Grammy Award nominees The Crystal Method toured China last month and stopped in Shanghai for an impressive gig at La Fabrique.
The Las Vegas-based band has been mixing and sampling on the international electronic scene for a decade now. Community Service Volume 2 gathers a selection of break-beat tracks, along with new remixes of songs by The Doors, the Smashing Pumpkins and New Order. Experimental they are, and though less accessible than the Prodigy, the duo, Jordan and Kirkland, are certainly skilled with sequencers and beat boxes.
You probably won't play this American answer to the Chemical Brothers and Aphex Twin at home in your living room, but you'll be requesting them on the club floors.

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Chief editor: Steven Crane
August 2005 issue



Guanzhou Chief editor: Christopher Cottrell
August 2005 issue