The Sessions Recordings

31/01/2022

Morning all,

You had a nice weekend? 🙏

I just wanted to share with you the link to the new podcast of X-***ed at Concertzender of Sundaynight January 30th, 2022.

Two weeks ago host Bob Rusche played the 𝐼𝑎𝑛 𝐵𝑜𝑑𝑑𝑦 remix of the latest release on my imprint and yesterday he played the 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 remix. Quite the honour 😎

Hit the link - press play and enjoy!

https://www.concertzender.nl/programma/xrated_645780/

Experimenteel, avant-garde, industrial, ambient en electronics.

19/01/2022

𝚇-𝚁𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚍 @ 𝙲𝚘𝚗𝚌𝚎𝚛𝚝𝚣𝚎𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚛: 𝚙𝚘𝚍𝚌𝚊𝚜𝚝 𝚊𝚟𝚊𝚒𝚕𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 𝚗𝚘𝚠 👏

At 30.00 mins, the Ian Boddy remix of "Dormarch" kicks in. At 36.20 minutes host Bob Rusche says some lovely words about the track, Ian Boddy and myself (C-Jay)

𝑆𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑜𝑡𝑒: ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝐼 𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑤𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝐽𝑒𝑎𝑛-𝑀𝑖𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑙 𝐽𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑒. 𝐶𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑒, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑡: 𝑡𝑤𝑜 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑠 𝐼 𝑚𝑎𝑑𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑐𝑜 𝐺𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑖𝑒𝑟, 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑦𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑐𝑜 𝑎𝑠 𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑐𝑡 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝐽𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑒, 𝑑𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑙𝑙 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑤𝑠 (!) 𝑜𝑓 𝐽𝑒𝑎𝑛-𝑀𝑖𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑙'𝑠 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑡 2 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑𝑡𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠. 𝑁𝑜𝑡 𝑡𝑜𝑜 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑏𝑏𝑦 𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑙 😉

A stunning edition of the X-***ed at Concertzender show, available now to listen back to.. just hit the ▶ button after following this link 👇

https://www.concertzender.nl/programma/xrated_643667/

Experimenteel, avant-garde, industrial, ambient en electronics.

07/01/2022

𝚁𝚎𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚜𝚎𝚍𝚊𝚢! 🥳

We are very happy to share release number 31 of our label with you. Available on all platforms for you to download or stream.

Share, like, play...enjoy!

👉 Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3HGBSM6
👉 BandCamp: https://bit.ly/sessions031_bandcamp
👉 Beatport: https://bit.ly/sessions031_beatport

3 track album

03/01/2022

𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐞𝐫𝐞 - 𝐈𝐚𝐧 𝐁𝐨𝐝𝐝𝐲 𝐑𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐱 𝐨𝐟 "𝐃𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡"

Hi all,

First of all, I wish you all the best for 2022. And let's hope we see more of each other than the past 2 years. Stay positive & healthy..

And second:
Coming Friday it's releaseday for the ambient remixes EP of "Dormarch" on The Sessions Recordings.

The kind people of MusicTreasures made an exclusive premiere today and featured the Ian Boddy remix in it's full length 🥳

Enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q81qL1TWMMQ

❖ Music Treasures is a platform for underground electronic music.We publish daily premieres, free tracks and podcasts from established artists and upcoming t...

17/12/2021

𝐏𝐫𝐞-𝐎𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐯𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲

Janyuary 17th our new release will be out. Can't wait?
Register yourself for a pre-order and receive it first thing in the morning on the day itself.

👇 Here's the link 👇
https://bit.ly/beatport_pre_order_dormarch

Check out Dormarch (The Ambient Remixes) by C-Jay, LOM (AR) on Beatport

13/12/2021

🎶 𝙻𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚗 𝚝𝚘 𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚗𝚎𝚠 𝚛𝚎𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚜𝚎
(𝟼 𝚖𝚒𝚗𝚞𝚝𝚎𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝚊𝚞𝚍𝚒𝚘 𝚜𝚊𝚖𝚙𝚕𝚎𝚜!)🎶

𝐴𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑎 4 𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠 𝑠𝑖𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒, 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑅𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑎 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝑠ℎ 𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎 𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑑𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛. 𝑊ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑎𝑏𝑒𝑙 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑚𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑎 "𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑣𝑒 ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑒" 𝑏𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒 2001, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑠𝑒𝑒 𝑎 𝑟𝑒𝑏𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑎𝑚𝑏𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑡, 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑚𝑝𝑜 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑦𝑛𝑡ℎ-𝑙𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑛 𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑐.

Up first is this stunning remix pack of C-Jay & LOM's "Dormarch" release on Darin Epsilon's "Perspectives Digital" imprint, October 2021. Where the original track was a progressive stomper, this pack turns things upside down completely.

𝐈𝐚𝐧 𝐁𝐨𝐝𝐝𝐲 (🇬🇧 - sample 1) has been around since... well, since forever actually.
He's a synthologist, sound-designer and the owner of DiN music, one of the most renowned ambient recordlabels around. With numerous albums under his belt and covering a decades spanning career he's without doubt one of the founding fathers of the electronic music scene.

𝐀𝐫𝐣𝐞𝐧 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐭 (🇳🇱 - sample 2) can easily be called the "Dutch Klaus Schulze" as his style is very reminiscent to the Berlin-school sound of Klaus and Tangerine Dream. His production skills are insanely good and his live use of hardware sequencers makes one feel thrown back in time.

Dutch producer and mastering engineer 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 (🇳🇱 - sample 3) finishes this pack in style. Marco is most commonly known for his remix work for Jean-Michel Jarre, in the late 90's.

And if this wasn't enough of a link to all things synth, let's point out once more that Stéphane Gervais (the featured artist on the original release) was Jean-Michel Jarre's right hand for almost a decade; both on stage as well as in the studio, being heavily involved in the production of albums like "Oxygene 3" - "Electronica 1, & 2" and "Equinoxe Infinity"

Artwork by Dan Orsen 👏🏻❤

𝑂𝑢𝑡 𝐽𝑎𝑛𝑢𝑎𝑟𝑦 -7𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑅𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠.
𝐴𝑣𝑎𝑖𝑙𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑠 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑆𝑝𝑜𝑡𝑖𝑓𝑦, 𝐴𝑝𝑝𝑙𝑒, 𝑇𝑖𝑑𝑎𝑙, 𝐵𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡, 𝐵𝑎𝑛𝑑𝐶𝑎𝑚𝑝 𝑒𝑡𝑐.

👉 We will soon highlight all remixers individually in seperate posts :)

www.thesessions.nl

https://soundcloud.com/c-jay/c-jay-lom-feat-stephane-gervais-dormarch-the-ambient-remixes?si=e29a7680651648deb8eb1147b07f084d&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

After a 4 years silence, The Sessions Recordings is back with a new release and a new musical direction. Where the label was mainly a "progressive house" brand since 2001, the new year will see a reb

03/12/2021

Have a great weekend ya'll :)
Any plans?

If you're looking for some music for the weekend, I can highly reccommend the new Tangerine Dream EP "Probe 6-8"

This is a taster of their new album, which will see the light of day early 2022 😎

Love,
C-Jay

https://open.spotify.com/album/7ipY0pDn2DQBP8F3q8wC2a?si=bsLq5ME7S5CBsQDHz-yXUg

Tangerine Dream · Album · 2021 · 5 songs.

22/11/2021

𝙳𝚘𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚌𝚑 - 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙰𝚖𝚋𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝚁𝚎𝚖𝚒𝚡𝚎𝚜 𝙴𝙿

Well, as promised: The Sessions Recordings are back in business soon. The first release will be scheduled for early 2022.

This will be an EP with ambient / downtempo remixes of my release 𝙳𝚘𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚌𝚑, which came out earlier this year on Darin Epsilon's Perspectives Digital label. Where the original release was a dancefloor killer, this pack will be the complete opposite ;)

The first remixer we can introduce, is none other than the legend that is Ian Boddy. As a synthesist, sound-designer and owner of DiN records he has proven throughout decades he's one of the guys that always have been there and always will be...

Call it ambient, Berlin-style or synthwave.... Ian's been there and done that.

Soon we'll reveal the names of the other remixers, and samples of the whole pack.

👇 Check out Ian's music here 👇
Spotify - https://bit.ly/ian_boddy_spotify
BandCamp - https://bit.ly/ian_boddy_bandcamp

31/08/2021

Labelboss C-Jay shared some news on upcoming new music. As it's also about our label, check his post out below ;)

👇
https://www.facebook.com/cjayamsterdam/posts/251580630300500

𝙽𝚎𝚠 𝙼𝚞𝚜𝚒𝚌 𝙰𝚗𝚢𝚘𝚗𝚎?

After a very rough year, I'm happy to say I'm able to spend more and more time in the studio finishing my BackSlider album, rebranding my label The Sessions Recordings to an ambient / elektronica outlet and even finishing a ....𝑤𝑎𝑖𝑡 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑖𝑡....dancefloor track!

That's right, a tune aimed for dancefloors. To eat your face to. To bust a move and shake a b***y.
As you know, I don't do that many dancetracks anymore but when I do, I make sure it's a killer and not a filler ;)

𝘿𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙖𝙧𝙘𝙝
The track has a long history, going back over 2 years in time when I played first drafts during my sets. And now it's finally finished! The track is called "𝐷𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ" and made together with my good friends LOM from Argentina and Stephane Gervais from Canada.

➡ 𝑆𝑡𝑒𝑝ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝐶𝑎𝑛𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑑𝑢𝑐𝑒𝑟, 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑒𝑟, 𝑠𝑦𝑛𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑠𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑒𝑐ℎ𝑛𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑖𝑠𝑡 𝑏𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑓𝑜𝑟 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑚𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑖-𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑟𝑒 𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑐 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑑𝑢𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑓𝑜𝑟 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑏𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝐽𝑒𝑎𝑛-𝑀𝑖𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑙 𝐽𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑒’𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑏𝑢𝑚𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 2013 𝑡𝑜 2019 (𝐸𝑙𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑎 1 & 2, 𝑂𝑥𝑦𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑒 3, 𝐸𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑛𝑜𝑥𝑒 𝐼𝑛𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑦, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐸𝑙𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑎 𝑇𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑒𝑡𝑐) ⬅

𝙋𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙨 𝘿𝙞𝙜𝙞𝙩𝙖𝙡
It's signed to Perspectives Digital (the label of Darin Epsilon) and he plans to release it around October / November, alongside a huge remix by an artist I love ;)

𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙎𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙍𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙧𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙨
Next to this I'm working on a 2021 release with Audioglider for my label as well as an "ambient remixes" EP of my "Dormarch" track. (Darin does the dance-tracks, I will release the downtempo remixes myself at the start of 2022)
Not to mention my new "BackSlider 7-13" album planned for early 2022 on my label, the future finally looks bright again.

Samples of all the above soon 🎶



Love,
C.

19/07/2021

A little throwback to that time when Michael & Levan & Stiven Rivic made a stunning remix for Paul Sparkes "Worgull" release on our label.

Turn up your volume and shake that Monday-b***y! 🥳



https://open.spotify.com/track/2ZyNsk79DKBtvEneN13oHy?si=0f82f4826c6d4cae

Paul Sparkes · Song · 2016

08/06/2021

𝙰𝚗𝚢 𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚍𝚞𝚌𝚎𝚛𝚜 𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎?

You make electronic music?

Feel free to send your demo over to [email protected] if you want us to consider releasing it on The Sessions.

Keywords:
Ambient, Downtempo, Berlin school, SynthWave etc.
Not looking for dancefloor-tracks.

31/05/2021

𝚃𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎, 𝚠𝚑𝚎𝚗 𝟷𝟼𝙱𝚒𝚝𝙻𝚘𝚕𝚒𝚝𝚊'𝚜 𝚛𝚘𝚌𝚔𝚎𝚍 𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚕𝚊𝚋𝚎𝚕

Back in 2006, label boss C-Jay made a track with Eelke Kleijn that became an instant classic in dj sets, for years to come. From Hernan Cattaneo to Carl Cox, this stomper went all over the world with one goal: make people lose their s**t.

The original tracks came out on vinyl through the mighty Plastik Park records, owned and managed by D-Nox. This 16BitLolitas rework appeared on our own label and the rest is history.

Start your week right and play it loud! 🥳

👇
http://bit.ly/daglicht_16bitlolitas_dub_spotify

20/04/2021

Hi all,

Just a quick message to let you know that the copyright support business we started earlier this year has it's own company name now.

As JouwMuziekRecht (YourMusicRights) we support creatives, composers, artists and organisers with all things copyright - contracts and neighbouring (master) rights.

When we started this new branch early 2021, we thought it could live side by side with the label. But as it grew much faster than expected and copyrights + contract checks have a different audience, we decided to make this a seperate business.

So, on these pages, we continue with posts about C-Jay's music and his label. And when Covid provides, maybe an event or 2 in the future again ;)

14/04/2021

In 2011 "Forever Now" came out. This re-release can now be streamed or bought again on all major portals like 𝑆𝑝𝑜𝑡𝑖𝑓𝑦, 𝐵𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡, 𝐴𝑝𝑝𝑙𝑒, 𝑇𝑖𝑑𝑎𝑙 & 𝐵𝑎𝑛𝑑𝐶𝑎𝑚𝑝.

New artwork by Jaap Ligthart and a 2021 remaster by C-Jay ✔

Spotify link 👇
https://bit.ly/Forever_Now_2021_Remaster

C-Jay · Album · 2011 · 8 songs.

07/04/2021

𝓗𝓸𝔀 𝓪𝓫𝓸𝓾𝓽 𝓪 𝓿𝓲𝓷𝓽𝓪𝓰𝓮 𝓬𝓵𝓪𝓼𝓼𝓲𝓬?

C-Jay's track "Deepwater" (with "Second Session"on the B-Side) came out August 11th, 2004 👴 Vinyl only.

Soon it ended up in sets of Hernan Cattaneo, (𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑎𝑛 𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑦 𝑎𝑑𝑜𝑝𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑙𝑎𝑏𝑒𝑙) Armin van Buuren, Paul Oakenfold and Carl Cox. As diverse as these names may seem, back than it was much more common to play genre blending sets instead of just doing one style.

Next to this, releasing a vinyl was some sort of quality stamp by itself: no one would press music on vinyl unless you knew it was really good and you had faith in your product. Otherwise you could just as easily flush € 1500 (or similar) down the toilet.

Anyways, long story a bit longer: the release is now back online with it's original audio. Within a few months we will start releasing a selection of classics with new sound, mastered up to todays standards. But for anyone who missed this track in 2004, here it is again.

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https://www.beatport.com/release/deepwater/3355926

(𝐿𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑘 𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑜 𝑎𝑣𝑎𝑖𝑙𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑜𝑛 #𝑆𝑝𝑜𝑡𝑖𝑓𝑦 #𝐴𝑝𝑝𝑙𝑒 #𝑇𝑖𝑑𝑎𝑙 𝑒𝑡𝑐)

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