A. Inside All Of Us
B. Leave It To The Doc
San Proper returns to home territory with his first 12¡É for longtime friend Tom Trago¡Çs Rush Hour Voyage Direct imprint. Featuring two loose, winding tracks packed with cozy warmth and fluid live instrumentation, Leave It Up To All Of Us further enhances his reputation as a producer with a deep understanding of the groove.
¡ÈInside All of Us¡É sets the tone, wrapping toasty electric piano chords, unusual vocal samples and a live bassline around a fuzzy, stripped-back groove. There¡Çs a looseness and jazzy flexibility about the rhythm and arrangement that¡Çs addictive. It¡Çs house music taken to a whole new place, where jazz-funk, disco and off-kilter rhythms combine to create something wonderfully effervescent.
¡ÈLeave It To The Doc¡É flips the script, delivering a constantly changing groove built around choice disco samples, undulating percussion and more oven-hot keys. Propelled forward over nine enjoyable minutes by an incessant bassline and hypnotic rhythms, its¡Ç sparse, dub-influenced production – all drops, builds and breakdowns – gives the track a loose, live feel. San Proper works the groove like an expert, taking us with him on the journey. It¡Çs the kind of track you can get lost in; nine minutes just whirls by.
Like its counterpart on the A-side, it offers further proof of San Proper¡Çs deep understanding of dancefloor dynamics. Even when playing around with a handful of live elements, he¡Çs capable of creating cuts that stand out from the crowd.
