June 27 [16:00 EDT] -- The clip for Fluke's techno-based dance floor thriller begs the question: which came first, the video or the song?
The video's montage of post-apocalyptic Japanimation meets babes from "Barbwire" and brisk editing often blends with the buzzing techno track, then goes its separate ways. It seems the band decided to cook up the illest video possible to breathe life into "Atom Bomb," a tune that, like Fluke's last album, "OTO," has been bubbling on the dance scene since 1995, rather casually.
The Beaconsfield, England, lads who form Fluke: Jon Fugler, Mike Bryant and Mike Tournier, a saxophonist, a guitarist, and a bass player (no turntables in sight), are acid house heads who cut their teeth working post-punk industrial funk parties.
Over the past decade, they released tons of maxi-singles and a handful of albums, most notably 1993's "Six Wheels" and the smash "Electric Guitars". That "Atom Bomb" prefigured the current electronica craze without really toeing its eye-bulging line is fitting for them. Fluke apparently likes to be hip and deviant at the same time.
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