
Released in summer 1997, '(Can't You) Trip Like I Do' was the flagship single from Spawn: The Album, itself the spiritual successor to the Judgment Night soundtrack model of pairing rock/metal acts with electronic producers. The collaboration between Filter—a post-industrial alt-rock band with Nine Inch Nails lineage—and The Crystal Method, a Las Vegas big beat duo, represented the commercial peak of a genre-fusion…
A landmark document of the late-90s big beat / alt-metal crossover, the track and its video demonstrate the moment when American electronic music achieved mainstream rock-radio parity. The Crystal Method's hard-driving breakbeats fused with Filter's industrial-influenced guitar textures produced a…
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