Recovered Frequencies returns for its second volume, once again digging into the lesser-known corners of Oliver Lieb’s extensive catalogue. Three of the four tracks have never been released before, while all four come from a period when Lieb was working across a wide range of aliases and identities — Azid Force, Paragliders, Spicelab and under his own name. Following Volume 1’s journey through L.S.G. and The Ambush, Volume 2 opens up another side of Lieb’s work, bringing together four tracks that have largely remained outside the spotlight.
Untold History comes from Azid Force, the project Lieb built with Pascal F.E.O.S. in the early nineties. Their first records went out through Superstition, back when acid, techno and trance were still one blurry thing. Azid Force always carried the tougher, more psychedelic edge of that sound. The title fits. Another piece surfacing from a catalogue that has been slowly finding its way back.
Paragliders' Cosmic Chrome moves into different territory. Softer, more spacious, one of Lieb's more hypnotic aliases. Paragliders always belonged to the melodic side of the Superstition sound, and Cosmic Chrome sits right in that world: long-form sequencing, suspended harmonies, movement that takes its time.
Then ID, released under Lieb's own name, originally tucked away on the 1994 compilation Universe, The Tribal Gathering '94. It has been missing from the usual overview of his work, exactly the kind of compilation-only track Recovered Frequencies exists to dig back out.
The collection closes with Spicelab's Distorted Planets. Spicelab was one of Lieb's key projects during the Harthouse years, the place where techno got stranger, more physical, more abstract, without ever losing its structure. Distorted Planets reconnects with that part of his output and closes out a volume that shows just how many directions Lieb was working in parallel at the time.
None of this is about treating old tracks as lost classics that need fixing. Recovered Frequencies, Vol. 2 just puts them back where they belong, next to the better-known records from the same period, back in the wider picture. Four tracks, three of them unreleased until now, from four different corners of Oliver Lieb's catalogue. Pulled from the margins. Back in circulation.
Will come on Bandcamp as well 🫶
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