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Chris Liberator

Real Name:
Chris Knowles
Profile:
Chris Liberator is a DJ and a producer. Besides his prolific work for Stay Up Forever and Cluster under a range of pseudonyms & collaborations, (including a mass of work with, amongst others, D.A.V.E. The Drummer, Guy McAffer, Lawrie Immersion, Julian and Aaron Liberator, Ant and Darc Marc), he has also recorded under his own name for many other labels including Tec, Prolekult and Smitten.

He regularly plays throughout the UK, Europe and most of the world with the other Liberator DJs. He was one of the first western DJs to work in the former iron curtain states and to pioneer the Acid Techno Sound there!
He has played in more exotic locations such as Australia, Israel, Japan, Brazil and Venezuela and spreads his inimitable DJ style with frequent visits to the USA and Canada.

He Co-owns and runs the Stay Up Forever Label Collective, (with the other Liberators) which includes their Labels Stay Up Forever and Cluster. He has launched his own labels "Maximum Minimum" and "Wah Wah" for Techno, and "Yolk" for Tech-House.
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Discography

Releases:
Break It Down / Avenger (2 versions)   Choci's Chewns 1995
Spectrum (12")   Bag 1995
It's Not Intelligent...And It's Not From Detroit...But It's F**king 'Avin It (CD, Comp + CD, Comp, Mixed)   Truelove Label Collective 1997
Soul Mantra / Black Star Rising (12")   Prolekult 1997
Spectrum - Remixes (12")   Stay Up Forever Remix 1997
System Test EP (12", EP)   Smitten 1997
Black Star Rising / Typhoon (12")   Casseopaya Recordings 1998
In Cold Blood (12")   Off The Wall 1998
Soul Mantra (12")   Casseopaya Recordings 1998
Techno Purists Suck On This / Test 4 (12")   Smitten 1998
Typhoon (12")   Prolekult 1998
Science Of Acid (12")   Voltage Controlled Frequencies (VCF) 1999
Irrational Discharge (12")   Bionic Orange 2000
Orange 151 (12")   Maximum / Minimum 2000
Set Fire (Album) (3 versions)   TeC 2000
Set Fire (Remix) (2 versions)   TeC 2000
The Heart Of Trance (12")   TeC 2000
The Key (12")   Chug N Bump Records 2000
CL01 (CD, Comp, Mixed)   Trust The DJ 2001
Process Black (12")   Maximum / Minimum 2001
Process Yellow (12")   Maximum / Minimum 2001
Sky 314 (12")   Maximum / Minimum 2001
Unintelligent (12")   Routemaster Records 2001
V.C.F. - Modernistic Acid Trance: Part Three (CD, Comp, Mixed)   Voltage Controlled Frequencies (VCF) 2001
Walking The Dog (CD, Comp, Mixed)   Routemaster Records 2001
X.X.X (12")   Bang On 2001
CL02 (Comp) (3 versions)   Trust The DJ ... 2002
Chocolate 497 (12")   Maximum / Minimum 2002
Cool Grey 7 (12")   Maximum / Minimum 2002
Live At WEMF 02 (CDr)   Not On Label 2002
One Million 909 Kick Drums / This Sound (12", W/Lbl)   Smitten 2002
Platinum 8080 (12")   Maximum / Minimum 2002
We Want You 2 (CD, Comp, Mixed)   Sensitive Sound 2002
CL03 (CD)   Trust The DJ 2003
Camo 576 (12")   Maximum / Minimum 2003
Clergy LP (12")   Omniscient Records 2003
Evil Murk 337 (12")   Maximum / Minimum 2003
Get On The Floor / Get Off The Ceiling (12")   Routemaster Records 2003
Gold 108 (12")   Maximum / Minimum 2003
Process Magenta (12")   Maximum / Minimum 2003
Steel Dragon (12")   Power Tools 2003
"Techno Purists Remixes" (12")   Smitten Is Dead 2004
Blue Black 546 (12")   Maximum / Minimum 2004
Infection Yellow 3955 (12")   Maximum / Minimum 2004
Just Say No To The Bush Conspiracy! (12", S/Sided, Cle)   SUF Protest 2004
Scarlet 1807 (12")   Maximum / Minimum 2004
Shit Days Sloppy Brown 1685 (12")   Maximum / Minimum 2004
Aqua 320 (12")   Maximum / Minimum 2005
Bullit Train (12")   Maximum / Minimum 2005
Clockwork Orange (12")   Maximum / Minimum 2005
Very Metal E.P. (12", EP)   WahWah 2005
Acid Ska Strikes Again E.P. (EP) (2 versions)   Stay Up Forever 2006
Soba Grey (12")   Maximum / Minimum 2006
Warriors Red 485 (12")   Maximum / Minimum 2006
Small Sleek Silver Box (12")   Manx Rippers 2008
Future (12")   Truelove Electronic Communications  
Spectrum (12", S/Sided)   Bag  
Remixes:
Acid War - Remixes (12") Acid War (Liberator's... Stay Up Forever Remix 1995
Nothing Can Save Us, London - Remixes (2 versions) Nothing Can Save Us, L... Stay Up Forever Remix 1995
Amok! (12") Amok! (Chris Liberator... TeC 1996
Cut The Midrange (12") Cut The Midrange (The ... Prolekult 1996
High On The Edge (2 versions) High On The Edge (Chri... Prolekult 1996
Prolekulture (3 versions) Cut The Midrange (Chri... Prolekult 1996
Space Is The Place (2 versions) Space Is The Place (Ch... Additive 1996
Sugar Daddy (Single) (2 versions) Sugar Daddy (Liberator... Deconstruction 1996
5 Years (As Time Goes High) (12") Anatronix (Chris Liber... Time Unlimited 1997
5 Years: As Time Goes High (CD) Anatronix (Chris Liber... Time Unlimited 1997
Let There Be Light (UK Remixes) (12") Let There Be Light (Ch... Phoenix Uprising 1997
Point Blank EP (12", EP) Doughnut (Chris Libera... Havok 1997
Reflect (2 versions) Reflect (Chris Liberat... FFRR ... 1997
Reformation (2 versions) Reformation (Chris Lib... Elementary 1997
The Sound Of The Hoover (2xCD, Comp) Amok (Chris Liberator'... TeC 1997
Your Mother Wouldn't Like It (Remixes) (2 versions) Your Mother Wouldn't L... Bionic Orange 1997
Acid Cocktail Vol. 2 (2xCD, Comp) Reformation (Liberator... Leguan 1998
Dropzone EP (12", EP) Dropzone (Chris Libera... Geometry 1998
It's Fucking 'Avin It...2 (Comp) (2 versions) Your Mother Wouldn't L... Truelove Label Collective 1998
London Acid City (CD, Mixed, Comp + CD, Comp) Donut (Total F**kin Ha... Mutant Sound System 1998
Purge (12") Purge (Splurge Mix) Smitten Remix 1998
Sound Of Acid Core Vol. 4 (2xCD, Comp, Dig) Reformation (Chris Lib... Cyber Production 1998
Vibrate (12") Vibrate (Chris Liberat... Boscaland Recordings 1998
Bomb Jack (Remixes) (12") Bomb Jack (Chris Liber... Telica 1999
Clusterf*ck (CD + CD) Undulator 23 (Chris Li... The Music Cartel 1999
Criminal Damage (12") Criminal Damage (Chris... Off The Wall 1999
Dreamesque / 1 To 1 (Remixes) (12") Dreamesque (Chris Libe... Balloonheads Records 1999
Radio On One, The John Peel Session (2x12") Undulator 23 Stay Up Forever Remix 1999
Cyberfunk (12") Cyberfunk (Hypno Acid ... Lo-Fi Recordings 2000
The Sound Of.... Smitten E.P. (2x12") Fat Lines Remix Smitten 2001
Trance Pioneers 3 (4xCD) Bomb Jack (Chris Liber... Rumour Records 2001
Build Up The Pressure (Old Skool Remixes) (2 versions) Build Up The Pressure ... Stay Up Forever Remix 2003
Run Jenji (12") Run Jenji (Chris Liber... 2CB (2) 2003
Interference (12") Interference (Chris Li... De Novo Records 2004
Music For A Harder Generation Volume 3 (2xCD, Comp, Mixed) Run Jenji (Chris Liber... Tidy Trax 2004
Sound System Banger E.P. (12", EP, W/Lbl) Sound System Banger (C... WahWah 2004
Acid War (Liberator DJs RMX) (12", S/Sided) Acid War (Liberator DJ... Stay Up Forever Classics 2006
Bloom Of Gutter (12") Hard Knox (Chris Liber... Off The Wall  
The Initiation E.P (12") Initiation (Chris Libe... Techno Mafia Recordings  
Production:
Big Moog / 4.59 / Cryogenic State (12")   Cluster Records 1996
Housebowl (CD, Comp + CD, Comp, Mixed) This Is The Shit AN 1997
Vibrate (12")   Boscaland Recordings 1998
Co-production:
Mayday - Life On Mars - The Mayday Compilation Album (Comp) (2 versions) High On The Edge Low Spirit Recordings ... 1996
DJ Mixes:
Prolekulture (CD)   Prolekult 1997
It's Fucking 'Avin It...2 (CD, Comp + CD, Comp, Mixed)   Truelove Label Collective 1998
Clusterf*ck (CD + CD)   The Music Cartel 1999
Acid Techno - Chris Liberator Mix (CD, Enh + File, MP3, 160)   Techno Party 2000
Resistance - The Best Of 2000 (8xCass, Ltd) Chris Liberator Resistance (3) 2001
Digital Collective 1.2 (File, MP3)   Digital Collective 2005
Classic White Series 02 (3xCD, Mixed) Chris Liberator & Mark... North 2006
4th Birthday, Sounds Of The Asylum (8xCass) Chris Liberator Mix, C... North  
Appears On:
Marauder / Ghost Of Acid (12")   Stay Up Forever 1994
Nothing Can Save Us, London! / Renegade 303 (12")   Stay Up Forever 1994
The Second Fix (12", Ltd, Red)   Choci's Chewns 1994
Firefight / The 'E' Spot (12")   Stay Up Forever 1995
Fuck With The Programme / Hopper (12") Fuck With The Programme Stay Up Forever 1995
Nothing Can Save Us, London - Remixes (12")   Stay Up Forever Remix 1995
Pulsator (2 versions)   Choci's Chewns ... 1995
Revenger / Buzza (12")   Choci's Chewns 1995
BITten (CD) Serious Tangent, Shape... Smitten 1996
Feed Your Head - Accelerating The Alpha Rhythms (CD) Waterland Planet Dog 1996
Hard Techno (CD, Comp, Mixed) Paroxysm Javelin Ltd 1996
In The Mix Volume 2 - The Colours Of Sound Album (CD, Comp, Mixed) This Is Curtain Call, ... EMI Electrola 1996
London Acid City (Single) (5 versions)   Routemaster Records ... 1996
Pitch Controller One (CD) This Is The Shit Imprint 1996
This Is The Shit... (12")   Pull The Strings 1996
Travelling (CD, Comp + CD, Comp, Mixed) Nothing Can Save Us, L... Visionary 1996
UK Space Techno Vol. I (2xCD, Comp) Nothing Can Save Us, L... Millennium Records 1996
4 Way Split EP (12", EP) Take Me Back Off The Wall 1997
Acid Cocktail (2xCD, Comp, Dig) Soul Mantra, Bomb Leguan, Leguan 1997
Acid Flash Vol. 6 (2xCD, Comp, Dig) Soul Mantra Sub Terranean, Sub Terranean, Sub Terranean 1997
Acid Flash Vol. 7 (2xCD, Comp) London Acid City (Orig... Sub Terranean, Sub Terranean, Sub Terranean 1997
Acid Riot (2x12")   Routemaster Records 1997
Breaker (12")   Pull The Strings 1997
Cobalt / Greaseball (12")   Red Weed 1997
Concubine / Diesel (12")   Pull The Strings 1997
Designed To Move Ya (12") Designed To Move Ya, I... Swank 1997
Feed Your Head Volume 3 - Accelerating The Alpha Rhythms (CD, Comp) Waterland Mammoth Records 1997
I.B.S. vs A.B.S. / Bass Equator (12")   Cluster Records 1997
Intense (2 versions)   Voltage Controlled Frequencies (VCF) 1997
Mix Trax 2 (CD, Comp, Mixed) London Acid City (Jon ... Phuture Wax 1997
Mix Unlimited (Position Nine) (CD) Breaker (Gy-Ro Rmx) Time Unlimited 1997
New Wave Of Acid Techno / Sinistacid (12")   Routemaster Records 1997
Reflect (CD, Maxi) Reflect (Chris Liberat... FFRR 1997
Respect (12", Ltd, Red)   Choci's Chewns 1997
Spoke / About 50.000 Times / Tesselate (12")   Cluster Records 1997
Strictly Techno 4 (3xLP, Comp) London Acid City (Orig... Dance Pool 1997
The Oracle / Cosmic Eruption (12")   Stay Up Forever 1997
X Factor / Maracuta / Kik Kult / Scary Disco (12")   Cluster Records 1997
X-Ray O.K. / Point - Counterpoint (12")   Stay Up Forever 1997
Acid Felch (CD) System Test 1 Smitten 1998
Acid Flash Vol. 9 (2xCD, Comp) Black Star Rising, Fuc... Sub Terranean, Sub Terranean 1998
Free The State (CD, Comp + CD, Mixed)   Routemaster Records 1998
Fuckin' Avin' It 'Ere / Dirty, Big And Bouncing (12") Fuckin' Avin' It 'Ere Routemaster Records 1998
Hythe / Ice K (12")   Eukatech 1998
Isochronic - United Shades Of Techno (4xCD, Comp, Mixed) This Is The Shit Sound And Media Ltd 1998
It's An Acid Thing (2x12") No Sell Out Smitten 1998
It's F**king 'Avin It...2 (2x12" + 10", S/Sided, Ltd) Input The X Factor, So... Truelove Label Collective 1998
Off Yer Nut!! (Comp) (2 versions) Ice K Smart TV 1998
Purple Heart Remixes (12") Purple Heart (Lochi's ... Stay Up Forever Remix 1998
Subfiles Vol. 1 (2xLP, Comp) Tone Club Tools 1998
The E-Spot (Remixes) (12")   Stay Up Forever Remix 1998
This Is The Shit (12")   Intensiv 1998
Acid Drops Vol.1 (2xCD, Comp, Mixed) Soul Mantra (Casseopay... Cameleon, Nova Tekk, Nova Tekk 1999
Clusterfuck (CD, Comp) Undulator 23, Cryogeni... Cluster Records 1999
Element / Colonel Mustard Rocks The Custard (12")   Routemaster Records 1999
Glass Fibre / Mined From The E.P.M. (12")   Cluster Records 1999
Green For Go / Ultra (12")   Stay Up Forever 1999
Killer Squad E.P. (12", EP)   Cluster Records 1999
Octagon / Melo's Late (12")   Smitten 1999
Radio On One, The John Peel Session (2 versions) Radio On One, Undulato... Stay Up Forever Remix 1999
Speedfreak - Remixes (12") Speedfreak (Liberator'... Stay Up Forever Remix 1999
This Is The House... / This Is The Flat... (12")   Cluster Records 1999
Acid Junkies / Tuneless (12")   Routemaster Records 2000
Acid Traxx Vol. 3 (2xCD) The Science Of Acid Steady Beatz, Steady Beatz 2000
Blueprint / Precinct (2 versions)   Stay Up Forever 2000
Fuck With The Programme (Remixes) (12")   Stay Up Forever Remix 2000
Latino Expo / International Hi-Hat (12")   Cluster Records 2000
Lärm 2 (CD, Comp, Mixed) Big Hair (Dave Angel R... H&G Records 2000
Phat Phunk Phreak / Funk Machine (12")   Cluster Records 2000
Red Fever / Braker (Gy-ro Remix) (12") Braker (Gy-ro Remix) Intensiv 2000
Subway Termination / Perdition (12")   Intensiv 2000
X-Ray O.K. (Remixes) (12")   Stay Up Forever Remix 2000
Kangaroo Court (12")   Antidote (2) 2001
Shot / Catapulted Into Space (12")   Yolk 2001
The Sound Of... Smitten Volume 1 (CD, Comp, Mixed) Find Me A Priest, 3 Da... Smitten 2001
Cluster 50 (2x12") Voodoo Unit, Der Der D... Cluster Records 2002
Stoned / The Key To My World (12")   Yolk 2002
Get It Together / Freak (12")   Stay Up Forever 2003
Nice Acid / Raptor (12")   Skankadelic Sounds 2003
Northern Sessions Vol_1 (12") Untitled Blackout Audio 2003
Psychedelic Shack / Live And Die And Live (12")   Cluster Records 2003
Stop / Go (Remix) (12")   Stay Up Forever Remix 2003
The Oracle (12")   Stay Up Forever Remix 2003
We're Getting The Band Back Together... / Runs Like Hell (12")   Stay Up Forever 2003
G Is For Germany E.P. (12", EP)   WahWah 2004
G.G. Rides Again / Corkin (12") G.G. Rides Again Cluster Records 2004
Killa Klub / Club Killer (12")   Cluster Records 2004
Mow That Lawn / Two Kids In The Bank (12")   Routemaster Records 2004
Sound System Banger E.P. (12", EP) Sound System Banger (C... WahWah 2004
Three Day Illegal Rave Party From Hell (12")   Smitten Is Dead 2004
Good Times (Remixes) (12")   Stay Up Forever Remix 2005
Stella Artois Overdrive (12")   WahWah 2005
"303 Power Remixes" (12")   Smitten Is Dead 2006
Illegal Rave Re-curring / If You Wanna Get Into It… (12")   Stay Up Forever 2007
Teknotribe (CD, Comp)   Teknotribe Records 2007
Point - Counterpoint (Remixes) (12")   Stay Up Forever Remix 2008
Bobby's Anorak / Applejam (12")   Hive (2) 2009
Way Of The Samurai (12")   Stay Up Forever 2009
Karmada (CD) This Is The Shit (Star... Not On Label  
Tracks Appear On:
Alternative Chunks (2xCD, Comp) Break It Down Choci's Chewns 1996
MC Teabag's Herbal Highs (CD) Thirteen Bag 1996
Acid Cocktail (2xCD, Comp, Dig) Soul Mantra Leguan, Leguan 1997
Acid Flash Vol. 6 (2xCD, Comp, Dig) Soul Mantra Sub Terranean, Sub Terranean, Sub Terranean 1997
Love Groove Dance Party Volumes 5 & 6 (2xCD) Soul Mantra Metropole Music 1997
ProgTrance Vol. 1 (CD, Comp) Dynamo (Rejuvenation C... Tetsuo 1997
23 (2x12") 23 Seconds And Counting Routemaster Records 1998
Acid Felch (CD) System Test 1 Smitten 1998
Acid Flash Vol. 9 (2xCD, Comp) Black Star Rising Sub Terranean, Sub Terranean 1998
Casseopaya Labelcompilation Chapter 2 (CD) Soul Mantra, Typhoon Casseopaya Recordings 1998
Free The State (CD, Comp + CD, Mixed) 23 Seconds, Soul Mantr... Routemaster Records 1998
It's F**king 'Avin It...2 (2x12" + 10", S/Sided, Ltd) Soul Mantra Truelove Label Collective 1998
Sound Of Acid Core Vol. 5 (2xCD, Comp, Dig) Cat's Eye Cyber Production 1998
Truelove Presents : The London Underground : The New Wave Of Acid Techno (2xCD, Comp) Urban & Free, Undulato... Sony Music Entertainment (Australia) 1998
Underground Control One - Acid City (CD, Comp) Cat's Eye Uppercrust Records 1998
Acid Drops Vol.1 (2xCD, Comp, Mixed) Soul Mantra (Casseopay... Cameleon, Nova Tekk, Nova Tekk 1999
Acid Traxx Vol. 3 (2xCD) The Science Of Acid Steady Beatz, Steady Beatz 2000
Dangertrance 2000 (2xCass, Mixed) Shape Shift Pure Acid Mixtapes, Biohazard Records 2000
Nokturnel Mix Sessions (CD, Mixed) The Key Topaz 2000
The Essential Trance Collection (6xCD, Comp, Mixed + Box) The Key Topaz 2001
The Sound Of.... Smitten E.P. (2x12") Fat Lines Remix Smitten 2001
Envy 347 (12") Untitled, Untitled Maximum / Minimum 2003
Impakt-Teknokrates (CD, Dig) Reflex Blue Gazole Records 2003
100th & Last Ever North Event (8xCass, Mixed) Hardstyle/Techno North 2004
Extreme Euphoria Volume 5 (2xCD, Mixed, Comp) Hydraulix 26a Ministry Of Sound 2004
Mauve 527 (12") Untitled Maximum / Minimum 2004
Digital Collective 1.3 (File, MP3, Mixed) Dogs Digital Collective 2005
Digital Collective 1.4 (File, MP3, Mixed) Bullet Train Min, Dogs Digital Collective 2005
Impakt-Teknokrates - Boxmix (2xCD, Comp, Mixed + Box, Ltd) Reflex Blue UWe 2005
Tooled Up - London Underground Techno Sessions Vol. 001 (CD, Mixed, Comp) Steel Dragon (A Side) Power Tools 2005
Underground Acid Techno DJ Mix (CD, Mixed) Swarfega 340, Total F*... World Club Music 2005
Classic Silver (12") Untitled Maximum / Minimum 2006
Music For A Harder Generation Volume 4 (2xCD) Soba Grey Min, Classic... Tidy Trax 2006
Bobby's Anorak / Applejam (12") Applejam Hive (2) 2009
Untitled (12") Untitled Curved Pressings Ltd  
Unofficial Releases:
Acid Flash 6 Part 1 (Cass) Soul Mantra CD Club 1997
North: Lakota (12xCass, P/Mixed) Chris Liberator North  
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Review by maroko Nov 19, 2009
October 30th 2009 in Zagreb's Boogaloo club was the first time I listened to Chris Knowles (aka Chris Liberator) live. Plain and simple, he annihilated the dance floor. It is not often we get members of London's legendary and pivotal Stay Up Forever collective down here, so every opportunity I get to attend a gig they're at - you can count me in.
Back to Chris. Production wise he is a well known and respected underground legend, a pioneer in London's squat scene, with countless acid techno classics tucked under his belt, as well as (more recently) harder, no nonsense techno bangers, like the stuff you can hear on Henry Cullen's Hydraulix imprint. Numerous remixes, collaborations and involvements in many projects marked his constant presence on the scene, but above all, his dedication and determination to always deliver the raw, fresh and plain different music is breath taking. Never venturing into mainstream waters, at least not intentionally, his productions are sharp and very (hate me for saying it) danceable. Favorites remain to this day Cat's Eye, released on the "Typhoon EP" released on Prolekult (KULT 24) in 1998, and the toss-your-hands-up-in-the-air take on D.O.M.'s Acid War!
After the aforementioned party was over, I had the chance to run into him at the bar, and we had a nice fifteen minute chat about the history of acid music, the classics, the ups and downs of today's scene and so forth... A very down to earth, friendly and communicative guy. I gotta thank him for all the info about the music and so forth. Above all, a big amount of respect for carving his name into our ears, and for delivering such a powerful and furious set, at these times when it seems the slower and bleaker music you play, the more chances you have entering that top 100 DJ list.
Great guy, don't miss the chance to catch him live.

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