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You can tell this is a labour of love, featuring plenty of soulful earworms, and worth the price of admission for the liner notes alone. Bring on Vol 2! obrigado, Luke.
Favorite track: Metropolis – Every Time I See Him.
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1. Robson Jorge & Lincoln Olivetti - Eva / 2. Chêne 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, François Jeanneau, Henri Texier - Le Cyclope / 9. Airto Moreira - O Galho Da Roseira (The Branches Of The Rose Tree) / 10. Francisco - Waché / 11. Nar'Chiveol - Apocalypse Now Ho / 12. On - Southern Freeez / 13. Soylent Green - After All
Limited Edition orange vinyl 2LP, including zine written by Luke Una and designed by Mark James.
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1. Robson Jorge & Lincoln Olivetti - Eva / 2. Chêne 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, François Jeanneau, Henri Texier - Le Cyclope / 9. Airto Moreira - O Galho Da Roseira (The Branches Of The Rose Tree) / 10. Francisco - Waché / 11. Nar'Chiveol - Apocalypse Now Ho / 12. On - Southern Freeez / 13. Soylent Green - After All
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1. Robson Jorge & Lincoln Olivetti - Eva / 2. Chêne 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, François Jeanneau, Henri Texier - Le Cyclope / 9. Airto Moreira - O Galho Da Roseira (The Branches Of The Rose Tree) / 10. Francisco - Waché / 11. Nar'Chiveol - Apocalypse Now Ho / 12. On - Southern Freeez / 13. Soylent Green - After All
Includes unlimited streaming of Luke Una Presents É Soul Cultura
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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”.
It’s 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 É 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 É 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, Luke’s 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. Luke’s much loved, long running Homoelectric night and more recently Homobloc sell out festival for 10,000 souls has been at the forefront of Manchester’s LGBTQ cultural landscape.
Luke’s 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 Manchester’s 80s and 90s scene with the delivery of what today’s club communities need to get down.
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Like so many others, this came like a bolt out of the blue and, even though it's well before payday, I had to have this astonishing album on vinyl to prove it exists. The feel of the tunes makes me feel like the Impressions do, Curtis Mayfield, the big spaces and instinctive horns and stuff drifting in and out. Great grooves and I can see lots of ghosts nodding along to this with big smiles on their faces. At last! Anthony Cottrell
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My god, what an absolutely incredible Suite. I'll admit, I've struggled to get into Pharoah Sanders due to diving headfirst into some of his most challenging catalogue and that never worked. This is the perfect place to restart. Floating Points is new for me and I can honestly say I've never heard synthesizer music this lush and organic before. the LSO is just perfect. This is one of those albums that any serious music fan needs in their life. The perfect swan song for the great Pharaoh! 5/5 ClassyMusicSnob
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