Live and direct from the Honky Tonk of Electro, I give you Hyper Crush.
“Live and direct from the Honky Tonk of Electro comes three shit-faced extra terrestrials known amongst the elite simply as Donny, Preston and Holly.” They are Hyper Crush. They are wacky, unique, outspoken and are bringing the 80’s back one dancefloor banger at a time.
The trio “have been friends since we were really young, Donny and Preston were causing trouble in middle school together at 15 years old, We met Holly in high school and shit just made sense..” Originally, the name of the band was the Bel-Airs, but the name changed along with their style and Hyper Crush was born. They picked the band name as they “wanted an original name that did not have any meaning and sounded rad, the two words Hyper and Crush sound like our music, and we like both of those words”
Their musical influences range from “Pet Shop Boys and Rage against the Machine to New Order” as well as “any groups that are pushing the envelope musically.” and bands like “Daft Punk or Tony Scott (director of Top Gun and Days of Thunder) are who they would like most to collaborate with. As for pushing the envelope musically and experimenting, it is something they are doing themselves-they have used sounds from Nintendo’s Duck Hunt game to begin the song “The Arcade” and music from The Legend of Zelda to end it.
Making music was something that “just kinda happened, [as we have] loved it since we were kids…” As for their sound, they describe it as “High Energy. Fun. A swift side-kick to the face.” Which it is. It’s upbeat, funky and has an irresistibleness that one cannot deny.
When asked what they would like to achieve in the music industry, their reply was “Have you seen the movie Wall Street? We wanna be the Gordon Gecko of the music Industry.” The movie Wall Street is about stockbroker with “a strong desire to get to the top” and who will do “just about anything to get into the big leagues”. One can only admire their determination to make it in the industry.
Hyper Crush toured with Kevin Rudolf in spring 2009. The second half of the tour was cancelled for unknown reasons, but touring as the opening act for Lady Gaga surely made up for the botched Kevin Rudolf tour. Opening for Lady Gaga was a mixture of “great exposure, bad sausages” it was also “an amazing opportunity that we took full advantage of, gained a bunch of new fans in Europe, and didn’t eat for a solid month (bad food)…and blew up 2 lasers because of the power conversion..” Now that’s how every tour should be.
Their favourite thing about performing is “the feeling we get when we hear the crowd screaming, and chanting your name before the show, it’s an amazing feeling to know hundreds of people are in the audience that appreciate what we do…” They add “we also love to stage dive and to spray the crowd with super soakers…”
Recording their debut album The Arcade “was awesome, and very time consuming, sometimes we would be up till 10 or 11 am, We were able to try new things musically that were not really being done at that time, We did all the artwork too..” After some delays in releasing their second album they chose to release Mixtape Volume 2 through the internet as their “goal was to get it into as many people’s hands as possible, so we gave it away for free [so] we put up the Mixtape everywhere we could…”
They have a new album coming out soon and so far the name for it is most likely going to be “Flip the Switch”. Recording the new album is going “Fantastic! It is mostly done, we are super happy with the way it turned out. We were exploring a newer bigger sound on this record…” The new and bigger sound is something to look out for. As for their favourite track off the album as of yet it is probably “Flip the Switch”
Their song, “Keep Up” has been described as “a dance floor banger, sure to make you dance so fast you can barely see your sneakers.” It also happens to be the new single they have released and they will have a video for it “coming real soon” as well as a “new album coming soon and when we say soon we mean in the next decade hopefully…”
They have some crazy off the wall antics in studio which include “Preston trying to buy a shotgun (but settled for the most powerful fully automatic BB guns) which we fire at cans in the studio while recording to keep our wits about us…” A typical day in studio for Hyper Crush…
The trio aren’t satisfied with just making music; Preston is working on “developing interplanetary commuter space travel mainly through magnetic powered super crafts.” Donny is practicing being a male escort for lonely upper class housewives in and around southern California and Holly has always dreamed of working at hot dog on a stick and has an interview in the coming weeks. She is keeping her fingers crossed.”
As for the band members themselves “Holly has the mouth of a trucker and is quite a hussie at times. Along with having an unmatched amount of sass she is also very opinionated.” This means she talks the most rubbish (at any given moment). Whilst on tour, it’s all about being clean, clean, clean. Very clean. “We are all really clean, we think Preston has OCD. Donny refuses to let his bare feet touch any type of floor. Ideally we wish we could boil the entire world to completely disinfect it.” You know, the usual.
I had to know with a band such as Hyper Crush just exactly what their craziest show experience has been and it happened at “one of our first shows” “It was in a club in Hollywood. We performed right on the dancefloor. Some guy grabbed Holly’s mic (she got caught slipping) and started talking shit. We ended up getting the mic back and continued to rock. That person is no longer with us.”
Donny is the brash, no nonsense, rapper who tells it like it is. He has the nickname “PonyBoy” and he “took it from the movie The Outsiders which we were obsessed with for a time.” He continues “I’m a straight shooter just like PonyBoy was.” Word. He happens to have the “wits of a pigeon and an ego big enough for 5 men”. It’s pretty impressive and he feels “It is stressful at times. It consumes alot of my energy causing me to have to rest sporadically throughout the day.” He would rather have “Worldwide fame” than a pair of vintage 80’s sneakers as he has “plenty of dope sneakers.” Worldwide fame it is. When they take over the world Donny’s message to their fans would be “Thank you for sticking by us.” Short, sweet and straight to the point.
When asked who would win in a fistfight, Donny or Preston? Donny says “Well being that I test my strength often in drunken street fights I might have an edge on Pres.” Preston says “That would never happen; we would end up fighting you first. If it did though we would duel to the death…”
Preston is a take no prisoners kind of guy. He also happens to be a convicted felon and a fulltime alcoholic as well as a DJ/producer extraordinaire. That doesn’t leave much time for anything else, how he manages it all is simple he explains “the fact is, I have an addictive personality. It works to my advantage, I never stop working, just keep going and going…” Donny has a nickname (“PonyBoy”) and Preston doesn’t although his “old nickname was “Cutti”” That counts for something on the nickname front.
Holly is the bubble gum to their lollipop, metaphorically of course. She has to handle a lot of testosterone with the two guys but she “loves it!” As for the hard decisions in life, such the question of shoes or gum? She would go for “shoes. A lot more damage can be done with my kicks and heels” True that.
When they take over the world she would tell their fans that “Honestly, we couldn’t have done it without you guys…” and Preston would say “Thanks [to the fans] for riding hard with us and we hope you keep repping the crush till the day you perish from the earth because you know we will.”
They have “fresh rhymes and funky beats and they are armed with enough neon to make you wear shades.” You have been warned. Now get ready for them to tear up the dancefloor.
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“Live and direct from the Honky Tonk of Electro comes three shit-faced extra terrestrials known amongst the elite simply as Donny, Preston and Holly.” They are Hyper Crush. They are wacky, unique, outspoken and are bringing the 80’s back one dancefloor banger at a time.
The trio “have been friends since we were really young, Donny and Preston were causing trouble in middle school together at 15 years old, We met Holly in high school and shit just made sense..” Originally, the name of the band was the Bel-Airs, but the name changed along with their style and Hyper Crush was born. They picked the band name as they “wanted an original name that did not have any meaning and sounded rad, the two words Hyper and Crush sound like our music, and we like both of those words”
Their musical influences range from “Pet Shop Boys and Rage against the Machine to New Order” as well as “any groups that are pushing the envelope musically.” and bands like “Daft Punk or Tony Scott (director of Top Gun and Days of Thunder) are who they would like most to collaborate with. As for pushing the envelope musically and experimenting, it is something they are doing themselves-they have used sounds from Nintendo’s Duck Hunt game to begin the song “The Arcade” and music from The Legend of Zelda to end it.
Making music was something that “just kinda happened, [as we have] loved it since we were kids…” As for their sound, they describe it as “High Energy. Fun. A swift side-kick to the face.” Which it is. It’s upbeat, funky and has an irresistibleness that one cannot deny.
Their song, “Keep Up” has been described as “a dance floor banger, sure to make you dance so fast you can barely see your sneakers.” It also happens to be the new single they are releasing and they will have a video for it “coming real soon” as well as a “new album coming soon and when we say soon we mean in the next decade hopefully…”
When asked what they would like to achieve in the music industry, their reply was “Have you seen the movie Wall Street? We wanna be the Gordon Gecko of the music Industry.” The movie Wall Street is about stockbroker with “a strong desire to get to the top.” and who will do “just about anything to get into the big leagues” and whilst they are no means stockbrokers, you can only admire their determination to make it in the industry.
Hyper Crush toured with Kevin Rudolf in spring 2009. The second half of the tour was cancelled for unknown reasons, but touring as the opening act for Lady Gaga surely made up for the botched Kevin Rudolf tour. Opening for Lady Gaga was a mixture of “great exposure, bad sausages” it was also “an amazing opportunity that we took full advantage of, gained a bunch of new fans in Europe, and didn’t eat for a solid month (bad food)…and blew up 2 lasers because of the power conversion..” Now that’s how every tour should be.
Their favourite thing about performing is “the feeling we get when we hear the crowd screaming, and chanting your name before the show, it’s an amazing feeling to know hundreds of people are in the audience that appreciate what we do…” They add “we also love to stage dive and to spray the crowd with super soakers…”
Recording their debut album The Arcade “was awesome, and very time consuming, sometimes we would be up till 10 or 11 am, We were able to try new things musically that were not really being done at that time, We did all the artwork too..” After some delays in releasing their second album they chose to release Mixtape Volume 2 through the internet as their “goal was to get it into as many people’s hands as possible, so we gave it away for free [so] we put up the Mixtape everywhere we could”
They have a new album coming out soon and so far the name for it is most likely going to be “Flip the Switch”. Recording the new album is going “Fantastic! It is mostly done, we are super happy with the way it turned out. We were exploring a newer bigger sound on this record…” The new and bigger sound is something to look out for. As for their favourite track off the album as of yet it is probably “Flip the Switch”
They have some crazy off the wall antics in studio which include “Preston trying to buy a shotgun (but settled for the most powerful fully automatic BB guns) which we fire at cans in the studio while recording to keep our wits about us…” Can you say a typical day in studio for Hyper Crush…
The trio aren’t satisfied with just making music; Preston is working on “developing interplanetary commuter space travel mainly through magnetic powered super crafts.” Donny practicing being a male escort for lonely upper class housewives in and around southern California and Holly has always dreamed of working at hot dog on a stick and has an interview in the coming weeks. She is keeping her fingers crossed.”
As for the band members themselves “Holly has the mouth of a trucker and is quite a hussie at times. Along with having an unmatched amount of sass she is also very opinionated.” This means she talks the most rubbish (at any given moment). Whilst on tour, it’s all about being clean, clean, clean. Very clean. “We are all really clean, we think Preston has OCD. Donny refuses to let his bare feet touch any type of floor. Ideally we wish we could boil the entire world to completely disinfect it.” You know, the usual.
I had to know with a band such as Hyper Crush just exactly what their craziest show experience has been and it happened at “one of our first shows” “It was in a club in Hollywood. We performed right on the dancefloor. Some guy grabbed Holly’s mic (she got caught slipping) and started talking shit. We ended up getting the mic back and continued to rock. That person is no longer with us.”
Donny is the brash, no nonsense, rapper who tells it like it is. He has the nickname “PonyBoy” and he “took it from the movie The Outsiders which we were obsessed with for a time.” He continues “I’m a straight shooter just like PonyBoy was.” Word. He happens to have the “wits of a pigeon and an ego big enough for 5 men”. It’s pretty impressive and he feels “It is stressful at times. It consumes alot of my energy causing me to have to rest sporadically throughout the day.” He would rather have “Worldwide fame” than a pair of vintage 80’s sneakers as he has “plenty of dope sneakers.” Worldwide fame it is. When they take over the world Donny’s message to their fans would be “Thank you for sticking by us.” Short, sweet and straight to the point.
When asked who would win in a fistfight, Donny or Preston? Donny says “Well being that I test my strength often in drunken street fights I might have an edge on Pres.” Preston says “That would never happen; we would end up fighting you first. If it did though we would duel to the death…”
Preston is a take no prisoners kind of guy. He also happens to be a convicted felon and a fulltime alcoholic as well as a DJ/producer extraordinaire. That doesn’t leave much time for anything else, how he manages it all is simple he explains “the fact is, I have an addictive personality. It works to my advantage, I never stop working, just keep going and going…” Donny has a nickname (“PonyBoy”) and Preston doesn’t although his “old nickname was “Cutti”” That counts for something on the nickname front. When they take over the world Preston would say “Thanks [to the fans] for riding hard with us and we hope you keep repping the crush till the day you perish from the earth because you know we will.”
Holly is the bubble gum to Preston and Donny’s lollipop, metaphorically of course. She has to handle a lot of testosterone with the two guys but she “loves it!” As for the hard decisions in life, such the question of shoes or gum she would go for “shoes. A lot more damage can be done with my kicks and heels” True that. When they take over the world she would tell their fans that “Honestly, we couldn’t have done it without you guys…”
They have “fresh rhymes and funky beats and they are armed with enough neon to make you wear shades.” You have been warned. Now get ready for them to tear up the dancefloor.
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