About Cryptic Cadet
What started out as the most brutal slap fight in the history of Las Vegas wound up being a collaboration that, for many local musicians, was the only topic worth discussing after the drugs had peaked and it was too late to get any more alcohol.
After a random meeting at a jam session hosted by a couple of music superstars whose names it would be considered gauche to drop, Mark Owen and Cam Tyler discovered a mutual love for hiding out in acoustically treated spaces, hunching over keyboards, and screaming obscenities at each other.
This naturally led to the pair producing a slew of albums for local artists and their ensuing constabulary which led to the consumption of unhealthy levels of Indian curry and heated discussions about accurate hi-pass filtering. All of which contributed to an underground notoriety that produced $10-15 a week in side income and an overbearing ennui about why one does what one does because one is who one is. Or is not.
None of which have encouraged either of them to quit their night gigs with Cirque du Soleil or the Grammy nominated Blues artist who respectively employ them.
Mark Owen
Mark Owen is a musician, producer, composer, arranger, and mix engineer who has spent the time since he graduated from the Berklee College of Music quietly making an impression on a very long and influential list of clients while leaving in his wake an even more substantial body of work which continues to grow.
Years on the road with a variety of heavyweight musicians honed an already sharp rhythm section acumen, and projects coming out of his home studio led to to a commercial recording facility being built around him. After moving to Las Vegas to work for Cirque du Soleil he continued to operate a private studio for hire doing production, mixing, and arranging work for select clients, until meeting Cam and joining forces as a production and writing team.
Cam Tyler
After graduating from Emerson College in Boston with a marketing degree, which surprised everyone since he had spent a majority of his time playing drums on shows and sessions at the Berklee College of Music, Cam moved to Los Angeles. There he worked with some of the L.A.’s name players, touring with multiple major-label artists, as well as producing on the side.
After six years in LA, a move to Las Vegas led to Cam’s rapid rise among Vegas’s first call musicians, including gigs with Cirque du Soleil, Marie Osmond, The Australian Bee Gees Show, and many more. A chance meeting at a jam session with Mark was the beginning of a writing and production team that has done several full length recordings and led to the formation of Cryptic Cadet.
