Fluke

[undarrenworld]

Any fans here?

I got The Techno Rose Of Blighty and Six Wheels On My Wagon on vinyl and its really awesome.

[stimpee]

Techno Rose is a bit pants. Six Wheels is a classic though (and all the singles from it - bubble, groovy feeling, electric guitar, slid)

[stimpee]

Techno Rose is a bit pants. Six Wheels is a classic though (and all the singles from it - bubble, groovy feeling, electric guitar, slid)

[froopy seal]

Clicked through their hits on YouTube just yesterday. Didn't know of them during their active career, but today I like them a lot, especially the tracks Rachel Stewart is dancing to. :o

[Bargo]

I really love the first 30-odd minutes of Puppy, it gets high rotation when I'm out running. Even its association with that embarassing rave scene from Matrix Reloaded doesn't spoil it for me.

[holden]

Yes, big Fluke fan.

I agree with Stimpee, "Techno Rose of Blighty" is definitely dated, and i think it's much more synth-poppy than the rest of their catalog.

"Risotto" was the album that got me hooked, since "Atom Bomb" and "Absurd" were on countless commercials and compilations ~1997-98. Still enjoy the full LP.

Enjoy "Six Wheels.." for the singles, less so the album cuts. "Oto" is very dark, trip-hop, but has some interesting versions of tracks like "Setback" and "squirt" that appear on "Risotto".

"Puppy" was in near-constant rotation when it came out, and yeah, love the continuous mix of tracks 2 through 5.

As for side projects, 2Bit Pie and Syntax both rocked my socks. Syntax is working on a new record.

Lots more info and live sets here:
http://www.2bitpie.net/

[BrotherLovesDub]

Found the Peel Sessions on vinyl recently. Fluke alternate between great and awful.

[stimpee]

Found the Peel Sessions on vinyl recently. Fluke alternate between great and awful.You mean the Peal sessions ;)

[lectoid]

Fan of them as well. Though honestly I thought I had more of their stuff than Oto and Risotto. I'm probably thinking of Juno Reactor, went hunting for a ton of their stuff a while ago.

[negative1]

yeah, i liked them for awhile..
but there's only so many times you can rehash atom bomb
(their equivalent to born slippy)..

good stuff if you dig through it, a lot of hit and miss over
the last decade..

find their greatest hits cd or box.. lots of cool things there..

they're still kicking though.. not as much.. but they're still around.

later
-1

[holden]

yeah, i liked them for awhile..
but there's only so many times you can rehash atom bomb
(their equivalent to born slippy)..


they're still kicking though.. not as much.. but they're still around.


Respectfully, although "Atom Bomb" was on a ton of compilations/soundtracks and did have an EP of remixes, i think it sort of came and went with the late 90's "electronica" craze, whereas "Born Slippy" has stood the longer test of time. Really no comparison to the amount of success UW has achieved versus Fluke's. I remember reading that, although Fluke was getting big crowds at festival gigs, their "Risotto" LP sold something like 15,000 copies in the US, versus hundreds of thousands for the likes of Chemical Brothers and the Prodigy.

Fluke hasn't released anything as Fluke since Puppy in 2003. Spin-offs Syntax and 2Bit Pie were circa 2005-06. Rumblings of a new Syntax record, and the Fluke guys reunited for one gig in 2010.