Biography
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2000
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June 2000, Darrel began a new projekt, Krusafix.
His aim was to create a band with a sound that assimilated the best elements of Progressive Industrial, EBM, Dark Tekno, Cyber Gothik, Hardbeat, Epik Trance, Elektro, Cyber Metal, Industrial Drum & Bass, Rave, Dark Wave, Neo Klassical, Avant Garde music genres and create a unique komplex fusion, the Krusafix system of sonic genesis.
June 5th 2000 Krusafix was formed by Darrel W. Hughes.
Darrel has studied several forms of hard Southern Chinese martial arts since the age of 11, those being, Praying Mantis, Wing Chun, also Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do, as well as Aikido (Japanese), Boxing, Kenpo. In total Darrel has studied over 35 arts. Fencing and weapons training including, Escrima, Bo Staff, Nunchakus, to name just a few.
With Bruce Lee as an inspiration of all that is functionally kinetik, the natural harmony and flow via all things as a seamless fusion of feelings, thoughts and kinetiks.
Darrel wanted to take all of the most functional techniques from the genres of music he felt were the most dynamic, to create a hyper focus and fusion of dynamics that would create a unique hyper komplex mutation of sound based on dynamics of functionality to evolve this into a pure sonik innovative cutting edge hyper hybrid of sound, the Krusafix system of sonik genesis.
Like Bruce Lee created Jeet Kune Do, a formless yet focused non style, yet highly developed and evolved via the best of the best techniques through functionality of form and application of the Ying and Yang koncept to attain the ultimate klarity of harmony.
Darrel's chosen path is that of an unorthodox dynamic sonik expression via the unconventional approach of form vs functionality within martial arts at its highest level becomes formless.
Due to this, Darrel has invented his own unique sound or non-style, via his hyper kinetik synthesis koncept to attain his unique innovative sonic formulation.
Or basically, his aim was to create a band with a sound that assimilated the best elements of Progressive Industrial, EBM, Dark Tekno, Cyber Gothik, Hardbeat, Epik Trance, Elektro, Cyber Metal, Industrial Drum & Bass, Rave, Dark Wave, Neo Klassical, Avant Garde music genres and create a unique Darrel decided he wanted full artistic kontrol and to co-ordinated his own international promotion with the help of a few staff via his own record label Neurogenik Transmissions.
Cyberpulse Distribution was also set-up in konjunktion with the Neurogenik Transmissions record label, for a worldwide operation.
June 25th 2000 was the first day Krusafix entered Sequential Studio to begin recording a debut album. Darrel used as many synthesizers as he could being a big fan of both analogue and digital, wanting a sound that covered the last two and a half decades of synthesizers, drum machines and samplers, etc.
All Krusafix music is written, komposed, performed, arranged, mixed, engineered and produced by Darrel.
By August 3rd 2000 tracks for a debut CD album had been kompleted.
July 1st 2000 Darrel had begun to build the Official Krusafix Website.
At this time it was part of the Cyberpulse Website, a Mail Order Music Website that specialised in music styles as mentioned above.
The Krusafix element of the Cyberpulse Website was just a release info page and a news sektion, the main idea was to inform the masses of the existence and the activity of Krusafix at that time.
July 8th - August 27th 2000 the artwork koncept for the forthcoming debut Krusafix CD Album was designed by Hyperoptik Graphix the artwork design division of the NT label.
July 26th - 31st 2000 Darrel went into the Sequential Studio again to record the debut Krusafix CD Single.
August 15th 2000 was the release day for the debut Krusafix CD Album Cyber Angel.
August 27th - 28th 2000 as Hyperoptik Graphix, Darrel also designed the artwork koncept for the forthcoming Krusafix debut CD Single.
August 29th 2000 was the release day of the debut Krusafix CD Single Cyber Angel.
A lot of international promotion followed for the next few months, and progressively a solid global Krusafix profile was being built. Both releases received a great response from the international music media, radio stations-programmes and music fans worldwide.
October 23rd 2000 Darrel started working on the preproduktion of a new Krusafix album.
November 15th 2000 Darrel returned to Sequential Studio to begin komposing new tracks for the 2nd Krusafix album.
Further international promotion found Krusafix in the music media news headlines and radio airwaves in; England, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Chile, Italy, France, Belgium, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Slovakia, Russia, Brazil, USA, Australia, Japan, China.
December 31st 2000 Krusafix has made great progress in the six months since it's inception.
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2001
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January 7th 2001 and Krusafix enter the music media news headlines and radio airwaves in; Holland, Switzerland, Poland, Canada.
January 15th 2001 and the new Krusafix album tracks that have been kompleted so far are much more diverse in style fusion and are hyper komplex compared to the previous komplex Krusafix kompositions.
However several other new album tracks are also presently in produktions, therefore the "whole-body of sound" regarding this awesome new Krusafix album is not fully exposed yet.
February 8th 2001 was the date Darrel decided to not only record and release a new Krusafix album, but to also record a remix album and a special edition remix album.
Therefore the release date of the new Krusafix album got re-scheduled from late February until the work for all three albums had been kompleted.
Further promotion of Cyber Angel via press and radio gave Krusafix exposure in Scotland, Argentina, Czech Republic, Croatia, South Korea.
Within eight months of being formed Krusafix had received press attention and radio airplay in twenty-nine countries.
March 25th 2001 Elektra, a new Progressive Electronik Musik Webzine went online today, with Darrel W. Hughes as editor and Tracy Cooper as assistant-editor.
April 30th 2001 the release date of Infernal Sky, the new Krusafix CD album.
All photographs featured within the artwork of Infernal Sky are the excellent work of the talented photographic artist Jean Cooper who is based in Stoke-on-Trent, England. Artwork koncept, design and layout are by Hyperoptik Graphix.
Infernal Sky is not just a fusion of various electronik forms, styles of music or the reincarnation of industrial dance, but the creation of a unique breed of sound with dynamic energy.
May 10th 2001 during the first quarter of the year Krusafix had gained a stronger interest from the alternative music press and radio stations in: Germany, Russia, France, England, Italy, Estonia, Belgium, USA, Australia, Czech Republic, Holland, Sweden, Canada.
May 28th 2001 Temptation the new Krusafix CD remix album was released today.
June 5th 2001 One year since the inception of Krusafix. Since then, three albums and one single have been released.
June 25th 2001 Ascent the new Krusafix Special Edition CD remix album was released today.
July 14th 2001 Krusafix made a visit to Nightmare, a Goth-Industrial night based in Nottingham, England.
July 19th 2001 20,000 visitors to krusafix.com, since the release of the debut Cyber Angel remix CD album.
August 27th 2001 Krusafix returned to Sequential Studio based in the city of Nottingham, England, to commence pre-produktion work on new material.
September 10th 2001 Further international promotion via press and radio gained Krusafix exposure in Austria, Slovenia, Serbia, Yugoslavia, Kazakhstan, Greece, Hong Kong, Thailand, Malaysia, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Israel, South Africa, New Zealand.
October 20th 2001 Krusafix attended the Depeche Mode Exciter Tour concert at Manchester MEN Arena, England.
October 21st 2001 Krusafix attended the Depeche Mode Exciter Tour concert at Birmingham NEC Arena, England.
October 21st 2001 during the Depeche Mode Exciter Tour show at the Birmingham NEC in England, Krusafix met up with elektronik pioneer Fad Gadget, and presented him with a CD of Infernal Sky.
Should you wish to read an online transcript of their illuminating conversation, see the interview sektion of this website.
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2002
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January 9th 2002 On the 9th January 2002, all previous Krusafix CD releases were re-issued featuring revised artwork designs-layouts, and are presented in Amaray DVD style boxes.
The debut Krusafix CD single Cyber Angel, now also features a new bonus track Bloodlust - Attila Mix.
March 1st 2002 thought you all should be aware that in November 1993, Red Sekta recorded a tribute to Fad Gadget via Love Parasite.
Love Parasite - Vampira Remix, was released in Spring 1994 via the German record label Celtic Circle Productions, and presented on Anodize the debut Red Sekta CD album.
Fad Gadget having been resurrected, it seems even more relevant now, than it did back then.
Since 1991 Darrel had been studying and training in klassical piano skills and by July 2002 had reached and passed Grade 9 Piano skills.
This is more than evident on listening to the Krusafix material regarding komposition komplexity, and techniques employed to kraft the overall sound of Krusafix.
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2003
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January 26th 2003 due to the sudden and unexpected death of Darrel’s father, the release of the forthcoming Krusafix album, Sins Of The Flesh was postponed.
By August 2003 the events in Darrel’s life following the death of his father included the break up of his personal relationship to his partner, after also just having a son born in June and the subsequent separation due to his Mother having a stroke and then seizures as a side effect of the stroke.
Darrel was not able to kontinue the progress of Krusafix at this time, his personal life had become total khaos, which needed all his attention to put things into balance again.
Also the first Official Krusafix Website along with the Elektra Musik Webzine closed their operations.
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2004
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From July 2004 Darrel had started to study for Grade 10 in Piano skills.
Darrel also kontinued to study all elements of digital studio produktion, and maintain his overview regarding state of the art music technologies to remain at the cutting edge, even while being sub-active inbetween releasing new produkts as Krusafix.
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2005
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January 26th 2005 the resurrection of Krusafix, Darrel steps out of the shadows to begin the next chapter in the evolution of his creative innovation of sonik genesis and the forthcoming new releases of Krusafix.
A new Official Krusafix Website also went active on this very day, which has had 21,000 visitors in the eight weeks since its inception.
March 1st 2005 Krusafix is presently in talks with several major independent labels to release its forthcoming produkts to reach a wider audience worldwide.
15th April 2005 as Krusafix, Darrel begins working on a sound kollage as a backing track specifically to be used for the Krusafix website musical theme.
The sound kollage is titled Hammered & Nailed - Sonik Assault Mix, furthermore Hammered & Nailed Re-Edit Mix are both featured on the website, the latter as a bonus free download. Four mixes were recorded and kompleted in total.
Darrel worked on audio promotion with a series of free downloads from the Krusafix back katalogue during the summer of 2005, raising the profile of Krusafix within the alternative music media worldwide and its readership.
Further music media, klub and radio promotion followed until December 2005.
Within 12 months www.krusafix.co.uk had just over 202,000 visitors.
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