CJ BOLLAND - THE PROPHET

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) Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.