Artist: LFO
Genre(s):
Industrial
Techno
Dance
House
Discography:
Lfo/afx Split
Year: 2005
Tracks: 4
Sheath
Year: 2003
Tracks: 11
Freak
Year: 2003
Tracks: 2
Advance
Year: 1996
Tracks: 12
Tied Up
Year: 1994
Tracks: 4
What Is House Ltd Edition
Year: 1992
Tracks: 4
Frequencies
Year: 1991
Tracks: 14
We Are Back
Year: 1990
Tracks: 4
LFO Remix
Year: 1990
Tracks: 3
The Sheffield techno couple of Mark Bell and Gez Varley have a report that, at number one peek, might appear to pass them. Having released only 2 records and non many more singles piece they worked together, the pair's apparently stingy contribution would scarcely seem to take over out the claim that they were one of British techno's nearly important, agenda-setting groups. Nonetheless, early singles such as "We Are Back," "Freeze," and "Love Is the Message" from their debut Frequencies, as easily as "Tied Up" from their instant, Kick upstairs, experience indelibly marked British techno with Detroit's progressivity, electro's funk, and an unshrinking, unambiguously British experimentalism.
Taking their name from the foundational ingredient of the synthesizers -- the low absolute frequency oscillator (tolerant of like calling a rock group Power Chord) -- the geminate were approached by the Sheffield-based Warp label in the belated '80s, afterward tapes the geminate had place together on some drug addict, second hand equipment caught the ears and dancefloors of local clubs and DJs. Both Bell and Varley admit to roots in the early and mid-'80s hip-hop and electro invasions as well as the more than obvious British acid house explosion, and their affectedness for thick electronic breaks, vocoder samples, and thin, modal melodies derive mostly from that beginning. (LFO were likewise one of only a few -- with 808 State and Coldcut -- to find domesticated reissue through the New York-based rap music label Tommy Boy, making obvious a connection betwixt British experimental techno and American rap music and electro-funk.) Releasing their bass-heavy debut in 1991 to linguistic universal acclaim, the geminate were dumb for the next five years, with rumors of a follow-up surfacing from time to time failing to create anything. Reportedly working with early Depeche Mode member Alan Wilder and Karl Bartos of Kraftwerk (none of that material's ever so seen light), LFO finally resurfaced in 1995 with the ironically coroneted "Tied Up," followed several months later by Move on. The mathematical group as well remixed tracks for Björk and the Sabres of Paradise, but dissolved the partnership before long after. Varley went on to a solo career, patch Bell began an intermittent output career, working on tracks for Björk's Homogenic LP of 1997 and Depeche Mode's Exciter from 2001. After resolving what Warp called his midrange crisis, Bell returned with the third LFO uncut, Sheath, in the fall of 2003 (officially, it was the number one without Varley).
Imani Coppola
