CJ Bolland
Christian Jay Bolland ( born June 18, 1971 in Stockton -on-Tees ) is a Belgian techno producer and DJ who is best known by his pen name CJ Bolland.
Curriculum vitae
The British-born Bolland moved with his family at the age of three years in Belgium. From a young age he was from his parents introduced to the music that launched a club in Antwerp, worked in the Bollands mother as a DJ. In his youth, Bolland was by artists such as Jean Michel Jarre, Front 242 or Neon Judgement affected. From the late 1980s Bolland was heavily inspired by the onset of acid house boom and turned to techno to. In 1988 he produced his own tracks, which could be heard soon in the Belgian pirate radio stations. After these initial successes Bolland sent demo tapes to various record labels. After a recording of one of his radio shows was sent to R & S Records, Bolland was invited and spent 32 hours on the first day with the label founder Renaat Vandepapeliere in the studio. Shortly thereafter, he was taken from R & S under contract, the time were already taking a leading role in the techno scene. Bolland worked closely with Vandepapeliere and founded with him and other musicians, the group " The Project " and " Space Opera ". The Projects Do that dance piece from 1990 also represents the first commercial release, on their occurrence Bolland was directly involved.
The EP released in 1992 Rave Signal III made him thanks to the play Horsepower known abruptly in the European techno scene. With just appeared on The 4th Sign Bollands debut album. A year later appeared for the first time the single Camargue, in their production Bolland with his sister Sian Louise Bolland worked. The piece was a Dancehit due to the catchy and hypnotic melody and true today than it used to rave classic.
At the same time Bolland established as a serious DJ who enjoyed success in the UK primarily. In 1995, Bolland was allowed to make the first artist to a mix of music DJ-Kicks series, which today constitutes one of the most famous Mixserien applies and is a showcase of the record label! K7 Records.
His second album Electronic Highway was released in 1995 and was the last studio album for R & S. After Bolland was increasingly influenced by the style of Dave Angels, he looked for new possibilities of expression. Vandepapeliere was of the view that this new style is no longer fit to his label. Bolland then left R & S and signed a contract for five albums in the British techno label Internal. There appeared in 1996 Bollands third and so far last studio album, The Analogue Theatre.
Bollands far biggest hit was the 1996 single released Sugar is sweeter that in several European countries reached the charts thanks largely to a remix of Armand van Helden and occupied the position 1 of the U.S. Billboard Dance Charts in December of this year. The success of the piece influenced his future career rather negative. The pressure of his new record company made it difficult for the production of additional songs and two already produced albums were subsequently not published as planned.
Especially from the early 1990s produced Bolland still countless remixes of famous artists such as Orbital ( Lush 3), Tori Amos (God ), Sven Vath ( Harlequin - The Beauty And The Beast ), The Prodigy ( No Good (Start the Dance ) ) Felix ( Stars ), WestBam ( Wizards Of The Sonic ), New Order ( Temptation ), UB40 ( Until My Dying Day), BBE (Flash), Depeche Mode (Useless ) and Moby ( James Bond Theme ).
Under the pseudonym " BCJ " he produced in 1997, the piece Spectre for the soundtrack of the PlayStation game to the anime Ghost in the Shell.
After differences with his record company Bolland founded in 2002 his own label Mole Records, but on the published only four mainly produced by Bolland singles until 2003. After Bolland produced a few plates of other artists and it appeared several jointly developed with other musicians singles, but since 2003 only sporadic publications under the name CJ Bolland.
However, he is still active as a DJ and regularly mainly in Belgium and the Netherlands. Bolland was also involved in the recordings of their 2005 released album Pocket Revolution of the Belgian indie rock band dEUS, with their mastermind Tom Barman he the joint project Magnus maintains since 2003, which has since produced several publications.