Leon Bolier
Leon Bolier (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈleːjɔn boːˈliːr]; born Leendert Wouter Bolier on October 21, 1980), also known by his mononym Bolier, is a Dutch classically trained trance composer, DJ, and record producer.
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Birth name | Leon Bolier |
Also known as | Inner Stories, LWB, Precursor, Surpresa, Subsphere, WSTLNDR, BLR |
Born | October 21, 1980 |
Origin | Elspeet [1] |
Genres | Trance, progressive trance, tech trance, deep house |
Occupation(s) | DJ, record producer, Remixer |
Years active | 2003–present |
Labels | Spinnin' Records, 2 Play, Black Hole Recordings |
Website | www.leonbolier.com |
Biography
His career began to flourish in 2008 with a number of successful song releases including the hit song "Ocean Drive Boulevard". He placed #95 on the DJMag's 2008 list of the top 100 DJ's in the world, and moved up 32 places in 2009,[2] and rests at #68 in 2010. He has had his songs played by top DJs like Tiësto and Armin van Buuren[3] as well as his tracks appearing on famous trance compilations such as In Search of Sunrise 4: Latin America and A State of Trance 2006. Two of his albums were released during the span of 2008 and 2010, called Pictures and Phantasma, respectively. By the following year, which coincided with his complete dropping out of the DJMag's list of the top 100 DJ's, the first signs of his change of heart in the musical style began to flourish, which had become more apparent over the course of time since and transformed into the new representative standard of his current works, as depicted in "Disco Davai" among such, which bear no resemblance to what he originally was recognized for.
At the end of 2014, Leon started working on his third album under his new alias WSTLNDR. The 12-track work, called Atmostopia, features his complete return to his original creative roots which were not seen in his repertoire since the release of Phantasma. The album was released on Black Hole[4] on September 14, 2015.
Discography
Albums
- 2008: Pictures
- 2010: Phantasma
- 2015: Atmostopia (as WSTLNDR)
DJ Mixes
- 2008: Trance Mission Disc 1
- 2009: Streamlined 2009 - Buenos Aires
- 2010: Streamlined Essentials Vol. 1
- 2011: Streamlined 2011 - Tunis
- 2012: The Retrospective 2006-2011 (not released)
Releases
- 2020: "Perpetual"[5]
- 2020: "Lose Control" (with Console featuring Lou)[6]
- 2020: "Gotta Let You Go" (with Alon)[7]
- 2020: "Feel It" (as BLR)[8]
- 2020: "Comfort Me" (as BLR featuring Mvrt)[9]
- 2019: "Ain't No Way Around It" (with Diskover)[10]
- 2018: "Follow Me" (featuring Nblm)
- 2018: "In The Water" (with Trobi)
- 2018: "Grow Up"
- 2018: "One of Them Nights" (featuring Roya)
- 2017: "Discotheque"
- 2017: "Imagine" (with Arem Ozguc and Arman Aydin featuring NBLM)
- 2017: "Untangled" (with Redondo featuring Dana Sipos)
- 2016: "Ipanema"
- 2016: "Is This Love" (with Bob Marley and Lvndscape)
- 2016: "Sweet Love (Calling Out Your Name)"
- 2016: "Riverbank" (with Mingue)
- 2015: "Lost & Found" (with Redondo featuring Bitter's Kiss)
- 2015: "Forever And A Day" (with Natalie Peris)
- 2015: "Ragga" (with Lvndscape)
- 2015: "Theme In C Sharp Minor"
- 2015: "Every Single Piece" (with Redondo featuring She Keeps Bees)
- 2015: "Freak"
- 2014: "Mind Games"
- 2014: "Detonate" (with D-Wayne)
- 2014: "Twisted" (with Daniel Wanrooy)
- 2014: "Project XVI"
- 2013: "Spell"
- 2013: "Disco Davai"
- 2012: "Trumpets" (with Alex Kenji)
- 2012: "Couch Surfin"
- 2012: "Silver" (with Talla 2XLC)
- 2012: "Beach Chords" (with Marcus Schossow)
- 2012: "Us"
- 2012: "Prelude & Kiev"
- 2012: "Me"
- 2012: "You"
- 2012: "Belmont's Revenge" (with Cliff Coenraad)
- 2012: "Bigroom 29"
- 2012: "Placebo" (with Mike Foyle)
- 2012: "Yesterday Eve"
- 2011: "The Peacemaker"
- 2011: "The Lovemaker"
- 2011: "Vengeance Vengeance"
- 2011: "Absolut" (with Joop)
- 2011: "Ost Kaas" (with Marcus Schossow)
- 2011: "Cape Town"
- 2010: "Elysian Fields"
- 2010: "Saturn" (with W&W)
- 2010: "By Your Side (I Will Be There)" (featuring Kathy Fisher)
- 2010: "That Morning"
- 2010: "Dark Star" (with Sied van Riel)
- 2010: "2099" (with Marcus Schossow)
- 2010: "Shimamoto"
- 2009: "NSFW"
- 2009: "Medellin"
- 2009: "Lunar Diamond"
- 2009: "Seraphic"
- 2009: "Last Light Tonight" (with Menno De Jong)
- 2009: "My Precious"
- 2009: "17"
- 2009: "This" (featuring Floria Ambra)
- 2009: "Wet Dream" (with Galen Behr)
- 2009: "Mohawk" (with Cliff Coenraad)
- 2009: "Mighty Ducks" (with Cliff Coenraad)
- 2009: "Crazy People" (with DJ Astrid)
- 2009: "Thug"
- 2009: "Sofa Cure"
- 2008: "YE"
- 2008: "XD"
- 2008: "The Night Is Young"
- 2008: "One / Two"
- 2008: "Ocean Drive Boulevard"
- 2008: "Malibeer / With The Flame In The Pipe"
- 2008: "I Finally Found" (featuring Simon Binkenborn)
- 2008: "Singapore"
- 2008: "Bonaire"
- 2008: "Poseidon"
- 2008: "Hold On" (with Joop and featuring Denise Rivera)
- 2008: "Deep Red"
- 2007: "Summernight Confessions"
- 2006: "No Need To Come Back" (featuring Elsa Hill)
- 2006: "Stargaze"
- 2006: "Momentum" (with Menno De Jong)
- 2006: "Magma" (with Menno De Jong)
- 2006: "Flower Fountain"
- 2006: "Back in the Days"
- 2005: "Beyond"
- 2005: "First Light"
- 2005: "Love You So"
- 2005: "Beautitude"
- 2004: "2nd Season" (with Bart Bolier)
- 2004: "Mea Culpa"
- 2004: "10PM"
- 2004: "Violet" (with Bart Bolier)
- 2004: "Daydreamer" (with Bart Bolier)
- 2004: "Sweet Fragrance" (with Bart Bolier)
- 2004: "Infinite" (with Bart Bolier)
- 2003: "Women's Tears" (with Bart Bolier)
- 2003: "Passionate"
Remixes
- 2020: Frédér - Desiderio (Bolier Remix)[11]
- 2017: Olav Basoski featuring Spyder - Waterman 2017 (Bolier Remix)
- 2017: Showbiz, Divolly and Markward and Balkan Beat Box - Smatron (Bolier Remix)
- 2017: Lost Frequencies featuring Axel Ehnström - All Or Nothing (Bolier Remix)
- 2016: D-wayne featuring Jack McManus - Love Again (Bolier Remix)
- 2016: Marcus Schossöw and NEW_ID - ADA (Bolier Remix)
- 2016: Jack Eye Jones featuring Paton - Waiting My Whole Life (Bolier Remix)
- 2016: Bob Sinclar - Someone Who Needs Me (Bolier Remix)
- 2016: Wstlndr and Fisher - Save Me (Bolier Remix)
- 2015: Marc Sherry - Vengeance (Bolier pres. WSTLNDR Remix)
- 2013: Rank 1 - Floorlifter (Leon Bolier Remix)
- 2013: Alt-J - Something Good (Leon Bolier Remix)
- 2013: Mark Van Dale with Enrico - Water Verve (Leon Bolier Remix)
- 2012: RMB featuring Talla 2XLC - Spring (Leon Bolier Remix)
- 2011: Raphinha Bartel - Double Evidence (Leon Bolier Remix)
- 2009: Aly & Fila - "Khepera" (Leon Bolier Remix)
- 2009: Cliff Coenraad - "Gone South" (Leon Bolier Remix)
- 2009: Push - Global Age (Leon Bolier Remix)
- 2009: Arnej - "Dust In The Wind" (Leon Bolier Remix)
- 2009: W&W - "The Plan" (Leon Bolier Remix)
- 2009: Breakfast - Air Guitar (Leon Bolier Remix)
- 2008: Karl G featuring Vicky Fee - Repeat Again (Leon Bolier Remix)
- 2008: Airbase - "The Road Not Taken" (Leon Bolier Remix)
- 2008: Leon Bolier and Kamaya Painters - Endless Ocean Wave (Leon Bolier Mash-Up)
- 2008: Embrace - "Embrace" (Leon Bolier Remix)
- 2008: Seth Hutton featuring Judie Tzuke - Don't Look Behind You (Leon Bolier Remix)
- 2008: Jamaster A - Cicada (Leon Bolier Remix)
- 2007: Carlos - Alanda (Leon Bolier Remix)
- 2007: Joop - The Future (Leon Bolier Remix)
- 2007: Kenneth Thomas - Soleil Noir (Leon Bolier Remix)
- 2007: Joop - Prominent (Leon Bolier Remix)
- 2007: Dave202 - Torrent (Leon Bolier Remix)
- 2007: Evil Robot - Just Go! (Leon Bolier Remix)
- 2007: Activa - Genetic (Leon Bolier vs Joop Remix)
- 2007: Stephen J. Kroos - Formalistick (Leon Bolier Remix)
- 2007: Sied van Riel - Sigh (Leon Bolier Remix)
- 2007: Splitscreen - Boomblasta (Leon Bolier Vs. Joop Remix)
- 2006: Carlos - The Silmarillia 2007 (Leon Bolier Remix)
- 2006: Gott and Gordon - Midnight (Leon Bolier Remix)
- 2006: JPL - Ilmola (Leon Bolier Remix)
- 2006: Mike Shiver - Feelings (Leon Bolier Remix)
- 2006: Xtranova - The Way We Were (Leon Bolier Remix)
- 2005: Niklas Harding and Redshift - Pagoda (Leon Bolier Remix)
- 2004: Can and Schossow - Blabarsmonstret (Leon Bolier Remix)
References
- DJ Leon Bolier: Ik heb een gouden tijd gehad met al die andere gekke Elspeters om me heen. at Veluwe Veelzijdig magazine
- "Top 100 DJs 2008". DJ Magazine. Retrieved 2008-11-17.
- "DJ List profile". The DJ List. Retrieved 2008-11-17.
- "WSTLNDR - EOYC 2014". SoundCloud. Retrieved 2015-01-05.
- "Perpetual - Single by Leon Bolier on Apple Music". Apple Music. Retrieved 2020-08-01.
- "Lose Control (feat. Lou) - Single by ConSole & Bolier on Apple Music". Apple Music. Retrieved 2020-05-12.
- "Gotta Let You Go - Single by Bolier & Alon on Apple Music". iTunes Store. Retrieved 2020-03-18.
- "Feel It - Single by BLR on Apple Music". iTunes Store. Retrieved 2020-03-18.
- "Comfort Me (feat. MVRT) - Single by BLR on Apple Music". iTunes Store. Retrieved 2020-03-18.
- "Ain't No Way Around It - Single by Bolier on Apple Music". iTunes Store. Retrieved 2019-05-14.
- "Desiderio (Bolier Remix) by Frédér on Spotify". Spotify. Retrieved 2020-06-23.
External links
- Official website
- Leon Bolier at AllMusic
- Leon Bolier discography at Discogs
- Leon Bolier discography at MusicBrainz
- TranceSound interview, April 2010
- TranceSound interview, September 2009