Review: For their latest release the Vintage label have opted for a split EP featuring at least one coup - a rare solo outing from Banana Lover, who is more regularly known as Sunner Soul's second banana. He doesn't disappoint either, delivering the cool "Queens", which sets the compression and the filters to 11 for a French touch-style party anthem. Sergique handles the other two tracks here, taking things into dreamy Mediterranean bliss-fest territory on "Chain Reaction" and later into sparse, smoky late night disco spaces on "Wakiya".
Review: It's been a while since Siberian disco producer Sunner Soul has graced us with any new material. Well now we have a new label sampler, and this time he's sharing it with his old pal Banana Lover. The latter provides "Disco Sirens" a rolling grower based around some looped funk guitar samples, and "Touch You", in conjunction with SS, which sounds like something Chris Rea might have played in Ibiza back in 1987. It's all Sunner Soul from here on in - including the piano 'n claps of "Come On And Dance" and the slo-mo funk of "French Crime Jazz'.
Review: It seems that living in Siberia doesn't stop Alexander Chebankov from living a sun-kissed dream. He recently founded Vintage Records as a channel for all his dreamy, palm-lined disco re-edits. Here he presents someone with the unfortunate title of Banana Lover, who presents two such tracks for our listening pleasure. "Love Cruise" is straight-up party froth: what sounds much like a late 70s Streisand/Gibb number filtered and looped with big drops that kick back in with a supreme joy. "Carefree" is a fuzzed-out slo-mo head-nodded that convincingly gives the listen the sense of having one Pina Colada too many.
Review: Russian producer Sunner Soul has forged a reputation as one of the more reliable sources of slinky, sensual, slo-mo grooves. Here, he expands the repertoire of his reliable Vintage Music label by snapping up a couple of similarly minded producers and laying down an EP so laidback and silky that it's virtually horizontal. His quietly soulful chugger "Love You Anyway" stands out, but there's plenty more to enjoy - not least the starburst disco-boogie rush of The Sunshine Disco Club's "The Pleasure Boat". Banana Lover provides a trio of eyes-closed, super slow groovers, of which the blissful "Favorite Thriller" is arguably the pick.
Review: Although technically a various artist compilation, the fifth volume of Vintage Music's series is really the Banana Lover show. He's responsible for four tunes here, the first of which, "Silver Surfer", is a collaboration with Sunner Soul. At 125bpm it's the fastest tune on here and sees the pair fully explore their French Touch influences with lashings of soft filters on dreamy disco loops. Elsewhere "Love Cruise" continues the soft disco house vibes, whilst both "Carefree Summer" and "Stars" evoke the haziness of early Washed Out. Kid Goodman also delivers the deep late 80s Chicago gem "Nice & Slow". Epic.
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