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may sing, "It's easy to change/ Go out and get a new name/ Forget yesterday" in "Switch/Twitch", but it is clearly not proving that easy for them to develop beyond their old house style, notwithstanding odd moments such as the freeway glide of "Baby Pain" and the soulful choir on the closing, chill-out number, "Blue Sky". It's Nineties music for a Noughties world.
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Surely the longest-serving of UK dance outfits, Fluke have been a fixture on the national house scene for more than a decade now. In "Snapshot", the juddering synth riff is the techno equivalent of the 12-bar blues, a standard form that has become all too easy for lazy musicians to slip into. Fluke
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owing to their personal commitments to young families. In the few shows since, they have opted for the Fluke DJs set up, which uses "a battery of laptops and the odd deck" rather than focusing on their live band, an approach which Jon Fugler subsequently referred to as "good fun, but ultimately
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after the album's release, and was distributed in CD and vinyl formats. However, it achieved nowhere near the critical or popular acclaim of the singles from
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was significantly delayed by a change to the band's record label, switching from Virgin Records offshoot Circa to
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The album was not received well critically with most of the critics labelling the album as dated. Andy Gill of
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s "Another Kind of Blues" is an entirely different song from the track of the same name included on the
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There were still signs of life in Fluke's production studio when, in 2000, they produced a
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Gill, Andy (15 August 2003). "ARTS: ROCK&POP - THIS WEEK'S ALBUM RELEASES".
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The number of Fluke's live shows decreased significantly after the release of
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Cowen, Andrew (9 August 2001). "Fluke leave nothing to chance".
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Index

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Studio album
Fluke
Genre
Progressive house
downtempo
Label
One Little Indian
Producer
Fluke
Progressive History XXX
British
electronica
Fluke
house
ambient
Syntax
Jan Burton
Virgin Records
One Little Indian
Slap It: The Return
Pulse
Jeff Koons
Guggenheim
Bilbao
Need for Speed: Underground
Need for Speed: Underground 2
Total Club Manager 2004
Slap It

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