Ben Liebrand

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Ben Liebrand

European Disco DJ and Remixer (B: 1960 - Present)

Ben Liebrand:

Musical Timeline:

1960 - Ben Liebrand
1976 - first DJ gigs
1980 - First "mash-up" (combining disco and andrew sisters vocals)
1982 - Now - Started in music business (See "Productions and Remixes" below)
1983 - 1993 - Radio programs "In The Mix", First nonstop mixed radioshow on Dutch Radio Veronica.
1983 - "Minimix" "Grandmix" Annual 100plus megadancemix often copied, never equaled
1991 - 3D Animation and Video Editing and compositing (See "Visuals" below)
1999 - weekly minimix on Radio 538 and the Millennium and Summer Grandmixes and a whole new series of Annual Grandmixes
2004 - started the first week of 2004, every saturday night 23:00 - 24:00 "In The Mix" on Radio Veronica featuring Non - Stop mixes and mash-ups.

Music:

Many of the top DJ's of this moment, including Armin van Buuren and TiÎsto refer to Ben Liebrand as one of their main inspirations to become involved in mixing and dance-music.
On all Ben's work he is the mixer/producer, as well as the engineer and the musician.

Production and remixes:

Phil Collins "In the air tonight", Forrest "Rock the Boat"(Hit in Holland,England top 5), Hot Chocolate "Sexy Thing" and "every 1's a winner.(Hit in Germany,England top 5) (Hit in Germany,England top 5), Bill Withers "Lovely Day"(Hit in Germany,England top 5), Ben Liebrand "Eve of the war" (England position 2) Art of Noise, Grace Jones,Twenty-4-Seven, Fun Fun , Doctor's Cat, Ryan Paris, Tina Turner, Inxs, Alf "Stuck on earth", Alexander O'Neal, MDMC, Jam and Spoon, Genesis, Sylvester, Karl Keaton "Love's Burn (Hit in Germany top 5 Award for best dance production of the year) Salt'N'Pepa "You showed me" ,"Do you really want me","Expression", "Shoop", "Whatta man" and "Let's talk about Sex" (Hit worldwide many countries number 1) Sting, "An Englishman in Newyork" and "Mad about You" Taja Sevelle "Love is contagious" Nathalie Cole "This will be" Dimples D "Sucker DJ" (Hit in Germany,Holland,England top 5) McMiker G & DJ Sven "The Holiday rap"(Hit worldwide) Ben Liebrand feat Tony Scott "Move To The Bigband"(Holland top 10), Armin van Buuren and many many more.

Liebrand's CD compilations include the very succesful series of Grandmixes -10 up till now -and special 12" version collections mastered form the original recordings and released on CD under the name Grand 12 inches.

Visuals:

In 1991 Ben added Vision to his sound and quickly mastered the technical side of Image Compositing and 3D animation. Since then he has done a lot of artwork for arcade record company and others. His work includes stills and commercials for Holland, England , Germany, Spain and France. Projects are for example, The series of "Thunderdome" commercials, Return of Rave the city, Atlantic Ocean, Dance Trance, Rave On ,Happy Hardcore, Disco Duro, Mega dance 95, Leaders for "The Music Factory" Artwork for Radio 538, Speedy J's new Album Public Energy no.1 ,Armin,Videoclips for "2 brothers on the 4th floor", Adverts for Sourcy. In a period of only 2 years Ben has grown from a successful music producer to a visual man aiming for the highest quality in 3D animation. Ben also taught 3D animation at "The Royal Academy for Visual Arts" in the Hague, and gives lectures on 3D and image manipulation in Holland, England, and the far east. All the artwork for the Grandmix CD series is also created by Ben Liebrand.

As Ben now masters the images as well as the music, it's only logical that for his 1997 production "Funkytown" Ben also made the video himself.

Projects include 6 TV commercials for RADIO 538 and the commercials for trance 100, Syntrance as well as bumpers for TMF , commercials for trance 100 parts 1, 2 & 3, as well as thunderdome20 & 21.A 3D course at Silicon Graphics and an animation of the Greyman character for the Dutch artist Dadara. This animation was presented at the Greyman exposition in gallery Reflex in Amsterdam. Videoclips for Ben Liebrand's 1997 production ISCO "Funkytown", Atlantic Ocean, Alan Parsons Project and 3D animation for KLM and Pepsi/Smiths commercials, TV commercials for Radio 538 and TV promos for the Klubbheads, Corporate Video's for Sun Microsystems. Recently Ben also made the DJ visuals for top DJ's like Armin van Buuren.

For the latest update on ben Liebrand visit www.liebrand.nl and go to the new page

He also is happily married to Brenda, and has 2 wonderful sons, Fabian and Sascha, and a beautiful daughter called Linde.

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