"The Eyes of Truth" is a 1994 song by German New age band

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, released as the second single from their second album, ''

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'' (1993). Similar with "

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", it featured samples of Mongolian Folk Music (most notably Alsyn Gazryn Zereglee (''Алсын газрын зэрэглээ'')) and samples taken from

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's album ''

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''. It also contains samples from U2's song "

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's "Kiss That Frog", NASA retransmissions sampled from "Mare Tranquillitatis" performed by

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, and

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' "Dreaming While You Sleep". The accompanying

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for the song was recorded in the rural areas of

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. In 1999, the song was popularized from its artistic use in the worldwide trailer for the movies ''

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'', and also for ''

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''. As is the trend for many trailers, the song did not appear in either film or

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. For the case of ''The Matrix'', the song was sampled for the theatrical trailer release.

Use of the track in software

This track is used in the

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homebrew multi-tool program ''multiMAN'' as background music.

Track listing

# Radio Edit – 4:36 # Album Version – 7:27 # The

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Mix (The Twilight of the Gods) (140 bpm) – 7:17 # Dub Version (140 bpm) – 5:34

Charts

References

* Joar Grimstvedt (1996
Single: The Eyes of Truth
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