Bonzai Records, also known as Bonzai Music or Bonzai Progressive, is a
Belgium
Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to th ...
-based
record label
A record label, or record company, is a brand or trademark of music recordings and music videos, or the company that owns it. Sometimes, a record label is also a publishing company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the produ ...
specializing in
techno
Techno is a genre of electronic dance music (EDM) which is generally produced for use in a continuous DJ set, with tempo often varying between 120 and 150 beats per minute (bpm). The central rhythm is typically in common time (4/4) and often ch ...
,
trance
Trance is a state of semi-consciousness in which a person is not self-aware and is either altogether unresponsive to external stimuli (but nevertheless capable of pursuing and realizing an aim) or is selectively responsive in following the dir ...
,
hard trance
Hard trance is a subgenre of trance music which originated in Western Europe (Belgium, Germany and The Netherlands) in the early 1990s as the Breakbeat hardcore production community began to diversify into new and different styles of electronic m ...
,
Goa trance
Goa trance is an electronic dance music style that originated in the early 1990s in the Indian state of Goa. Goa trance often has drone-like basslines, similar to the techno minimalism of 21st century psychedelic trance (psytrance). Psychedelic ...
,
rave music
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and
hardcore
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* ''Hardcore'' (2001 film), a British documen ...
music.
It was formed by DJ Fly in the back of record-shop The Blitz in Belgium in 1992 as a sublabel to Lightning Records, which went bankrupt in March 2003 and was subsequently replaced by the Banshee Worx label. Since its renewal in 2003, the label has released records under "Bonzai Progressive", however the 'Bonzai Records' catalog numbering continues.
Sublabels
''List of other current/former sublabels under the Bonzai name.''
* Bonzai Club Grooves
(2008)
* Bonzai Elemental
(2006)
* Bonzai Records Digital
(2006-2006)
* Bonzai Fiesta
(2005)
* Bonzai Urban
(2004)
* Bonzai Backcatalogue
(2003–2005)
* UK Bonzai Gold Series
(2001–2002), sublabel of 'UK Bonzai'
* UK Bonzai
(2000), successor to 'Bonzai Records UK'
* Bonzai Trance Progressive UK
(1999–2002)
* Bonzai Germany/Bonzai Trance Germany
(1998–2000), run by 'Music Research' company.
* Bonzai Records UK
(1998–2000)
* Bonzai Limited
(1997)
* Bonzai Classics
(1996)
* Bonzai Records Italy/Bonzai Trance Progressive Italy
1996-2003
* Bonzai Jumps Italy
(1996–1998), subdivision of Arsenic Sound
* Bonzai Groove
(1996-1996)
* Bonzai Trance Progressive
(1995)
* Bonzai Jumps
(1994–1998)
List of artists
* Cherry Moon
* Rawnn
* DJ Fly (Christian Pieters)
*
Yves Deruyter
Yves Deruyter (born May 4, 1970) is a Belgians, Belgian DJ and artist famous for his work on Bonzai Records.
Career
Yves Deruyter started his DJ career in 1985 and has played in Belgian clubs such as Globe, Barocci, Cherrymoon, Extreme, Carat, B ...
* DJ Bountyhunter (Stefan Melis)
*
Jones & Stephenson
Jones & Stephenson is a Belgian music duo mainly focusing on hard dance music. Jones' real name is Frank Sels (also known as Franky Jones) and Stephenson's full name is Axel Stephenson.
In 1993 they made the classic hardcore techno/ hard trance ...
(Frank Sels & Axel Stephenson)
* Dream Your Dream
* Thunderball
* Final Analyzis
* Stockhousen
* Fernie
*
Airwave
* Blufeld
* Fred First
* Manu Riga
* Soundmodul
* Hypnotised
* Man On the Moon
* ignacio demaria
* Quadran
* Kostas Maskalides
* Jasper Jinx
* Aqua Contact
*
Push
Push may refer to:
Music
* Mike Dierickx (born 1973), a Belgian producer also known as Push
Albums
* ''Push'' (Bros album), 1988
* ''Push'' (Gruntruck album), 1992
* ''Push'' (Jacky Terrasson album), 2010
Songs
* "Push" (Enrique Iglesias s ...
* Ferdas Digital
*
Vechigen
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* Sunshine Rockerz House
* X-Change (Stefan Melis)
*
Limited Growth Limited Growth is a trance collaboration between Frederico Santini & Axel Stephenson. They had a total of eight releases in 1997 and 1998 under the label Bonzai Records
Bonzai Records, also known as Bonzai Music or Bonzai Progressive, is a Belg ...
(Frederico Santini & Axel Stephenson)
* Mindvirus (Jens Brzoska)
* Liquid Nations
References
External links
Official site
{{Authority control
Belgian record labels
Record labels established in 1992
Electronic dance music record labels
Trance record labels
House music record labels