CLEVELAND, Ohio – If you’ve watched a movie or TV show -- or a trailer for either -- in the last 30 years, there’s a good chance that a track from seminal electronic act The Crystal Method was in it.

Electronica vets The Crystal Method are gearing up to release The Trip Out, their first album in four years. The album’s closing track, “Post Punk,” is a collaboration with producer Hyper — a classic, ...