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), also known mononymously as Klayton, is an American multi-instrumentalist from New York City who currently resides in Los Angeles, California. He has led several Electronic music, electron ...

, the sole member of the

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project

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

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 ''

The Bane of Yoto ''The Bane of Yoto'' is a science-fantasy novel by Josh Viola (creator) and Nicholas Karpuk, first published in June 2012 by music label FiXT Music owned by electronic rocker Klayton of Celldweller. The transmedia project also includes an au ...

''. 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 ''

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'', 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

*3FORCE * Beyond Unbroken *CANTERVICE *Coping Method *Daedric *DEATH X DESTINY *ENMY *Essenger *Extra Terra *Fight The Fade *Fury Weekend *HIGHSOCIETY *Izzy Reign *

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 as a band from 1988 to 1998 and then re-started in 2015 after Klayton gained back ownership of his ...

^{(also see Argyle Park

Argyle Park was an underground industrial rock supergroup founded in New York City in 1994 and active until 1996. Members of the group reformed under the name AP2 in 1998, and were active under that name until winter 2000. Signed to Christian m ...
)} **

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 syn ...

**FreqGen *

I Will Never Be The Same I Will Never Be The Same (sometimes shortened as IWNBTS) is an electronic/synth-rock music project based in Los Angeles, California. It was created by electronic music composer Josh Atchley, who made his debut in 2009 with the album ''Standby''. ...

*Kodeseven *Nouveau Arcade *Nitroverts *Nutronic *Raizer *Signal Void *Soul Extract *

The Qemists The Qemists are an English electronic rock group, hailing from Brighton, Sussex. 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 with ...

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 Formation and release of "An Illusion of Time" and "Play.Danc ...

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 music with progressive metal. Gallego chose the name The Algorithm t ...

The Browning The Browning is an American electronicore band formed in Kansas City, Missouri in 2005. The band's musical style is characterized by an eclectic blending of electronicore and deathcore. The group currently consists of vocalist Jonny McBee, dr ...

*The Plague *Void Chapter *Young Medicine

Former FiXT artists

* Atlas Plug *

* lvl * SeamlessR *

Varien Nikki Kaelar (born May 15, 1990), better known by his stage name Varien, is an American composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist. Varien has incorporated or experimented with such styles as Industrial music, industrial, Heavy metal music, m ...

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 sol ...

Adam Fielding Adam Fielding may refer to: * Adam Fielding (musician) * Adam Fielding (actor) {{hndis, Fielding, Adam ...

* James Dece

References

External links

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