Clubbing Magazine

Frankfurt based top producer Oliver Lieb was born in 1969. Since 1989 he is part of the most renowned producers of electronic music. No matter if it’s Techno, House, Eurodance, Electro or just ”music electronics”, within nine years Oliver made his way into the prime league of international dance producers.

Until today he released more than 200 tracks on about 100 sound carriers incl. successful remixes for SNAP, SVEN VÄTH; YELLO, SPARKS, HUMAN LEAGUE, MARC OH, MORY KANTE, ANDREAS DORAU a.m.m. What leads to this kind of job and what guarantees Oliver Lieb’s well balanced and ever convincing output?

One answer can be found in Oliver’s studio high above the Taunus forest, which is without a doubt one of the most exciting equipment collection of the entire Techno scene. However, looking for standard machines like Roland TB-303 or TR-909 is in vain here. Instead, Oliver Lieb prefers noble production equipment and analogue sound sources with their very own character (e.g. Syncussion, EMS A... altogether more than 30 machines) which all must have a particular important feature for being lodged in his home base: oscillators to produce ultra-deep bass frequencies.

After Oliver had decided to stop performing live in early 1998 he mainly focused on his DJ activities. Following a few bookings in Germany, e.g. Love Parade 1998 and Popkomm 98, invitations from all over Europe and even Australia and Canada were coming in and Oliver was highly inspired for his forthcoming productions. In summer of 1998, Oliver produced the track Pollenflug which was basis for the foundation of a new Superstition project: S.O.L. Also UK top label Platypus couldn’t resist this new power sound and Pollenflug was quickly licensed for the UK territory. Oliver then founded his own label Ellipse which is distributed via UnderCover. Quantensprung succeeded as the S.O.L.-follow up and is also licensed by Platypus. At the end of 1998, Oliver started his fifth tour through Australia, performing a new concept.

Consisting of Djing and Live-act. Furthermore he put out the record Sentinel, ”The Sentinel” on Logic Rec. to attack the charts once again.

In early 1999, Oliver started working on his new L.S.G.-album INTO DEEP, which is based on listening and down tempo character, carried by the beautiful voice of Spanish female singer Cybèle de Silveira, who Oliver engaged especially for INTO DEEP. The album was released in July 1999, followed by Jillanity/Into Deep - The Remixes D12” with new Clubmixes by Oliver Lieb himself.

In Winter 1999 Oliver started the following four labels, however they were discontinued due to lack of time in 2001: Methane, Phoolish, Testified and Dimension.

Audio part

You can listen to the interview with Oliver Lieb here, the interview was done in Copenhagen 1999.

Length: 9.38 min, mono 32kbps
Size: 2.260 Kb
Format: MP3

Interview and photo by: Christian Almind