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Review: St Petersburg's own disco don Sunner Soul returns with three more predictably high-calibre slices of contemporary disco. The EP opens with the sumptuous, lounge-y and aptly titled 'Late Night Vibes' with its dreamy female vocal, chorus'd "oohs" and lavish strings. 'Right Place' then joins the dots between deep house, filter disco and 80s boogie in a most pleasing fashion, before finally we come to the slightly housier 'Something Good' with its rich, warm bassline and sampled chunks of interview dialogue with the mighty Tupac. What the EP doesn't have, you might argue, is any obvious peaktime calls to the dancefloor, but that's a good thing... this is for the headz!
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VMR 106
18 Mar 24
Disco/Nu-Disco
18 Mar 24
Disco/Nu-Disco
Review: Two recent cuts from Russian disco don Alexander Chebankov, better known as Sunner Soul, get handed over to fellow St Petersburg native Unclepasha - whose musical CV dates back to the early 00s - for the remix treatment. His take on 'Right Place', which first appeared on last month's 'Something Good' EP, tones down the boogie and jazz-funk influences of the original and ends up deeper and smoother as a result. Conversely, he's kept the boogie stylings of 'Need You' (taken from February's 'Da Funk' EP) intact and arguably even emphasised them, in a dubbed-out remix that gets distinctly Levan/Peech Boys-esque in places.
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VMR 107
22 Apr 24
Deep House
22 Apr 24
Deep House
Review: By now, we should all know what to expect from Alexander Chebankov AKA Sunner Soul, namely warm, woozy, tactile and picturesque cuts that combine his own production chops with elements borrowed from disco, boogie, soul and Balearic jams. 'Da Funk', his first missive of 2024, boasts four tried and tested cuts. First up is the title track, a filter-heavy slab of filter heavy disco-house which boasts nods to some of Basement Jaxx's earliest material. This is followed by the Tiger & Woods-esque boogie-house of 'Need You', a tidy (and subtly dubby) South American jazz-funk-meets-disco number ('Brazilian Rhythms') and a gorgeously dreamy slab of ambient excellence ('Deep Space').
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VMR 104
12 Feb 24
Disco/Nu-Disco
12 Feb 24
Disco/Nu-Disco
Review: Three fresh cuts here from St Petersburg's own nu-disco don Sunner Soul, AKA Aleksandr Chebankov. There's a clue in the title as to the sound of the EP generally, but diving into specifics, it opens with the dense and shuffly 'Dans Le Metro', which sports a very fine, live-sounding bassline. 'Sweet Music' is similar in approach, distinguishing itself mostly through the use of a familiar-sounding "come on, give me some more" female vocal snip and also sporting some sprightly pianos, but the standout for yours truly is 'Love Break', which has crisper, cleaner production, a nice hefty b-line, sweeping strings and an overall summer-y feel.
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VMR 103
22 Jan 24
Disco/Nu-Disco
22 Jan 24
Disco/Nu-Disco
Review: Although he's kept up a steady release schedule this year, Sunner Soul seems to be getting a bit choosy about what he releases, and when. Of course, his summery outings are always worth checking, but it does seem that his quality threshold has increased impressively as the years have worn out. This time round, there's two tidy tracks to choose from. Up first is title track 'Funky Birds', a rolling house jam rich in jaunty piano motifs, sampled disco instrumentation, looped vocal snippets and a groove so chunky and tactile it could probably be used as a stress relieving toy. The St Petersburg-based producer keeps the dancefloor fun going on 'Party Time', a fittingly titled disco-house shuffler blessed with jazzy guitar licks and attractive electric piano hooks.
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VMR 102
20 Nov 23
Disco/Nu-Disco
20 Nov 23
Disco/Nu-Disco
Review: A fine three-tracker here from St Petersburg's Sunner Soul. The warm-up friendly "Celebration Of Life" gets the ball rolling, topping an understated 4/4 kick and warm bass with a lilting piano lick, string flourishes and a spoken vocal proclaiming that "music is the basis of all life". Then we come to "Snowflake" itself, a laidback but deceptively pacey affair that richly deserves its lead cut status and that?ll go down a storm on any dancefloor where deep, jazzual grooves are served, before "Spinnin' Around" plays us out on a good-t
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VMR 101
23 Oct 23
Disco/Nu-Disco
23 Oct 23
Disco/Nu-Disco
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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VMR 042
01 Mar 16
Disco/Nu-Disco
01 Mar 16
Disco/Nu-Disco
Review: As his popular Vintage Music label enters its eleventh year, Sunner Soul has decided to serve up a 13th compilation of reworked good-time grooves, summery slow jams and string-laden boogie badness. There's much to admire across the 17 tracks, from the gently tooled up orchestral disco shuffle of opener "All Right" and the drowsy, thickset mid-afternoon deep house haziness of "Broers Vergadering", to the electric piano solo-laden, jazz-funk-goes-house goodness of "Feeling of Spirits", to the head-nodding, pitched-down disco-soul swirl of "Make It Better", which sounds like something the Revenge would have released on early noughties imprint Instruments of Rapture.
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VMR 080
10 Aug 20
Disco/Nu-Disco
10 Aug 20
Disco/Nu-Disco
Played by: Groove Motion, Dicky Trisco, Frankee More, Superbreak, Dr Packer, Jayl Funk, Juno Recommends Disco, Tonbe, Jay Ru, Groovedown, BRENDON P, Marathon Edits, CHEZZ, 80's Child, Wonkar, Bad Barbie
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ED 43
10 Oct 14
Disco/Nu-Disco
10 Oct 14
Disco/Nu-Disco
Review: Editorial are back with more throwback disco sounds for our decadent dancefloor (guilty) pleasure! Starting out with the sublime deep soul of Slow Steps "We Won't Have To Cry No More (re-work)" they then launch into Los Angeles' Dino (yes, not Gino!) Soccio's "West Athena Funk" which stays on the soul train for a while until the epic boogie drama of Rayko's "Magic Number" ups the tempo, good and proper. Danny Deluxe serves up some summery Balearic vibes on "The Best Years" but they leave the best for last with Sunner Souls' "Show Me Your Love", a funky disco house groove for late night fashion crowds, which is ironically by a Siberian producer! We can dig it!
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ED 57
05 Nov 15
Disco/Nu-Disco
05 Nov 15
Disco/Nu-Disco
Review: Hot on the heels of last month's label sampler, Siberian disco fantasist Alexander Chebankov delivers a new selection of songs from his stable. Chebankov himself, under his Sunner Soul alias, is one of the two artists featured; delivering the tight filtered funk of "The Dream Bird", the laid back cosmic jam "Day After Day" and the sweaty cowbell workout that is "Anytime To Funk". The Sunlight Disco Band step up to handle the other three tunes here: the light and breezy, almost French touch-esque "Streetlight", the looped exoticism of "Renaissance Hotel" and the quirky 80s-style party romp "Morning Exercise".
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VMR 022
01 Apr 13
Disco/Nu-Disco
01 Apr 13
Disco/Nu-Disco
Played by: Black Hawks of Panama, FINGERMAN, Superbreak, Don Dayglow, Juno Recommends Disco, Tonbe, SUNNER SOUL, LEGO EDIT, 80's Child, Stephen Richards (DiscoDaze), Kongisto, Juno Download
Review: Russian nu-disco stalwart Sunner Soul - St Petersburg-based Alexandr Chebankov - returns with a five-tracker on his own Vintage Music Label. The title track is a rolling disco-funk groove with added crowd/party noise, 'From Your Love' sports a soulful male vocal and some killer space disco stabs, 'Get On Up' rocks fine jazzy keys, 'Sunshine Hotel' is obviously a reworking of Richard T Bear's 1978 disco classic and 'Ghost Dance' plays us out on a lively, string-drenched disco-house tip. All five are playable but those pyeow! stabs and tinklin' ivories (respectively) nudge 'From Your Love' and 'Get On Up' ahead of the pack.
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VMR 086
01 Mar 21
Disco/Nu-Disco
01 Mar 21
Disco/Nu-Disco
Played by: Roast Beatz, Juno Recommends Disco, SUNNER SOUL, LEGO EDIT, 80's Child, Stephen Richards (DiscoDaze)
Review: Vintage Music chief Sunner Soul can usually relied upon to serve up summer sizzlers that gleefully blur the boundaries between re-edits, remixes and original productions. That's certainly what's on offer here, beginning with the breezy, breakbeat-fuelled sunshine grooves of opener "Summertime". "Ready To Dance", meanwhile, is a filter-sporting disco-house shuffler rich in good-time grooves, warm bass and punchy horn lines. Elsewhere, Sunner Soul does a great job turning Trombone and Roberto's latin jazz-funk jam "Coluna Do Meio" into a shuffling, floor-friendly, mid-tempo disco-house cut, turns The Mighty Ryeders "Evil Vibrations" into a bumpin' filter-house jam ("Funky Vibrations") and re-edits the un-credited "Boogie Land" into a loopy, locked-in roller.
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VMR 064
16 Jul 18
Disco/Nu-Disco
16 Jul 18
Disco/Nu-Disco
Review: Saint Petersburg-based disco/nu-disco/disco-house veteran Sunner Soul really shouldn't need any introduction by now, nor should his Vintage Music label. This latest offering in the 'Selection' series features 11 tracks supplied by the label boss himself, and while it'd be a stretch to argue that there was much here in the way of surprises or stylistic curveballs, fans of previous volumes will find much to enjoy. All 11 cuts are original productions rather than re-edits but the sampler's never too far away - and neither, for that matter, is a phat bassline or a snazzy lil' keyboard lick, with the sprightly jazz-funk of 'Skyline Boulevard', the fat-bottomed 'Do It All Night' and the smooth n' sultry 'Not Easy' all good places to start.
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VMR 099
20 Feb 23
Disco/Nu-Disco
20 Feb 23
Disco/Nu-Disco
Review: The guitar riff from 'Let's Lovedance Tonight', a 1979 disco hit for Gary's Gang, is probably better known to most as 'Can't Get Enough' by Soulsearchers. Here, though, Russian nu-disco stalwart Sunner Soul marries it to a sizeable chunk of the famous 'My Loleatta' monologue, and calls the results of his labours 'It's Just Cool'. A simple affair, then, but it'll do the do where it counts. The accompanying 'Disco Medley', meanwhile, is a horn- and string-drenched disco workout that lifts another three-word chunk of the same acapella - one that Fierce Ruling Diva fans may find familiar...
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VMR 094
24 Oct 22
Disco/Nu-Disco
24 Oct 22
Disco/Nu-Disco
Played by: Juno Recommends Disco, SUNNER SOUL, Discoholic Ken, Shaka Loves You, BRENDON P, LEGO EDIT
Review: As a general rule, any release with the name of UK disco stalwart Sunner Soul on it is unlikely to disappoint, and this new three-tracker for Vintage Music certainly doesn't. We kick off with 'Cordial Disco Wave', a midtempo instrumental number that's dripping in 70s-style strings and flutes, and that has a distinctly Nu Yorican feel in the percussion department. 'Boogie Down' then injects some serious dancefloor energy with its nagging piano hook, wailing sax and chorus'd vox, before the EP is completed by 'Fly With The Magic', a more musically involved, near-instrumental jam that veers more towards funk/jazz-funk than the rest.
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VMR 095
07 Nov 22
Disco/Nu-Disco
07 Nov 22
Disco/Nu-Disco
Played by: RiCHARD.GEAR (Whiskey Pickle), Kraak & Smaak, Buzz Compass, Dario Piana, Superbreak, Juno Recommends Disco, Tonbe, Sunner Soul, Trujillo, Dusty Tonez, HWah, Alien Disco Sugar (Leonidas DeeJay), DJ P-SOL, Groovedown, BRENDON P, 80's Child, Alan Mooney's Edits, That Needs an Edit/Pete Le Freq, Pontchartrain
Review: For their latest release, nu-disco dons Editorial have gone for the whole 'set meal' approach, hence the title "Table D'Hote". There's a smattering of great tastes and dishes served up here, all for one fixed price, including Siberian producer Sunner Soul's tight sunkissed disco houser "Keep In Touch", Mermaid's deep and sensual throbber "Bright Nights" and Silver Rider's Grade A Latin boogie clapper "Fool's Gold".
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ED 42
17 Sep 14
Disco/Nu-Disco
17 Sep 14
Disco/Nu-Disco
Played by: Valique, FINGERMAN, Dave Allison (Editorial), Juno Recommends Disco, Tonbe, Alien Disco Sugar (Leonidas DeeJay), Ziggy Phunk, VinylAddicted, 80's Child
Review: For as long as any of us can remember, the Editorial label has led the way in multi-artist re-edit EPs. Their latest missive is, unsurprisingly, a bit of a Christmas cracker. Tomas Malo kicks things off with "Welcome Distraction", a filter disco-house revision of Escort's 2006 revivalist disco gem "Starlight", before label regulars Ed Wizard & Disco Double Dee drop the ultra-positive, disco-with-bells-on fun of "Your House Tonite". Pontchatrain gets "Nasty" with a chunk of righteous, floor-friendly disco-rock/house fusion, Sunner Soul delivers some horn-totin' disco-funk brilliance, and P-Sol confirms a "Luv 2 Dance" by cutting up a familiar old disco staple. As for Mars, he heads for the end-of-night close dance via sensual R&B vocals, nods to P-funk and some superbly sumptuous synths.
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ED 58
08 Dec 15
Disco/Nu-Disco
08 Dec 15
Disco/Nu-Disco
Played by: FINGERMAN, Woodhead, Tonbe, Ltj xperience, SUNNER SOUL, BRENDON P, LEGO EDIT, Stephen Richards (DiscoDaze), Ruff Diamond
Review: Traditionally, Sunner Soul's loopy, loved-up disco, soul and boogie revisions have tended towards the slow and sensual. This time round, though, the Vintage Music boss is targeting peak-time dancefloors, starting with the chunky, bass-heavy disco-house dustiness of "What Are You Waiting For". He also serves up a mid-tempo chunk of disco-sampling, sub-heavy deep house wooziness (the ace "Ready To Pump") and a rolling, 110 BPM chunk of orchestral disco chunkiness ("Ultrafunk Orchestra"). The EP also includes a tasty bonus in the shape of The Sunshine Disco Club's "Sweet Journey (Synth Jam)", where warm pianos and winding, D-Train style synth solos rise above a dusty, spaced-out groove.
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VMR 067
01 Feb 19
Disco/Nu-Disco
01 Feb 19
Disco/Nu-Disco
Played by: Vincent Inc
Review: Russian producer Alexander Chebankov dusts down his Sunner Soul moniker for three more trips into the debris-strewn no-man's land between disco and house. Opener "Aquatic Space" sees him at his slow motion best, turning a head-nodding mellow soul classic into a bass-heavy slo-mo house chugger. "Body Language" repeats the trick, nudging closer to edit territory by turning a stoned soul-rock jam into a slick fusion of dubby grooves, lazy guitar solos and super-smooth vocals. "Disco In My Pocket" ups the tempo to a hectic 126 BPM, delivering a thumping but subtle enough retweak of disco classic "Angel In My Pocket".
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019
19 Nov 12
Disco/Nu-Disco
19 Nov 12
Disco/Nu-Disco
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.
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021
07 Mar 13
Disco/Nu-Disco
07 Mar 13
Disco/Nu-Disco
Review: Living in Siberia has never stopped Alexander Chebankov from donning the proverbial Hawaiian shirt and producing soundtracks for dreamier, sunnier climes. Here, as Sunner Soul, he deliver three slowed down wonders - "Love Will Find A Way" is a sumptuous production that teases out a velvety 80s soul sample of Lionel Richie at his most seductive. "So Much Time" is a cosmic jam that builds into a soul belter, and finally "Together Again" demonstrates how vintage funk when edited, looped and filtered kind of becomes vintage house.
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VMR 023
18 Apr 13
Disco/Nu-Disco
18 Apr 13
Disco/Nu-Disco
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'.
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WMR 024
08 Jul 13
Disco/Nu-Disco
08 Jul 13
Disco/Nu-Disco
Played by: Superbreak, Hot Toddy, Juno Recommends Disco, Tasun, Kiosko 33hz, Trujillo, Matthew Kyle, Satin Jackets, Lovewithme, Jona Saucedo
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014
17 Apr 12
Disco/Nu-Disco
17 Apr 12
Disco/Nu-Disco
Review: Given his Siberian roots, you'd expect this EP of edits-not-edits (i.e edits with overdubs and additional productions) from producer Sunner Soul to be icier than a frost-laden walk in freezer. Actually, it's totally the opposite, offering a trio of slo-mo tracks that are so warm, sunny and groovesome that you actually expect them to come with a free hug from Sunner himself. "Disco Action" itself is a gorgeous chunk of Rhodes-laden disco-boogie, whilst "Just Loving You" is a seductive call to the cozy warmth of a kingsize bed. "Sunshine", meanwhile, gently bumps and grinds around sun-flecked guitars, groovy bottom end and some seriously sexy horns.
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011
01 Feb 12
Disco/Nu-Disco
01 Feb 12
Disco/Nu-Disco
Slow & Easy EPEXCLUSIVE
Review: Great to see Siberia's Alexander Chebankov (aka Sunner Soul) continued refusal to admit that he's not living in the tropics. Any deep house leanings he's had of late have been put on the back burner here as what we've found landing in our metaphorical laps are four slice of pure, sizzling disco (ouch!). Steamy, balmy - however you want to call 'em - they're all gems, but our picks is the chugging "Late Night Symphony", the woozy, warped-tape grooves of "Mystery Story" and the hiNRG boogie meltdown "Rock With Me". Hot
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VMR 034
30 May 15
Disco/Nu-Disco
30 May 15
Disco/Nu-Disco
Return Of The GrooveEXCLUSIVE
Review: Like many contemporary producers, Sunner Soul began his career crafting house-friendly disco and soul re-edits, before moving towards creating original deep house tracks. Return of the Groove is his latest house EP, and shows just how far he's come. There's a confident feel throughout, with the bass-heavy "Are You Ready" - all comfy chords, darting acid bass and cut-up vocal samples - and chunky "Rewind" showing serious dancefloor potential. The Russian producer isn't afraid to mix things up, either, as the bouncy dub house flex of "Feel That" and loose piano-house jam "Get Back" - layered with soulful attitude and the hallmarks of classic American house - neatly prove.
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VMR 030
01 Oct 14
Deep House
01 Oct 14
Deep House
Played by: Juno Recommends Disco, SUNNER SOUL, KS French, BRENDON P, LEGO EDIT, 80's Child, Stephen Richards (DiscoDaze), SEEN ON TV
Review: Lazy, sun-drenched (nu) disco vibes are the order of the day on this four-tracker from Alexandr Chebankov, better known as Sunner Soul. 'West Side Harmony' is a looping funker augmented by crowd noise and assorted vocal snips, 'The Fuss' foregrounds a jaunty little piano lick, and 'Someone But Not You' harks back to that time around 1980 or so when 70s disco was rapidly morphing into 80s boogie. Arguably the standout, though, is 'Double Jazz Fusion', a clue's-in-the-title number with dusty vocal fragments, minor-key piano trills and what sounds like live double bass. Serve accompanied by an Ibiza sunset for maximum impact!
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VMR 068
01 Apr 19
Disco/Nu-Disco
01 Apr 19
Disco/Nu-Disco
Played by: Dj XS (FVUK), Juno Recommends Disco, SUNNER SOUL, BRENDON P, Paul Withey // Sweetooth, LEGO EDIT, 80's Child, Chuggin Edits, Dealt With Records
Review: St Petersburg resident Sunner Soul has had releases on the likes of Acryl Music, Midnight Riot, Tronic and Armada, but this five-track EP comes on his own Vintage Music label. Opener 'Dancing In Madness' ain't nothin' but a lazy summer groove complete with crowd noise and mucho use of the filters, 'Don't Hold Back' is in a similar vein but has a phatter bottom-end and 'Feel Good 2 U' is another late 90s filter disco throwback, before 'Handle With Care' leads us down a slightly more sophisticated jazz-funk path and 'Sunrise Jam' plays us out with jazz piano and energising James Brown-like whoops and shouts.
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VMR 075
09 Mar 20
Disco/Nu-Disco
09 Mar 20
Disco/Nu-Disco
Played by: Juno Recommends Disco, SUNNER SOUL, Stephen Richards (DiscoDaze), Kongisto, VIGI, Juno Download
Review: Five very solid disco/disco-house cuts here from Sunner Soul. The title track is a sumptuous affair with strings, a phat-ass bassline, "I need you" female vocal snips and some fine space disco stabs, 'Dance Symphony' is a summery jam with a Loleatta vocal bite and mucho filter action, 'Let's Stay Together' finds us in 80s boogie territory (with more of those killer stabs to boot), 'Must Be Amour' harks back to the filter disco sound of the late 90s/early 00s and closer 'Oneness Of Soul' is a mellower cut with a dubby bassline and gently tinkling jazz ivories. Classy stuff all round.
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VMR 084
09 Dec 20
Disco/Nu-Disco
09 Dec 20
Disco/Nu-Disco
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001
18 Mar 10
Deep House
18 Mar 10
Deep House
Played by: Vincent Inc, Juno Recommends Disco, Tonbe, SUNNER SOUL, Dave Mathmos, Hober Mallow, LEGO EDIT, Stephen Richards (DiscoDaze), Chuggin Edits, Paul Older, Ruff Diamond, Juno Download
Review: St Petersburg's Alexander Chebankov, better known as Sunner Soul, returns with an EP on his own Vintage Music label that packs in five lively, authentically late 70s-sounding disco jams. 'I Can Feel It' gets the ball rolling, centring around a funk bass loop that's augmented by crowd noise and snatches of sampled dialogue. The title track is a more smooth-rollin' affair with warm, lounge-y keys front and centre and 'Secret Agent' has a kitschy, almost Deee-Lite-ish feel, before we're played out by a brace of near-instrumental summer groovers, 'Got 2 B U' and 'Super Ice Cream'.
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VMR 087
03 May 21
Disco/Nu-Disco
03 May 21
Disco/Nu-Disco
Played by: Juno Recommends Disco
Review: The Siberian tropical disco fanatic Sunner Soul is back with some more irresistible Hawaiian shirt grooves, and has even brought his veteran accomplice, Banana Lover, along for the ride! That said, the majority of tunes here go to SS, but hey, it is his label. There's three re-edits here, all plump and juicy with funky vintage bass, laid back beats and ever so familiar vocals. Our favourite is the thoroughly synthetic slap bass frenzy of "State and Manhattan". Banana Lover's contribution is a clever chillwave rework of Come Into My Life by Joyce Sims.
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VMR 26
03 Oct 13
Disco/Nu-Disco
03 Oct 13
Disco/Nu-Disco
Sampling As An ArtEXCLUSIVE
Review: If you didn't know better, you might expect Sampling As An Art to be some kind of experimental tribute to the potential of the sampler. Sunner Soul doesn't deal in such pretentiousness, though, and instead serves up a trio of heady deep house jams that make great use of hand-picked samples from a range of soul, funk, jazz, Brazilian and disco records. It's a tried-and-tested approach, but one that pays dividends. All three tracks are warm, hazy and musically evocative, with beats that swing rather than slam in the same way as acclaimed material by the likes of Andres and Jus-Ed. Our pick is probably the stab-heavy bounce of "Flip Side of the Dark", but the slowly evolving "View of Passengers" runs it close.
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VMR 038
09 Nov 15
Disco/Nu-Disco
09 Nov 15
Disco/Nu-Disco
Do It For My BrotherEXCLUSIVE
Played by: Smashed Atoms, Vincent Inc, Buzz Compass, Dave Allison (Editorial), Superbreak, Juno Recommends Disco, Tonbe, Sunner Soul, Get Down Edits, KS French, Lovewithme, Werkshy, Young Pulse, MR Given Raw
Review: Russian disco and edits label Vintage Music is still doing the business good and proper. As said previously, living in Siberia doesn't stop these guys living a sun kissed dream and more power to them! This time it's home grown talent Sunner Soul appearing for the most part, mining the kind of smooth 70's soul funk samples that even Kenny Dixon Jr. would approve of. We're particularly keen on the sultry Rhodes and guitar licks of "Do It For My Brother" and the oh so uplifting "Smooth Riding". Liner offers us "Ocean" but hang on; it's Sunner Soul's edit and it's brilliant too; that vocoder, wow!
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VMR 040
04 Feb 16
Disco/Nu-Disco
04 Feb 16
Disco/Nu-Disco
Scraps And BeatsEXCLUSIVE
Played by: Odiggity - Tram Trax
Review: Here label boss Sunner Soul shares the limelight with pa Lachetto Beats for a split EP. Not only are the tunes shared, but so too are the influences. Normally sticklers for disco, here they embrace retro hip-hop for what is essentially a compilation of short loops and beats. LB gets the lion's share of the tracks with the Avalanches-esque choppy soul of "Spring Cat", the trippy stoner beats of "Midnight" and the filtered 70s lament "She". SS meanwhile delivers the sparse loungey funk of "Soul Beats" and the start-stop 90s nead-nodder "Raw Beats". New year, new direction.
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VMR 041
15 Feb 16
Disco/Nu-Disco
15 Feb 16
Disco/Nu-Disco
Played by: Dj XS (FVUK), SUNNER SOUL, Dave Mathmos, BRENDON P, LEGO EDIT, Stephen Richards (DiscoDaze), Chuggin Edits
Review: Five fine slices of contemporary disco make up this latest EP from Russian producer Alexandr Chebankov, better known as Sunner Soul. 'Feeling Of Spirits' is a midtempo shuffler that slowly breaks out into an intricate jazz-funk keys workout, 'Keep Strangers' is a Chic-y stomper, 'Liquid Disco' has distinctly Candido-esque overtones, 'Lay In Low (MF-SB Version' is a mellower, more lounge-y cut with muted space disco stabs and finally 'Simply Around' rocks a funkier, Blaxploitation-like vibe. With all five highly authentic-sounding and avoiding obvious samples, heavy rotation at the likes of Glitterbox and Horse Meat Disco is pretty much guaranteed.
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VMR 073
04 Nov 19
Disco/Nu-Disco
04 Nov 19
Disco/Nu-Disco
Happy EPEXCLUSIVE
Played by: Mat Hoods, Dave Allison (Editorial), Jean Jacques Smoothie, Superbreak, Juno Recommends Disco, Sunner Soul, Soultronic, KS French, BRENDON P, 80's Child, Gradient Logic
Review: Label-hopping Siberian Sunner Soul is in a cheery mood, which may - in part, at least - be down to his return to the Vintage Music imprint he founded in 2009. The positively titled Happy EP begins with "Hang On", a deliciously hazy, dreamy chunk of fluttering disco-meets-deep house bliss built around slowly shifting loop patterns, stretched-out builds, cut-up samples and bouncy bottom end. Horn-heavy title track "Happy" is little less than a rush-inducing romp through party-starting disco-funk cheeriness, while "All Right" sees him expertly re-arrange (and tool-up) a shuffling, sun-kissed disco-funk cut full of rising string lines, fizzing jazz-funk synths and punchy horn lines. In other words, it's an EP chock full of mood enhancing moments.
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VMR 045
09 Jun 16
Disco/Nu-Disco
09 Jun 16
Disco/Nu-Disco
Transatlantic EPEXCLUSIVE
Review: Following a recent outing on Tonbe's Disco Fruit imprint, St Petersburg's finest re-editor returns to his Vintage Music imprint. Happily, he's in fine form, giddily chopping up, beefing up and rearranging a trio of happy, sun-kissed tonight. There's something particularly alluring about the woozy synthesizer melodies, jazzy keys, hustlin' house rhythms and disco percussion of "Transatlantic". This formula is repeated on the sensual but floor-friendly "Disco Retreat", where swirling strings and punchy horns help create a sticky, sweat-drenched vibe. Finally, the Russian successfully dips the tempo on the sax-laden, low-slung, bassline-driven sleaze of "Got The Floor", which expertly builds up over six sexy minutes.
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VMR 046
04 Aug 16
Disco/Nu-Disco
04 Aug 16
Disco/Nu-Disco
