Hailing from Leeds, LFO made an indelible mark on the history of electronic music at the height of the techno wave in the early 1990s. The duo of Mark Bell and Gez Varley were uncompromisingly at the crossroads between Detroit house and European experimentation. Although short-lived, the band's career is littered with classic anthems ("LFO", "Love Is the Message") and cult albums, Frequencies in 1991 and Advance in 1996. Building on this reputation, the Mark Bell-reduced LFO returned in 2003 with the album Sheath, after having produced Björk and worked for Radiohead and Depeche Mode. This symbol of the Warp stable, pioneer of Intelligent Dance Music, is still present on stage. In 2014, the death of Mark Bell in 1996, who had become the sole member of LFO after the departure of his colleague, brought the adventure to an end.
