LFO’s album ’Frequencies’ (containing the previously mentioned “LFO” and its follow-up single, “We Are Back”) was a popular album for Warp Records and undoubtedly helped establish them as a successful global independent electronic label, along with label-mates Nightmares On Wax and Sweet Exorcist. Mark Bell continued to record under his own name and that of LFO, as well as producing albums for Björk and Depeche Mode until his untimely passing in October 2014. Gez Varley left the duo in 1996, and continues to have a solo career. The name “LFO” comes from the term low frequency oscillator, a component used to alter sounds in synthesizers, samplers etc. The demo’s popularity in clubs lead to the track being released by Warp in 1990, where it made it into the Top Twenty. Originally comprising Gez Varley (also known as Jez Varley) and Mark Bell, they met while studying at Leeds and gave their first track, the eponymous “LFO”, to Nightmares On Wax. 1) English band LFO were one of the pioneers of the harsh techno of the early 1990s.
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