The Hidden Voices Behind Crystal Castles

Though their tracks now ghost behind the beats of your favorite hip-hop deities—Yeat, Destroy Lonely, Lil Peep, Nettspend—Crystal Castles approaches sampling with a stranger touch: one that conjures questions of where, why, and how they discovered these sounds. From vintage PC software to Victorian-era operas to the world’s first semblances of video games, we’ve compiled some of our favorite flips by the now-defunct Canadian electronic duo.