05/06/2026
🌟🌟🌟🌟ARTIST SPOTLIGHT🌟🌟🌟🌟
Liberator are Aaron, Chris and Julian. Three brothers in music and ideology.
They first linked up around the North London punk rock squat scene in early 1991. Their love of going to raves such as Storm in Hastings and Vision On in London had led all three to buy records they had heard at the raves. With a “do it yourself “ethos, they decided to become a unit doing and running their own parties in the Hackney area of London. The success of their first two events caught the attention of fellow rave organiser Steve Bedlam, who was just starting out with the Bedlam sound system. Like Spiral Tribe, Bedlam was a loose collective dedicated to running illegal warehouse parties across London every weekend. Liberator soon became Bedlam residents alongside Aztek, Murph and Rob Abliss. Also at this time, Liberator teamed up with a crew called Conspiracy, who brought full-size circus tents to the UK free festivals during 1991 and 1992, culminating in a team-up again with Bedlam for the UK’s biggest free festival, Castle Morton.
With Bedlam going to Europe with Spiral Tribe in 1993. The Liberators decided to stay and concentrate on their next endeavour. After earning some money as DJs through gigs up and down England and residencies at Turnmills in London and Rados FX in Prague, Liberator had a choice: either buy a sound system to replace Bedlam for UK parties or start a record label. Stay Up Forever, best known for creating Acid Techno, was their first label and is still going strong 34 years later. It is considered one of the best underground labels to come out of the UK and has been a major influence on some of today’s biggest Techno stars. Once Stay Up Forever was established alongside its more techno sister “Cluster”, the boys focused on DJing and travelling the world, making strong connections in Brazil, Spain, Poland, Russia, Japan and Venezuela. More record labels followed with Julian’s mighty techno 4X4, Chris’s alternative take on techno, Maximum Minimum, and Aaron’s more house-oriented Low Rent Operator, showing the different influences of the three members.
Liberator is a name that still carries a lot of weight in today’s dance music scene. The boys are still going strong, taking trips across the globe and sharing their influences and the sound they helped create.
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