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B&W continues its ground breaking Music Club with the release next month of the album 'Dub Colossus in A Town Called Addis.' This meeting of Ethiopian soul and hypnotic dub wiil be availabe as an exclusive dowlnload for members with all it's glorious nuances preserved in Apple Lossless or FLAC format - CD quality downloads. There will be a four track sampler available to non-members as a trial download from August 18th. And for a very different musical flavor, there is still time to catch this month's album, Gwyneth Herbert's 'Ten Lives'- available until August 17th.

If you fancy testing your remixing skills you could win one of two fabulous Zeppelin iPod music systems courtesy of Bowers & Wilkins. We have made a remix pack of the Dub Colossus track 'Shemy Edy' available. Create your own mix, upload it to the site by the 31st of August, and find out if you've won.

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The Music Club has already played host to new music from Little Axe, Grindhouse (Mondo Caine) and Brett Anderson, with Gwyneth Herbert being the current months download.

"All of us at Real World are excited by this collaboration with B&W. It's unique as far as I know and it's going to allow a lot of interesting projects to happen...

One of the things that's frustrating about the digital revolution of which I am a huge fan is that the audio quality has taken a giant step backwards. A lot of what we hear on iPods and so on is super-compressed and people have got used to this. For those of us who have really worked hard to get things to sound good and full and rich and build landscapes out of sound, it's very frustrating, so I'm very happy that with these Music Club releases are going to be without compression and full quality." Peter Gabriel

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Gwyneth Herbert

Recorded at the beginning of the year, Ten Lives is nine perfectly crafted new songs, and one cover - a wry take on Françise Hardy's poignant ballad Si C'est Ça. It features the band Gwyneth only half-jokingly refers to as her 'Super Heroes' for their massive intuitive contribution to and empathy with her music and songs. Together with engineer Robin Baynton and the very special ambiance of the Real World studios they have made 'Ten Lives', Gwyneth Herbert's most eloquent statement yet.

Gwyneth Herbert's 'Ten Lives' at the Bowers & Wilkins Music Club

Dub Colossus in A Town Called Addis

In April we had the pleasure of hosting a group of Ethiopian musicians at Real World Studios - brought together by producer Dubulah, to work with Real World Records and their forthcoming B&W Music Club release. Viewers of Peter Gabriel's monthly video may recall hearing a snippet of an impromptu highlight when Samuel Yerga, their 21-year-old keyboard prodigy, gave a performance on Peter's concert grand Bosendorfer - Sammy's sheer joy at the instrument was infectious, captivating the few of us lucky enough to be in the room. That performance is now available as the track 'Ambassel In Box' on the four track Real World Records EP 'A Town Called Addis' - it's a small appitizer to the full release on the B&W Music Club next month.

"I didn't have a piano until this spring," says Samuel Yerga, in an interview with David Hutcheon of The Times, "but most musicians don't own their instruments, we just can't afford them. There are so many other problems for the Government to fix first that music is still not an accepted part of the culture again. After the Derg, we are the first wave to break the ice, to take traditional music and turn it around. It will be good to see how people react."

Dub Colossus

Real World Remixed

Get involved with music at Real World Remixed, where you can download 'sample packs' from which to build your own mix of a track. Remix, then upload your work back to the site and join the community voting and commenting on each other's work. You can embed your remix on your own site with our widget, or listen to a host of tracks on Radio Remixed. The site generates a top 20 chart of the most popular remixes each week. Dub Colossus will be the 12th pack available on the site. Other recent additions having been 'Tiger Phone Card' by Dengue Fever and 'Exit Through You' from Big Blue Ball with vocals from Peter Gabriel and Joseph Arthur.

We've got two fantastic Zeppelins to give away. One will go to the most popular Dub Colossus mix as judged by the Real World Remixed website users and one to the winning mix as judged by the Bowers & Wilkins Music Club listening panel.

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