This electronic music duo formed in 1993 in Los Angeles and is known as one of the pioneers of the big beat electronic dance genre. It was back during the 90s when Ken Jordan and Scott Kirkland started recording their songs in an underground space known as “The Bomb Shelter,” which was located in the front yard of the two roommates’ house.

The group has faced much speculation that their name represents the drug “Crystal Meth” - a slang term for methamphetamine - and the two have insinuated in interviews that that is the case. Recent interviews with Kirkland and Jordan, however, have revealed that the band may be named after a girl they once knew. Despite the controversy, the artists have seen a huge amount of success, with the nomination of their third studio album “Legion of Boom” for a Grammy Award for the best electronic/dance album of 2005.

In an interview with InternetDJ.com, Jordan talked about how the group has faced critical acclaim from the music industry but at the same time have been slapped with the label “sell outs” since gaining some of their more recent fame.

“That leads to the question mainstream versus t he underground,” Jordan said. “You have a lot of fans that don’t like it when people start getting successful. They feel like you guys have not been true to the underground scene when they see you in Rolling Stone, and on MTV, and on. And it’s kind of a Catch-22. It’s always been funny to me; we still do exactly what we’ve always done well. We just make records for ourselves and for our fans, and it’s not in our control to decide who likes it and who doesn’t.”

Since moving up to the big time in the same ranks as the Chemical Brothers, Prodigy and Fatboy Slim, Crystal Method?s music has been used in big time movies and television shows, such as “Romeo Must Die,” “Spawn,”  “Zoolander” and “Third Watch” and “South Park.”

Kirkland and Jordan have also remixed tracks by several other artists like Linkin Park and Weezer’s front man Rivers Cuomo, and since 1998, have produced four studio albums. As for the group’s recent success, it has been a long-time coming, Jordan has said.

“Scott actually threw the first raves,” Jordan said about his partner in an interview with About.com. “I don’t know if you could call them that. Most of [Las Vegas'] clubs were geared towards the 35-55 year olds who wear pumps and have mile-high hair or wear chains and drive IROCs around.”

For more information about this group, check them out at the band’s official Web site.