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Ive been trying to book Luke for about two years after he'd responded to a comment on his insta page id made about 'A basement, a red light and a feeling' but with one thing and another couldn't get a date out of his agent. TBH id given up, but earlier this year whilst at Suncebeat, who comes and sits next to me at the pool but Luke 'you have sat in the wrong place pal' luckily he got my sense of humour. We talked for ages about music, sound, restaurants and he agreed to come and play herd.
And here we are, to say Im excited about this booking is a understatement, this one is right up their (and we have had a pretty amazing year) On the night we are teaming up with Union Audio and Phil Gillman to show case their new mixer the Orbit 6, so the sound is going to be incredible.
If your not familiar with Luke I’ve put his biography below, but trust me your in for a treat. The tickets will not hang around for this one, get one now!
Beginning his journey as an original Sheffield house young blood in the mid-1980’s and then later Manchester, Luke has gone on
a four-decade musical journey. This has seen him travel all over the world with his genre defying alchemic fusion of music which
has seen him became a respected and prominent figure in many underground musical scenes. Luke was originally one half of the
DJ duo and production team The Unabombers with Justin Crawford. They together detonated The Electric Chair, a cornerstone
cult night in the UK club scene. It was here in the mid 1990’s that his sound started to develop and he quickly gained international
attention, playing alongside Theo Parrish, Harvey and Moodyman, creating a deep musical journey. Luke and Justin later formed
The Elektrons gaining critical acclaim. Luke has made significant contributions to the music community through his involvement in
various club nights, record labels, fanzines, radio shows and festivals including Electric Elephant, a Croatian festival which paid
homage to a wild eclecticism from Balearic to Brazilian to E Soul, House, Disco and Techno and beyond. Luke is the founder of
Manchester’s much loved long standing Homoelectric night and Homobloc festival for 12,000 souls which has been at the forefront
of UK’s LGBTQ+ cultural landscape. Luke’s radio show on Giles Peterson’s Worldwide FM born out of the pandemic saw his 6-
hour radio shows from spiritual jazz, cosmic, machine soul, to deep bass buggin futurism gain cult status. Luke’s partnership with
Mr Bongo went onto create É Soul Cultura, two complications - Volume 1 & 2 which went onto evolve into its own record label. Its
first release was Transmission Towers - Transmission One, which Luke is an executive producer. É Soul Cultura has now become
an event in its own right detonating in various basements, woods, global festivals, stage takeovers, and recent road block street
parties. Luke’s most recent release “Everything Above The Sky” compilation on RE:WARM Records explores late-night, after-
hours meditations on sound.
Luke himself has also played at renowned festivals and clubs internationally, including We Out Here, Glastonbury, Houghton,
Repercussion at The Warehouse Project, Love International, Heideglühen in Berlin, Southport Soul Weekender and sell out shows
at Koko and Fabric in London. Today Luke remains, as ever, at the forefront of a young 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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