説明
彼は深夜に孤独な時間を過ごす人々のために、心を揺さぶるレコードを選びます。彼のエレクトリック・チェアの地下室ソウル時代から、彼はアフロ・ビート、ハウス、テクノ、そしてアンダーグラウンドのブラック・ハート・ディスコを熱心に収集してきました。
最初に、Thandi Zulu & The Young FiveによるPure Energyの初期の80年代ディスコ・パワープレイ「Love Game」の解釈です。南アフリカの特徴的なシンセベースとキラーなキーの組み合わせが特徴です。
B面では、um’Lionel Pillayのジャズダンサー「Pl.」です。「オリジナルは、執拗な18分間の生ジャムでした」とLukeは述べています。
これらの編集は、シカゴの日々からのループしたドラムの独裁的な力強さと、超越的でサイケデリック、宇宙的なディスコのブーストされた感覚を組み合わせ、より音響的な重みを与えています。
A. Thandi Zulu & The Young Five – Love Games (Luke Una Edit)
B. Lionel Pillay - Plum (Luke Una Edit)
of the late night disenfranchised, with an unquestionable ability to pick records that make minds tick. Not least through his two É Soul Cultura compilations released on Mr Bongo over the past two years.
A taste that traverses genres as much as it does emotions and decades, who better to give an insight into the tracks he has chosen to edit, than the man himself. “I've been an avid collector of afro-beat house, techno and underground black heart disco since before the basement soul days of Electric Chair 30 years ago. Both these bombs were very much holy grail finds, plucked from the last four decades of digging in random crates of dusty vinyl all over the world.”
First up, Thandi Zulu & The Young Five’s interpretation of Pure Energy’s early ‘80s disco power play – ‘Love Game’. With a distinctive South African synth bass and killer keys combo, Luke explains the original has this “bonkers alchemy of heavy machine soul, uptempo rawness and a majestic disco evangelism”, making it ripe for a re-edit.
On the B side, um’Lionel Pillay’s Jazz dancer ‘Pl. “The original was a relentless 18-minute raw jam”, Luke states, “which despite its late ‘70s South African origin kinda reminded me of a 1986 Chicago piano House record”.
“These edits strip the tracks back and rebuild them, giving them more sonic weight with that looped up drum jacking militancy from the days of Chicago, combined with a boosted sense of transcendental, psychedelic, cosmic disco. They have always had such an explosive reaction on so many dancefloors including the heavier electronic club, so it felt only right to reshare them”.
