Biography
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Born
18 June 1971 (age 52)
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Born In
Stockton-on-Tees, England, United Kingdom
Christian Jay Bolland
Profile:
Born in Yorkshire in 1971 but transplanted to Belgium when he was only three, CJ Bolland received an early education in dance music; his parents ran a club in Antwerp, and his mother DJed there. He grew up listening to the synthesizer music of several eras — from Jean-Michel Jarre to Front 242 and the Neon Judgement — but began devoting most of his time to house and techno by the late '80s. Bolland began producing in 1988, when a drummer friend gave him access to the right gear, and his tracks were soon heard on several Belgian pirate radio stations. He then sent demos to several labels, and finally heard back from R & S Records.
CJ Bolland's first production for R & S, the Project's "Do That Dance", jump-started his career, and he soon saw releases from his projects Pulse, Space Opera (with the Advent's Cisco Ferreira), Cee-Jay, Ravesignal and Sonic Solution. His 1992 "Ravesignal 3 EP" (specifically, the track "Horsepower") made Bolland one of the hottest names in the new global dance community.
Bolland made his album debut soon after, with "The 4th Sign". His 1993-94 schedule also included production work for Mundo Muzique, Dave Angel and Joey Beltram as well as remixing for Orbital, The Prodigy, Sven Väth, WestBam, Tori Amos and Baby Ford, among others. His second album "Electronic Highway" was released in 1995, after which Bolland signed a mammoth five-album deal with Internal Records. The first fruits of the contract, "The Analogue Theatre", were released in late 1996 to critical praise and dance-chart success, thanks to the excitable single "Sugar Is Sweeter".
He founded his own label "Mole Records" in 2002.
Sites:
cjbolland.com
Albums
The 4th Sign R & S Records, R & S Records 1992
Electronic Highway R & S Records 1995
The Analogue Theatre Internal, Internal 1996
The 5th Sign (12xFile, AAC) Wack Attack Barrack 2006
500€ Cocktail (CD) Wikkid Records 2009
500€ Cocktail (12xFile, WAV, Album) Wikkid Records 2009
Singles & EPs
The Ravesignal 6 versions R & S Records 1990
Ravesignal Vol. II R & S Records 1990
Ravesignal III 6 versions R & S Records 1991
Project, The (3) / Ceejay* - Get Busy Time / Here We Go (12", Promo, Ltd) R & S Records 1991
Live At Universe 30-04-93 R & S Records 1993
Camargue (The Remixes) R & S Records 1993
Neural Paradox R & S Records 1995
The Starship Universe E.P. Internal, Internal 1995
There Can Be Only One (12", S/Sided) Internal LXXDJ 22 1995
The Prophet / Sugar Is Sweeter Internal 1996
Sugar Is Sweeter Internal, Internal 1996
Desolate 1 / The Tingler (12", Promo) Internal EXXDJ5 1996
The Prophet FFRR 1997
CJ Bolland / Orgy - Sugar Is Sweeter / Blue Monday Warner Bros. Records 1996
It Ain't Gonna Be Me Essential Recordings 1998
Jennifer Love Hewitt / CJ Bolland / Jory Eve - How Do I Deal (CD, Single) 143 Records 1998
CJ Bolland / Psilocybin - Inside Out / Cyrus (12") Rewind The Classics RTC007 2000
AWeX / CJ Bolland - Dark Side / Camargue (12") Rewind The Classics RTC 002-6 2000
See Saw 2 versions Mole Records 2002
The Prophet 2002 (Acetate, 12") Perfecto 2002
Oakenfold* / CJ Bolland - Prophet 1 / The Prophet (12", Promo) Perfecto 2002
The Digger (12") Mole Records 2003
Riot GS2 2006
T99 / CJ Bolland - Radar Remixes 03 (12") Radar Records 2011
Broken Showroom 1 (12") Broken Music 2012
Into My Brain/The Prophet/Are Am I (12", W/Lbl)
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