Mike Bryant    Jon Fugler    Mike Tournier   Rachel Stewart

Fluke is an electronic music group formed in the late 1980s by Mike Bryant, Jon Fugler and Mike Tournier with Julian Nugent as the band's manager. 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.

The band are noted for their diverse range of electronic styles spanning the house, techno, ambient and blues genres. The band are noted for their reclusivity, rarely giving interviews, and lengthy timespans between 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 the Need For Speed and Wipeout video game series.

To date Fluke have produced five original studio albums, two "best of" compilations and two live albums. 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.
When Fluke were 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 video games series named Ariel Tetsuo. Stewart continued as lead female vocalist and as a dancer for all of Fluke's live performances between 1997 and 1999.

2002 saw the formation of The Fluke DJs, a live-show pairing of Jon Fugler and Hugh Bryder. Bryder was a DJ who had assisted Fluke in their live performances since 1993.

Live Shows performed under the alias "The Fluke DJs" are a combination of Fluke tracks mixed live with others in the style of a DJ Set. A good example of their work is their Switch Twitch Mix

After the success of Fluke's album Risotto, Mike Tournier wanted to move to a much darker production style and so Syntax was born.

Despite the originality of Syntax's first album, Meccano Mind, the band suffered poor album sales- possibly due to a lack of support from their label- and a lack of overall recognition and disbanded in 2004 due to it.

Mike Tournier nearly finished putting together a collection of his own "jazzy/latin" stuff. Hopefully he can put that out next year.

To have a first listen to his new songs check him out on Myspace.

In addition to that search for him at the X-Series of EXTREME Music