Mike Tournier
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{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Mike Tournier
| background = non_vocal_instrumentalist
| birth_name = Michael James Tournier
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1963|05|24|df=y}}
| birth_place = High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England
| genre = Electronic, trip hop, IDM
| instrument = Keyboards, mixing console, programming, guitar
| occupation = DJ, record producer
| years_active = 1988–present
}}
Michael James Tournier (born 24 May 1963){{Cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/johnpeel/artists/f/fluke/|title=BBC - Radio 1 - Keeping It Peel - Fluke|website=Bbc.co.uk|accessdate=6 August 2020}} 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 a band called Skin.
Life and career
Tournier attended the John Hampden Grammar School, High Wycombe. Little information is known of Tournier's history prior to his incorporation into Fluke in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, and remains a high point in his career.{{Cite web|url=http://www.indian.co.uk/fluke/|title=One Little Indian • Fluke|date=29 September 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060929025608/http://www.indian.co.uk/fluke/|accessdate=6 August 2020|archive-date=29 September 2006}} The band's conception was influenced by Tournier's interest in acid house music and particularly Cabaret Voltaire and Giorgio Moroder. Tournier stayed with Fluke until approximately 1998 when he left the group to collaborate with Jan Burton on Syntax's Meccano Mind. The partnership with Syntax split up after an album and two singles.[http://uk.sonymusic.co.uk/forums/syntax/viewtopic.php?t=50]{{dead link|date=December 2017|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}}
Touriner's music career has spanned different genres, 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, it's about feeling."{{Cite web |url=http://www.syntaxonline.co.uk/ |title=Syntax |access-date=19 May 2006 |archive-date=23 June 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060623100350/http://www.syntaxonline.co.uk/ |url-status=dead }}
References
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External links
- [http://www.myspace.com/miketournier Mike Tournier Myspace page]
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Category:English electronic musicians