Mike Tournier
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Michael James Tournier (Mike Tournier) (born May 24, 1963, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England)[1] is an English electronic musician and one of the co-founders of the electronic music group Fluke along with Mike Bryant and Jon Fugler. He first met with other members of Fluke in High Wycombe where he had been involved, along with Jon Fugler, in Skin.[1](not the band skin linked to here but another Skin. Based in Beaconsfield, the band members were: Jon Fugler, Mike Bryant, Mike Tournier, Karen Smith, Guy Lewis & managed by Julien Nigent)
[edit] History
Little is known of Tournier's history until his incorporation into Fluke in 1988 at the age of 25 in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire.[2] The band's conception was influenced by Tournier's interest in acid house music and particularly Cabaret Voltaire and Giorgio Moroder.[2] Touriner stayed with Fluke until approximately 1998 when he left the group to collaborate with Jan Burton on Syntax's Meccano Mind. This was to be a short lived partnership with Syntax splitting up after only a single album and two singles.[3]
Mike's music has spanned many different genres throughout his career, which he has not seen as a problem, stating "I think it just goes to show that what you want out of music isn't necessarily as narrow minded as it being just guitars, or computers, its about feeling."[4]
[edit] Notes & references
| Fluke |
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| Mike Bryant | Jon Fugler | Rachel Stewart | Mike Tournier |
| Discography |
| Albums: The Techno Rose of Blighty | Six Wheels On My Wagon | Oto | Risotto | Progressive History X | Progressive History XXX | Puppy |
| Live albums: Out (In Essence) | The Peel Sessions |
| Singles: Island Life | Thumper! | Joni/Taxi | Philly | The Bells | Slid | Electric Guitar | Groovy Feeling | Bubble | Bullet | Tosh | Atom Bomb | Absurd | Squirt | Absurd: The Remixes | Slap It | Pulse | Hang Tough | Switch |
| Related articles |
| 2 Bit Pie | Beauty School | Jan Burton | Full Fluke Discography | Syntax |
