1960	Ben Liebrand DJ, Producer, Remixer, Arranger, Composer, Engineer, Visual Artist, Image Compositing, 3D Computer Graphics, Photographer (Still, SFX, Portrait, HDR, Panorama), Designer, Web Designer, Video Post Production, DVD Authoring, Corporate Videographer, Technical Specialist.

1976	First DJ gigs
1980	First "mash-up" (combining disco and andrew sisters vocals)
1982 - Now	Professional, DJ, Producer, Editor & Remixer (See "Productions and Remixes" below)
1983 - 1993	Radio program "In The Mix" • First non-stop mixed radioshow on National Dutch Radio Veronica.
1983 - Now	"Minimix" "Grandmix" Annual 100-plus megadancemix. As colleagues state, often copied, never equaled
1991 - Now	3D Animation and Video Editing and compositing (See "Visuals" below)
1993 - Now	High End Photography, Image Compositing, DTP, Corporate Design for Radio Stations and Record Companies
1998 - Now	Website Design
1999 - 2004	Radio Show : Weekly minimix on Radio 538 and the Millennium and Summer Grandmixes and a whole new series of Annual Grandmixes
2001 - Now	First DJ to use 4 Pioneer CDJ1000's in live DJ-sets
2004 - Now	Radio Show : Every saturday night 18:00 - 19:00 hours and 23:00 - 24:00 hours, the new series of "In The Mix" on Radio Veronica featuring 1 hour Non - Stop mixes and mash-ups "In The mix" runs on radio stations in The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Denmark, Sweden and the United States
2004	Bachelor Degree in Music / Technical Specialist
2005	VJ Visuals DVD (from creating the content, to authoring and mastering the final DVD master)
2006	Visuals for Armin Only Concert
2007	Grandmix on Slam FM, New method of shirt projection
2007	25 Years in the Music Business
2007 - now	KLM airlines features Ben Liebrand In The Mix in in-flight entertainment
2008	Visuals for Armin Only 2008
2008 - Now	HDR Photography
2009	Ableton Masterclass at the Amsterdam Dance Event
2009	Studium Generale (Masterclass at the Dominicus College)
2009	Music Video for Armin van Buuren
2010	Ableton Masterclass in Rotterdam
2010	New series of Dance classics mixes called Intergalactic Disco Funk
2010	ARKE-fly airlines features Ben Liebrand in in-flight entertainment
2010	Visuals for Armin's State Of Trance Tour 2010
2010	New series of CD releases for Slam FM
2011	Ableton Masterclass at ArtEZ Conservatory Media/Music
2012	Photography featured in Canadian Geographic
2012	The Royal Dutch Mint releases a coinset dedicated to the Dutch DJ's featuring Ben Liebrand & Armin van Buuren
2013	First in industry upgrade service for CD masters
2013	Large format high end photo and canvas printing
2014	Started on a new Artist album called Iconic Groove
2014	Mastered Logic Pro X, recorded and mixed the entire double album
2015	Ben Liebrand - Iconic Groove released with a session in the acclaimed Wisseloord Studios, Netherlands
2015	Ben Liebrand "In The Mix" now also on Scottish, Brazilian and French FM radio stations
2015	Masterclass with Armin van Buuren and Felix de Laet at ADE Amsterdam
2015	Mastered Final Cut Pro X which is now in full use for all video productions
2016	Ben Liebrand "In The Mix" now also on one of the most popular Belgian FM radio stations
2016	Introduced the Speed mix at Let's Dance, an 18.000 people Dance Night in the ZiggoDome in Amsterdam, fitting 20+ tracks in a 20 minute live mix.
2017	In The Mix Radio Show switches from Radio Veronica to Radio 10
2017	First Week of January, Grandmix 2016 reaching a solid #1 position in all charts
2017	Another Edition of Let's Dance in the ZiggoDome
2017	Live mixed radio set During the ADE week gathers the best response out of all featured DJ,s
2017	Received Lifetime Achievement Award during the Nightlife Awards at ADE
2018	First week of January, Grandmix 2017 reaching a solid #1 position in all charts, entering on #1 in iTunes charts just hours after the broadcast on Radio 538
2018	September, BenLiebrand joins Gerard Ekdom in his morning show on Radio 10 with the return of the minimix to kick of the weekend
2018	Ben Liebrand is a speaker in the opening panel of ADE
2018	Release of Grandmix Special Edition in cooperation with ADE
2018	Speaker at the Alberta Electronic Music Conference in Calgary with a 90 minute Masterclass
2018	....


Music:	Many of the top DJ's of this moment including Armin van Buuren and Tiësto refer to Ben Liebrand as their main inspiration to become involved in mixing and dance-music.
Productions 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. His CD compilations include the very succesful series of Grandmixes, 20 editions up till now, which are regarded as the benchmark in megamixes. A special 12" version collection mastered form the original recordings and released on CD under the name Grand 12 inches, has recently got an industry first upgrade service whereby customers who bought this series also receive better quality versions of those songs as soon as they come available. This series has received the highest appreciation amongst collectors, audiophiles and business professionals. On all Ben's work he is the mixer/producer, as well as the engineer and the musician. In 2004 Ben received his Bachelor Degree in Music and Technology.
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 several record companies inluding Arcade and Sony Music. His work includes stills and commercials for Holland, England, Germany, Spain and France.
Commercials:	Radio 538 • Sony • Digidance • Thunderdome • Return of Rave the city • Dance Trance • Rave On • Happy Hardcore • Disco Duro • Mega dance 95 • Pepsi • Leaders for TMF • Sony • Disco Theatre
Artwork & Print:	Grandmix series • Grand 12" Series • Radio 538 • Speedy J's album Public Energy no.1 • Armin van Buuren • Sourcy • Citroën • Texaco • KFM • Spinnin' • Rodeo Media • Intergalactic Disco Funk
Videoclips & Visuals:	Dadara • Isco • 2 brothers on the 4th floor • Alan Parsons Project • Armin van Buuren 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, 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 and is now available in animated form on an exclusive DVD. This DVD features one hour of VJ Visuals devided into 88 seperate clips and comes with a 1 hour 5.1 surround audio track composed especially for these images.
Corporate Videos:	Silicon Graphics • Sun Micro Systems • KLM • Armada • Sony

Hardware:	Traditional Recording Studio experience, using equipment from Akai Professional, Alesis, Tascam, Teac, Studer, Revox, Clover Systems, Lexicon, Yamaha, Roland, DBX, Dolby, Korg, Moog, Sennheiser, Pioneer, Quad, LA Audio, Soundcraft, Urei, TC Electronics, Oberheim, Linndrum, Waldorf, Syndrum, Apogee, Presonus, Tannoy, Monitor technology, ROR, KEF, Qirra Sound, Korg Kaptivator and Eventide.
Computers	Apple (OS9, OSX, IOS & Linux), iPhone, iPad, Silicon Graphix (Unix), PC & Dec Alpha
Software Audio	Ableton Live, Logic Pro X, Amadeus Pro, Soundtrack Pro
Software Visuals	Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Image Ready, Go-Live, In-Design, After Effects, Quark Express, Cinematize Pro, Compressor, Final Cut Pro, Motion, DVD Studio Pro, Softimage 3D Extreme, Electro-GiG, Sketch-Up 3D, Modo 3D, Kinemac 3D, Double Take, Nik Software, FTP software, Nikon View, Photomatix Pro, Image conversion software, Resolume Avenue, Razor, Digital Fusion, Muse & Final Cut Pro X
Affiliations	Akai Professional, Sony, Pioneer, Sennheiser, Presonus, Bowers & Wilkins, KLM & Calvin Klein

Info:	Website: www.liebrand.com and Contact: Ben Liebrand Ben also is happily married to Brenda, and has 2 wonderful sons, Fabian and Sascha and a beautiful daughter called Linde.