G-Man is the main pseudonym used by Gez Varley, former member of techno-pioneers LFO alongside Mark Bell. After the group disbanded in 1996 after their second album 'Advanced', Varley has continued to innovate the genre with timeless classics like 'Quo Vadis' or 'El Jem', which have recently been reissued by Berlin's exciting new (dub-)techno outfit Styrax Leaves and continue to amaze dancefloors after more than a decade. Varley currently lives in Germany and curates defrag/G - his own sub-label of Roman techno outfit defrag.
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Gez Varley has been exploring heavy dub-techno flavours under his G-Man alias ever since his split from the legendary LFO, and it's a perfect fit that his latest single, 'The Dukes', appears on Leipzig's Instabil label, a driving force of the genre. Two excellent cuts, bringing to mind his classic 'Quo Vadis'!
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