Band Name

There is a lot of discussion as to whether the band took their name from the drug Crystal meth (a nickname for methamphetamine), most interviews with the band cite a girl named Crystal as the idea [1], but if the drug did inspire the band they were unlikely to come out and admit this. Certainly a lot of their tracks could be taken as having fun with the subject, "Trip like I do" being the most obvious one, but the name of this track actually came from an answer phone message saved on Scott's answer-machine [2] that is one of the samples used in this track. There are various interviews with the band citing that the 2nd albums' name (Tweekend) came from the hours of tweaking the sound and mix [3]. Whatever happens there will forever be ambiguity about the name.

Myths

A common mistake made by casual listeners of electronic music is that duo was responsible for "The Matrix Theme", the song played in the film The Matrix during one of the earlier training scenes. This is not true, however, since The Crystal Method have done no music for any of the Matrix films, except an excerpt from "Trip Like I Do" can be heard in the trailer of the first part. The song in question is actually Clubbed to Death by Rob Dougan. However, one of their tracks ("Trip Like I Do") was used in several cinematic trailers which might have led to this mistake. A similar mistake is the "Blade Techno Opener" or "Blood Rave" track, played during the rave scene in the beginning of the movie Blade. This song is actually New Order - Confusion(Pump Panel Mix).

Instrument list

• Access Virus
• Akai MPC3000
• Alesis Andromeda
• Apple G4
• ARP 2600
• Moogerfoogers MF101 & 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 Kaoss Pad KP1
• Korg MicroKorg
• Korg MS2000
• Korg Prophecy
• M-Audio Ozonic
• M-Audio Trigger Finger
• Moog Memorymoog
• ProCo RAT
• Roland JP-8000
• Roland CR-8000
• Roland Juno-106
• Roland Jupiter-6
• Roland SH-101
• Sherman FilterBank
• Waldorf MicrowaveXT
• Yamaha DX7
• Yamaha CS20
• Yamaha CS80
• Yamaha DX7IID
• Eventide H3000

Discography

• Vegas (August 26, 1997)
• Tweekend (July 31, 2001)
• Community Service, a mix album (July 23, 2002)
• Need for Speed: Underground soundtrack (2003)
• Legion of Boom (January 13, 2004)
• Community Service II, a second mix album (April 5, 2005)
• London Movie Soundtrack (January 24, 2006)
• Drive: Nike + Original Run (Download only album from the iTunes Music Store) (June 29, 2006)

Singles

Non-Album Tracks

"Now Is The Time"

"The Dubeliscious Groove" (Also featured on the "Now is the Time" Vinyl)

"More" (from the Keep Hope Alive EP released before Vegas. Some have falsly named the version of this on the EP as the '99 Mix, even though the single was released in 1996)

"Come2gether" (featured on the Mortal Kombat: More Kombat album.)

From Vegas

"Keep Hope Alive"

"Busy Child"

"Comin' Back"

From Spawn soundtrack

"(Can't You) Trip Like I Do" (a re-working of their song "Trip Like I Do" from Vegas featuring Filter)

From Tweekend

"Name of the Game"

"Murder" (also known as "You Know It's Hard" and featuring Scott Weiland)

"Wild, Sweet and Cool"

From Hardhop & Trypno

"Blast"

From Legion of Boom

"Born Too Slow" (Featuring John Garcia & Wes Borland)

"Starting Over"

"Bound Too Long"

Non-Album Remixes

Cardinal - "Bodyslide"

DJ Keoki - "Caterpillar"

Amos - "Come Away"

Moby - "Come on Baby"

Ezee Possee - "Everything Starts with an 'E'"

Garbage - "I Think I'm Paranoid" (renamed "I Think I'm Crystalized")

Zen Cowboys - "Mad World"

Other artists with similar style

• The Chemical Brothers
• Propellerheads
• The Prodigy
• Fatboy Slim