Charlie Atom

Charlie Atom
Background information
Born	Jose Carlos Pelaez Lazo (1988-07-21) July 21, 1988 (age 38) Veracruz, Mexico
Genres	Pop, EDM, Electro House, Progressive House, Psychedelic music
Occupations	Music Producer, Composer, DJ, Songwriter
Instruments	Laptop, turntable, synthesizer, piano, guitar, bass guitar, drums
Years active	2010–present
Labels	Sony Music, Blanco y Negro, Warner Music, Sony Music
Website	charlieatom.tv

José Carlos Peláez Lazo (born July 21, 1988), known by his stage name Charlie Atom, is a Mexican-Spanish DJ and multi-instrumentalist electronic dance music producer who combines many genres of music like house, rock, pop, classical music and more to create his music and aims to conceptual tracks. He is known for making progressive melodies and using melodic structures to make a narrative on his tracks. He has released music on Sony Music and Warner Music, performed on Electric Daisy Carnival 2019 and 2020 and Formula 1, also have made soundtracks for feature films and videogames under the alias Charlie Pelaez. He has been working as a freelance Ghost Producer and custom remixer since 2015 and recently on Fiverr.

Background

Atom started playing the piano and composing when he was a child. He used to do multitrack recording using two cassette recorders and his keyboard at that time. He learned to play guitar, bass guitar and drums before he was 15 years old, and also learned to use audio software to produce rock songs.

He started as a professional DJ and EDM producer in 2010 under the name of Charlie Atom. In 2010, he signed Whirlpool (Remixes) in the netlabel Another Chance Records. He has made releases to many other record labels, and in 2011 he released his first studio album Psychedelhi which he decided to release for free and been reviewed in the web magazine Consequence of Sound. In 2016, he was signed by Ensis Records for the track "Slippin Away ft. Emma Harrop" and Blanco y Negro Music with his track "Winter" with Belgian DJ Michael Fall and with English singer and composer Joe Bateman. The track has been played in many places around the world including the Belgian FM radio station TOPradio and it reached the Ultratop Belgian chart up to number 41. He also has officially remade tracks such as "Numb" from Linkin Park. Later on his releases got supported by DJs like Breathe Carolina. His track "Black Magic", released on Ensis Records, got support by Blasterjaxx, and many other DJs. He also played some big festivals in México, including Daydream Festival and Electric Daisy Carnival. In 2019, he made his first release on Sony Music remixing Mexican artists Félix y Gil with their track "Café en la Mesa".

Atom toured on China with the company SG Entertainment in 2019 and 2020 and was main star on the Nanchang's The King new years party.

Now he works with many labels including his own label Atomik Records, which got support by Don Diablo.

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