Belgian Hardcore, Techno, Trance and Hard Trance label, founded in 1992.
Former sublabel of Lightning Records. In 2003 the mothercompany went bankrupt and a new company was started by former employees: Banshee Worx. The Bonzai label changed its name to Bonzai Music under the company Backcatalogue BVBA which is where the Bonzai Records catalog numbering continues. Since the founding of Banshee Worx in 2003 the musical direction has changed from Trance over Progressive Trance to Progressive House. Today, in 2014, Bonzai Progressive releases Progressive House, Tech House, Deep House, Techno and Chill Out under its various Sublabels: Bonzai Progressive, Bonzai Basiks, Eyepatch, Bonzai Elemental, Green Martian, Progrez, Piston Recordings, Monog Records and Sounds R Us Recordings.
EU Label Code LC 12793
Former sublabel of Lightning Records. In 2003 the mothercompany went bankrupt and a new company was started by former employees: Banshee Worx. The Bonzai label changed its name to Bonzai Music under the company Backcatalogue BVBA which is where the Bonzai Records catalog numbering continues. Since the founding of Banshee Worx in 2003 the musical direction has changed from Trance over Progressive Trance to Progressive House. Today, in 2014, Bonzai Progressive releases Progressive House, Tech House, Deep House, Techno and Chill Out under its various Sublabels: Bonzai Progressive, Bonzai Basiks, Eyepatch, Bonzai Elemental, Green Martian, Progrez, Piston Recordings, Monog Records and Sounds R Us Recordings.
EU Label Code LC 12793
ColonelTirpitz
24. August 2018It's an overrated label many tracks were too commercial back then in the 90's era . Many of these tracks were heard a hundred times on the radio in Belgium and other European countries , also in every clubs you had to listen and made your ears bleed from the same annoying tracks over and over again and as it wasn't enough when buying CD compilations you found those there as if they were forced to have these Bonzaï tracks there such as Thunderdome and other Arcade label compilations or Zyx , etc...
Another negative point is the poor quality of many of the records they sold many times the tunes weren't recorded properly and thus wasn't centered on the record . Also alot of the times the titles on the record were interverted so side A was in reality side B and vice versa . The poor quality of the sleeve ....
I'm from Belgium but this Bonzaï label is overhyped only a couple tunes are great the rest is garbage . There were better labels in the 90's that offered much better materials .
For me 90% of the Bonzaï label catalogue has dated badly .