Luke Una Presents - E Soul Cultura - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

É Soul Cultura Vol.1 seemed to land at exactly the right moment. Post-lockdown, optimism was back on the rise and the dance floors swelled again. For many listeners, Manchester based DJ Luke Una's intriguingly woven pattern of new, old, rare and under-discovered music from around the world became the soundtrack to rejuvenated positivity. The selection is eclectic, global, and plucked from different times and spaces. In theory, perhaps they shouldn't work together, but there is a mysterious link that makes them gel as a whole. That's what Luke does best. He creates a sort of musical alchemy, unifying the diverse. This isn't a compilation focussed purely on the rare, even though many tracks featured do fall into that camp. It is best described by Luke himself, InchIt's not about showing off, collector rarity, or ego-strutting, it's all about telling storiesInch Album Tracks 1. Real Thing - Children of the Ghetto 2. Avis - Baby, This Love I Have 3. Veronica Mickie - Lost Children 4. Rare Silk - Storm (Arp Duppy Chip Mix) 5. Lfo - Shove Piggy Shove 6. Bach Revolution - D.E 108 7. Andi Otto - Bangalore Whispers (Feat. MD Pallavi) 8. Michael de Albuquerque - We May Be Cattle But We All Got Names 9. Pyranha - Clepsydre 10. Yargo - Marimba 11. Okyerema Asante & Black Fire - Play a Sweet Rhythm on Them Drums (Feat. Plunky) 12. Mr. Scruff Feat. Nke - Giffin (Taken Re-Edit Speechless Dub Mix) 13. Isis - in Essense 14. Frank Hatchett - Malibu Nites

With two deeply cherished compilations already in the bag, Luke Una steps up for the third volume in his É Soul Cultura series on Mr Bongo. A love letter to the dancefloor and it's power to unite people from all corners of society amid growing division and extremist politics. Genre-spanning in nature, the 15 tracks travel between cosmic soul, boogie, proto-house, slo-mo technoid grooves, drum machine afro, astral bass-bugging futurism, jazz funk, dance, and disco. Each having the ability to move the body as much as the heart. From his formative years in Sheffield to co-founding Manchester's much-fabled Electric Chair with Justin Crawford, through to helming the iconic LGBTQ institutions of Homoelectric / Homobloc, Luke has spent 40 years immersed in dance music. His latest outlet, É Soul Cultura, has grown from a tag to a globe-spanning events series with Luke holding residencies and embarking on tours across the world from Japan and Australia to America and Europe. InchFor me, the dancefloor was never about a one-dimensional, thudding, 130 BPM beat only. It's a much more dynamic, broader vision than that. I cut my teeth in an era where a 100 BPM record had as much impact, excitement, and energy as a 134 BPM dancefloor jazz funk or techno recordInch, Luke mentions. É Soul Cultura Volume 3 is the perfect embodiment of that notion InchIt's about four decades in the trenches playing dance music, the late-night afters, the shebeens, the basements, warehouse parties, the eight-hour journeys in East London, through to festival sets at Houghton and We Out Here. It's music unconstrained by genre or tempo and more about making your body moveInch. But this isn't simply a collection of disparate dance tracks; they carry meaning and soul. InchIt's less about escapism, more about reconnection. My experience of post-covid has been the coming together of all the clans in various c

Album Tracks 1. Pantagruel's Nativity 2. Edge of Twilight 3. The House, the Street, the Room 4. Acquiring the Taste 1. Wreck 2. The Moon Is Down 3. Black Cat 4. Plain Truth 1. Giant 2. Funny Ways 3. Alucard 4. Isn't It Quiet and Cold? 1. Nothing at All 2. Why Not? 3. The Queen 1. The Advent of Panurge 2. Raconteur Troubadour 3. A Cry for Everyone 4. Knots 1. The Boys in the Band 2. Dog's Life 3. Think of Me with Kindness 4. River 1. Prologue 2. Schooldays 3. Working All Day 1. Peel the Paint 2. Mister Class and Quality? 3. Three Friends