The Test

Golden Path

Get Yourself High

Galvanize

Believe

The Boxer

The Salmon Dance

Midnight Madness

for some reason track 7 (Do It Again appears missing)

great, not that i'll be buying. but hopefully the b-side volume 2 will be appearing soon

they should release such things on cd and dvd

^ Unfortunately I honestly feel disc format is resembling jurassic technology with each passing day, and this video release is a fair example of how much things have changed in the idustry in just in a couple of years. If it's happening with the Chems then it's happening all across the board including the mega popular triple-platinum-the-world-over bands. It wouldn't make sense to release something like this on CD or DVD. It's too costly to promote/market and too costly to sell. Given how dominant and popular iTunes is, and given how we're accustomed to instant gratification as a society - these vids will probably get a lot more exposure which will increase sales in this type of format.

That said, if these videos were released on DVD, I'd run out and buy it yesterday!

But there is a market in HD dvd technology though it's still quite niche. Blue Ray... to quote Idiocracy "that would be even more betterer!!" - a physical Chems release in that format would be sa-weeeeeeeeet!

Are you fuckin' crazy Whirly?! Some of us like our "jurassic" technology, we don't believe in a world where we can't touch what we've paid for.

I have said it before and I shall say it again: I love my tangibles, and I always will! :) I'll fork over my hard earned cash for something I really enjoy if it's in physical format.

It's sad, but the times they are a-changin'. It's taken me a long time to realize that.

But fuck all that cd/dvd/mp3 stuff. Cassettes are where it's at. Cuz that's how I roll.

No Whirly, don't accept it as being the norm just because society tells you to. Fight for what you love! I will not accept .mp3 as the new CD, because it isn't.

haha cassetes were probably the worst format ever invented *hisssssss* hahaha

I have the vids, so no need to buy!

downloading from Itunes is OK, but I always prefer the physical product, whether it be vinyl, CD, etc!

I agree, good riddance cassettes! It was such a drag when they melted in your car's tape deck on a hot summer day. And I'll never forget those feelings of dread when I went to press "play" and the boombox would start regurgitating all this black swirly tape. Ugh. I still have some of my old cassettes, though. I don't dare play them even though I have a cassette deck on an old boombox. The *only* thing that cassettes were good for was making mix tapes. Burning mix cd's or putting together mp3 play lists just aren't the same, there's just not as much time and painstaking effort that goes into mix cd's/play lists like there is when you make a mix tape. Plus it was fun to make cheesy remixes if you had a dual cassette deck. I'm really showing my age here but when I was in junior high, high school and college - nothing said "I really dig you" more than when someone made you a mix tape.

My friend was telling me a few months ago about an article that talked about how music mp3's do not usher the same type of emotional response as music on CD or vinyl. From what he said there was a whole scientific explanation as to how audio loss and compression can affect (or not affect as the case may be) you physically. I'll see if he remembers the article and can point me in the right direction so I can post it here...

There's still debates about the cd vs. vinyl? I think it depends on the music you listen to! For example, I listen to all my rock stuff on vinyl because something gets lost in the translation in the cd's, and some 'classic rock cd's' are poorly done! As for electronica music in my opinion, It can be both, depending if your blasting it on your sound system or working the crowd in a DJ set.

Hmm..deserves it's own topic!

Yeah, we've had those debates here... Quite a few times. It seems whenever anyone mentions "that should be on CD", the banter progresses and soon it's a discussion on mp3 vs CD vs vinyl, hehe, not a bad thing at all.

Agreed with pretty much all you mentioned up there.

For the release of Videos Vol.2. Nice to see them follow up.......I guess. As with sneaks it'll be more interesting to see if a B-sides Vol.2 comes out. See if we get another couch crawler like Silver Drizzle. Maybe a release of the Coconut Dub?

As for the V vs M vs C debate. I know the hard copy is a dying breed but I still love that little satisfaction of finding a hard copy you don't have in some of the rarest places. After finding 14th century sky in shibuya I'm really back on that track now.

Nothing beats the satisfaction you get when you are out and about and you stumble across a gem you've either been looking for, or a gem you never knew existed (or still was in existance). I don't mind purchasing online occasionally, and for a lot of people that is the only option so that's perfectly fine - but the thrill of the hunt is so much more potent when you're out from behind a computer. I used to collect, and I can't really do that anymore -but when I did it was such an effort, so time consuming and filled with trial and tribulation - and the pay off was that much sweeter. Good for the memories, too. For all the purchases made online only a handful produced a memorable experience whereas physically hunting something down/coming across something... Totally different. I bet you'll remember that purchase for the rest of your life, Ryno! That's real cool!

Really comes down to the fact that record companies are big on saving money and digital technology gives them the opportunity TO SELL MUSIC/VIDEOS THAT WOULD NOT EARN A DECENT SIZE PROFIT AND THEREFORE CAN SELL SOMETHING LIKE A BUNCH OF CHEMS VIDEOS, WITHOUT ACTUALLY SELLING A TANGIBLE OBJECT AND NOT HAVING TO FEAR THAT THEY WILL LOOSE MONEY, EVEN IF ONLY 2 PEOPLE DOWNLOAD THE COLLECTION. Yes, it sucks that it's not on DVD or whatever, but in all honesty, it's eight ipod video or nothing...

Totally agree Whirly! I used to love spending days compiling mixes on cassette, rewinding the tape and pausing it so the next track would sit nicely so it was as mixed as I could get it. I miss those days :( You don't ever make a girl a mixtape unless you're serious about the relationship (and she is too) :P otherwise you'll scare her off. I even used to make cassete sleeves, for that professional look.

I remember taking one of my favourite tapes to school (it had Joey Beltram: Energy Flash on) and the school tape played chewed it up and everytime I played it after that it was backwards.

Ha! Now that's old school Iggy! I use to buy mixtapes by the bulk, but making your own mixes by using a duel tape deck with precision pausing was a job in itself! But I hated it when you fucked up on the pausing cause then you have to play the tape back, listen, and if the song didn't mix good enough to the next one, you had to start over. I even had the cassette walkman that had the auto-reverse so I could do some turntable action on it! And good find Ryno on one of the rarest items of the chemical universe. 14th century sky still remains on my chemical wishlist.

And yeah, I think fans would prefer a DVD than a download.

Make your girl a playlist on Deezer ! It's the same !!

BIFF FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!

To loose is to release. When you -lose- something, you either can't find it because it's gone, or you've suffered a loss.

I remember I made this great intro on cassette using the pull out radio aerial which wasn't tuned to a station, I was kind of playing it like a theremin and then it led seamlessly into Fatboy Slim: Right Here, Right Now. It was my best work to date.

@madpooter: haha at least I know if my spell check misses something, that you'll pick it up. I feel like a looser...