Don't forget to check out some footage and cool photos on the Radio 2 Cambridge Folk Festival website...

• The Imagined Village at Cambridge on BBC RAdio 2
• Watch the BBC programme on the BBC iPlayer

To vote in the competition you need to log-in to the site, then on each remix page you will see a button 'Add to comp chart' Clicking this button adds the remix into a list on your 'remixer page' which you can access from the log-in panel in the side bar. When you are on your 'remixer page' you can drag the tracks up and down in your competition list until you have the remixes in the right order. At the end of the competition we will combine all the charts and a winner will emerge.

Maybe it all sounds a little complex, but we created this system to try and get around the ratings war that has occasional broken out in other competitions. You can still rate and comment on these mixes as with any other, and the site generates it's top 20 each week, but the competition voting is a separate system.

Let us know how it works for you at webmaster@realworldremixed.com.

...oh and don't forget there's a Bowers and Wilkins Zeppelin going to the winning mix in this vote.

• realworldremixed.com
• Dub Colossus at Real World Records
• The Zeppelin and Music Club at Bowers & Wilkins

This will be the Dengue Fever's last summer appearance in London before they return in November to headline @ The I.C.A. London.

For further information please follow the links...

• Dengue Fever Myspace
• Rough Trade Website

The episode will be screened three times on Time Warner cable in the Metro area on channel 176 and Charter cable in the Inland Empire on channel 145

Saturday, August 9th at 2:30pm PDT

Thursday, August 13th at 6pm PDT

Thursday, August 13th at 10pm PDT

A video promotion of the performance is currently on rotation The Africa Channel website.

Check out the link...

Daby's latest tour is currently underway in the States. He will be at the Edmonton Folk festival in Canada on August the 8th and 9th and will be at the Greenbelt festival in England on 24th August.

• The Africa Channel

Follow the link to see this exclusive acoustic performance.

The band will be in Norway again for the OYA festival in Oslo on August 6 before heading to Sweden on the 8th. After that they will be back in the UK for this weekend's Summer Sundae festival in Leicester on the 9th of August.

• Dengue Fever at Hove Festival

• Cambridge Folk Festival

Dub Colossus in A Town Called Addis is An extraordinary collaboration between contemporary Ethiopian artists and Dubulah, bringing hidden gems from Addis Ababa back to England. Dub meets dreamy blues, hypnotic grooves, jazz piano and driving funk brass. Flavours of traditional Azmari singing, 70s reggae and Ethio-pop infuse one of the most alluring and soulful genres of African music.

The album recorded in Addis Ababa and Real World Studios will be available next month exclusively as a lossless download from the Bowers & Wilkins Music Club

• more on the Real World Remixed competition
• more on the Bowers & Wilkins Music Club.
• more on Dub Colossus in A Town Called Addis

Children Of The Khmer can also be seen with The Zawose Family at The World at St George's West as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe

• Children Of The Khmer - video and information
• The Zawose Family
• more on WOMAD Charlton Park

• Dengue Fever Myspace

18 years in the making, Big Blue Ball is an album of wonderful and unexpected musical collaborations between The Holmes Brothers, Billy Cobham, Joseph Arthur, Iarla O'Lionaird, Deep Forest, Hukwe Zawose, Natacha Atlas, Papa Wemba, Sinead O'Connor, Joji Hirota, Guo Yue, Peter Gabriel, Karl Wallinger and more.

You can catch Peter and Karl from 16.15-17.00 on Friday in Little Sicily.

Toumani Diabaté, David D'Or, Celso Alvin from Monobloco, Wasis Diop, and members of Orchestra Baobab and Siyaya are also confirmed for this year's In Conversation sessions.

Get the Big Blue Ball CD in advance of its official release date (on July 28) - on sale in the on-site WOMAD Shop. Plus, buy the WOMAD Souvenir Programme and get a £2-off voucher!

• Click here for more information on Big Blue Ball
• Click here for more information on WOMAD Charlton Park

Peter said of Francis Bebey, "We were hypnotised...he embodied wisdom in lots of ways and it was a real delight". Karl Wallinger, Peter's co-pilot in the Recording Week sessions talks of his amazement at the music Francis produced from his tiny, single note, bamboo flute, describing the sound as "one of the prime numbers of music".

• Watch the video

• Download the podcast
• Subscribe in iTunes
• more options and information on Big Blue Ball

"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.

Visitors to The Barbican last Friday, or Glastonbury Festival on Sunday may have been lucky enough to catch the first live outings for Dub Colossus in the UK, anyone who heard them play would be forgiven for thinking that they lived in a world where music and instruments were as available as the air they breath. If you missed them, the next best thing would be to head over to singer Sintayehu 'Mimi' Zenebe's Addis Ababa night club - where she's know as the Ethiopian Edith Piaf and regularly performs with fellow band member Teremag Weretow who, with his plaintive voice, playing his messenqo ( one-string fiddle) is a youthful carrier of an ancient tradition, but failing that check out the EP and watch this space for news of future releases and performances.

• More on the EP - listen to samples
• David Hutcheon's article in The Times
• Bowers & Wilkins Music Club

• Buy from iTunes

Jazz World stage of theGlastonbury Festival.

• BBC video

"It was just like a musical health farm, really," Wallinger says. "There wasn't any considerations other than the sounds you heard in the room, which were always pretty extraordinary and played by people who had been mastering their instrument in whatever way for however many years. I think the collective musical years that had gone down amongst everybody there would have been well into the thousands."

• Weekend Edition Sunday
• more on Big Blue Ball

Featuring artists from a myriad of different cultures and nations - some well known names, others hidden gems of writing and performing talent….The Holmes Brothers, Jah Wobble, Billy Cobham, Joseph Arthur, Iarla O'Lionaird, James McNally, Deep Forest, Hukwe Zawose, Natacha Atlas, Hossam Ramzy, Marta Sebestyen, Papa Wemba, Sinead O Connor, Joji Hirota, Guo Yue, Peter Gabriel, Karl Wallinger…..and more….

"After all these years, it's a fine wine ready to be drunk," says Peter Gabriel, "It was the most fun music making I've ever had."

Release date in the USA is 24 June 2008 and for the UK 28 July 2008. For those in the UK it will be available in advance as a special offer to those attending the WOMAD Festival, Charlton Park.

Available on digital, CD, 150-gram double vinyl album in limited edition blue at 45rpm or standard black at 33 rpm.

The online WOMAD Shop will have some fun Big Blue Ball items for sale to accompany the release of the album.

• Big Blue Ball - the story behind the album

"Pure enthusiasm for music from around the world led us to the idea of WOMAD in 1980 and thus to the first WOMAD festival in 1982. The festivals have always been wonderful and unique occasions and have succeeded in introducing an international audience to many talented artists…. Equally important, the festivals have also allowed many different audiences to gain an insight into cultures other than their own through the enjoyment of music. Music is a universal language, it draws people together and proves, as well as anything, the stupidity of racism."… Peter Gabriel

• The Queen's Birthday Honours list 2008
• more about WOMAD

'Venus On Earth' has already received fantastic press reviews in the US and UK. Mojo magazine gave the album a 4 star review concluding 'Powerpop from the land where 1-2-3-4 is pronounced "muoy-pee-bye-boen"...the world's premier Cambodian psychedelic rock band'. THE TIMES newspaper asked 'Who will be the music stars of 2008?' Amongst the handful of serious contenders chosen were DENGUE FEVER. The article continued: 'If there is any justice in pop music, we'll all catch Dengue Fever before the year is out. A Los Angeles-based sextet whose lead singer, Chhom Nimol, left Cambodia at the start of the decade, Dengue Fever have reinvented the rock'n'roll recorded in Phnom Penh in the early 1970s (imagine Ethiopian funk meeting Bollywood soundtracks meeting American garage rock).'

Dengue Fever are performing at festivals around Europe throughout the summer. Visit our tour dates page for further details.

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• More on Big Blue Ball