RIP Mark Bell of LFO

Some sad news in. It appears Mark Bell of LFO passed away this month due to complications after surgery.  Many of you will remember him from his classic acid house tracks back in the early days of warehouse raves. I remember their namesake track "LFO" as one of only a handful of stand out tracks you'd eagerly await to come on. He was part of the birth of a completely new genre of underground electronic music that would grow and influence nearly all genres of music; he influenced countless musicians both directly and indirectly.  Mark later worked with Bjork and produced Depeche Mode's Exciter.

Mark will be sorely missed.

Left: "Warp Records confirmed the passing of Mark Bell (Picture: Rex Features)" via METRO

Below: Gez Varley & Mark Bell in their studio back in the day via the Anafrog forum.  The image and excerpt appear to be from an interview that no longer appears to be online. Like many artists at the time he along with Gez of LFO embraced what gear was available and affordable and made pure magic with them.


"How did you and Gez Varley get together to form LFO, and what did you use in the way of equipment on your early recordings?

Gez and I met breakdancing in a shopping mall, then met again on a graphics and photography course, we had all the same records, same sense of humour...we used TR 808, TR 909, TR 727, Synthi, Casio FZ-10, System 100 and an Atari running Creator."

Below is TV spot on Warp records and the Sheffeild house scene starting with an interview with Gez and Mark Bell.  I'm curious what synth Gez holds up and calls out as their first.  I thought it might be a grey Yamaha CS01, but I'm not seeing knob section on the left.  The keyboard panned at the start of the video is an EMS Cricklewood.


LFO interview on TV and Warp Published on Aug 1, 2012 (previously featured here)

"Lfo Tv interview and a short story on Warp records and the northern Bleep scene . made at around the time of 1990 . feat gez varley and mark bell .."



Uploaded on Sep 29, 2008

"LFO - LFO
Released 26 Jul 1990"

LFO was on of the tracks the changed everything.  RIP Mark Bell.

Polyfusion System 2000 modular !! DEMO 1

Published on Oct 13, 2014 roginator1

"THE POLYFUSION MODULAR!!!!!"

Update:

Polyfusion system 2000 modular !! DEMO 2


Polyfusion System 2000 modular !! DEMO 3

Trent Reznor in The Studio

via @moogmusicinc


"Master at Work. @trent_reznor in the studio working on the @GoneGirlMovie soundtrack with the Moog #sub37."

Also note the Dewanatron Swarmatron above and back used in the soundtrack for The Social Network.  Some eurorack in the background.

Gelbart in Worm/Klangendum Studio - ARP 2500, Kawai 100F & MFB-501

Published on Oct 12, 2014 Defekt Records

"written and played in Worm/Klangendum studio, October 2014
http://www.gelbartcorp.com

instruments: ARP 2500, Kawai 100F, MFB-501"

iron curtain electronics system test by the harvestman

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Scratch & Sniff Style Synth Stickers & T-Shirts

via Fredrik

"Have a look at these synth stickers that looks like those 80s scratch-n-sniff stickers. The record label had them made when they re-released my 2010 album on cassette the other week. Really nice illustrations. They exist on t-shirts too. Can be ordered on bandcamp"

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Roland SH-2 SN 188212 with Kenton Pro Solo MKII MIDI to CV Converter

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Sequential Circuits ~ Pro One SN 8920

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360 Spectre Guitar Synth with ARP Hex Pickup

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"Oberheim SEM, Hex Fuzz has that Townshend Rough Boys guitar intro tone. You won't see many of these with ARP Hex Pickup very often, here's your chance to own a piece of Guitar Synth History."

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Circuit Bent Modified Akai S700 Digital Sampler

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Published on Oct 10, 2014 Waz Radar

Audio on left channel only.

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"The unit is a normal Akai S700 sampler but has been circuit bent to include a 16 point RCA patch bay (divided into 8x2 point splitter bays) and 8x switches will affect any audio signal that you put into it.

Impossible to list all of the effects and sounds, but I have found pitch related effects, bizarre filters, self composing random melodies, rhythmic variations, delays, distortions and many more. Hundreds of sample altering possibilities -to use alone or in combination.

The circuit bent features do sometimes degrade the sampled audio if you try to use too many switches or bent points at one time. Initially it sounds like a record crackling and will get louder. This is easily reset by creating another sample."

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