Play Risotto for people who've heard one too many sparse, linear techno tracks. Fluke's sound has always been deep and enveloping; they can be relied upon to mix intricate bass-melodies with fleshed-out percussion and -- shockingly, for the electronic genre -- vocals. The results are more than a match the best melodies mainstream alt-guitar-pop has to offer. Consider the densely polyrhythmic "Absurd" (it's even got those damn Run-DMC bells in the mix) or the ubiquitous "Atom Bomb", which was included on something like nine compilations last year and is included here in its unedited form. That's not enough, of course -- there's the cinematic ambient opus "Kitten Moon", which is nine minutes of sultry sensuality set to a throbbing beat, and which sports a chaotic climax slightly past the halfway point. The tentative "Bermuda" builds a shuffling, mysterious trip-hop tension, and "Goodnight Lover" starts out by shambling along to a halting breakbeat, but unexpectedly becomes an effects-laden over the top Sixties sci-fi-spy theme offshoot. Fluke never forget about the portion of the audience that wants to listen rather than dance, and that's why I'm convinced that they're minutes away from crossover success. And when they break, they're going to break huge.
Fluke Risotto Astralwerks CD
			Review by George "Got An Atom Bomb" Zahora

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