:
CLR @ Bandcamp
Qobuz
JunoDownload
Beatport
iTunes
TraxSource
7Digital
more soon

Commercial Streaming Services:
Tidal
Qobuz
Spotify
Deezer
Anghami
Apple Music
more soon

Booking:
Chris Liebing

Websites:
Chris Liebing
Chris Liebing @ Instagram
CLR

out now: Flug – Sincrodestino (2025 Remake) [CLR]

Artist:
Flug

Title:
Sincrodestino (2025 Remake)

Label:
CLR

Cat#:
CLR136

Release Date:
19th December 2025

Format:
download & streaming

Tracklist:
01.
Sincrodestino
(2025 Remake)

02.
Sincrodestino
(Chris Liebing Dub Edit)

Press Info:
Flug returns to CLR 19th December 2025 with a remake of ‘Sincrodestino’, the title track of his 2014 debut EP on the label. The 2025 version closes out the imprint’s year and comes backed by a dub mix from boss Chris Liebing. It follows the Argentinian artist’s most recent CLR release, 2024’s ‘Magma’ EP with Dubfire, which won support from Luke Slater, Truncate, Sama’ Abdulhadi, and more.

“The name Sincrodestino comes from a book by Deepak Chopra. It explores the idea that meaningful coincidences reveal the connection between the mind and the universe, empowering us to shape reality through conscious intention and awareness. I applied this concept when I created the EP back in 2014, and it feels especially relevant now with the 2025 re-release.” – Flug

Where the original kept the groove precise and restrained, Flug’s new take on ‘Sincrodestino’ is a full-throttle Techno cut, shot through with surging electrical pulses. Just when you think he’s reached full power, he finds a way to push the energy even further, kicking the intensity up to maximum impact. Capturing the same infectious rawness, Chris Liebing’s dub version doesn’t let up and complements Flug’s remake perfectly, rounding off a release built to shake even the fiercest dancefloors.

Founded by influential techno lynchpin Chris Liebing in 1999 and reemerging in 2021 after a five-year hiatus, Create Learn Repeat (CLR) has hosted a range of artists like Shlomi Aber, Dubfire, Bjarki, DJ Dextro, and more while also focusing on developing newer acts in the scene, such as Risa Taniguchi, The Southern, and Klint.

Full Track Streaming: