Collabs 3000 '2025' EP Is Out Today On NovaMute || 20th Anniversary Edition Of 'Metalism' Out 11/14

COLLABS 3000  CHRIS LIEBING & SPEEDY J  TECHNO TITANS RELEASE 2025 EP OUT NOW ON NOVAMUTE 20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION OF THEIR CLASSIC ALBUM METALISM OUT 11/14

photo credit: Sean Swann Collabs 3000, Chris Liebing & Speedy J (aka Jochem Paap), have today shared the digital release of their 2025 EP, their first collaboration in nearly two decades. Available now on vinyl (in a limited edition of 500), the EP arrives ahead of the 20th Anniversary Edition of their smoldering collision of taught techno rhythms and sonic abstraction, Metalism. Metalism will be available in full on vinyl for the first time, on CD and digitally, both with the original artwork by The Designers Republic, on November 14th. This brand-new EP arrives nearly 25 years after the pair first joined forces for Collabs 3000. 2025 collates four essential techno cuts: “Zwart” and “Strum” plant driving kaleidoscopic techno deep into your brain and limbs, “Spiegeling” coalesces propulsive techno rhythms and minimal ricocheting melodies, while the essential dancefloor beat of “Galude” closes the EP. Artwork for the EP is a playful nod to “Comedian,” Maurizio Cattelan’s controversial conceptual artwork and references the duo’s “bass banana,” which is passed between them to signal whose turn it is to lead the beats. Listen to the 2025 EP HERE. Pre-order Metalism (20th Anniversary Edition) HERE. Techno innovators, Chris Liebing & Speedy J, began their Collabs 3000 project in 2001, at Frankfurt’s notorious U60311 club. Liebing and Paap, already key players in the European Techno scene, performed an off-the-cuff set that saw Liebing mixing out of a Speedy J live set and Speedy J bouncing off Liebing’s selections behind the deck, creating an utterly unique set. Soon after that set, the pair recorded at Paap’s studio in Rotterdam for a release for Speedy J’s celebrated collaborative series on NovaMute, Collabs. The resulting 12” helped to define the sound of early ‘00s Techno and their chemistry in the studio meant that they soon reconvened to record an album, Metalism. The 20th Anniversary edition of Metalism has been remastered by Chris Liebing and comes housed in the original art by The Designers Republic. The eleven relentless, layered tracks that move from brutal tough drums and dancefloor bound techno to more experimental meanderings, combine the pair’s mastery of subversive electronics and peak time techno and have lost none of their sheer power in the intervening years. The 20th Anniversary Edition of Metalism is available on double vinyl, CD and digitally on November 14th via NovaMute. Pre-order it HERE. 2025 EP is out now on limited vinyl and digitally via NovaMute. Purchase or stream it HERE.   2025 EP art:

Track listing:  1. Zwart 2. Spiegeling 3. Strum 4. Galude   Metalism 20th Anniversary Edition Art:

Track listing:  1. Lego (2025 Remaster) 2. Modish Ride (2025 Remaster) 3. Triflon (2025 Remaster) 4. Hilt (2025 Remaster) 5. Tunox (2025 Remaster) 6. Acid Trezcore (2025 Remaster) 7. Cream 3 (2025 Remaster) 8. Eventide (2025 Remaster) 9. Lava (2025 Remaster) 10. Assault (2025 Remaster)   Chris Liebing is a techno pioneer, label head (his label, CLR, has been active since 1999), podcast curator, producer and DJ with a formidable reputation for pummelling techno sets over three decades. His desire to challenge himself and his audience has found him exploring technology, both in his DJ and studio set up and with the CLR podcast, a fixture long before the medium became ubiquitous. At the same time, he has probed multiple sides of his creativity, recording two acclaimed albums for Mute that highlight a more meditative and melodic dimension of his work. Speedy J, aka Jochem Paap, is a pioneering techno DJ who, since the early ‘90s, has been instrumental in defining European Techno. His debut album, Ginger (Warp / Plus 8, 1993) is considered one of the first IDM albums and since then, he has created an expansive catalogue of work that transcends genre pigeonholes. His own label, Electric Deluxe, launched in 2008 and recent work has included the acclaimed experimental collaboration with Surgeon, recorded at his STOOR lab in Rotterdam. Collabs series By the early 2000s Speedy J had established the Collabs series on NovaMute. Initially a run of 12”s that saw Paap inviting different producers to collaborate with him, the Collabs 3000 project with Chris Liebing soon expanded the series and the Metalism album and a worldwide tour followed in 2005. Listen to their Resident Advisor mix HERE.   CONNECT WITH CHRIS LIEBING:  FACEBOOK | INSTAGRAM | SOUNDCLOUD | TIKTOK   CONNECT WITH SPEEDY J: FACEBOOK | INSTAGRAM | SOUNDCLOUD