50
Disco Hits
Released
19-aug-2007
1 cd made for ECI,
with a nice compilation of 50 discohits |
Grand
12 Inches 4
(Summer 2007)
4 CD's filled
with the music that made Ben start (and keep on) mixing. Special
versions, originals taken from the master-tapes. |
Grandmix
- 2006
Broadcasted 31-12-2006 from 18:00
till 21:00 on Radio 538.
Release 10-1-2007.
For sale @ Ben Liebrand
Audio
2006 proved to be the year of Electro. Although it now appears in the form of
Electro-House, it were these kinds of sounds that drew me to electronic dance
music 30 years ago. Starting with Kraftwerk and Giorgio Moroder, briefly
surfacing in the 90’s with Mr. Oizo’s Flat Beat, Electro-House now has matured
and found a new following on the dance floors. It feels a bit like coming home.
Enjoy, Ben Liebrand. |
Grandmix
- Disco Nouveau
Release 10-11-2006.
For sale @ Ben Liebrand
Audio
How would disco
sound today if it never would stopped in the first place. It would
probably still have the funky influences, vocals and that “4 on the
floor” rhythm. Long intro’s and even longer breaks. But it would also be
new. New Disco, Nouveau Disco, infused with stronger rhythms but with
that same uplifting feel and the sole purpose to make you dance.So feel
that energy and get on the floor. |
On
23-09-2006 Ben invited people who helped him with masters or in other
ways to his house. I was one of them! View
this page for video and pictures. |

Discoclassics
2006
For sale @ Ben Liebrand
Audio And Eci
On 23 August 2006 Liebrand Audio released this In the
mix Special(broadcasted
29-07-2006). Sony/BMG
was willing to release this mix as a special promotional
item at a retail price of only 5 euro.Single CD with 20 tracks
Total Running Time over 1 hour featuring 2 Mash-ups. |
Grand
12 Inches 3
On 27 May 2006
Liebrand Audio released his 3rd personal Compilation CD. 4 CD's filled
with the music that made Ben start (and keep on) mixing. Special
versions, originals taken from the master-tapes. Check it out! |
Grandmix
- 2005
Broadcasted 31-12-2005 from 18:00
till 21:00 on Radio 538.
Release: January 2006. |
Grandmix
- The 90s Edition 2
Released November 2005.
Ben asked CD-Masters for the 90's tracks in the Mixfreaks mailinglist. I
did sent some tracks and.... I'm on the
cover! |
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Follow
this link for
GRANDMIXES - Combined Playlist
from The
ClassicsMix till 1992 |
Modular One
A experimental one-hour trancetrack,broadcasted
on the radio by Armin van Buuren on
Fresh.fm
Whilst working on my new
DVD "Grand
Visuals" I had a full hour of visuals ready, but no audio to go with it.
This is why I composed Modular-1 and mixed it in 5.1 Surround.
What would Moroder like to make in 2005?
Which piece of music will take you from any A to any B in your car in 1
hour?
Which track takes 15 minutes for the bassdrum to kick in?
What is not trance as you know it, but perhaps more entrancing than you
are use to.
That would be Modular-1 !!!
Armin van Buuren will be broadcasting Modular-1 on his State of Trance
show
http://www.arminvanbuuren.com/
It was in episode 204
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Megadance
Summermix 2005
Released August 2005
A 1 hour mix, 40 tracks. Trax by Tiesto, Marco V, Armin van Buuren etc.... |
Grand
12 Inches 2
In 2005 Liebrand Audio released
his personal Compilation CD. 4 CD's filled with the music that made Ben
start (and keep on) mixing. Special versions, originals taken from the
master-tapes. Check it out! "These tracks have
determined the path to follow and many of them where revolutionary and
truly progressive at the time they where originally released. I have taken
the greatest care to come up with the best possible masters, sometimes
comparing up to 5 different versions to find out which one sounded the
best and most pure. Some track feature a combination of vocal and dub
version just as I used to perform that combination in a live DJ-set. Such
a combination features the best parts from the vocal and dub version,
capturing the complete feel of what that track meant to me."
They can only be bought @ LiebrandAudio |
Grandmix
2004
Released 17 Jan 2005.On
31 december 2004 from 18:00 to 21:00 Parts 1,2 and 3 of the Grandmix
2004 will be broadcasted. The full, 3 hour mix can be bought at stores
and at www |
Ben
as DJ on Veronica Radio- IN THE MIX!
From 1-januari 2005 Ben's 3-hour
'In The Mix radioshow' on
Veronica Radio
was rescheduled. His InTheMix Mix is broadcasted on saturday-evening at
22:00, and at 21:15, in Dj Sven's Disco Inferno a minimix will be played. |
Grandmix
- The 90s Edition
Released October 2004. Allthough the
radiocommercials and the cover show Radio538 logo's, the mix was not
broadcasted at Radio538, because
they forgot to plan the mix in... It was broadcasted by Radio Veronica
on 12-nov-2004, from 10:00 till 01:o0 in Ben's program
In The Mix |
Midsummer
megamix
Released 1st of June 2004
A 1 hour mix, 40 tracks. Trax by Tiesto, Marco V, Armin van Buuren etc....
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Ben
as DJ on Veronica Radio- IN THE MIX!
From 9-januari 2004 Ben will be
hosting his own 2-hour 'In The Mix radioshow' on
Veronica Radio.
Read the pressrelease (dutch) here.
With Minimixes, grandmixes, IN-The-Mix' es interviews.... |
 2003
The Grandmix 2003
On 31 december 2003
from 18:00 to 21:0\0 Parts 1,2 and 3 of the Grandmix 2003 were broadcasted.
The full, 3 hour mix can be bought at stores and at
www.liebrand.nl |
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Meer
Typisch 80 Megamix
This mix was released on the 4CD Meer Typisch 80,
and on a 2-track CDS.
This mix is based on the Ben's Popmix, but
edit-ed (2 versions) by Arjan Rietvink.
Tracks:Toto - Africa, Marvin Gaye - Sexual Healing, Bill
Withers - Lovely Day, Bangles - Walk Like An Egyptian, Pasadena`s -
Tribute.
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2003 The Grandmix Disco Edition
On
17 October 2003 from 18:00 to 21:00 Parts 1,2 and 3 of the Grandmix
Disco Edition 2 were broadcasted. The full, 3 hour mix can be bought at
stores and at
www.liebrand.nl
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Grand
12 Inches In August 2003 Liebrand Audio released
his personal Compilation CD. 4 CD's filled with the music that made Ben
start (and keep on) mixing. Special versions, originals taken from the
master-tapes. Check it out! "These tracks have
determined the path to follow and many of them where revolutionary and
truly progressive at the time they where originally released. I have taken
the greatest care to come up with the best possible masters, sometimes
comparing up to 5 different versions to find out which one sounded the
best and most pure. Some track feature a combination of vocal and dub
version just as I used to perform that combination in a live DJ-set. Such
a combination features the best parts from the vocal and dub version,
capturing the complete feel of what that track meant to me."
They can only be bought @ LiebrandAudio |
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Styles
XL
In June 2003 Liebrand Audio released his long awaited
second album.
It's a remix album of his own CD 'Styles', called Styles XL. It has
mixes by himself and by Armin van Buuren, Olav Basoski and others.It
can only be bought @
LiebrandAudio
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2002
The Grandmix 2002
On
31 december 2002 from 18:00 to 21:00 Parts 1,2 and 3 of the Grandmix
2002 were broadcasted. The full, 3 hour mix can be bought at stores
and at www.liebrand.nl |
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2002
The Grandmix Disco Edition
On
23 August 2002 from 18:00 to 21:00 Parts 1,2 and 3 of the Grandmix
Disco Edition were broadcasted. The full, 3 hour mix can be bought
at stores and at
www.liebrand.nl |
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2001
The Grandmix 2001
On
31 December 2001 from 18:00 to 21:00 Parts 1,2 and 3 of the Grandmix
2001 were broadcasted. The full, 3 hour mix can be bought at stores
and at
www.liebrand.nl |
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2001
Spirit of Disco - The Italo Edition
Not broadcasted. 4 sale (a 2cd with 140 minutes
of mixed Italo) at www.liebrand.nl and
recordstores.
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2001 Ben at the TMF Studio
22-jan-2001
19:00 - 20:00
Looking behind the scenes at the man behind the scenes during the
live transmission of the "TMF day top 5" TV-show.
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 2000
The Grandmix 2000
On 31 December 2000 from 18:00 to 21:00 Parts 1,2 and
3 of the Grandmix 2000 were broadcasted. The full, 3 hour mix can be bought
at stores and at www.liebrand.nl |
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2000
The Popmix
From december 2000 from the
popmix can be bought at
www.liebrand.nl. |
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 2000
Grandmix The Summer Edition
On 31 july 2000
from 18:00 to 20:00 Parts 1 and 3 of the SummerEdition was
broadcasted. The full, 3 hour mix can be bought at stores and at
www.liebrand.nl from 14 August 2000
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2000..
The minimix on Radio 538
On
4 februari 2000 Radio 538 starts broadcasting Old and New minimixes in the
program Lindo Radio. Time... 2 records past 8... Just like old times! Later
in 2000 Lindo's program moved, so the minimix now is broadcasted at 2
records past 10 |
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 1999
The MillenniumMix
On 31 december 1999
from 18:00 to 21:00 the MillenniumMix was 1st
broadcasted. On 14 January 2000 the 3CD of the mix could be bought on
Ben's Site and all recordstores in Holland. Two weeks later it was Nr.2
in the 'Dutch Compilation Album Top 40'. |
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1999-Now DJ Ben's Grandmix Tour
From 1999 Ben 'spins
the wheels of steel' in various clubs across Holland.
Watch some
Flyers! |
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1999..
Rebroadcasting of the Grandmixes+ClassicsMix
All this support on the
Internet made Ben start negotiating with the famous Dutch radio-station
Radio 538
(an offspring of
Radio Veronica) to have the Grandmixes re-broadcasted. The
result of this is the re-broadcasting off all the Grandmixes and the
Classics-mix in 1999. Every last saturday of the month a mix was
re-broadcasted. The intention was to broadcast a brand-new Grandmix in
December 1999! This Grandmix would be the "Grandest"mix of all, because it
will be a MillenniuM-Mix, containing the greatest dance tracks of the
Millennium. The re-broadcasting of the Grandmix had the further advantage
that bootlegs of the Grandmixes will now be less valueable. The Grandmixes
are broadcasted with as less as compression as possible, resulting in the
possibility to created HiFi recordings at home, with a better quality than
any bootleg has ever had!
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1997 ISCO - Funky Town
released.Music and Video by Liebrand |
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The
Last Grandmix - 1992
In 1992 the
last Grandmix was made by Ben Liebrand. He did a grandtotal of 10 mixes,
and he was the founder of all the end-year mixes on CD and Radio. Never ever
I heard one of these mixes beat the quality and the creativity of the
Grandmix. They never came close to it!!
In the years after the last Grandmix was broadcasted, fans were desired to
have all the Grandmixes broadcasted ever. A lot of bootlegs appeared on the
market. As the popularity of the Internet grew, people searched for new ways
to collect the Grand- and Minimixes. Discussion groups were formed, and the
Unofficial Ben Liebrand Site and this Unofficial Discography saw the light
of life.
(Later in 1999 Ben
started making Grabdmixes again...)
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1986-1993
The Minimix
When
the In The Mix show stopped, it was followed up by the Minimix in 1986. The
minimix was broadcasted at a primetime spot, and was a remix of one track,
or a couple of tracks. The minimix wasn't a 60 minute-mix, but just a short
one. I don't recall having a minimix which exceeds 15 minutes. The minimix
ran from 1986 to 1993. In the last years the minimix was also meant to be a
trial for new productions Ben made, such as Salt 'n Pepa and tracks for his
own album Styles. Sometimes you would hear the same song in four different
remixes.
Releases
Sometimes a Minimix was
released on 12" or CD. Like Phil Collins' In The Air Tonight. It started out
as a Minimix, but became a hit. The Alf-mix was also such an example. Having
a few shows of Alf on video, Ben got the idea of adding music to a rap Alf
did in one of these shows: The Alf-Rap was born.
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1985
The Classics Mix
In november 1985 the last In
The Mix was broadcasted. This particular mix is also being considered a
Grandmix, under the title The Classicsmix. It featured the best tracks from
1970 to 1982.
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1983-1992 The Grandmix
The show ran from early
'83 to late '85. One of the results of the In The Mix shows was The Grandmix,
a 60 minutes mix at the end of the year containing the hits of that
particular year. The first Grandmix was broadcasted at the end of 1983, but
didn't work out the way it should be. Arriving at the Veronica Studio, Ben
discovered that he had forgotten the second of the two tapes on which the
Grandmix '83 was recorded. Ben happened to have a tape of the just finished
High Fashion Dance Mix with him, and that tape was started in as the second
part of the Grandmix '83. In january 1984 the Grandmix '83 was broadcasted
the way it was supposed to be. |
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83-85
In the Mix
The purpose was that he would
made a weekly mix-show at late night called In The Mix. At the end of that
month, the first show was presented at 2am. 60 Minutes of Non-Stop Mixing!
Ben was the first ever to have a show like this. The first mixes contained
danceable records, uptempo for that time, which went under the name Disco.
The slogan for the In The Mix show was "Lampen op knipper, speakers op
discotheek" (as much as "lights flashing, speakers loud") Later Ben even did
a slow-mix. |
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April 1st 1983 was the date
Ben started working for a Dutch Radio Station called
Veronica. |
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