Kasson Crooker

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Kasson Crooker

Background information
Also known as Symbion Project
Komputer Kontroller
Cosmonaut Zero
DJ HMX
Rance Warlock
Origin United States
Labels Ninthwave Records
Associated acts Splashdown
Freezepop

Kasson Crooker is an American musician and the artist behind Symbion Project, DJ HMX, Komputer Kontroller, Rance Warlock and Cosmonaut Zero. In September 2009, he retired from the synthpop group Freezepop, of which he was a founding member. While in the band he went by various aliases, starting as "The Duke of Candied Apples," then briefly being known as "The Duke of Belgian Waffles," and finally "The Duke of Pannenkoeken." His main solo project is Symbion Project, with three releases, the "Red" album, released in 1998, "Immortal Game," released on Ninthwave Records in 2003, and "Wound Up by God or the Devil", released in December 2006. His past bands include the dreampop band Sirensong and the more well-known Splashdown, whose albums include "Stars and Garters", the "Halfworld" EP, the "Redshift" EP, and the unreleased full-length albums "Blueshift" (which was completed for but never released by Capitol Records) and "Possibilities" (an album of remixes and demos). Crooker is also the Senior Project Lead at video game developer Harmonix, and the music of Symbion Project and/or Freezepop has been featured in the Harmonix PlayStation 2 games FreQuency, Amplitude, the Karaoke Revolution series, Guitar Hero, Guitar Hero 2, Phase, Rock Band; the InCog-developed Downhill Domination; and one of the North American Dance Dance Revolution games developed by Konami, which publishes Karaoke Revolution. He and Eric Brosius took home the 2006 Game Developers Choice Award for Best Audio for their work on Guitar Hero.

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