to be pioneers of the bass-heavy techno, LFO released Frequencies (1991), Advance (1996), and Sheath (2003). Originally, the group was composed of Gez Varley (born 1971) and Mark Bell (1971–2014). After Varley left in 1996, LFO was Bell alone. Bell died in October 2014. The group's name is derived from the abbreviation for the term low-frequency oscillator, a synthesizer function widely used in electronic music.