Mark Bell RIP

[magma]

AARRRGGGHHH

What's happening this year? Rashad, Spaceape and now Mark Bell.

Utter legend... I was only sat in my parents garden raving about his influence throughout Björk's career with my brothers a few weeks ago.

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Edit: err, Rashad, not FlyLo obviously

[rickyarbino]

FlyLo isn't dead, his album is called "You're Dead".

[magma]

FlyLo isn't dead, his album is called "You're Dead".

That reply took you a long ass time. Edited it before you posted!

[rickyarbino]

Kept the tab open while doing other stuff.

[magma]

Do you have anything to say about Mark Bell, rickyarbino?

[rickyarbino]

Apparently, no more than you still do.

[hubb]

calm down


and yeah it's fucked ... but at least he got to make a bunch of stuff..

super weird was earlier this year when a lot of people thought he was dead..

Imo some of his stuff is close to eno, aphex, square in how unique, 'important' or original it was... not neglecting Bjørks own input on the songs.
And if you don't like Bjørk already, it's a mistake and she will have a bit that hits you if you give it a chance..

[magma]

calm down


and yeah it's fucked ... but at least he got to make a bunch of stuff..

super weird was earlier this year when a lot of people thought he was dead..

Imo some of his stuff is close to eno, aphex, square in how unique, 'important' or original it was... not neglecting Bjørks own input on the songs.

Sounds like it was a complication from an operation, so whether the operation was connected to the earlier scare... dunno, just a particularly sad name to add to this year's death pool.

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I think this record might've been my first "WHAT THE FUCK JUST HAPPENED" moment with electronic music as a wide-eyed, 11 year old 2 Unlimited devotee. LFO were SO good and far more important than their current (lack of) fame suggests.

Glad I got to see him perform a few times... twice with Björk and once on his own DJing LFO tunes to a room full of munters in Islington. I guess he'll never get to do the live LFO performance they had planned for last year's Bangface Weekender though.

And if you don't like Bjørk already, it's a mistake and she will have a bit that hits you if you give it a chance..

[hubb]

I thougt lfo was just an alias and not a duo?

there was only one guy when he played here at a very tiny venue

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or maybe the e was just very strong - good times anyway

[magma]

I thougt lfo was just an alias and not a duo?

there was only one guy when he played here at a very tiny venue

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or maybe the e was just very strong - good times anyway

It's been one man since the early 00s... was definitely a duo in the 90s!

[sixs]

seeing bjork performing hyperballad into freak is prob my most memorable live experiences

[hubb]

sick live no doubt


Got to recommend Matmos aswell now that we are talking about it..
They work with Bjørk in a similar fashion, live and as producers.

They are awesome but really difficult to define and follow imo..,. but they are two dudes dressed like Leigh Bowery on stage making music that sounds like 90's house but doesn't have a disco feeling as with Mark Bells stuff.
Leigh Bowery get to know

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Like when their pet rat died :

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That said, knowing the concept behind this record adds plenty to the enjoyment. Take "For Felix (And All the Rats)", for example. The music alone, which consists of what sounds like Tony Conrad-style detuned string drones and an African thumb piano, is striking and needs no explanation. But when we discover that the track was made using sounds coaxed from an empty rat's cage (Matmos applied a violin bow to the bars to mimic the strings, and then plucked the bars for the thumb piano sound), it adds a rich layer of meaning. As a commentary on innocent life in bondage, it's just as powerful as a photograph of an eyeless monkey in restraints. Both the concept and the execution of "For Felix" are brilliant individually, and taken together, the effect is almost overpowering; it's a terribly sad and heartbreaking piece of music. None of the other tracks feature such a strong conceptual coup, but the rest vary from decent to great.

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/515 ... e-to-cure/

[magma]

seeing bjork performing hyperballad into freak is prob my most memorable live experiences

Yes! I think that's the tour I caught her twice on... once at Glastonbury (she blew up the right stack of the Pyramid stage with the nuts end of Hyperballad) and once at the O2, which was a bit more organised.

sick live no doubt


Got to recommend Matmos aswell now that we are talking about it..
They work with Bjørk in a similar fashion, live and as producers.

I think that's always been the best thing about Björk for me... she writes good, occasionally incredible songs, but she's had a better ear for producers than almost any songwriter I can think of during my lifetime. You always know a Björk album is going to give you something you've never heard before.

If Björk's working with someone I haven heard of, I *know* I need to dig into their back-catalogue.

[particle-jim]

RIP Mark Bell, when my dad first discovered I was getting into dubstep and electronic music in general he sat me down and made me listen to LFO for the sake of historical context, I'm glad he did

also Bjork fucking rules (again, my dad is a big fan and this rubbed off on me)

[hubb]

Thomas Knak did some bits on vespertine -
https://soundcloud.com/thomasknak
was part of future 3 tuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuune


some of this stuff is so airport commercial but still so awesome
(on a tangent now )

[magma]

RIP Mark Bell, when my dad first discovered I was getting into dubstep and electronic music in general he sat me down and made me listen to LFO for the sake of historical context, I'm glad he did

also Bjork fucking rules (again, my dad is a big fan and this rubbed off on me)

I had exactly the same experience but with older brothers... the 11 year old me was so fucking spoilt for music looking back. I'm so grateful they cared enough to introduce their annoying kid brother to so much.