DJ: It's nine o'clock and as promised, Klay Scott, from Circle of Dust. How ya doing man? (clapping) In the studio. It's almost life after death really that's why we are clapping cause it's almost like your back from the grave. Umm, you got a new album out called 'Disengage'

Klay: Correct

DJ: Talk to me about it, say what ya got to say. Plug the hell out of your album.

Klay: I'm not really sure where to start with it umm...

DJ: Where did it come from?

Klay: Where did it come from...

DJ: Yea, what stemmed this release?

Klay: Well, I mean I don't know how I could answer that without giving a bit of history. The last Circle of Dust record was put out on a label called R.E.X., they were based out of Nashville. Without getting too intemate and boring with all the details, there were legal battles that ensued, at the end of '95 that lasted for a year and a half that kind of tied me up creatively. I couldn't sign to another label I couldn't release another record on R.E.X. they had no distribution. So basically that was when I had decided to technically put an end to Circle of Dust, and persue other things. I had had material that I had started writting for a new record and abviously couldn't release so Disengage actually was born from some of that material as well as some other material that I had sitting around some other projects I had started but never finished, and some bran new stuff.

DJ in back: How does it feel after you sit there and you say that you... some of the material has been laying around stuff like that, how does it feel when you put it all together, did it make sense when you put it together? Did it make sense at first when you where putting this material together?

Klay: I think it was more like I looked at what I had and tried to figure out how to make sense of it. I went back to the tracks that I had written a few years before and revamped them remixed them obvioulsy re-recorded parts and things like that and I really felt when the finished product was done that it was cohesive.

DJ: Ok so you slipped out of "Refractor" with just about no explanation.

Klay: I'm not really sure what I could really say about it

DJ: Really? It's like that far distant?

DJ in back: It's a pumping tune.

DJ: It is, I love that song.

Klay: I think if I were to redo it now it would probably be a little more different than it is now but umm..

DJ in back: Really?

Klay: Well actually that was written two completely different parts. The begginning vereses thats a little quicker than everything else was written...umm..that was probably written I don't even know how to gage it probably two years, two and a half years ago and then the chourus part, which is where the tempo changes or slows down was written after that. I was in a different mindset musically. That's usually when the best stuff happens because I'll be influenced by something come back to a piece that I started a month or two later with a totally different idea and try to combine it into the same song and you end up with something that either it totally works or it totally doesn't.

DJ in back: You see folks that's a real musician at work right there

DJ: You want to talk about...this guy like plays like everything.

DJ in back: That's awsome

DJ: Ok could you list for us...

Klay: Not everything...

DJ: Could you list for us what you do play?

Klay: What I do play?

DJ: Yes, what you have the ability to.

Klay: I'm not sure if I can really play anything.

DJ: Really?

Klay: No I'm just kidding

DJ: Well I've seen ya play guitar so I know you can at least do that.

Klay: No I'm kidding

DJ: And you basically did this entire album all by yourself.

Klay: There's a phrase that comes to mind it's jack of all trades but master of none. I think that applies here. I look at what I do..umm...I use my instruments and whatever instrument that might be as a tool for the end result I want to write a song and if I hear a horn in this song I'm gonna find a horn and I'll play around with it until it sounds like something I want it to. It doesn't mean I'm gonna join the brass section, and be grov'n along with these people cause I probably can't do that. But as far as playing guitars is concerned, as far as drumbs bass, whatever, keys, programming, pretty much all self taught and it was for those reasons.

DJ: ....Disengage, and RefractorChasm

Klay: Right

DJ: Now what made you decide to go balistic on the second half and remix and redo alot of stuff?

Klay:Unfortunately it was not my decision to put both these separate entities on one CD. I was kind of forced into that situation. The RefractorChasm half of the CD was supposed to be a CD single so I had done the artwork for it as well as for a separate singal as well as the remixes and when came time to deliver I was informed that they were not going to do it at all so I had to work it out with them so they would at least put the tracks, the music part of it, at the end of the full leangth Disengage release. But I wanted to keep some sort of separation there so people knew these were ment to be different releases.

DJ: Not only did you write the songs, play just about every instrument, and mix em all together, you produced the album as well. You designed the artwork for the album.

Klay: Yeap, did that to. See I have this problem, and this goes back to another saying that I heared my whole life. If ya want something done right you do it yourself. And that's what it basically came down to. I just had a lot of ideas. And I don't really trust anybody else with them. So I realized that my computer that I had been using for how many years was more capable than just creating music. I mean I could do so many more things, started messing around with images, and visual art. And that's how I had gotten into that. Actually it's very similar to creating music. So that's why it was kind of a natural thing.