Anyone who hears the Crystal Method’s new single “Post Punk” may recognize a familiar voice laced throughout it: Iggy Pop.
Kirkland remembered the line but says he was skeptical that all the necessary legal clearances could be obtained: “Lots of hoops to jump through there. But I loved his enthusiasm and we moved forward with the idea.”
Once the track was done, those clearances did end up taking a few months. Last November, after all the necessary paperwork had been done, Kirkland was in New York, prepping for a DJ set at a downtown club, when he saw a masked but familiar face strolling around between sets. “It was that hair, and that look of his,” Kirkland recalls — and sure enough, it was Jarmusch. The two hadn’t met but after they were introduced, Jarmusch was effusive over the song.
Pop also gave his OK by way of his posse, although Kirkland was prepared to ask him to cut a live vocal for “Post Punk” in the event the sample couldn’t be cleared. “I haven’t heard from him directly, but we heard he likes the song,” Kirkland says. “A friend of mine said, ‘Iggy just retweeted your post about the release!’”The Trip Out
, due April 15 —feels very old-school EDM, and the involvement of Hyper isn’t the only reason; also pitching in on the song is former Prodigy drummer Kieron Pepper, who plays guitar on the track. In that way, the track is unintentionally part of a new wave of Nineties nostalgia, which includes this year’s Super Bowl halftime show , the Clinton-era flashbacks in Showtime’sOf course, that was also the era when EDM went mainstream thanks to DJs like Fatboy Slim, the Chemical Brothers, Moby, and the Crystal Method; some went so far as to call dance music the new rock. “I remember that time fondly,” Kirkland recalls.
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