Various Artists – Luke Una Presents: E Soul Cultura

Description

With some of the best DJs and selectors there is a certain mysterious sound or underlying feeling which unites the music they play, regardless of genre, year or tempo. Luke Una is a master of telling a story through music and this compilation is a perfect example of his musical alchemy in action. Featuring tracks from Yusef Lateef, Airto Moreira, Crooked Man, Henri Texier and many more, it is a collection of new, old, rare and under-discovered music from around the world, all united by Luke under the banner of E-Soul Cultura.

Its best described by Luke himself, who writes: As the 5AM city sleeps and the strobe lights are slowly turned off, we gather on the wrong side of town in a transcendental journey alone together. We are the late night disenfranchised holding on in various after parties, flats, lofts, random kitchens and basements into the outer cosmos with Soul Cultura. Music from exotic tear jerkers, Afro-spiritual jazz, cosmic Brazilian celestial grooves, machine street soul, dark horses, lost B-sides, 1 bargain-bin bombs, hidden gems, late night Italo dubbing, deep velvet N.Y.C garage, bass buggin sonic futurism, wrong speed 33BPM pitched up +8 new beat, majestic sunset strings, sweet vocals from heaven, no half steppin jazz dancing in outer-space and odd numbers. Yes magical moments, together, holding on in witness protection suburban cul-de-sacs and Castle Court flats. Cosmic high, 3000ft above the city getting evangelical to murky, wonky timeless beautiful music. This thing of ours dreaming of better days. Fail we may, sail we must, the sun will come up again.

Beginning his career as an original Sheffield house young blood in the mid 1980s, Lukes move to Manchester and partnership with Justin Crawford saw the birth of Electric Chair, a cornerstone cult night in the UK underground club scene, and later Electric Elephant, a Croatian festival paying homage to their wild eclecticism from Balearic to Brazilian to E soul, house, disco and techno. Lukes much loved, long running Homoelectric night and more recently Homobloc sell out festival for 10,000 souls has been at the forefront of Manchesters LGBTQ cultural landscape.

Lukes Friday evening show on Worldwide FM has captured imaginations and has already become a cult four hour must-listen monthly journey with fans all over the world. Today Luke remains, as ever, at the forefront of a changing scene, pairing the momentous legacy of Manchesters 80s and 90s scene with the delivery of what todays club communities need to get down.

Tracklist
1. Robson Jorge & Lincoln Olivetti Eva
2. Chne noir – Le Train
3. Metropolis Every Time I See Him
4.The Brand New Heavies Featuring N’Dea Davenport Stay This Way (The Lunar Dub)
5. Typesun – The P.L. (Extended Edit)
6. King Errisson – Space Queen
7. Yusef Lateef – Robot Man
8. Daniel Humair, Franois Jeanneau, Henri Texier – Le Cyclope
9. Airto Moreira – O Galho Da Roseira (The Branches Of The Rose Tree)
10. Francisco – Wach
11. Nar’Chiveol – Apocalypse Now Ho
12. On – Southern freeez
13. Soylent Green – After All
14. Crooked Man – B&E
15. Michael J. Blood & Samizdat Love Locked