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~ Afro Celt Sound System
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  • Audio CD (12 Jul 2004)
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Format: Enhanced
  • Label: Real World
  • ASIN: B000284AM4
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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Disc: 1
1. Rise Above
2. Johnny At Sea
3. Persistence of Memory Rae & Christian Mix
4. Further In Time Remix
5. Full Moon Low Tide DJ Toshio Mix
6. Release – Rollo & Sister Bliss Mix
7. Release It – Masters At Work segue/DJ edit
8. Whirly 3
9. Riding the Skies
10. Eireann Remix
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Disc: 2
1. Persistence of Memory Video
2. When You’re Falling Video
3. Edited highlights Womad USA
4. North 5.1 Surround mix/video

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Amazon.co.uk Review

Most remix collections are disappointing, as new snare beats and/or bass lines do not a revelation make. However, Pod is different. One might expect better from the Afro Celt Sound System, as their savagely exuberant, flawlessly produced African/Celtic/Eastern collisions in clubland have redefined both world and dance music for all time. Here, the band has not only assembled a series of eminently collectible remixes but added fresh instrumentals to certain tracks, giving recent band members a workout while linking the band's various incarnations. Highlights include the ethereal "Johnny at Sea," which was previously available only as a byte on the band's website, and Toshiro Matsuura's "Fantasisita Re-Formation" remix of "Full Moon Low Tide", on which remote, forlorn-sounding bagpipes are enveloped in organically primal yet frigidly machine-like barrages of beats. The two-disc package includes a DVD containing a pair of videos and strenuously edited highlights from the group's epochal 2001 performance at WOMAD USA. --Christina Roden, Amazon.com


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Remix album from worldbeat pioneers features tracks from across the breadth of their ten-year career, remixed by various members of the band and by the likes of Rae & Christian, Rollo & Sister Bliss and Masters At Work. Also includes a DVDcontaining live footage from the WOMAD festival in Seattle and videos for three of the group's tunes.

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13 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Another remix - a remix too far, 22 Jul 2004
The beginning of this album is reminiscent of Soft Machine in the '70's - pretty interesting. Unfortunately after these first few seconds, the album degenerates into a mixture a bland pop style melodies and irritating repetitive drumming and chanting. Gone is the brilliance of Sound Magic and Release with not a vestige of the rich sounds of the African Veldt or the echoing Breton rhythms mixing to give us that unique Afro Celt sound. By the time I got to track four - the "murdering" of Further in Time, it had to be switched off while I took solace by banging my head in the car door. Continuing to listen the album later, I fell deeper into gloom as I listened to one after another track being thrashed out having all of its sole stripped away.

One can accuse any remix album as being a shadow of the original tracks former selves but I was deeply saddened that such an innovative and rich sound that we have come to enjoy from a band like the Afro Celts should allow this to be offered to an unsuspecting public.

Is there any part of the album I found interesting as I longed for the end to come? Well I suppose Sinead O'Connor's rendition of Release remixed by Bipolar is the best on the album, sounding more than a little like Bjork, which was reasonable. The rest is highly forgettable and I am glad it is. I am afraid Afro Celt fans will have to overdose on the first albums hoping that sanity will prevail and album number six will be better than this. Another CD is placed on the "listen once and never again" pile.

As far as the DVD is concerned - why? I get the feeling it was token to reduce the distributors guilt.

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6 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Much better than you expect..., 23 Jul 2005
By nicjaytee (London) - See all my reviews
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If you're put off by the idea of an album composed entirely of remixes of tracks that, in their own right, are more than good enough then think again... because this is really quite different. Conceived as an integrated whole, the Afro Celts take some of their best tracks and along with their guest producers come up with something that's closer to a superb live album than a series of studio reworkings. Opening with a brilliantly ecstatic version of "Rise Above" its trick is to sequence these harder, more club & afro beat dominated remixes pretty seamlessly into what becomes not only a genuinely exciting & cohesive record, but one that, if you know nothing about the Afro Celts, you'll be pretty knocked out by.

The problem of course is that most people considering buying "POD" will already have many of its tracks and, as a result, comparisons become inevitable. But even on this pretty unfair basis it delivers some "must have" gems including "Further in Time", "When You're Falling", "Persistence of Memory" & "Whirly 3", all of which are arguably better than the originals, an excellent and very different "club" version of "Release" and the previously unavailable "Johnny at Sea". Plus... you get a DVD which includes two breath-takingly good music videos of "Persistence of Memory" & "When You're Falling", an excellent Dolby 5.1 remix of "North", and a compilation of the group's WOMAD USA 2001 concert that really does capture how stunning they were when playing these tracks live.

Good enough then, from either perspective, to justify some of your hard-earned cash and much, much better than you may expect.

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2.0 out of 5 stars To heavy-handed for me, 31 Dec 2008
By Dr. Keith A. Moseley (UK) - See all my reviews
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I must admit that I always have to listen to an Afro Celt album several times before I enjoy all the tracks; then I really love them. However, for me 'Pod' is going to be a steep/impossible climb and, after one play, I am not yet ready to try again. The remixes of the tracks are very heavy handed, with the melodies largely drowned out by the rhythms. Normally I like the Afro Celt's more 'driven' tracks, positively stimulating for this 53 year old (that's given the game way...), but these seem clunky and lacking in finesse.

If you want to bounce off the walls then this is the CD (and DVD) for you. I'm going back to Seed, Anatomic and the rest.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Different enough to be different
I have got to wonder if we are all listening to the same album. This appears to be an album you either love or hate. Read more
Published on 17 Aug 2004

4.0 out of 5 stars The Afro's rock!
Well, I must have been listening to a different CD from other reviewers, as I think this CD seriously rocks!! Read more
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