Pod is a personal collection of some of the very best remixes from the Afro Celt Sound System's career to 2004. The album also showcases previously unreleased material, and reinvents old classics with a driving new rhythm section.

The original version of Pod features an exclusive 25-minute DVD created in partnership with Real World's multimedia department. In short Pod takes their music kicking and screaming into a new era of surround sound entertainment and cinematic pyrotechnics.

The Real World Gold reissue has become a two-CD set, packaged together with Release Remixes, originally unleashed in 2000 but long since unavailable on CD. As its name suggests, it contains reinterpretations of the much-beloved track Release from the likes of Masters At Work, Rollo and Sister Bliss from Faithless, and Bipolar. It's a heady reminder of just how this band sketched out the musical future.

"Unlike conventional remix albums, we have actually used the opportunity to work in our new band," guitarist and founder member Simon Emmerson pointed out when discussing the ideas behind Pod. "With tracks such as 'Riding The Skies' and 'Whirly 3' we actually remixed in live drum and bass. Effectively we've taken DJ culture and turned it on its head by remixing with real instruments. For example 'Whirly 3' has been completely reworked by the band and is now the big finale tune in our live set."

There are also remixes from celebrated producers Masters At Work, Rae & Christian, DJ Toshio from U.F.O., and Rollo & Sister Bliss, mixed into a storming club set by Simon Emmerson: "The whole DJ mix section is indicative of my DJ work. It's become more common place for Global Beat DJ's to beat-mix nowadays and I wanted to represent that."

On the DVD we get to glimpse the Afro Celt Sound System at their most scintillating, live on stage in Seattle during WOMAD USA 2001. "It was an historic gig for us," explains Emmerson. The b.......
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