Editing Circle of Dust (section)

===''Disengage'' (1998)===
[[File:Klayton (Circle of Dust) publicity image, 1998.jpeg|thumb|upright|Klayton in a promotional image for ''[[Disengage (album)|Disengage]]'', c. 1998]]
Released in 1998 by [[Flying Tart Records]], ''Disengage'' marked the formal end of Circle of Dust and contained reworkings of earlier songs (1991-1995) Klayton had written, some of which he had intended to release back in 1995 on a new Circle of Dust album.<ref name="garlicpressinterview">{{cite web
  | url = http://www.celldwellertribe.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7&Itemid=591
  | title = Circle of Dust interview
  | publisher = The Garlic Press
  | year = 1997
  | accessdate = April 21, 2009
| url-status = dead
  | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110708131443/http://www.celldwellertribe.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7&Itemid=591
  | archive-date = July 8, 2011
| df = mdy-all
  }}</ref> Klayton had rearranged and melded these older songs with new forms of music with which Klayton had been experimenting,<ref>Klay Scott: Jack of All Trades</ref> thus becoming hybrids of Klayton's older, faster, riff-based industrial-metal style and newer dance and ambient influences, with a stronger focus on songwriting. Thus the album was markedly different, musically, from the earlier Circle of Dust and Brainchild albums. Klayton closed the album with a selection of remixes, two of which were produced by Dan Leveler, who, it was later revealed, was Klayton's younger brother and who later became a solo industrial/electronic artist in his own right, recording under the name [[LVL (band)|Level]]. The liner notes of ''Disengage'' contains excerpts of an interview in which Klayton explained why he had disbanded Circle of Dust and started anew with Angeldust.{{Citation needed|date=April 2009}}

Although Klayton intended to release ''Disengage'' in 1997 and precede its release with an EP of ''Disengage'' remixes titled ''Refractorchasm'', Flying Tart canceled the EP's release and delayed ''Disengage'' until 1998, requiring Klayton to tack the EP onto ''Disengage'' in order to ensure the release of the music.<ref name="dustedreviews2">{{cite web
  | url = http://www.dusted.com
  | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20020619092856/http://dusted.com/Press/transcendence.html
  | title = dusted.com archive-reviews-Transcendence
  | publisher = Transcendence
  | archive-date = June 19, 2002
| accessdate = April 22, 2009
}}</ref> Within two weeks of signing his contract with Flying Tart, the label was bought out and dissolved, ensuring the album saw extremely limited distribution.<ref name="hminterview" />