Liberto

 

Lee Burton was born in Athens in the mid 80's and from the age of 9 knew that music was his big passion. As a teenager and, after years of music studies, he got involved with music playing as a guitarist and bassist for various prog. rock, jazz rock / fusion groups- projects , composing music and collecting records. These early influences would later evolve in to a passion for house and techno , electronic music production and djing. However, it was at age of 19, when he began making his first tracks and playing at local parties as a dj. After a few years and some changes of his music character his found himself releasing his debut album "Lullaby" as "Liberto" on the Athens based label Klik records, in addition to an e.p called "Contra" on Klik's sub label "Nuevo", taking great feedback from the Greek and the international press and putting his name on the map of electronic music. In 2007, Liberto & Mihalis Safras teamed up for the first time, producing a unique style rather different from their own. They released various e.p's and remixes for labels such as Trapez, Cusp, Zenit and Syndikaat and their sound earned the appreciation of the modern techno scene. In the meanwhile, Liberto and Safras duo launched "Material" record label, releasing techno music from great producers like Mark Broom and Lee Van Dowski, among others. Material's releases were played and charted by some of the best dj's in the scene At the same time, Lefteris Kalabakas was attempting to express himself with more percussive elements and deep sounds. The resulting offerings "Plastikk" e.p on Playmobil and "Martini" e.p on Cusp entered the charts of many djs. As a dj, Liberto played at some of the best clubs in Greece and Europe including U-60311, Mangali (Ger), Solyanka (Ru), A.K.A, The Egg, Micro (UK), Cavo Paradiso, Fuzz (Gr). In 2009 "Lee Burton" alias was born, and his first productions were released from labels such as Plastic City, Orpheas, Material and Ethink Groove On February 6th 2012, Lee Burton returns with his new album project "busy days for fools" released from Klik records