| History.
Off
Limits is the music production company of Alfredo “Larry”
Pignagnoli, from Reggio Emilia in Northern Italy.
the past
In the early Eighties, Larry’s first hits came with a group signed
to Energy Production in Rome and Milan, Fun Fun. The arrangements and
performances were carried out by Larry in collaboration with Dario Raimondi
and Alvaro Ugolini of the Energy label, and,Larry co-wrote the tracks
with Ivana Spagna, later to become the world famous singer known simply
as Spagna.
Artist: Fun Fun
Hit singles: Happy Station
Gold Disc in Scandinavia, double Gold in South Africa
Colour my Love
Gold Disc in Holland and Scandinavia
Then, together with Teo Spagna, Ivana’s brother, Larry produced
Spagna, signed to CBS Italy (and later to Sony) and managed by Marco Marati.
Spagna has sold almost 10 million records.
Artist: Spagna
Hit Album: Dedicated to the Moon
Over 500.000 records sold
Hit singles: Easy Lady
Over 2 million records sold all over the world. Italy’s biggest
selling single in 1986, reached number ONE in Italy
Call Me
Over 3 million records sold all over the world – number 2 in UK
and Italy, in top 75 in UK for 12 weeks running
Every girl and boy
Reached number 3 in Italy, number 23 in UK.
After this experience in the early Nineties, Larry formed his own production
company OFF LIMITS and signed a production deal with the label Energy
Production who put the records out in their native Italy and licensed
mainly to independent labels around the world. From this point on, Larry
has been signing all the artists he produces to OFF LIMITS for production
and (in association with Cock an Ear) for management, as well as talented
arrangers, like Davide Riva (arranger/co-writer Whigfield), DJ’s
and writers.
The first record ever produced by OFF LIMITS was Saturday
Night by Whigfield.
Artist: Whigfield
Hit Album: Whigfield 1
Gold Disc in Canada, Philippines and India; Platinum in South Africa
Hit singles: Saturday Night
Platinum in Germany and UK;
Gold in Canada and Scandinavia, etc.
This record went straight to number ONE in UK in 1994 and stayed there
for 4 weeks selling over a million copies. Whigfield is in the Guiness
Book of Records as the first pop artist ever to go straight to number
one in UK with a debut single. Saturday Night was the second biggest selling
single in UK in 1994 behind ‘Love is all around us’ by Wet
Wet Wet. Also number ONE in Spain for 11 consecutive weeks and number
ONE in Germany and Italy as well as numerous minor territories.
Another Day
Top 10 UK and elsewhere
Think of You
Top 10 UK and elsewhere
Sexy Eyes
number ONE in Australia, chart positions in many territories
Artist: JK
Hit single: You Make me feel
Number 1 in CanadaArtist: KMC feat Dhany
Hit single: I feel so fine
Top 30 UK singles +number1 UK and top 10 Usa dance charts
Artist:
Ann Lee
Album: Dreams
Hit single: 2 Times
Platinum in Australia, Denmark, Belgium, New Zealand, Gold in Uk,
Austria, Holland, Germany, Portugal, Sweden, France.
Artist: GambaFreaks
Hit single: Down Down Down
N° 1 UK Dance Charts
from 2000
Artist: In-Grid
Album: Rendez-vous
Number ONE in South Africa
Hit singles: Tu es Foutu/You Promised me
N° 1 in Greece,
N° 1 in Sweden,
N° 2 in Holland,
N° 4 in Belgium,
Top Ten in Italy,
Number one Airplay in Russia,
Top Ten in Spain and Germany;
Over forty weeks in the official German sales charts
The English version (You Promised Me) Top Ten in Australia and
currently in the Billboard club charts USA
Artist: Benny Benassi presents The Biz
Album: Hypnotica
Double Gold in France
Hit singles: Satisfaction
N° 5 in France, in top 20 for 20 weeks, Gold record;
N° 2 in UK, in top 20 for 6 weeks, excellent sales and chart results
in Germany and Australia and many minor territories.
Able to love
Top 20 in France.
Remixes: Loneliness (Tomcraft) N° 1 UK singles chart
Ghetto Musik (Outkast)
Dance Commander (Electric Six)
Strict Machine (Goldfrapp)
Artist: Benassi Bros feat Sandy
Hit single: Illusion
2004
Artist: Benassi Bros feat Dhany
Hit single: Hit my heart
Artist:
Benassi Bros
Album: Pumphonia
Gold in France
Artist:
Benassi Bros feat. Dhany
Hit single: Make me feel
2005
Artist: Benassi Bros
Album: ...Phobia
Top Ten Album Sales Chart in France
All charts referred to above are official singles and album sales charts.
Most of the tracks mentioned have also achieved high positions in club
charts, Dj preference charts etc. Statistics regarding sales exclude compilations.
The above is a partial account of the charts results
achieved over the last two decades.
Many chart positions and awards have been omitted for the sake of brevity.
...now
The OFF LIMITS structure now houses three recording studios staffed, among
others, by Marco Soncini (arranger/co-writer In-Grid and Ann Lee), Benny&
Alle Benassi (arrangers/co-writers Benny Benassi presents The Biz/Benassi
Bros/KMC), Favretto Dj, Beppe Isgrò, Pavel “the musical advisor”
and Giordano Pignagnoli, the dark side of Off Limits.
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