LFO (British band)

LFO is an English IDM / Electronica band. The band's name is an abbreviation of the synthesizer modulation source Low Frequency Oscillator.

LFO was in the early 1990s one of the first bands of the more abstract, some limited dance floor suitable techno sounds that emerged in the context of Warp Records, among others, and was initially referred to as " Bleep & Clonk ".

Career

The founding members were Gez Varley and Mark Bell, who met while studying in Leeds.

Their first demo, the eponymous track ' LFO, they gave to the fellow producers of Nightmares on Wax on, about the track found its way into the clubs. The popularity that reached LFO there, meant that they were taken in 1990 by Warp Records. The short time later released single reached the UK charts at once. Subsequently published in the success of LFO and the subsequent publication of We Are Back LFO 1991 their first album Frequencies, which was at that time for a techno project is still a rarity.

Later LFO took over production and remixes for, among other things, Afrika Bambaataa, Bjork, Radiohead, Depeche Mode, Laurent Garnier, Andrew Weatherall (The Sabres of Paradise ).

Gez Varley left LFO 1997. Since Mark Bell LFO performs as a solo project.

Discography (selection)

Most publications have appeared on Warp Records and were distributed in Germany via Rough Trade Records.

Albums

Singles and EPs