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Friday 25 August 2017

Squeaky


I mentioned LFO yesterday so it seems appropriate to follow up with something from their back catalogue. LFO were a Leeds based duo (Jez Varley and Mark Bell) who put out bass heavy techno and bleep 'n' bass on Sheffield's Warp Records. This track is a monster, the first track on their 1991 ep What Is House? Not as sparse as yesterday's Testone, Squeaky has a long, winding, descending synth noise, tough drums and lashings of sub-bass. Pretty abstract and in many ways quite extreme.

Squeaky

Jez left in 1996 leaving Mark on his own as LFO. He went on to work extensively with Bjork, remixing her and becoming part of her band for her Homogenic and Volta tours. This remix of Possibly Maybe chops up and distorts Bjork so much it bears little relation to the original song. Sadly, Mark Bell died in 2014.

3 comments:

Michael Doherty said...

They produced two fine albums and some superb remixes. Their remix of Spiritualized's Tied Up is a shining example.

Michael Doherty said...

They produced two fine albums and some superb remixes. Their remix of Spiritualized's Tied Up is a shining example.

Swiss Adam said...

It is- I've posted the Tied Up remix before and I think Drew did it recently too.