The Crystal Method
The Crystal Method is an American electronic music and keyboardist duo formed in Las Vegas, Nevada by Ken Jordan and Scott Kirkland in the early 1990s. The Crystal Method's music has appeared in numerous TV shows, films, video games, and advertisements. Their best-selling album, Vegas, was certified platinum in 2007.
Biography
The Crystal Method is made up of two members, Ken Jordan and Scott Kirkland. Before The Crystal Method was formed, Ken and Scott started working on music while working at a grocery store and while Ken was a local DJ in Las Vegas as well as the college radio program director at UNLV. Ken taught Scott how to DJ, and when Ken moved to L.A. to work for a producer, Scott took over his job DJing at the local club. Scott would follow Ken out to L.A., and they formed The Crystal Method in 1993.
Early days (1993–1995)
By the early '90s, both Ken Jordan and Scott Kirkland had moved from Las Vegas to Los Angeles. Ken and Scott bought a house together, in Glendale, California, which had a small underground shelter beneath the front lawn. Originally intending to turn the shelter into a studio, it proved to be an unrealistic idea and the duo set up a studio in their house which was located under a Los Angeles overpass. They subsequently named their studio The Bomb Shelter. They were interviewed on the front lawn of the house in the documentary Better Living Through Circuitry.
Method Man
Clifford Smith (born March 2, 1971), better known by his stage name Method Man, is an American rapper, record producer, and actor. He took his stage name from the 1979 film Method Man. He is perhaps best known as a member of the East Coast hip hop collective Wu-Tang Clan. He is also one half of the hip hop duo Method Man & Redman. In 1996, he won a Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group, for "I'll Be There for You/You're All I Need to Get By", with American R&B singer-songwriter Mary J. Blige.
Method Man has appeared in films such as Belly, How High, Garden State, The Wackness, Venom, Red Tails and The Cobbler. On television, he and frequent collaborator, fellow East Coast rapper Redman, co-starred on the short-lived Fox sitcom Method & Red. He also had a recurring role as Tug Daniels on HBO's Oz and Calvin "Cheese" Wagstaff on the HBO's The Wire.
In 2012, The Source placed him on their list of the Top 50 Lyricists of All Time.
Early life
Born on March 2, 1971, in Staten Island, New York, Smith divided his childhood between his father's Long Island residence and his mother's home in the Park Hill section of Staten Island (colloquially known as Killa Hill). He has two sisters, Terri and Missy.
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The Crystal Method
ALBUMS
- The Crystal Method released: 2014
- Divided by Night released: 2009
- Drive: Nike+ Original Run released: 2006
- London released: 2005
- Community Service II released: 2005
- Legion of Boom released: 2004
- Community Service released: 2002
- Tweekend released: 2001
- Vegas released: 1997
- 2005-10-31: Thomas & Mack Center, Las Vegas, NV, USA released:
- Live at Mecca released:
- Live in Seattle released:
Community Service II
Released 2005- Intro
- Gyromancer (Elite Force remix)
- Ghetto Fabulous
- Come With Me
- The Crystal Method vs. The Doors (Roadhouse Blues remix)
- We Have the Energy
- Salty (Meat Katie remix)
- Keep Hope Alive (J.D.S mix)
- Speedfreak
- Kalifornia
- Octopus
- Reign (False Prophet mix)
- Starting Over (Elite Force mix)
- Bound Too Long (Hyper mix)
- Bizarre Love Triangle (The Crystal Method's CSII mix)
- 1979 (New Originals 1799 remix)
Legion of Boom
Released 2004- Starting Over
- Born Too Slow
- True Grit
- The American Way
- I Know It's You
- Realizer
- Broken Glass
- Weapons of Mass Distortion
- Bound Too Long
- Acetone
- High and Low
- Wide Open
- Born Too Slow (EK's Spider in the Corner alt. dub)
- Born Too Slow (Deepsky's Green Absinthe dub)
- Starting Over (5.1 mix)
- Born Too Slow (5.1 mix)
- True Grit (5.1 mix)
- The American Way (5.1 mix)
- I Know It's You (5.1 mix)
- Realizer (5.1 mix)
- Broken Glass (5.1 mix)
- Weapons of Mass Distortion (5.1 mix)
- Bound Too Long (5.1 mix)
- Acetone (5.1 mix)
- High and Low (5.1 mix)
- Wide Open (5.1 mix)
- Born Too Slow (EK's Spider in the Corner alt. dub) (5.1 mix)
- Born Too Slow (Deepsky's Green Absinthe dub) (5.1 mix)
- Born Too Slow (original)
- Born Too Slow (director's cut)
- The Making of Legion of Boom
- Mix Breakdown - True Grit
Community Service
Released 2002- No Soul (PMT remix)
- Cake Hole
- Breakin on the Streets (False Prophet remix)
- Morpheus (Meat Katie and Dylan Rhymes mix)
- Funny Break (One Is Enough) (Plump DJ's mix)
- Curveball
- Dude in the Moon (Luna mix)
- Name of the Game (Hybrid's LA Blackout remix)
- Boom (The Crystal Method remix)
- Trickshot
- Renegades of Funk (The Crystal Method remix)
- Paranoid (The Crystal Method remix)
- Wild, Sweet & Cool (Static Revenger mix)
- Hold Back
- You Know It's Hard (Koma & Bones remix)
- The Red Pill
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Keepin' the people clappin'
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