BUNDLE EDITION Notes from Underground Volumes 1 & 2, by Tony Boninsegna

BUNDLE EDITION Notes from Underground Volumes 1 & 2

by Tony Boninsegna

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Both volumes of the anthology packaged in printed sleeves accompanied by detailed sleeve notes by Matt Anniss.
Every order (until stock lasts) comes with a 9*19cm iron-on/sew-on patch of the legendary Chill label logo designed by the co-founder and Jack Trax A&R Tim Raidl.

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1.	Lab Technicians - We Gave You Life 05:23	buy track
2.	Aural Exciter - U = Euphoria 06:09	buy track
3.	Original Clique - "F" (Whistle Mix) 04:17	buy track
4.	Pierrepoint - Tonnerre 05:00	buy track
5.	AEK - Lick It 05:47	buy track
6.	Zubbizerretta - Wake the Town (Somnabulist Mix) 04:03	buy track
7.	Estudiantes - Let the Music Into Your Mind 04:43	buy track
8.	Zeco - The Witch Trials 05:58	buy track
9.	Big Showdown - They're Here 04:56	buy track
10.	The Rhythm Squad - Animal House 05:58	buy track
11.	The Rhythm Squad - Manhunt (Instrumental) 04:22	buy track
12.	Nine-L - Islands, Part 2 06:40	buy track
13.	Lab Technicians - We Gave You Life (Original) 07:04	buy track
14.	Nine-L - Untitled (Houston, We Have a Problem B2) 04:13	buy track
15.	Sykosis 451 - Monsoon 04:04	buy track
16.	Original Clique - U = Underground 04:46	buy track
17.	Original Clique - Now Hear Me Now 05:51	buy track
18.	MI7 - Show I 05:35	buy track
19.	Napoleon - Fortuna 04:35	buy track
20.	Napoleon - La Chaux Du Fonds 05:48	buy track
21.	Ragga Head - Give the People What They Want 04:49	buy track
22.	Return of the Living Acid - Big Dipper 05:57	buy track
23.	Ministry of Fear - Original Cliché 04:36	buy track
24.	Nine-L - Untitled (Houston, We Have a Problem A2) 05:08	buy track

about

The story of dance music is littered with hidden heroes and underground activists whose immense contributions have been overlooked, ignored and under-documented. Tony Boninsegna, a producer who made and released countless classic cuts and forgotten gems during the acid house and rave era, is one such example. Melding elements of all that was popular in underground clubs at the time to create his own dancefloor-friendly sound worlds, Boninsegna amassed a huge catalogue between 1986 and ’94, while hiding his involvement via an array of oddball aliases and opaque pseudonyms.

Cold Blow has joined forces with Musique Pour La Danse to deliver a much-needed restored and remastered anthology of his greatest productions and co-productions – many rare or hard-to-find – for the first time.

Fittingly, volume one features two previously unreleased recordings that mark his earliest explorations of the emerging house sound (both as The Rhythm Squad, with Richard Compton), alongside touchstone releases such as Zeco’s ‘The Witch Trials’ (a 1989 production that marked his first outing on vinyl), celebrated workouts recorded with regular collaborator Mykey Tee (Lab Technicians’ bleep-inspired ‘We Gave U Life’, Big Showdown’s epic ‘They’re Here’ and AEK’s mind-mangling, bleep & breaks number ‘Lick It’), and genuinely overlooked gems (the proto-tribal house of Pierrepoint’s acid-smothered ‘Tonnerre’ and saucer-eyed rush of Estudiantes’ ‘Let The Music Into Your Mind’). Volume two continues in a similar vein while devoting more disc space to Boninsegna’s breakbeat-driven productions of the early 1990s. So, alongside more must-have tracks from the producer’s Chill-released projects (Return of The Living Acid’s surging acid thumper ‘Big Dipper’, MI7’s twisted bleep and breaks monster ‘Show I’, and a couple of killer cuts alongside Mykey Tee as Original Clique), Cold Blow & Musique Pour La Danse have also made room for the proto-jungle brilliance of Ragga Head’s ‘Give The People Junglis’, the tongue-in-cheek excellence of Ministry of Fear’s ‘Original Cliché’, two top tracks as Napoleon, and the wild, acid breaks breathlessness of ‘Monsoon’ by Sykosis 451.

The albums come accompanied by detailed sleeve notes by Matt Anniss. Boninsegna’s story first came to light four years ago when he appeared in Join The Future: Bleep Techno and the Birth of British Bass Music, Anniss’s critically acclaimed alternative history of UK dance music in the rave era.

credits

released December 1, 2023

Written and produced by Tony Boninsegna
Restored and mastered by Ed DMX
Design by Andrew J. Beltran
Compiled by Janne “J”, Pete Spara, Ed Isar & Olivier Ducret
Sleeve notes by Matt Anniss
Distributed by N.E.W.S.
BLOW15R / MPD047.1
Licensed to Cold Blow LTD - Courtesy of Tony Boninsegna
© ℗ Cold Blow & Musique Pour La Danse, 2023

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