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"So I played it to Steve Osborne and I was like 'oh we've got all these tracks and we've got this other track as well,' you know I was quite dismissive of it really because I wasn't that bothered about whether we used it or not and it just didn't seem to fit in really. And he really liked it so we took it down to Rockfield Studios in Wales and worked on it and it made this amazing transformation from a banging dance track to a kind of guitar orchestra. It's a really kind of spiky hard-edged sound. That gave us our direction really on the rest of the album because that was the first track we worked on and we got it and we got it in the bag and put it in the pocket and we thought right that's very interesting that, that's really interesting that kind of style does set the shape of the album and it was good."
[b]Words from Corvin Dalek:[/b]
"Crystal was originally planned as a track exclusively for mfs (Mastermind For Success, Corvin Dalek's label) which bernard gave to mfs label manager, Mark Reeder. He wrote the song for Mark and also sang it and i and a couple of other MFS artists made the music for our versions (not remixes). But after Pete Tong (BBC Radio 1 DJ) heard them, he thought it was the best New Order single he´d heard since Blue Monday (not knowing that Bernard had given the song to Mark as a present) and the project was then rearranged to become a New Order record.
What that meant was that MFS were not actually allowed to release it as originally planned - in june 2000 - until New Order knew what they were going to do with it.
So much time has gone by without it getting released. Pete let me put it on my wet&hard compilation album Hotkunst and in the meantime we have now finally been granted permission to release it in Germany. The vocals have been used on the New Order version of the song (theirs is more guitar sounding) and the track sounds nothing like the mfs versions. Their track was produced by Steve Osborne and mixed by Mark Stent."