Although the collective has been quiet over the last few months, the team behind Crystals have been hard at work curating their fifth compilation, vying to both meet the high standard of their previous releases while going above and beyond what is expected. This week, the efforts of the Vancouver-based collective came to fruition, as they have finally unleashed their nine-track effort to the masses and, to no surprise, have exceeded these expectations.
Teaming up with Montreal-based Checkpoint, Crystals have hand-selected nine forward-thinking tracks from a plethora of genres and from the underground’s most promising artists. Familiar faces So Sus and Shwirl came together on ‘When’ to create an emotive future bass-leaning ballad, while DJ Ride and ELEX have gone full mad scientist on their banging bass belter. Beat-making machine FLY also makes an appearance with the minimally wonky ‘Blend’, while Bouhi flexes mean sound design and raw energy in his dubstep dinger. You’ll even find some gnarly jungle terror in this eclectic choice of quality tracks.
All of this to say that Crystals and Checkpoint’s latest compilation is a multi-genre masterpiece bound to have one of your next favourite songs. Check it out below!
