Kasson Crooker
aka:
DJ HMX,
Komputer Kontroller
Moby ID: 28700
Biography edit · view history
Kasson began his career in the music industry after attending Berklee College of Music (music production and engineering major) at Lexicon where he worked in QA on products like the PCM90, MPX1, and 960, also making an abundance of presets for those devices. From there he moved to Papyrus Design as the sole audio person working on the PC racing title Grand Prix Legends.
Then a short retirement followed as he left Papyrus to record an album for Capitol Records with his then band Splashdown. Capitol undeservedly shelved the album, and by then Kasson had begun work in audio production at Harmonix Music Systems. His first title there was the 2000 game FreQuency which he did lead audio production on, and composed the songs under the band name's Freezepop, Symbion Project, DJ HMX, and Komputer Kontroller. He then worked on the second title Amplitude doing audio production and more compostion. Both those titles were published by SCEA.
He then became the Audio Director at Harmonix and went to work on 5 Karaoke Revolution titles for publisher Konami, and doing extensive sound design and audio systems implementation for the 2004 release of Eyetoy: AntiGrav (published by SCEA), the premier title exploiting the amazing potential of the eyetoy peripheral.
Following this was the extreme success of the Guitar Hero 1 & 2 series which Harmonix created and developed (plus the 80's edition). These games won many awards including Best Music Game 2005 (IGN) and Best of Show/Editors Choice at E3 2005, as well as winning many G.A.N.G. awards for audio. Kasson then transitioned out of audio and became a producer at Harmonix where he project lead the team creating the interactive music game Phase for the iPod, which was released in fall of 2007.
Kasson other main hobbies are his bands Freezepop and Symbion Project, and looking at mobiles.
Credited on 26 games
Displaying most recent · View all
Thumper (2016, Windows) | Special Thanks |
Amplitude (2016, PlayStation 3) | 'Concept' |
Dance Central 2 (2011, Xbox 360) | Project Director |
Rock Band Reloaded (2010, iPhone) | Project Director |
Dance Central (2010, Xbox 360) | Project Lead |
Rock Band 3 (2010, Wii) | Pre-Production Lead |
Green Day: Rock Band (2010, Wii) | Harmonix Music Systems, Inc. |
The Beatles: Rock Band (2009, PlayStation 3) | Project Director |
LEGO Rock Band (2009, Nintendo DS) | Project Director |
Rock Band (2008, Wii) | Additional Production |
AC/DC Live: Rock Band - Track Pack (2008, PlayStation 2) | Senior Producers |
Guitar Hero: On Tour (2008, Nintendo DS) | I Am Not Your Gameboy |
Phase (2007, iPod Classic) | Project Lead |
Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s (2007, PlayStation 2) | Audio Director |
Guitar Hero II (2007, Xbox 360) | Audio Director |
CMT Presents: Karaoke Revolution - Country (2006, PlayStation 2) | Audio Director |
Dance Dance Revolution: Ultramix 3 (2005, Xbox) | UI Music |
Karaoke Revolution: Party (2005, PlayStation 2) | Audio Director |
Guitar Hero (2005, PlayStation 2) | Audio Director |
EyeToy: AntiGrav (2004, PlayStation 2) | Audio Director |
[ full credits ]
Frequent Collaborators
People- 23 games with Ryan Lesser
- 22 games with Eric Malafeew
- 21 games with Greg LoPiccolo
- 21 games with Alex Rigopulos
- 21 games with Eran Egozy
- 21 games with Dare Matheson
- 20 games with Josh Randall
- 20 games with Jason Arnone
- 20 games with Kris Fell
- 20 games with Brian Gibson
Companies
- 21 games with Harmonix Music Systems, Inc.
- 7 games with MTV Games
- 6 games with Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc.
- 5 games with Liquid Development, LLC
- 4 games with Electronic Arts, Inc.
- 3 games with Sony Interactive...
- 3 games with Sony Interactive...
- 3 games with Activision Publishing, Inc.
- 3 games with RedOctane, Inc.
- 3 games with Pi Studios, LLC.
Contribute
Add your expertise to help preserve video game history! You can submit a correction or add the following: