ARTIST BIO Celldweller – the versatile outlet of the artist, performer, producer, songwriter, programmer, and remixer Klayton, began as a producer pseudonym in the early 90’s. Now, over a decade later, Klayton uses the name to deliver his vision of progressively combining multiple genres of music. Taking a unique approach to mixing styles, Celldweller fuses the electronics of drum & bass and techno, with rock and orchestral elements, meshing the synthetic and the organic, darkness with beauty, into a cohesive blend entirely its own.
2000 - Klayton independently releasd a Numbed and Signed 250 Limited Edition Celldweller EP featuring "Symbiont,""Own Little World" & "Fadeaway."
2001-2002 - Klayton wrote & recorded the Debut, Self-Titled Celldweller album.
2003 - Klayton independently released the self-titled debut Celldweller album, and reached 17 on the Billboard Internet Sales Chart. The album garnered Top 40 Metal Radio charting, and the track “I Believe You” reached 11 on the R&R Alternative Specialty Show Chart. The debut album also received 7 awards at the 2004 Just Plain Folks Music Awards, including: Producer of the Year and Album of the Year. Guest appearances included Jarrod Montague of Taproot and mixes by Ben Grosse and Grant Mohrman.
2004-2005 - Celldweller tours nationally, performing with acts such as Mindless Self Indulgence, Three Days Grace, Deadstar Assembly, Godhead and Acumen Nation, amongst others...
2006 - Klayton co-wrote and performed the Theme Song to Criss Angel’s A&E Television Show Mindfreak, co-produced the Mindfreak CD Soundtrack, created a Remix to and co-starred in a music video for the theme song and also made a cameo appearance on a Mindfreak episode.
2007-2008 - Klayton’s fierce electronic programming & production skills have captured the minds of the electronic music world as seen in a full page feature for Keyboard Magazine and a recent appearance for Apple demoing Logic Pro audio software at Remix Hotel L.A. Klayton has also been included in the book, Apple Pro Training Series Logic Pro 8, featuring the Celldweller remix of lvl's track "Home" in the book/dvd combo, allowing fans to see & interact with the remix session.
Klayton has recently completed an aggressive guitar-based Drum 'n Bass remix for Warner UK act Pendulum's single "Propane Nightmares," released in April '08. The remix will also be appearing on a special edition release of Pendulum's new album In Silico.
Klayton has also captured the interest of the Film/TV industry having licensed every track from the Debut Celldweller album. Credits include: "Iron Man,” "Speed Racer,” “CSI” (Superbowl Spot), "Spider-man 2,” "Spider-man 3,” “Superman Returns,” “Silent Hill,” “Doom,” "The Last Legion,” “Mr. and Mrs. Smith,” “Supercross,” “XXX: State of the Union,” “Constantine,” “Catwoman,” “Redline,” “The Punisher,” “Dirt,” “Friday Night Lights,” “Paycheck,” “Timeline,” “Mindhunters,” “National Security,” “Bad Boys 2,” “Crackdown” “The Fast and The Furious: Tokyo Drift,” “Need For Speed: Most Wanted,” “Project Gotham Racing 3,” "Dance Dance Revolution Supernova 2,” “Enter the Matrix” and “XGRA.”
Klayton is currently preparing the next Celldweller release, which promises to be another effort towards breaking stereotypical genre boundaries. The new album will feature a cover version of the Bee Gee’s hit “Tragedy” along with new tracks “Louder Than Words,”“Blackstar,”“The Lucky One,” and “So Long Sentiment.” With each track, Klayton continues to redefine the Celldweller vision, while maintaining his signature sound.
Available Releases: Self-Titled (2003), The Beta Cessions (2004), Switchback DVD (2004), Shapeshifter (Digital Single 2005), Frozen/Goodbye Remixes (Digital Single 2005), Tragedy (Digital Single 2006), Celldweller Remix EP (Switchback/Own Little World) (Digital Single 2006), Take It & Break It Vol One - Own Little World Remixes (2007) and Take It & Break It Vol Two - Frozen Remixes (2008).
Celldweller is endorsed by M-Audio, Native Instruments, Korg, Fab Filter, Ohm Force, Firewire Strings, Rusk and FiXT.
Hey Klayton, I'm pretty much obsessed with the downloads you sent me a while back. I listen to them constantly on my MP3 player at work. Your music is awesome man. Take care and I'll talk to you again soon. Later. -Shawn
Fuckin Sweet man.. Finally, Somebody's once again pushing the limits of dance music... Finally somebody whose not afraid to put some Funk in that shit.. May the spirit ov Charles Levi forever guide your Bass lines... Im Downloadin this remix pak I'll take a crack at it and hit u up... Respekt..
I'm listening to the Birth Right remix and it's good. I love it. But I can't help but think about how much time you wasted on that when you could be making our new cd... FIVE YEARS IS TOO LONG TO WAIT!
klayton,thanks so much for adding me.i love ur music.my brother denny also is into ur music ,he's oneof ur buddies.he knows i love the different kind of music.and he asked me to listen to switch back,and instantly i was hooked ,a fan for life.thanks for the tracks.
Hey, thanks but I've already downloaded all the tracks and I absolutely LOVE your music. I especially love the Switchback music video, I put it on my myspace profile. :)
thnks klayton for your music , but , i want to know something : how is the name of the song sound in criss angel when he hurt your back body , in the air helicop ?¿ i wanna this song or that album , thanks klayton men (my english is not perfect jejejejejejeje )
