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Interview With Crystal Method
Aired December 06, 2003 - 14:47 ET
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THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
RENAY SAN MIGUEL, CNN ANCHOR: If you're a fan of dance or trance or electronic, whatever you want to call it, a familiar sound is once again booming in your ears; The Crystal Method is bringing us more electronic tracks with its upcoming album "Legion of Boom" coming out January 13. You just heard the first single from that album, "Burn Too Slow.'
DJ duo Ken Jordan and Scott Kirkland are The Crystal Method and they come to us from a very snowy New York. Gentleman thanks for being with us today.
SCOTT KIRKLAND, THE CRYSTAL METHOD: Thanks for having us.
MIGUEL: I was curious, who does the vocals? You're the DJ duo. Who did the vocals on the song we just heard?
KIRKLAND: That was John Garcia. He was in a band called Kias who later on became Queens of the Stone Age. We just thought he an awesome voice, sort of an unkempt resource and we brought him in. Wes Borland was on guitar. He is formerly of Limp Biscuit. And it just worked out great.
MIGUEL: And I know Queens of the Stone Age, Dave Grohls' pet project as well and doing well for them. Let me ask you, in 1999, some new categories added to the Grammy. Just had the Grammy nominations come out this week? And new categories for the Grammies were added in the late '90s, remixer of the year and best dance record. Finally, can respect come in to the electronic/dance genre?
KEN JORDAN, THE CRYSTAL METHOD: I think there's been some respect there always, but we're really pushing to try to get an electronic music category for the Grammy's.
MIGUEL: Scott, is it the fact that, you know, maybe not electronic music doesn't get a lot of radio airplay? Maybe that in respect is slow coming? Is that being a problem? And is that forcing you to change how you write your songs? If you want mainstream appeal?
KIRKLAND: Well, no we've always had a rock sensibility. We've grown up listening to rock and soul and R&B and hip-hop. And when we go into the studio, all of that naturally comes out in our music.
And being fans of West Borland and we used Tom Morello in our last album, it's a natural thing for us to go in and create electronic albums that have a rock sensibility, and then we're fortunate to have a pretty open-minded alternative radio out there that would play it, and we always get great videos.
You're looking at the new video for "Born Too Slow." It is directed by Gore Verbinski. It's awesome. So we just try to make the best album we could possibly make and hope that -- you know, people will listen to it.
MIGUEL: All right well you just name-dropped there. Gore Verbinski just directed "Pirates of the Caribbean" with Johnny Depp. So you are in pretty good company there.
What about the Internet's role in the electronic genre, there are lots of places to down load this kind of music. Helping or hurting in this case?
JORDAN: We definitely think that itunes and the new Napster, that's only going to help. We're both avid Mac and iTunes and iPod users, and they're selling tons of songs right now pipe think people are going to get more and more used to being able to buy whatever songs they want online and know that they're getting, you know, accurate quality product, you know? So I think that's working out really well.
MIGUELL: Finally, we wanted to mention that "Starting Over," which is also a song, the first song off of "Legion of Boom" made the "Tomb Raider: Cradle of Life" soundtrack and you are also working in the video game area as well. "Born too Slow" which is what we are watching now. On the "Need for Speed Underground" sound track as well.
So gentlemen, we wish you the best of luck. Ken Jordan, Scott Kirkland, The Crystal Method, the new album, "Legion of Boom" coming out January 13. Gentlemen, thanks for being with us and good luck to you.
JORDAN: Thanks, Renay.
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Aired December 6, 2003 - 14:47 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
RENAY SAN MIGUEL, CNN ANCHOR: If you're a fan of dance or trance or electronic, whatever you want to call it, a familiar sound is once again booming in your ears; The Crystal Method is bringing us more electronic tracks with its upcoming album "Legion of Boom" coming out January 13. You just heard the first single from that album, "Burn Too Slow.'
DJ duo Ken Jordan and Scott Kirkland are The Crystal Method and they come to us from a very snowy New York. Gentleman thanks for being with us today.
SCOTT KIRKLAND, THE CRYSTAL METHOD: Thanks for having us.
MIGUEL: I was curious, who does the vocals? You're the DJ duo. Who did the vocals on the song we just heard?
KIRKLAND: That was John Garcia. He was in a band called Kias who later on became Queens of the Stone Age. We just thought he an awesome voice, sort of an unkempt resource and we brought him in. Wes Borland was on guitar. He is formerly of Limp Biscuit. And it just worked out great.
MIGUEL: And I know Queens of the Stone Age, Dave Grohls' pet project as well and doing well for them. Let me ask you, in 1999, some new categories added to the Grammy. Just had the Grammy nominations come out this week? And new categories for the Grammies were added in the late '90s, remixer of the year and best dance record. Finally, can respect come in to the electronic/dance genre?
KEN JORDAN, THE CRYSTAL METHOD: I think there's been some respect there always, but we're really pushing to try to get an electronic music category for the Grammy's.
MIGUEL: Scott, is it the fact that, you know, maybe not electronic music doesn't get a lot of radio airplay? Maybe that in respect is slow coming? Is that being a problem? And is that forcing you to change how you write your songs? If you want mainstream appeal?
KIRKLAND: Well, no we've always had a rock sensibility. We've grown up listening to rock and soul and R&B and hip-hop. And when we go into the studio, all of that naturally comes out in our music.
And being fans of West Borland and we used Tom Morello in our last album, it's a natural thing for us to go in and create electronic albums that have a rock sensibility, and then we're fortunate to have a pretty open-minded alternative radio out there that would play it, and we always get great videos.
You're looking at the new video for "Born Too Slow." It is directed by Gore Verbinski. It's awesome. So we just try to make the best album we could possibly make and hope that -- you know, people will listen to it.
MIGUEL: All right well you just name-dropped there. Gore Verbinski just directed "Pirates of the Caribbean" with Johnny Depp. So you are in pretty good company there.
What about the Internet's role in the electronic genre, there are lots of places to down load this kind of music. Helping or hurting in this case?
JORDAN: We definitely think that itunes and the new Napster, that's only going to help. We're both avid Mac and iTunes and iPod users, and they're selling tons of songs right now pipe think people are going to get more and more used to being able to buy whatever songs they want online and know that they're getting, you know, accurate quality product, you know? So I think that's working out really well.
MIGUELL: Finally, we wanted to mention that "Starting Over," which is also a song, the first song off of "Legion of Boom" made the "Tomb Raider: Cradle of Life" soundtrack and you are also working in the video game area as well. "Born too Slow" which is what we are watching now. On the "Need for Speed Underground" sound track as well.
So gentlemen, we wish you the best of luck. Ken Jordan, Scott Kirkland, The Crystal Method, the new album, "Legion of Boom" coming out January 13. Gentlemen, thanks for being with us and good luck to you.
JORDAN: Thanks, Renay.
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