Do Your Dance

After suffering from a serious dose of mediocrity for the past while, Toko is finally starting to get its act together again – less chaff and more wheat. And while a whole album of deep and funky house from Mr Barry isn’t exactly something to get the pulses racing, Do Your Dance has enough moments of interest to make it worth a flick. Like the sublime ’80s-tinged opener ‘In A Blue Funk’, the punchy electro-funk of ‘Far To Fall’ or the oddball dub skank of ‘One More Time’. Do Your Dance manages to plough an interesting furrow between breakbeats, funk, house and electro without ever being really exciting, but it’s an unexpectedly groovy treat none the less.