Liebing was born in
Gießen,
Hesse. In the early 1990, he became active on the
Frankfurt dance music scene. He opened the Spinclub techno club in 1994, and worked at Eye Q Records in Frankfurt. He formed his first label, 'Audio' in 1996, which was followed in 1999 by CLR. In 2005, he worked with
Speedy J on the
Collabs 3000: Metalism album, released by
Novamute. In 2009, he launched the CLR Podcast, which was made available every Monday via
iTunes and CLR's own website. The podcast was voiced by Liebing and featured guest mixes from a wide variety of techno DJs. Amongst the more notable guests was
Depeche Mode's
Martin Gore. The podcast ran weekly until 2015 when the 315th and final episode was broadcast. It was replaced by a new weekly podcast entitled am/fm, which features only mixes and live recordings by Chris Liebing himself. Liebing has played at
Space and
Amnesia in Ibiza,
Fabric in London,
Berghain in Berlin,
Cocoricò in Riccione and large festivals such as
Time Warp. In 2018, Liebing launched his first album in eight years:
Burn Slow on
Mute Records. The album art was derived from a painting by
Jan Brueghel the Younger. In May 2023, Liebing did a remix for
Depeche Mode's
Ghosts Again. In March 2025, he released his second original album "Burn Slow," which includes vocals by
Gary Numan,
Cold Cave,
Polly Scattergood, Miles Cooper Seaton and Aleen. == Discography ==