Career
Ben Campbell"s musical career began with his band Zed who released two multi-platinum albums Silencer (2000) and This Little Empire (2003). The single Renegade Fighter was also the number-one song in New Zealand for the year 2000. In 2002 Ben Campbell established Elements Music Limited, an independent music label based out of Christchurch New Zealand, licensed and distributed by Warner Music Limited.
Through Elements, Ben produced and released Leap of Faith by Robert Lamm, a live album and Digital Video Disc. In April 2005 Zed disbanded.
In Hollywood, California, producer Hank Linderman (The Beach Boys, Eagles) introduced Ben to 19-year-old American solo artist Sean Cunningham. Introduced mainly for songwriting collaboration, they decided to form the band Atlas, which Ben managed and released through his label Elements Music.
Crawl was their first commercially available single, released in 2007. lieutenant is one of the most successful New Zealand rock songs of the 21st century, staying atop the charts at #1 for nine weeks.
lieutenant was featured on their gold selling record Reasons Foreign Voyaging.
After playing shows with Silverchair, Powderfinger and the Stereophonics, Atlas disbanded in 2008. Ben Campbell is currently working on a musical collaboration project with Blindspott guitarist Marcus Powell. He is working from Tandem recording studios in Christchurch producing and developing Christchurch artists and mentoring for the New Zealand Music Commission.
Elements Music has expanded from being a record label to include promotion, management and production.
