{"product_id":"5024017007215","title":"LUKE UNA PRESENTS \/ VARIOUS – E SOUL CULTURA VOL.3 (INDIE EXCLUSIVE YELLOW) - LP •","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUPC: 5024017007215 \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLabel: MR BONGO \u003cbr\u003eFormat: LP\u003cbr\u003eRelease Date: April 3, 2026\u003cbr\u003eIn stock items ship within 48 hours\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom 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 label 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. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"For 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 record\", Luke mentions. É Soul Cultura Volume 3 is the perfect embodiment of that notion: \"It'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 move\". \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut this isn't simply a collection of disparate dance tracks; they carry meaning and soul. \"It's less about escapism, more about reconnection. My experience of post-covid has been the coming together of all the clans in various clubs and gatherings. A reaction to a very toxic world out there, where the aggro rhythms of division have sought to divide us, and people don't meet as often. The coming back together face-to-face in clubs has encouraged a real love in the air, there's a real togetherness and collective spirit\". \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOpening up the compilation is a track that channels that very message, the transcendental, soul-rousing Harris \u0026amp; Orr 'Spread Love'. Joining the dots from there, to the low-slung deep house closer of Fatdog 'Remember', you'll find electronic drum machine Nigerian funk, sitting side by side with dancefloor Cape Verdean brilliance, a post-punk cover of Fela Kuti, rubbing shoulders with cosmic electro, and an Una-championed, 8-minute, kickless DJ Harvey remix. There's jazz funk in various guises moving from boogie synth to astral travelling, slo-mo acidic raw techno, and a '79 soul stepper, alongside swirling percussive Italo disco and tribal-charged house. All infused with an innate ability to bring people together. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAs society becomes increasingly fractured, É Soul Cultura Volume 3's message is more than movement. It's about dance music's power to unify people from all walks of life and break down the barriers that divide us.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTRACK LIST:\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"track\"\u003e1 Harris \u0026amp; Orr - Spread Love\u003cbr\u003e2 Terry and Deep South - Trying to Get By\u003cbr\u003e3 Toshiyuki Honda - Burnin' Waves\u003cbr\u003e4 Igna Igwebuike - Disco Bomp\u003cbr\u003e5 Janette Renee - What's on Your Mind (Super Club Remix)\u003cbr\u003e6 Grupo Serenata - Sodade, Tem Pena D'mim\u003cbr\u003e7 Vital Disorders - Zombie\u003cbr\u003e8 Alphonsus Idigo - Flight 505\u003cbr\u003e9 DJ Food - Peace (Harvey's 30 Something Mix)\u003cbr\u003e10 Man Jumping - in the Jungle\u003cbr\u003e11 Stars - Dancin' People\u003cbr\u003e12 Gaucho - Dance Forever (Club Version)\u003cbr\u003e13 49th Floor - Night Passage (Bongo Mix)\u003cbr\u003e14 Orion Agassi - Desacato\u003cbr\u003e15 Fatdog - Remember (FT. 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