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Frontal Assaults
Assalti Frontali were born in 1991 from the ashes of the Roman music collective Onda Rossa Posse (ORP), which arose in the late 1980s within the Roman radio station Radio Onda Rossa. On 15 June 1990 they released the mini-album Beat your time, the group's first record release and one of the very first hip hop records sung in Italian. Despite its self-production and independent distribution, especially in social centres and 'movement situations', the record was a great success and sold about ten thousand copies, making the so-called posse phenomenon explode in Italy. Between 1991 and 1993, two groups were born from the Onda Rossa Posse experience: AK47 and Assalti Frontali
Assalti Frontali was the name chosen for the label that would take care of the Onda Rossa Posse's record productions. Shortly after the release of the record, in September 1990, the Onda Rossa Posse disbanded: Assalti Frontali became the name of the new group. In 1991, the group, under the name of United against war affects and publishes Baghdad 1.9.9.1., an anti-Gulf War single that confirmed Assalti Frontali as an important reality of Italian underground hip hop. In July 1992, the band released their first album, No Man's Land, the first rap LP in Italian; it was sold at a political (and enforced) price of 17,000 lire, gaining much favour in the same milieu.
The Assalti subsequently dedicated themselves to a series of concerts: Forte Prenestino (with the Mano Negra), Rome's Stadio Olimpico and a concert under the Rebibbia prison in Rome (from which a double cassette entitled Outside Rebibbia). In 1993, the group released (on vinyl only) the single Southwhich is included in the soundtrack of the film of the same name directed by Gabriele Salvatores.
After collaborating on compilation related to the book Walking under the night sky by Sante Notarnicola, the band took part in a concert at the Villaggio Globale in Rome on the occasion of the ballot between Gianfranco Fini and Francesco Rutelli. The following year, together with other Roman posse such as One Love Hi Pawa, AK47, Musica Forte, 00199, they founded the Cordata per l'autorganizzazione, an independent music and distribution label that produces and distributes albums by South Posse, Brutopop and Lou X.
Also in 1994, the documentary Beat Your Timededicated to early Italian rap and the birth of their band.
In 1995, the collective opened a recording studio at the CSOA Forte Prenestino: Musica Forte. Concerts with Fugazi and Almamegretta followed. It was the turn of the group's second album, Conflictwhich came out in 1996 and sold 25,000 copies thanks to its distribution on newsstands with the newspaper The Manifesto. After the record's promotional tour, the group's historical voice, Militant A, published the book Stories of Frontal Assault.
The band's independent career was interrupted in 1997 with the signing of a contract with the BMG label. In 1999 it was produced by Ice One Bandits followed by the book The journey of the wordagain by Militant A.
In 2004, after breaking their contract with BMG, Assalti Frontali became independent again and released their fourth album, Hic Sunt Leonesagain produced by The Manifesto. They then realise HSL-Ra remix album; the video of the single Independent Route is aired by both the independent Global Project television and MTV.
In October 2005, GE2001, a compilation published as a supplement to the newspaper Il manifesto to raise funds for the trials following the G8 events in Genoa. Various artists will take part in the initiative, including Assalti frontali with the song Independent course (Resistance remix).
In 2006, the group's structure changed: at the microphone, Militant A was joined by Pol G and Glasnost, and the young producer and composer Bonnot, originally from Bergamo, who wrote most of the backing tracks for I guess tonight..., their sixth studio album, recorded and produced in Turin at Subsonica's Casasonica studio. The album won the award for best independent album 2006 at PIMI, the Italian Award for Independent Music, an award organised by the Meeting Etichette Indipendenti (MEI).
In December 2007, they collaborated on the communication campaign for the fight against AIDS of the Ministry of Labour, Health and Social Policies by creating the rap song "Quando sei lì per lì"- The song was broadcast on the main radio circuits on 1 December, World AIDS Day, and was made available for free download on the Internet. 2008 saw the release of their seventh album A perfect understanding.
In 2010, new member Bonnot completed his first project - as a producer - solo: Intergalactic Arenaafter about two years of work, which boasts the participation of the best Italian and international 'Underground' artists (such as the Dead Prez, Caparezza, General Levy, DJ Gruff, Punkreas, Sud Sound System, and Piotta)
In 2010 Assalti Frontali staged a theatre musical with Attrice Contro: 'Madama CIE meets Roma meticcia'. The musical was born from the meeting of Assalti Frontali's songs and the theatre show "Madama Cie" by Attrice Contro, a Roman author and actress who tours Italy with itinerant shows of social denunciation, taking them to places where theatre does not usually arrive, such as factory gates, workers' canteens, etc.
March 2011 saw the release of their seventh studio album entitled Deep redself-produced, entirely produced by Bonnot and published by the newly founded Daje Forte Daje records: the planned production of The CD poster was skipped due to the label's financial problems.
On 22 May 2012, 20 years after the release of the band's first album, No Man's Landrelease a double CD Let's go. Without struggle I cannot be happy. The first CD contains three remixes of the album No Man's Land and an unreleased, Let's Gothe second CD is a collection of 20 tracks, selected from their entire record production, from Beat your time a Deep red in the original versions.
In 2014, they participated in the documentary film Numero zero - At the origins of Italian rap. On 25 November 2016, the new disc A thousand groups advance (produced entirely by Bonnot), preceded on 12 November by a national preview concert at the CSOA Forte Prenestino.
In the same year in the programme Blob Rai3 broadcasts a preview of the video The fighting lake the result of a collaboration with Il Muro del Canto. The song tells the story of the Ex Snia lake saved from building speculation.
In 2019, the group releases the single Simonetta dedicated to the memory of teacher and educator Simonetta Salacone.
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