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A Crystal Method is an electronic music duo consisting of Ken Jordan and Scott Kirkland. Along a equivalent lines when The Chemical Brothers, Propellerheads, The Prodigy, and Fatboy Slim, they specialize within breakbeat and big beat styles of music. Formed around 1993, they did virtually all of their earliest production function within an underground shelter fondly known as "The Bomb Shelter" in the yard of the rent home it it used to be that shared when roomie. Prior to productiin began on Legion of Boom in 2004, they moved a studio into a his pickup of the rent home; numerous population aren't caring of this, however, & still imagine it operate in the actual "bomb shelter", nowadays the nickname for the studio setup.
A Crystal Method's music is broad witharound scope, & may be witnessed in numbers of modern shows & moving-picture show, including Blade II, Gone in Sixty Seconds, Lost in Space, Spawn, Zoolander, XXX, The Replacement Killers and episodes of Dark Angel. A theme music of the NBC drama Third Watch was "Keep Hope Alive" from their Vegas album. A track "Name Of The Game" (from either a Tweekend album) wwhen also featured as intro music for the popular videos game ''Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell''. Their music was as well featured extensively in the EA Sports video game FIFA '98: Road To World Ventral suction cup, which involved a tracks "Busy Child", "Keep Hope Alive", "More" & "Now Is The Time". A track "Busy Child" likewise featured around the 1998 UK advertising for The Gap which featured skateboarders.
A listing of devices utilized to produce these are besides quite big, sustaining a Clavia Nord Lead being a instrument virtually all closely associated by having their style & healthy. It will bring numbers of of a grittier leads & buzzes in the music & was the primary source of healthy for their number 1 album Vegas.
Instrument list
Access Virus
Akai MPC3000
Apple G4
Arp 2600
Big Briar MF101
Large Briar MF102
Clavia Nord Lead
Clavia Nord Mod
E-mu Audity 2000
E-mu E4
E-mu XL-7
E-mu Xtreme Lead
E-mu E-64
Fender Guit/Bass
Korg Electribe/S
Korg Electribe/R
Korg MS2000
Korg Prophecy
Moog MemoryMoog
ProCo RAT
Roland JP-8000
Roland Jupiter 6
Roland SH-101
Sherman FilterBank
Waldorf MicrowaveXT
Yamaha DX7
Yamaha CS20
Yamaha CS80
Eve H3000
Discography
Vegas (August 26, 1997)
Tweekend (July 7, 2001)
Community Service, a remix album (July 23, 2002)
Legion of Boom (January 13, 2004)
Community Service II, a second remix album (April 5, 2005)
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