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Real World Records Offers Free Download of a DTS Surround Music Track for the First Time; First Record Label to Utilize a DTS 5.1-Channel Track Download for Online Promotion.


TWYFORD, United Kingdom -- DTS (1) (Digital Theatre Sound) A digital audio encoding system used in movie and home theaters. Popularized by the movie Jurassic Park, the six-channel (5.  (Digital Theater Systems, Inc.) (NASDAQ NASDAQ
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) announces that Real World Records is promoting its new title Moksha Moksha (môk`shə), river, c.375 mi (600 km) long, rising NW of Penza, central European Russia, and flowing generally NW into the Oka River. Its lower course is navigable.  by offering a free download of a unique DTS surround music version of the first track of the album. This is the first time that Real World Records has offered a promotional download of a DTS 5.1-channel track, which can be found at http://realworldrecords.com/amjad/.

Fans of the Indian classical music The origins of Indian classical music can be found from the oldest of scriptures, part of the Hindu tradition, the Vedas. Samaveda, one of the four Vedas, describes music at length. Indian classical music has its origins as a meditation tool for attaining self realization.  genre raga can easily obtain the seven-minute track from the Real World site by burning the downloaded DTS file onto a CD-R (CD-Recordable) A writable CD technology using a type of compact disc that can be recorded, but not erased (CD-Rs are "write once" discs). CD-R discs are used to master CD-ROMs, to back up data and to make copies of data for distribution. . The CD-R can then be played back in a standard surround sound An audio recording and playback system that uses five or more channels plus a subwoofer channel. See 5.1 channel and 3D audio.  system with DTS, allowing fans to enjoy the track, by Amjad Ali Khan Ustad Amjad Ali Khan is a highly acclaimed Indian sarod player and composer.

Khan was born in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh in 1945, is the sixth-generation sarod player in his family and his ancestors have developed and shaped the instrument over several hundred years.
, for free. The track, "Sandhya," offers an atmospheric surround sound mix by engineer Ben Findlay, who also mixed the live sound on Peter Gabriel's recent tour. Real World describes the composition as having "the age-old flavour of early evening ragas. It's like a twilight moment moving from light into dark, plus an obvious feeling of loneliness."

"This album gives the listener a variety of ragas, including some folk music folk music: see folk song.
folk music

Music held to be typical of a nation or ethnic group, known to all segments of its society, and preserved usually by oral tradition. Knowledge of the history and development of folk music is largely conjectural.
 from two beautiful states of India -- West Bengal and Himachal Pradesh," Amjad Ali Khan explained. "I just want listeners to enjoy the music and the feelings it creates without knowing any technical background. The surround download that Real World is offering in DTS truly submerges the listener."

York Tillyer, Interactive Director at Real World, commented: "The CD album release is stereo, but we recorded the album sessions in 5.1 and thought that offering a download of the multi-channel track in DTS would be a compelling promotion. This music is certainly an interesting alternative to many surround recordings currently available."

"This is a wonderful way for consumers to own a beautiful piece of music in DTS that they would not otherwise experience in surround sound," said Gerben van Duyl, Director of Business Development, Consumer for DTS.

About Real World Records

Launched in 1989, Real World Records has grown into a label of wide-ranging, world-class music from all corners of the globe. Many of the label's releases are recorded at Real World Studios where the live interactive spaces provide an environment capable of capturing the excitement and vitality of musicians "in performance" and can provide talented artists from around the world with access to state-of-the-art recording facilities and audiences beyond their geographic region.

Since the early days, Real World Records has been at the heart of a peaceful revolution in the music business. The label which grew from the success of the WOMAD WOMAD World of Music Arts and Dance (founded by Peter Gabriel)  festivals and Peter Gabriel's exploration of music from other cultures, releases recordings of superb musicians from all over the world. Before Real World, only with great determination, or a lot of traveling, was it possible to access music by artists working outside Western Europe and North America. Now, you can stroll into high street stores and find CDs of music from every continent, many of them bearing the Real World colour bar logo. There's an enormous variety of styles, moods and genres on CDs that bear this logo, but they all have one thing in common -- the quality of the recording and the production is superb.

For further information, please visit http://www.realworldrecords.com/.

About DTS

DTS (Digital Theater Systems, Inc.) (Nasdaq:DTSI) is a digital technology company dedicated to delivering the ultimate entertainment experience. DTS decoders are in virtually every major brand of 5.1-channel surround processors, and there are more than 300 million DTS-licensed consumer electronics products available worldwide. A pioneer in multi-channel audio, DTS technology is in home theatre, car audio, PC and game console products, as well as DVD-Video, Surround Music and DVD-ROM DVD-ROM: see digital versatile disc.


A read-only DVD disc used to permanently store data files. DVD-ROM discs are widely used to distribute large software applications that exceed the capacity of a CD-ROM disc.
 software. DTS audio products are featured on more than 24,000 motion picture screens worldwide. Additionally, DTS provides imaging technology and services for the motion picture industry; Lowry Digital Images, a wholly-owned subsidiary of DTS, is an industry leader in image restoration and enhancement. Founded in 1993, DTS is headquartered in Agoura Hills, California For the unincorporated community, see .

Agoura Hills is a city (incorporated in 1982) in Los Angeles County, California, and has the ZIP code 91301. The population was 20,537 at the 2000 census. This city on the Ventura Freeway (U.S.
 and has offices in the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Canada, Japan and China. For further information, please visit www.dtsonline.com.

DTS is a registered trademark of Digital Theater Systems, Inc.
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