''Six Wheels on My Wagon'' is the second album by
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electronic music
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group
Fluke, released on 7 October 1993. The title parodies that of the song "Three Wheels on My Wagon", from the early 1960s. The most prominent track on the album, "Slid" is featured in the 1993
Phillip Noyce
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film ''
Sliver'' as well as being a club favourite of popular DJ
Sasha.
Overview
At the early stage in their career, the band realized that they would experience the greatest artistic freedom if they had their own recording studio and took it upon themselves to obtain their own premises. This was an asset which, according to Fugler, proved invaluable in coordinating the "wider pool of people — musicians and friends — that we draw on to help".
After a two-year break, Fluke returned with what became a breakthrough into mainstream popular music when, in 1993, they released the single "Slid". This became an instant club classic when it was picked up by DJ Sasha who liked it so much that he included three separate remixes of it on his ''Renaissance'' album.
This burst of success was followed by two further singles, "Electric Guitar" () and "Groovy Feeling", and, in the same year, the release of the group's second album, ''Six Wheels on My Wagon''.
This new album was a distinctly
house music
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production, with uplifting riffs and ambient effects, as opposed to the
techno
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style of their previous release. The album was structured so that the more accessible "pop" tracks were to be found at the beginning of the album and the more ambitious ambient works towards the end.
Reception
''Six Wheels on My Wagon'' was received favourably by critics, with
''Billboard'' magazine labelling it "groundbreaking".
Other reviewers went further, with ''
The Independent
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'' suggesting that Fluke was to become the next big thing in Europe:
Track listing
# "Groovy Feeling" - Make Mine a 99" - 7:12
# "♥ Letters" - 6:42
# "Glidub" - 6:16
# "Electric Guitar" - Humbucker " - 7:24
# "Top of the World" - 5:40
# "Slid" - Pdfmone" - 7:41
# "Slowmotion" - 5:11
# "Spacey" (Catch 22 Dub)" - 6:09
# "Astrosapiens" - 6:48
# "Oh Yeah" - 5:46
# "Eko" - 5:22
# "Life Support" - 6:28
References
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Fluke (band) albums
1993 albums
Astralwerks albums