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Pod (Bonus DVD)
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Price: $12.01
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0724359752600
Format: Enhanced
Label: Real World
Manufacturer: Real World
Number Of Discs: 2
Publisher: Real World
Release Date: 2004-05-04
Studio: Real World
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Customer reviews of Pod (Bonus DVD)
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Customer Rating:  
Summary: A title
Comment: If you really like the Afro Celts, as I do, it's pretty cool to hear so many of your favorite songs made so dramatically new. It's like hearing them fresh all over again. But if you are new to the band, go for Sound Magic, which is brilliant, or Seed.
Customer Rating:
Summary: JUST FOR THE BONUS DVD
Comment: Remixed versions of owned tracks is not a big deal...but the bonus DVD is why I bought this cd pack. The bonus DVD has little content but is nice as Peter Gabriel appear on one of the videos and the 5.1 remixed version is fine too. But nothing else.
Customer Rating:
Summary: An Antti Keisala Comment: New Tapestries of Sound
Comment: I admit of not having been into this album until recently. I'm not generally fond of mixing songs that work in themselves and in the given context. But after "Anatomic", my stance towards this album changed. It's nice to listen to, the soundscapes are as rich as ever; I've come to think of this as the first cousin to "Anatomic" once removed, the needed chill-out between "Seed" and "Anatomic".
This is, above all, a fun album to listen to. Sort of like elevator music wrapped around itself times two. A new twist to the clichéd remix genre, much like how the band has been to the whole world music fusion phenomena. Just listen to the remixes of the song "Release", which is turned from a lament to celebration.
The distinction with "Pod" is that I can't find it drawing attention to itself ― nowadays I tend to listen to much of my music albums from start to finish while working, the music affecting in the background, and what stands out behind my wall of thoughts is not the difference of the remixed song when compared to the original but the overall looseness. This is a chill-out album if you're ever going to find one, at least according to my definition. That is, I think of that kind of music as such that channels your energy in ways that doesn't distract you from what you're doing yet is smooth and does work to change your perception of the surrounding environment. Profound musically yet not too marring; good-hearted; not too heavy-thinking and carelessly emotional. I prefer the original versions with only the Peter Gabriel song "When You're Falling" as an exception, but this album works so finely as a tapestry onto which you can hang your thoughts. It is decorated white space.
With best regards,
AK
Customer Rating:
Summary: Real Good!!!
Comment: I'm Spinning Instructor and I need music for push people to ride, Pod is perfect for that.....I'm very happy and I recomend other album from them, "ANATOMIC", fantastic too.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Much better than you expect...
Comment: 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 "interesting" studio reworkings. Opening with a brilliantly ecstatic and very different 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 absolutely 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 asbsolutely "must have" gems including, in addition to its quite stunning opener, versions of "Further in Time", "When You're Falling", "Persistence of Memory" & "Whirly 3", that are arguably better than the originals, two excellent "club" remixes of "Release", and the previously unavailable and ridiculously good "Johnny at Sea". Plus... you get a DVD which includes two ingenious and unforgettable music videos of "Persistence of Memory" & "When You're Falling", an excellent Dolby 5.1 remix of "North" with cleverly sequenced graphics, and a compilation of the group's WOMAD USA 2001 concert that really does capture how amazing 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 because it is, quite simply, this excellent group's best album to date. And that's saying something.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Most remix collections are disappointing, as new snare beats and/or bass lines do not a revelation make. However, one might expect better from the Afro Celt Sound System, as their savagely exuberant, flawlessly produced African/Celtic/Eastern collisions in club-land have re-defined both world and dance music for all time. On Pod, 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 band¹s 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 2-disc package includes a DVD containing a pair of videos, plus strenuously edited highlights from the group's epochal 2001 performance at WOMAD USA. --Christina Roden
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