FiXT (pronounced "fixed") is an American independent media company with several divisions including a record label, an

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, and a film/TV/video game music licensing arm. FiXT was founded and is owned by

Klayton Klayton Albert (born Scott David Albert; June 17, 1969) is an American multi-instrumentalist from New York City who currently resides in Los Angeles, California. Klayton has led several bands and has performed under a variety of stage names sin ...

, the sole member of the

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project

Celldweller Celldweller is an American electronic rock project by multi-musician Klayton. Celldweller songs have been featured in many films, movie trailers, television shows and video games. Career Precursors: Circle of Dust and Angeldust (1992–1999) The ...

History

FiXT started in 2006 as an outgrowth of Esion Media, the name under which Klayton published his earliest Celldweller material. After years of trouble with distributors over how to properly handle Celldweller's unique brand of music, Klayton decided to take the same approach to record labels as he did with his music and handle the matter himself. Some of the first releases on FiXT were remix compilations for Celldweller tracks that were called the Take It & Break It series. The remixes were solicited from fans who could download and remix the song files for free. Out of this series grew FiXT Remix, a separate site that regularly hosts remix contests for artists signed to FiXT or carried in the FiXT Store. FiXT released a remix EP for the artists lvl, as well a single for ex-Celldweller guitarist Kem Secksdiin's band Subkulture (on which Klayton was featured), and the subsequent remix album for the contest hosted by FiXT Remix. FiXT's first officially signed artist was

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, an artist with a similar sound and one-man approach to music as Klayton. Over the next few years FiXT began expanding its record label division by signing more artists, such as Josh Money, Rockman, Atlas Plug, Moonitor & Squarehead. In June 2012, FiXT branched out into publishing with the release of

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's five-time award-winning sci-fi/fantasy novel ''

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''. As Viola began looking for publishers for his novel, he reached out to several bands to use their music on a partnered

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app that would feature his book in comic book format. In reaching out to Celldweller for music licensing, he got put in touch with FiXT, who published the book. In August 2012, FiXT hosted a video game-editing contest on YouTube to help promote the release of Celldweller's ''

Soundtrack for the Voices in My Head Vol. 2 ''Soundtrack for the Voices in My Head: Volume 02'' is the second production-based (fourth overall) studio album by the American electronic rock artist, Celldweller. It is the second album in the ''Soundtrack for the Voices in My Head Vol. 1, Soun ...

'', by having gamers submit edited footage synced to the song "First Person Shooter". As part of expansion, FiXT introduced a sublabel, FiXT Neon with focus on

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, and

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. In July 2021, FiXT announced a company rebrand with FiXT Radium as main label and introduced a new EDM sublabel, FiXT Noir.

Licensing

FiXT distributes and licenses music to a variety of film, TV, and video game projects.

Artists

Current FiXT artists

Circle of Dust Circle of Dust is an industrial music project from New York City created by Klayton, who later became known as Celldweller. The project was active from 1988 to 1998 and then re-started in 2015 after Klayton gained back ownership of his old albu ...

^{(also see Argyle Park

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Scandroid Scandroid is an American electronic music project created by Klayton, which previously included Varien in 2013. The project released its debut single, "Salvation Code", on August 6, 2013. Scandroid can be described as encompassing the retro synt ...

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The Qemists The Qemists are an English electronic music group, hailing from Brighton, England. They are signed to Amazing Record Co., an indie record label based in the UK. The band have a separate deal with Beat Records for distribution in Japan and wit ...

The Anix The Anix is a former American rock band and currently a solo electronic project run by Los Angeles-based music producer Brandon Smith who was originally the band's frontman. History Early years (2001–2007) The Anix was formed in 2001 by Brand ...

The Algorithm The Algorithm is the musical project of French musician Rémi Gallego (born 7 October 1989) from Perpignan. His style is characterised by an unusual combination of electronic dance music with progressive metal. Gallego chose the name The Algo ...

Former FiXT artists

* Atlas Plug *

* lvl *

Varien Nikki Kaelar (born May 15, 1990), better known by her stage name Varien, is an American composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist. Varien has incorporated or experimented with such styles as industrial, metal, orchestral, neofolk, and ambi ...

Subterra Records artists

Sebastian Komor Sebastian R. Komor (born 7 May 1976) is a Polish-born, Norwegian-raised electronic musician, best known for his collaborative work in Icon of Coil and Zombie Girl. A prolific artist, Komor has also released electronic music under a variety of s ...

Adam Fielding Adam Fielding is a UK-based electronic music producer and composer. History Starting in 1995, Fielding began writing music using a combination of an Atari STe computer running Protracker software. Although this started out as more of a hobby ...

References

External links

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