Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Glow of Red Hydrogen - Human Mesh Dance
2. Slowly In - Rudy Hill
3. Giertunn - Evolve Now
4. Zed - Tetsu Inoue
5. 2am on a Silo
6. Guten Tag, Herr Stockhausen, Herr
7. Remote/Beauty
8. Bubbledub
9. Caterpillar to Butterfly
10. Meridial - Mitchell Akiyama

Disc 2:

1. Azul - Facil
2. Water - Selway
3. 4546345 - Carlito Verde
4. Organism - Susanne Duque
5. Dubs of Hazzard - Shuttle358
6. Countless Ancient Races - Sub Dub
7. Drifiting - SETI
8. Patriotic Hiss - Dietrich Schoenemann
9. First Fragment
10. Text Frequency - Moby

Disc 3:

1. Myopia - M.D.
2. Entropy - Deep Space Network
3. Blossom Tranq'd - Adham Shaikh
4. 5N9 - Ghislain Poirier
5. Om - Futique
6. Journey to the Sun - Super Secret Symphony
7. Convex
8. Se Prendre - Taylor Deupree
9. Dimitra's Bedroom - Sutekh
10. Symphony #1 Excerpt - Prototype 909

Disc 4:

1. Occur.9 - Casey Hogan
2. Understand - Escape Tank
3. Mirage - Kenneth Kirschner
4. E.P.L. (Femme Machine) - Tim Floyd, Adham Shaikh
5. Left Side
6. Mood Swing
7. Escape from What? [Excerpt]
8. October 8, 1997 - Mysteries of Science
9. North Twin - Taylor Deupree, Tetsu Inoue

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #209276 in Music
• Released on: 2001-10-23
• Number of discs: 4
• Format: Box set

Customer Reviews

great place to start with this Instinct ambient sampler box!
ah, Instinct. one of the premier ambient labels, on the same level with FAX, WARP, and several others. the type of label where you can feel confident buying any release because you know they don't put out crap...

the new 4 CD box set covers a lot of ground, and provides a great primer for the new ambient lover, or especially for those of us who don't want to pay outrageous prices for the out of print Instinct stuff on ebay.

most of the artists that have released ambient music on Instinct are represented here in this set. great intro essay as well in the booklet that comes with the set.

highly, highly recommended. 21st century thinking music.

An outstanding collection!
None of the mono-thump-thump here. Disc 3 has the earthiest depth, reminding me of Biosphere or Robert Rich, and equally varied. Other disks can be what people tend to call experimental, but then all real music is experimental. Maybe it's not even music, but atmospherics or (I'll say it) "ambient." I keep coming back to this, just as I keep going back to "Substrata" for my fix of strange inner goings on. This four-disc set is worth every penny at twice the price. This is not just a good place to start; it's a great place to revisit regularly.