Bananza Music is back! After a two year break one of the USAs most respected underground house labels is set to relaunch in February 2009 with new remixes of one of their biggest past records, Trademarqs Broken Wagon. The remixes come courtesy of Chicago legend Derrick Carter, Bon Johnson, Marko Militano and The Bald & The Beautiful. Bananzas ethos has always been to develop new talents alongside the industrys greats, something in evidence on Broken Wagon Remixes, with the likes of Derrick Carter sitting alongside the up and coming The Bald & The Beautiful. The vinyl will be released soon with digital following. Future releases in 2009 are lined up from Joshua Iz (from Iz & Diz) and the production duo of JT Donaldson & CPEN.
During their two year absence the labels home-grown talent, namely Marko Militano and Trademarq (the production partnership of Militano and Tari Litz) have been building their reputation with releases on some of the worlds most respected deep house labels including Classic Music (run by Derrick Carter and Luke Solomon), Lazy Days (run by Fred Everything) and .dotbleep (run by Justin Long). Bananza Music was established in Boston in 2004 by George Nessis, Marko Militano and Tari Litz and quickly build up a solid reputation as one of the most reliable labels around thanks to original tracks and remixes from Brett Johnson, Q-Burns Abstract Message, Moody B, Marko Militano, Joshua (Iz), No Assembly Firm, DJ Ali and Demarkus Lewis. The labels last release was in March 2007 and came from Trademarq. Bananza Music is now based in Denver.SUPPORT FROM LAURENT GARNIER, DJ SNEAK, ORDE MEIKLE (SLAM), NICK HOLDER, FABRICE LIG, FRED EVERYTHING, ROBERT OWENS, MARTIN (GET PHYSICAL), MATT MASTERS, BRETT JOHNSON, LIL MARK, MARK FARINA & MORE!