Title: Labour In Love
Artist: Dro San
Label: Labour Jacks
Cat Number: LJX002
Genre: Tracky
1: One Legged Scrawny
2: A Culpa é do Tico
3: Oiço Campainhas
4: 4U Paulinho
Sounding very much like something that would have come out on Relief during the halcyon house days of the mid nineties, but also having a certain undefinable something more of now than of then; Dro San’s ‘Labour In Love’, is a release full of minimal bangers. There’s not a lot of sophistication here, but if we wanted that we’d be listening to something else, right? This is visceral, stripped down funk which, for all its lack of finesse, does harbour a certain mystique. It took a relatively long time for music like this to evolve, even though its always been with us so, while I’m well aware I’m going around in circles here, I’m going to begin with the last track ‘4U Paulinho’ which is probably the most individual item here. Detroit style synth stabs allied with frenetic rimshots realised through a fractured lens. ‘One Legged Scrawny’ has a similar itch to be scratched, but is far more restrained and funky. ‘A Culpa é do Tico’ & ‘Oiço Campainhas’ are both of the more pounding variety, with the formers amped up squelching complemented by the latter’s alarm bells over rampant percussion. If you can’t jack your body to these, well there isn’t any point is there?
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