20/03/2026
Copains,
We bring you The Prophet, !
CJ Bolland was one of the first music producers to be signed to the legendary R&S Records label (Ghent). His first release on R&S was Do That Dance in 1989. A second album for R&S followed — 1995’s Electronic Highway — but by late 1994, CJ had already left R&S to sign an exclusive five-album deal with Internal/PolyGram. The first of these LPs was 1996’s The Analogue Theatre.
He is best known for his track Sugar Is Sweeter, which hit #1 in the United States. Bolland is also a prolific remixer with an extensive résumé, including work for Orbital, Depeche Mode, Moby, The Prodigy, and Tori Amos. His track The Prophet, sampling Willem Dafoe in Martin Scorsese’s The Last Temptation of Christ, remains an international club hit.
He is also notable as the first artist to release an album in the DJ-Kicks series for Studio !K7, titled DJ-Kicks: C.J. Bolland. The album was released on September 4, 1995. In 2002, he started his own record label, Mole Records.
February 2004 saw the release of The Body Gave You Everything, the debut album by Magnus, a dance/pop collaborative project with Tom Barman, founder and singer of the Belgian rock band dEUS. The project released a second album, Where Neon Goes to Die, in 2014, featuring collaborations with, among others, Tom Smith of Editors.
In 2018, CJ returned to a solo path and is currently writing new material under several pseudonyms, including Sonic Solution, O.R.B., and, of course, as CJ Bolland.
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