In the following year, Fluke released their first album, The Techno Rose of Blighty, swiftly followed by the single " The Bells" and a live album entitled Out (In Essence). The attention that these records received gained the band a record deal with Creation Records with whom they released their first CD single " Philly" in the same year. info)) in 1989 and "Joni/Taxi" in 1990, a song that sampled Joni Mitchell's " Big Yellow Taxi".Although a commercial failure, as well as being very different in sound to the band's later works, the group persisted and released another two white label vinyls: "Thumper!" ( sample ( help įluke's first single, released in 1988, was a white label vinyl entitled "Island Life", pressed on a clear blue 12" vinyl record. It soon became clear that all three shared musical tastes, having a shared interest in the acid house scene and the more experimental electronic sounds of Cabaret Voltaire and Giorgio Moroder. The third member of Fluke, Tournier, was introduced to the group when he undertook work on a collaboration with Fugler entitled "Skin". History The Techno Rose of Blighty īefore forming Fluke, Fugler and Bryant had played in two punk bands together named The Leaky Radiators and The Layfigures. 1.4 Progressive History X and Progressive History XXX.1.3 Oto, Risotto and departure of Mike Tournier.
Bryant and Fugler went on to produce Fluke's final studio album without Tournier's help, and the pair subsequently engaged in a project under the name 2 Bit Pie, with their first album 2Pie Island released on 4 September 2006. Stewart continued as lead female vocalist and as a dancer for all of Fluke's live performances between 19.Īfter Risotto, Tournier left the group to form Syntax with Jan Burton.
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When Fluke was touring for Risotto they were joined on stage by Rachel Stewart who acted as a personification of the band's official mascot, a character from the Wipeout series named Arial Tetsuo. Throughout their career they have made several changes to their line-up with credited appearances attributed to Neil Davenport playing guitars, Robin Goodridge on drums and Hugh Bryder as a DJ. The film The Experiment uses their song "YKK".įluke produced five original studio albums, two "best of" compilations and two live albums. Many listeners know of Fluke only through the inclusion of their music in many blockbuster film soundtracks, most notably The Matrix Reloaded and Sin City, as well as featuring prominently on the soundtracks to Need for Speed: Underground and the Wipeout video game series. The band were noted for their diverse range of electronic styles spanning the house, techno, ambient and blues genres for their reclusivity, rarely giving interviews and for lengthy timespans between albums.
The band's conception was influenced by the members' interest in the burgeoning acid house music scene and particularly the work of Cabaret Voltaire and Giorgio Moroder. Electronic, trip hop, house, techno, ambient house, IDM, breakbeatĭJ Fluke Production Creation, Strange Fruit, Circa, Astralwerks, Appalooso, One Little Indianįluke were an English electronic music group formed in the late 1980s by Mike Bryant, Jon Fugler and Mike Tournier.
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