Charlie Clouser
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| Birth name | Charles Alexander Clouser |
| Born | June 28, 1963 |
| Origin | Hanover, New Hampshire |
| Genre(s) | Electronica, Industrial metal |
| Occupation(s) | Keyboardist, Composer, Producer |
| Instrument(s) | Synthesizers, Drums, Bass Guitar, Theremin |
| Associated acts | Nine Inch Nails, Burning Retna |
Charles Alexander Clouser (born June 28, 1963, in Hanover, New Hampshire) is a musician whose activities include playing Keyboard, Synth, Theremin, and drums. He is also greatly known for his amazing abilities in music programming, engineering, mixing, and remixing. He was a member of the band Nine Inch Nails 1994–2000. Before he was in Nine Inch Nails, he was in the alternative band Burning Retna with former L.A. Guns guitarist Mick Cripps and fellow Nothing Records worker Sean Beavan. Clouser also was a member of the band 9 Ways To Sunday who released a self titled album in 1990. Clouser has remixed bands such as Deftones, White Zombie, Rob Zombie, Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson, Rammstein, Prong, Killing Joke, Type O Negative, Zilch, Schwein, Collide, Real McCoy, 12 Rounds, Foetus, Del tha Funkee Homosapien, Deltron 3030, Meat Beat Manifesto, SplatterCell, David Bowie, Puff Daddy, Howard Stern, Everlast, Snake River Conspiracy, A Perfect Circle, Stellar, Vixtrola, Reach 454, FAT, Die Krupps, Apartment 26, Fuel, John Frusciante, Puscifer, Belinda Carlisle, Radiator, Alec Empire, Tino Corp., Esthero, and Black Light Burns.
In 2004 Clouser produced the album Size Matters by the band Helmet. Which was mainly comprised of songs recorded by Charlie Clouser and Page Hamilton for what was to be a Page Hamilton "solo" album. The first release from the project "Throwing Punches" appeared on a soundtrack in 2003 for the film Underworld as a Page Hamilton track.
In the late 1990's Clouser created one of FirstCom music's master series discs. These were only sold with licence to use commercially.
Two songs programmed by Clouser were nominated for Grammy Awards in 1997: White Zombie's "I'm Your Boogie Man" and Rob Zombie and Alice Cooper's "Hands of Death (Burn, Baby, Burn)," the latter of which Clouser also co-wrote and mixed.
He worked with Trent Reznor on the soundtrack of Natural Born Killers, helping record and produce a new version of "Something I Can Never Have," a track of which original version appeared on Nine Inch Nails' Pretty Hate Machine album. The remix of Rob Zombie's "Dragula" can be found on The Matrix soundtrack, also credited to Clouser. He produced Helmet's album Size Matters and the unfinished project with Page Hamilton called Gandhi.
He provided the live synth for Alec Empire's "Intelligence And Sacrifice" tour in 2001.
He appears in the Moog documentary about electronic-music pioneer Robert Moog and composed the song "I Am a Spaceman" for the original soundtrack of that movie.
Clouser has also worked as a film and television composer, scoring the Saw series of films, as well as Death Sentence (2007), Resident Evil: Extinction (2007), Dead Silence (2007), and Deepwater (2005)].[1] On television, he is the composer for the NBC TV series Las Vegas Freeway, and the CBS series NUMB3RS.
Clouser contributed to the Score for the film Collateral (2007).
For the film Saw, he composed the infamous ending theme "Hello Zepp".
Charlie Clouser's surname is pronounced /ˈklaʊzər/ (rhymes with "browser").[2]
[edit] Personal life
Charlie has married his long-time girlfriend, photographer and model Zoë Wiseman in the summer of 2007.
[edit] Discography
[edit] 9 Ways To Sunday
- 9 Ways To Sunday (1990)
[edit] Real McCoy
- Another Night (1994, 1995)
[edit] Nine Inch Nails
- The Downward Spiral (1994)
- Further Down the Spiral (1995)
- The Perfect Drug (1997)
- Closure (1997)
- The Day The World Went Away (1999)
- The Fragile (1999)
- Into The Void (1999)
- Starfuckers, Inc. (1999)
- Things Falling Apart (2000)
- And All That Could Have Been (2002)
[edit] David Bowie
- I'm Afraid of Americans (1997)
- Seven (2000)
- Best Of Bowie (2002)
[edit] Marilyn Manson
- Portrait of an American Family (1994)
- Lunchbox (1995)
- Smells Like Children (1995)
- Sweet Dreams (1995)
- Antichrist Superstar (1996)
- Tourniquet Pt. 2 (1997)
- Lest We Forget - The Best Of (2004)
[edit] White Zombie
- Astro Creep: 2000 (1995)
- More Human Than Human (1995)
- Real Solution #9 (1995)
- Ratfinks, Suicide Tanks And Cannibal Girls (1996)
- Supersexy Swingin' Sounds (1996)
- Electric Head Pt. 2 (The Ecstasy) (1996)
[edit] Rob Zombie
- The Great American Nightmare (1997)
- Hellbilly Deluxe (1998)
- Dragula (1998)
- Living Dead Girl (1999)
- American Made Music To Strip By (1999)
- Remix-A-Go-Go (1999)
- The Best Of Rob Zombie: 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection (2006)
[edit] Prong
- Broken Peace (1994)
- Rude Awakening (1996)
[edit] Die Krupps
- The Final Remixes (1994)
- Rings Of Steel (1995)
- Fire (1997)
[edit] FAT
- Down Time (1995)
[edit] Killing Joke
- Democracy (1996)
[edit] Meat Beat Manifesto
- Asbestos Lead Asbestos (1996)
[edit] Type O Negative
- Cinnamon Girl (1997)
- D-Side 1 (2000)
- The Least Worst Of (2000)
[edit] Rammstein
- Stripped (1998)
[edit] Esthero
- Breath From Another (1998)
- Heaven Sent (1998)
[edit] 12 Rounds
- Pleasant Smell (1998)
[edit] Splattercell
- AH - ReMiKSiS (2000)
[edit] Snake River Conspiracy
- Pre-Fatty Tingle (2000)
- Sonic Jihad (2000)
[edit] Alec Empire
- Live At Fuji-Rock (DVD) (2001)
[edit] Deltron 3030
- Positive Contact (2001)
[edit] Schwein
- Son Of Schweinstein (2001)
[edit] Foetus
- Blow (2001)
[edit] Reach 454
- Reach 454 (2003)
[edit] Fuel
- Natural Selection (2003)
[edit] Collide
- Vortex (2004)
- Live At The El Rey (2005)
[edit] Helmet
- Size Matters (2004)
[edit] Apartment 26
- Music For The Massive (2004)
[edit] A Perfect Circle
- eMOTIVe (2004)
[edit] John Frusciante
- Shadows Collide With People (2004)
[edit] Burning Retina
- Frozen Lies (2006)
[edit] Puscifer
- Don't Shoot The Messenger E.P. (2007)
[edit] Black Light Burns
- Cruel Melody (2007)
[edit] Soundtracks
- Natural Born Killers (1994)
- The Doom Generation (1995)
- Escape From LA (1996)
- Beavis and Butthead Do America (1996)
- The Fan (1996)
- Lost Highway (1997)
- Howard Stern: Private Parts (1997)
- Nowhere (1997)
- End OF Days (1999)
- The Matrix (1999)
- The Crow Salvation (2000)
- Valentine (2001)
- The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
- Underworld (2003)
- Moog (2004)
- Collateral (2004)
- Saw (2004)
- Deepwater (2005)
- NBC's Las Vegas (2005)
- Saw II (2005)
- Saw III (2006)
- Dead Silence (2007)
- Death Sentence (2007)
- Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)
- Saw IV (2007)
[edit] Other
- In Defense Of Animals Volume 2 (1996)
- Volume Fourteen - Reading '95 Special (1996)
- FirstCom Master Series Charlie Clouser - NAILS (1997)
- Best Alternative Volume 7 (1997)
- Industrial Mix Machine (1997)
- ECW Extreme Music (1998)
- Duke Nukem (Music To Score By - the offical Duke Nukem Album) (1999)
- Twisted Metal 4 (Video Game Score) (1999)
- Kerrang! Magazine 1999: The Finest Tracks Of The Year (1999)
- Dark Decryption - The Electro Remix Selection Vol. 02 (2002)
- Symphoniacal (2008)
[edit] References
- ^ SoundtrackNet: Charlie Clouser. Retrieved on 2006-11-02.
- ^ SoundtrackNet: Video: Charlie Clouser talks about scoring Resident Evil: Extinction. Retrieved on 2006-11-02.
