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Legions of Boom
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They came, they raved, they conquered. Once upon a time there were two fine young lads. They had a burning passion for rave-olutionary music, but they were stuck in a town that lived off the fizzing passion of plastic palm trees, stucco empire state buildings, a cocaine bloodline, false hopes and dreams of riches, sports books, slot machines, and career hookers. Not exactly fodder for well-balanced and well-informed maturity. Unable to quench their insatiable thirst for music and art with a purpose...with a soul...they packed up their things and moved to Los Angeles. Sure, another plastic town, but at least there they could get a better balanced dose of rhythm and basslines than a town owned by the likes of Wayne Newton and Englebert Humperdink.
As soon as they made it to the coast, they wasted no time in branding their dance-floor friendly breakbeat style into the hearts, hips, and heads of the then exploding rave community. Through their live sets with tried and tested musicians, their legendary globetrotting dj sets, two studio albums, countless singles and collaborations with artists such as the Roots’ Rahzel and Rage Against the Machine/Audioslave’s guitar-god Tom Morello, and an aggressively lucrative career in music licensing, the Western Hemisphere’s answer to the Chemical Brothers have returned to their style of hard-hitting, b-boy pleasing, orgasmic raving breakbeat roots. Moving through the deep downtempo break-hop of “American Way” (featuring human beatbox Rahzel), into the funktacular bloopy breaks of “High and Low,” and into the rockabilly electro-silly “Born Too Slow,” and the full blown bass heavy electronic breakbeat epic “Weapons of Mass Distortion,” the Crystal Method’s latest studio effort, “Legions of Boom” proves a culmination of the powerful aural force that they have become. Though it would have been nice to see a deviation from their battle-tested formula just for the sake of evolution's purposes, there's no doubt that this is a top-knotch expertly programmed electronic album.
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