Switchback (Celldweller song)

"Switchback" is a song by the American electronic rock project Celldweller, released in 2003 on the self-titled debut album. Like other Celldweller tracks, "Switchback" has been licensed for media usage.[1]

"Switchback"
Single by Celldweller
from the album Celldweller
ReleasedAugust 17, 2004
Recorded2000–2003
Genre
Length5:31
Label
Songwriter(s)Klayton
Producer(s)Klayton
Celldweller singles chronology
"Switchback"
(2004)		 "Shapeshifter"
(2005)

Overview

Background

Klayton has described Switchback as the "most expensive song I've ever shelved", having recorded more than 50 demos for three years.[2] $11,500 was spent on recording and mixing an early version (dubbed the "Detroit 2000" mix on The Beta Cessions release) which eventually got scrapped. Switchback was the last track to be recorded and mixed for the album.[3]

Music Video

The music video was produced, edited and directed by Klayton himself and was shot on location at The High Street House. Klayton had described the "Gray Girl" as his "mirror image", stating, "she was like an alter ego or a version of me in a perverted form". A majority of the footage that was shot did not "translate" into the vision Klayton had and as a result, the original storyline for the video was scrapped and became something that Klayton "did not want", having described the video as, "a bunch of guys in a room lip syncing to the music".[4]

Track listing
UK promo single
Side A
No.TitleLength
1."Switchback" (Filo and Peri Remix)5:52
Side B
No.TitleLength
1."Switchback" (Elevation Thomas Dub)9:10
Switchback/Own Little World Remix EP
No.TitleLength
1."Switchback" (Klayton Revision)6:48
2."Own Little World" (Remorse Code and Blue Stahli Remix)6:30
3."Switchback" (Klayton Revision instrumental)6:48
4."Own Little World" (Remorse Code and Blue Stahli Remix instrumental)6:30

Media usage

"Switchback" is the most used Celldweller track to be used for various media,[1] including:

gollark: The hard disk I'm using for backups is making faint clicky noises. This is very reassuring.
gollark: Has my backup already finished? This was very fast. I don't trust it.
gollark: Maybe the determinant would have been more funnerer than multiplication. Oh well.
gollark: You are to multiply them for code guessing however.
gollark: I think jabu does typical mind fallacy.

References
  1. "Celldweller Bio". Retrieved August 31, 2015.
  2. Cellout TV (August 4, 2007). "Celldweller Remix Competition Round 3 Announcement". Youtube. Retrieved August 31, 2015.
  3. Celldweller (May 18, 2013). "Celldweller 10 Year Anniversary - Behind The Scenes Part IV". Youtube. Retrieved August 31, 2015.
  4. Celldweller (May 25, 2013). "Celldweller 10 Year Anniversary - Behind The Scenes Part V". Youtube. Retrieved August 31, 2015.
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