Why are Fluke revisiting their own catalogue?
Most heritage acts mark an anniversary with a tidy remaster and a press release. Fluke went the hard way. For The Second Bite, founding members Jon Fugler, Mike Tournier and Julian Nugent pulled twelve tracks out of their own back catalogue and rebuilt them from the ground up, applying new production and fresh arrangements while keeping the bones of the originals intact. The band put it down to never having cleared out the studio: the record, they say, came from a voyage of discovery into the dusty end of the lock-up.
A voyage of discovery into the dusty end of the lock-up.
What is actually on The Second Bite?
The album landed digitally on 19 June 2026 through Surface Records in association with !K7 Music, with a limited double vinyl edition to follow on 26 June. The twelve-track running order revisits Bullet, Slid, Absurd, Electric Guitar, Atom Bomb, Reeferendrum, Groovy Feeling, Tosh, Electric Blue, Freak, The Bells and Life Support, a spread that touches most eras of a group that always sat between house, techno, breakbeat and ambient rather than inside any one of them.
Where does Daniel Avery fit in?
The project opens its remix campaign with Daniel Avery, whose Nuclear Summer Remix of Atom Bomb is out now as the first of two planned reworks. It is a pointed choice: Avery is one of the most respected names in modern British techno, and his cosign reframes Fluke for a floor that grew up on the tracks through games and films without ever clocking the band behind them.
