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Press Release

Just a slight delay on the Press Release - we had an unscheduled day out yesterday.

Here is the release which has gone to the online distributors - should come out on Sunday all being well. You can read it here first:

Multi-Track Shop Opens at Download2MP3.com Today


The online source of original percussion arrangements of selected classical pieces - Download2MP3.com had a new shop extension fitted out today. Powered by osCommerce the new shop enables customers to use a shopping cart to select several tracks, benefit from a 20% Launch Discount on orders of four tracks or more and charge it to PayPal or one of the major payment cards.

BitPass continues to an excellent service to customers purchasing one or two tracks and the new multi-track store provides an alternative route for those putting together a more significant selection.

In both cases a lofi streaming sample from each track is available so that customers can hear what they are buying up-front.

The shop stocks MP3 files of digital recordings of musical arrangements based around Steel Drums. Those involving the Marimba were inspired by the extraordinary work of Evelyn Glennie and those with the Mega Moog synthesizer by Emerson Lake and Palmer. The files are quite large (typically about 4 Meg for 3 minutes of music) but that is no problem to the increasing numbers of customers with Broadband access to the internet.

Note to Editors:

HiFi Review copies of a reasonable number of tracks will be made available to bona fide journalists on application to the Webmaster at www.download2mp3.com


Here is one more lofi streaming sample of our original percussion arrangement of a Scarlatti Harpsichord Sonata - K023 in D Major - have a good weekend.

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