The Crystal Method

The Crystal Method - Keep Hope Alive
FLAC, EAC, LOG & CUE | Lossless Artwork | Size: 204 MB + Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: S3 663531 2 | Country/Year: Europe 1996
Genre: Electronic, Big Beat | Hoster: FP/FF

"Keep Hope Alive" is a single taken from the studio album Vegas by the electronica group The Crystal Method. This album was released October 1, 1996 on the City of Angels label, and received 4.5 out of 5 stars in a review from Allmusic. The album was re-released July 10, 2001 on the Moonshine Music label. Vocal samples for the song are taken from a 1992 speech by Jesse Jackson titled "You Do Not Stand Alone."

Twenty years after The Crystal Method’s debut album, Vegas, blazed a trail across the American desert, imagining sparkling breakbeat architectures where the early ’90s rave scene had largely crumbled, Scott Kirkland’s pioneering electronic project continues to thrill. On opener “The Raze,” the breakbeats sound bigger than ever, the guitars are practically heavy metal, and the synths have a widescreen grandeur. Electronic textures aglow, atmospheric instrumentals like “Turbulence” and “Let’s Go Home” reflect Kirkland’s parallel career scoring Hollywood films, while vocal standouts like “Ghost in the City” condense his unusual range of influences—breaks, trip-hop, and even hard-charging alt-rock—into potent hybrids.

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