Its activities in 1984 included the release of a new album, a tour of fifty concerts in Europe and the preparation of his first soundtrack. Would be the soundtrack for the film The Killing Fields by Roland Joffe, a highly acclaimed film that was on the Cambodian civil war. Mike was was very difficult to make music for a film that would take the form so many emotions. Used to compose a video synchronizer connected to your Fairlight. Much of it is based on the ethnic music of Cambodia. The main theme, "Etude", was an adaptation of a theme by Francisco Tárrega and was released as a single in December of that year.

The album Discovery, 1984, Mike was the first recorded outside of England. This built a studio in a house at 2000 m on a mountain in the Swiss Alps, from which they could see the Lake Geneva where he and Phillips, co-produced a new selection of songs and an instrumental called "The Lake". This time, the task of giving voice to the songs was shared by Maggie Reilly and Barry Palmer. During the recording, Barry Palmer suffered throat problems impossible to solve in the time they had for the recording, so it stayed forever, then it is impossible to reproduce those tones of voice, in the end after all, had not been so bad. Among the songs out "To France", inspired by the life of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots. Although only moderate success achieved in England, across Europe was a blast.

At that time Mike's skills as a guitarist of rock were seducing a large number of heavy music fans. In heavy music magazine Kerrang!, Veteran journalist Chris Welch enthusiastically quoted Thucydides Greek words in praise of Discovery: "For we are lovers of beauty even in your Java simple tastes, and cultivate the mind without loss of manliness." Discovery's music was featured in the 1984 European tour, for which would be accompanied by a band you were Maggie Reilly, Simon Phillips, Phil Spalding and Barry Palmer.