{"product_id":"luke-presents-una-e-soul-cultura-vol-3-various-artists","title":"Luke Presents… Una - E Soul Cultura Vol.3 (Various Artists)","description":"With two deeply cherished compilations already in the bag, Luke Una steps up\nfor the third volume in his E Soul Cultura series on Mr Bongo.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nA love letter to the dancefloor and its power to unite people from all corners of society\namid growing division and extremist politics. Genre-spanning in nature, the 15 tracks\ntravel between cosmic soul, boogie, proto- house, slo- mo technoid grooves, drum\nmachine afro, astral bass-bugging futurism, jazz funk, dance, and disco. Each having\nthe ability to move the body as much as the heart.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nFrom his formative years in Sheffield to co-founding Manchester's much- fabled\nElectric Chair with Justin Crawford, through to helming the iconic LGBTQ institutions\nof Homoelectric \/ Homobloc, Luke has spent 40 years immersed in dance music. His\nlatest outlet, E Soul Cultura, has grown from a label to a globe-spanning events series\nwith Luke holding residencies and embarking on tours across the world from Japan\nand Australia to America and Europe. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"For me, the dancefloor was never about a onedimensional,\nthudding, 130 BPM beat only. It's a much more dynamic, broader vision\nthan that. I cut my teeth in an era where a 100 BPM record had as much impact,\nexcitement, and energy as a 134 BPM dancefloor jazz funk or techno record\", Luke\nmentions. E Soul Cultura Volume 3 is the perfect embodiment of that notion: \"It's\nabout four decades in the trenches playing dance music, the late- night afters, the\nshebeens, the basements, warehouse parties, the eight-hour journeys in East London,\nthrough to festival sets at Houghton and We Out Here. It's music unconstrained by\ngenre or tempo and more about making your body move\".\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nBut this isn't simply a collection of disparate dance tracks; they carry meaning and\nsoul. \"It's less about escapism, more about reconnection. My experience of post-covid\nhas been the coming together of all the clans in various clubs and gatherings. A\nreaction to a very toxic world out there, where the aggro rhythms of division have\nsought to divide us, and people don't meet as often. The coming back together faceto-\nface in clubs has encouraged a real love in the air, there's a real togetherness and\ncollective spirit\".\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nOpening up the compilation is a track that channels that very message, the\ntranscendental, soul-rousing Harris \u0026amp; Orr 'Spread Love'. Joining the dots from there, to\nthe low- slung deep house closer of Fatdog 'Remember', you'll find electronic drum\nmachine Nigerian funk, sitting side by side with dancefloor Cape Verdean brilliance, a\npost- punk cover of Fela Kuti, rubbing shoulders with cosmic electro, and an Unachampioned,\n8-minute, kickless DJ Harvey remix.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nThere's jazz funk in various guises moving from boogie synth to astral travelling, slomo\nacidic raw techno, and a '79 soul stepper, alongside swirling percussive Italo disco\nand tribal-charged house. All infused with an innate ability to bring people together. As\nsociety becomes increasingly fractured, E Soul Cultura Volume 3's message is more\nthan movement. It's about dance music's power to unify people from all walks of life\nand break down the barriers that divide us.","brand":"MR BONGO","offers":[{"title":"Yellow 2LP","offer_id":56320237764872,"sku":"REL-04869","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1027\/6723\/1240\/files\/06e81c67c3b0ea94ee19668b0c5d097a.jpg?v=1775652354","url":"https:\/\/www.relevantrecordcafe.co.uk\/products\/luke-presents-una-e-soul-cultura-vol-3-various-artists","provider":"Relevant Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}