The Ripple Effect Podcast #117 (CELLDWELLER)
The Ripple Effect Podcast
Ricky Varandas
4.6 • 603 Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2017
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Summary
Klayton is best known for his Celldweller project but some might know him from his Circle of Dust or Scandroid projects.
His music has been used in video games like Need For Speed, films like Deadpool & TV shows like America's Got Talent, to name a few.
Klayton is a multi-instrumentalist and vocalist, skillfully playing everything from guitars, bass, drums and keys to operating a massive collection of modular synthesizers. Klayton’s sound is further characterized by his intricate production in editing, programming and mixing.
Klayton approaches musical genres as a Mixed Martial Artist approaches fighting – fluidly combining each style in cohesive mastery of the arts. Klayton’s arsenal of styles ranges from Drum & Bass, Orchestral, Rock n Roll, Electro, Metal, Psy-Trance, Tribal Percussion, Modular Synthesis, Pop, Metal, Glitch-Hop, Breaks, Experimental Noise, Sound Design and beyond.
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| 0:00.0 | believe in the ripple fact |
| 0:25.6 | The ripple fact I'm a host, Ricky Varanis. Today we have |
| 1:14.0 | Clayton, aka Cell Dweller, somebody I've been a fan of for so long. Amazing artist. I'm playing |
| 1:20.6 | some of his music in the background right now as we speak. And it's a mixture of metal and |
| 1:26.6 | electronica and acoustic guitar and heavy synths |
| 1:30.7 | and trance and drum and bass and industrial and all these different things and he also has a music |
| 1:36.0 | project called scandroid which is a kind of 80s new wave with a kind of a modern production |
| 1:42.7 | touch and then he also has circle of dust which is |
| 1:46.9 | actually his first music project which he just came out a new album called machines of our disgrace |
| 1:52.9 | which is amazing if you like industrial and and uh it's you know electronic music with more riffs |
| 1:58.6 | and darker and more guitar and screaming. |
| 2:01.7 | So definitely check that out. |
| 2:03.1 | He's just amazing artists. |
| 2:05.0 | You meet these people and you assume and, you know, it doesn't always seem to be the case. |
| 2:10.1 | But on the show it seems to be the case where you get somebody who has really interesting work, |
| 2:16.2 | interesting music, interesting film, |
| 2:18.6 | or interesting art, and whatever, you assume that they're just deep thinker, |
| 2:22.7 | and you meet them, and you tend to be right. |
| 2:25.7 | And Clayton's no different, really interesting guy. |
| 2:28.0 | We got in so many different topics and conversations. |
| 2:30.2 | Hopefully we get into a lot of different conversations and topics that you don't hear him talk about on other shows because this show has no format. |
| 2:38.7 | We go wherever the conversation takes us, which leads us down some really interesting roads. |
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