As YouTube was mentioned in the Guardian on the weekend it can only be a matter of time before all the excitingly copyright infringing content is removed, leaving the site to deflate Napster style as thousands of anime remixing teens flee back to their password protected forums and shady Bit TorrenAs YouTube was mentioned in the Guardian on the weekend it can only be a matter of time before all the excitingly copyright infringing content is removed, leaving the site to deflate Napster style as thousands of anime remixing teens flee back to their password protected forums and shady Bit Torrent cabals. So anyway, before that happens I’d better get on with doing a run down of my favourite music vids.

Let’s start with this:

Da Mystery Of Chess Boxing
Obviously great videos are about the music and visuals working closely together. There are plenty of clever videos with $$$ spent on them that don’t get the match as right as this lo-fi master piece. The whole thing feels genuinely dangerous and outside the mainstream in a way that’s incredibly rare these days.

High points?

• The Escape from NY-ish location (P.L.O. style!).
• The setting up of the whole Wu Tang mythology (there’s loads of them, they’re all dead good at kung-fu and chess).
• “Introducing the Ghost. Face. Killahhhhh! (No one could get illa)”

Apparently chess boxing is actually a real thing these days though mysteriously no one aknowledges the Wu’s pivatal role in popularising the “sport” (apparently it was invented a year earlier by french cartoonist Enki Bilal).