mc marsh Escribi�:

In 1995 I used to listen to the Top 40 from start to finish (sad I know, but at least there were some good songs in it back then).

I used to listen to the charts back in the day, I don't now though cos I work, and, urr, they are fukin shit!!

iguanapunk Escribi�:

mc marsh Escribi�:

In 1995 I used to listen to the Top 40 from start to finish (sad I know, but at least there were some good songs in it back then).

I used to listen to the charts back in the day, I don't now though cos I work, and, urr, they are fukin shit!!

well you both fuckin sad!!!

HAHAHA, SHUT IT :P

Some interesting stuff in here, cool to get some insight here on everyone :) - how everyone's walked along the Chemical path and arrived to where they currently are...

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At the risk of being labeled a *newbie* fan, I'll tell my li'l story too. Only God knows how much I worship the Chems n have heard em in quantity n quality since I discovered em.

Am basically from a rock n roll background and like the cliched distortion and *real* music listener, used to hate everything techno for a long time. Then this friend moved in with me who was also from an even heavier metal background n had got converted because of his mindbending experiences, started playing a lot of trance at my place. Somehow never really connected with the music till my first *ahem* test, and of course with no ego involved up there, had to give in to the music. It was just perfect under the influence. I still had no idea of breakbeat n this whole phenomenal hardware driven techno back then. Then came this lifechanging night back in 2001, when a few friends n I were trippin back in my hometown one night, in the living room downstairs. It'd been almost one n a half hrs since drop nothin really seemed to be takin off. Then I remember one of my friends sneakin up to a bedroom, n callin me up alone to that room, since none of the other guys were very close friends n he was feelin bad bout the stuff just not working. As I walked into that room upstairs.. which was a smaller room.. n closed the door, I noticed he had a few trippy lights n candles already on for affect, and as soon as I closed the door behind me, he just smiled and said.. if this don't work nothing will. As soon as he press play on that huge system on a very high volume, n the opening bars of Come With Us engulfed me, I knew I was gonna get blown. Even then nothin prepared me for those intro drum rolls, and the whole room actually took off within seconds like a spaceship for me. Just flew off this planet, and five minutes back I couldn't really feel anything significantly interesting. I couldn't believe the music, and that was where my life was changed. Of course I got outta trance very fast, and I really can't tell by any vague guess also, how much Chems I've heard since then. They are life now for the last three years, and though I might have been listenin to em just three years now, I think I got every beat, every change, every bar, every sound, every sample put out by them, imprinted on my head like I was born listenin to them. I keep sayin this.. the Chems are the Pink Floyd of our generation. The finest possible combination of djing and songwriting that will ever walk this planet. They'r a different plane. Portals. Wormholes. Whatever. Or just infinity n beyond.



Err.. sorry for the long post (especially goes to punk).. just got a bit carried away. It was fucking dramatic how my whole world blew apart just a few moments into the beginning of the album, and a new life! :)

Nice thread whirly!

My first recollection of all things chemical was seeing the video for life is sweet on MTV at least 6 years ago and just thought it was areally cool song, it wasn,t till much later in my teenage years after finally buying a cd player that I had a decent music collection including all the orbital cds, david holmes that I finally bought a chems album as my local town didn,t have any so one day I travelled up to DUBLIN and finally got my hands on surrender and exit planet dust, for the next few months they weren,t out of my cd player and then after another trip to dublin I got dig your own hole and come with us.Now that I having been living in this capital of ours I have had the fortune of being able to get more chems records.

No worries about being a "newbie" or if you think the story is boring - it's where you're at now that's the important part. It really is a joy reading about how you guys arrived to where you are, it brings things to a personal level which I like!



I know for me personally, my journey was a long drawn out one that seemed like forever. I now know I'd heard some Chems songs here and there before that time in the loft at my work, but it's a good starting point to that journey, it's so familiar because I still work in the place where I "heard" the Chems so it's the most memorable for me - I certainly knew who they were back then but didn't really care that much (I did know they weren't brothers, give me some credit!!) as I was into different things plus I missed out on the opportunity to see them in 1996 when they played a big rave up in the mountains here in California.... I kind of wonder what it would've been like had I gotten into them earlier, like some of you folks did. I wonder where I'd be, if I'd be here right now talking about this, if their music would've made such a large impact on a personal level - stuff like that. As to the exact, pinpoint moment was when I got into the music full force, the lines are sort of blurred more than I let on actually - directly before or directly right after Surrender's US release I'll never be 100% positive on because I didn't buy the record right off the bat... and time, space and music has blurred those lines!

My story's pretty boring too I guess, it was 1999 and I was on study leave for my final exams in school. I can't work in silence, so I decided to work in front of the TV, with MTV or whatever in the background. I'd flick between the music channels in the adverts or if something too crap came on. Although at this point, my music tastes were nowhere, I mean I hated boy bands and that but most other stuff got left on. Hey Boy Hey Girl is the song that did it for me, or should I say video anyway. Previously, I'd heard Block Rockin' Beats in 97, on a compilation (NOW something), thought it was cool but it didn't stand out (my music taste was worse then). I'd heard Firestarter by the Prodigy in 98, and hated it. It got to number 1, but I thought it was rubbish, just noise and that. Same goes for Breathe at the time. It was the video to Hey Boy Hey Girl that converted me, I liked the poppy-trance stuff at the time, but after hearing Hey Boy Hey Girl, and later Let Forever Be (thanks again MTV), I went out and bought Surrender (the first album I'm proud of. Tell a lie, I had Catatonia's Equally Cursed and Blessed before that, I loved that). I loved Surrender, the more I listened, the more sounds I heard, it turned me on to a new complex kind of music, less blatent than the other pop crap at the time. My brother was getting into indie/nu metal at the time, and I pulled from his influence as well, getting into indie. When I got to college, I was surrounded by metalheads and punks, but I guess I must have rebelled to a degree because my love for breakbeat/techno grew as I picked up all the chems albums, a couple of prodigy, first 2 FBS albums, leftism, and play, all within a few months. Discovered the list, and that just opened doors with recommendations galore. Now I can't live without music, I just keep finding new amazing stuff. New to me at least, lastest purchase: Orbital - The Middle of Nowhere. Loving it.