This is the Instinct Records Recent Release Newletter. If you want to get on the mailing list to receive this newsletter each time it is issued (approximately monthly), politely ask Jared Hoffman (who runs Instinct) to add you to his list. The address is 72170.1753@CompuServe.COM ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: 02 Nov 93 22:34:59 EST From: JARED HOFFMAN <72170.1753@CompuServe.COM> Subject: INSTINCT: NEW RELEASES INSTINCT RECORDS RECENT RELEASE NEWSLETTER (11/2/93) =================================================== CSERVE RAVENET 72170,1753 26 WEST 17TH STREET #502 NEW YORK, NY 10011 *This list is distributed by EMAIL only to persons who have expressed interest in our music. If you have received this in error, or simply do not wish to recieve this update, we apologize and will remove you from our list... just let us know. ** At last!!! Our mail order catalog is shipping! *** Thanks for your patience, it may take us a few more weeks to get the 3,000 copies we already owe you out the door, but rest assured they are on the way! Remember, to be patient, we're just getting started with the whole mail order thing, and until we are able to process credit cards (none yet) we have to deposit your checks and wait for them to clear before we can ship. * Coming Soon: GTO Full length Album! Techno Instinct Dance (Vol 2) - Double CD Technosonic (Vol 4) Rising High Techno Injection (Vol 3) Chillout (Vol 2) Double CD Acid Jazz: James Taylor Quartet - Supernatural Feeling This Is Acid Jazz: New Voices The Night Trains LP Exodus Quartet LP AVAILABLE NOW: CABARET VOLTAIRE (10/15) * INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE (EX264 CD and Cassette) * PLASTICITY (EX255 CD and Cassette) "everything you will hear in the next 74 minutes is true...." 2 New albums from one of the most important pioneers of electronic/industrial music. Back at the front of your mind with their finest work in years, Cabaret Voltaire have stripped themselves of the baggage accumulated trying to please major label contracts and have stripped back and returned to their underground roots... and, not surprisingly, are once again, redefining the cutting edge in their own image. These are the first two LP's of a trilogy that will be complete with a spring release. Expect, spacious open textures rooted in minimalist grooves... brooding, post-techno algorithms combined with Cabaret Voltaire's signature twists and turns. Seriously, these records are excellent... in one fell swoop CV have regained their crown, showing newcomers like The Aphex Twin, and Black Dog Productions how its really done. Already a JACKPOT Pick in CMJ... get ready for reviews everywhere. ESP VOLUME 2 - THE TRANCE GROOVE (10/15) Sonic Records SNC2029 CD and Cassette The much awaited follow up and companion to volume 1 featuring 15 more exceptional trance tracks released from the Dutch ESP/Go Bang! record labels. A sonic tour de force, this compilation weaves a hypnotic spell featuring Cosmic Baby, Paradise 3000, Rising Sun, Black Scorpion, Nico, Ghetto Brothers (featuring Blake Baxter!) and more all blended into a seamless continuous fabric.... Hard to find on vinyl, this is the only compilation featuring these trance classics. All in all, a superb follow up that won't let down fans of ESP Volume 1, or Trancefusion. EROTIXS - Ten Green Bottles (10/15) Sonic Records SNC2018 (CD Single/Vinyl Single) One of the fiercest tracks from last years Killer Techno Vol 2, now back with 4 brand new trance mixes. If you like Sunscream, this ones for you.. with it's ethereal female vocals floating over a brooding, suspended trance groove. The original mixes, 4 more in all, are also included for the headbangers out there. Watch for Erotixs to be the new rave sensation. This talented production duo is based out of Dublin, Ireland of all places! HUMAN MESH DANCE - Hyaline (9/30) Instinct Records EX261 CD, and limited edition Vinyl EP From the Instinct Records NEW ARTIST series featuring a specially priced 9.98 full length CD album! The first full length artist CD from one our most exciting new ambient artists. Taylor 808 is 1/3 of rave act Prototype 909 and is responible for the sweeping soundscapes and trancey grooves of Hyaline. You may have heard his debut track on our CHILLOUT double album. You won't be disappointed by the album.... this is truly the cutting edge of post techno electronic sound. OMICRON - Symbolis (9/30) Instinct Records EX263 CD EP and Limited Edition Vinyl EP The Instinct Records NEW ARTIST series presents a 5 track CD EP at a CD Single price. Introductory 5 track EP from another of Instinct's new electronic artists. Hailing from NY, Omicron brings a unique sensibility to this ear opening fusion of trance and ambient. Rich, warm, and loaded with good grooves, Omicron's spirited post techno vision hints at treasures to come. Includes WHALER as featured on the CHILLOUT double-CD. DRAGONFLY - PROJECT II TRANCE (9/30) Instinct Records EX260 CD, Cassette, & 4 track Vinyl EP 12 Tracks from Youth's new Dragonfly label based out of the UK. Youth has remained at the cutting edge of the underground since his pioneering days with KILLING JOKE. Later involved with the ORB, Brilliant, Blue Pearl and many of the UK's most innovative sounds... now the first compilation of releases from his new record label, DRAGONFLY. Driving, hard, uncompromising trance, all with a unique flavor. GUMBO's "THE QUICKENING" is a 9 minute tour de force and personal favorite. Also featuring BLACK SUN, GENETIC, MANDRA GORA, 1000 MICRO DATS, and more... THE IRRESISTIBLE FORCE - FLYING HIGH (9/30) Instinct Records EX258 CD and Cassette Finally, the long awaited US release of this brilliant ambient album by Europe's foremost ambient DJ, Mixmaster Morris. Without question a beautiful and visionary album... extended sonic landscapes soar and unfold over the course of this 70 minute plus voyage beyond the boundaries of techno. This is truly the new electronic alternative.... Also hear Irresistible force on THE UNDERGROUND EP (EX256), CHILLOUT (the ambient compilation) and on RISING HIGH: TECHNO INJECTION's vol 1 & 2. 'I THINK THEREFORE I AMBIENT' LISA CARBON & FRIENDS (9/15/93) SONIC RECORDS SNC2025 full length CD Only The 3rd in the Sonic/Instinct New Artist series of full length CD albums sold at EP price ($9.98 CD) Truly unusual post-techno new electro swing! From the warped mind of Atom Heart and POD Communications of Germany comes the strangest fusion of trance, acid, and jazz i've ever heard. I can almmost picture, the LISA CARBON QUARTET playing in a bar in some strange episode of Star Trek: The NExt Generation... maybe this is the lounge music of the future. Another personal favorite of mine, with little or no commercial potential. From straight trance through electro salsa and bossanova grooves this is one cool record. Lisa CArbon is also featured on POD COMMUNICATIONS PRESENTS: ATOM HEART full length compilation LP on Sonic Records CHURCH OF EXTACY: TECHNOHEAD Sonic Records SNC2027 (CD/Cassette) Special Price Full Length CD and Cassette, only 9.98/6.98! Hot off the press, Church Of Extacy's hardest yet, the Technohead EP.. in a special CD edition featuring all the previous CofE Singles together on one CD Single priced disc. 11 Tracks in all including the 6 brand new Technohead tracks! PROTOTYPE 909 (9/15/93) Sonic Records SNC2028 Full Length CD and Limited Edition Vinyl Another $9.98/EP priced full length New Artist series release.... Get ready for the new generation of American post-techno talent. Maybe you've already seen Prototype 909 dishing out their driving acid soaked grooves at a recent rave... if not, you are in for a treat. This trio is quickly emerging at the forefront of rave technology... uncompromising, edgy acid trance music at it's most intense. To my ears, it's the next logical step beyond the early Chicago pioneers, and the perfect meld of acid house and techno influences. Not for the fainthearted, but a truly rewarding, hypnotic excursion for those who are with the program. KILLER TECHNO VOL 3 (TECHNO NATIONS) (9/8/93) Sonic Records SNC2023 Full Length CD & Tape Volume 3 of our most succesful compilation series. You may have read the reviews of Kickin Records UK massive TECHNO NATIONS compilation... here is the US release. This is non-stop ear-bending hardcore, the best of the best featuring quite a few classics and hidden gems. Included are Joey Beltram/Hard Attack's "Wey Aah", Bald Terror's "Rotterdam", Planet E's "E-Vision". Also tracks from Defcon Situation 1, Total Output, Mind Candy, Brutal, Green Buddah, Scientist and more. 12 Tracks in all. Be warned, this compilation is an all out sonic assault, but if you like your techno harder, louder, faster.... we're quite prepared to deliver. HOT NEW VINYL DANCE SINGLES FROM LIQUID MUSIC.... * LQD3507 - PAL JOEY'S NEW BREED - Classic house from SOHO "Hot Music" * LQD3508 - Brothers & Sisters "Smooth As Scat" - Deep NY Grooves * LQD3509 - Combination X "Love & Harmony" Female Vox & Deep Dance * LQD3510 - Brothers & Sisters "Digiguru" tribal dance w didgeridoo EVOLVE NOW - THE DREAM EP (8/18/93) Instinct Records EX262 CD/EP and Vinyl EP The first release in our new ambient artist series featuring the next generation of American post-techno talent. EVOLVE NOW! is from North Carolina and blends a haunting weave of breakbeat and ambient sounds in a truly innovative fashion. This record has been picked up for UK release by Equator/Pinnacle. Evolve Now is also featured on CHILLOUT! "RAPTURE" X-STATIC (9/1/93) *** NOW #39 ON THE BILLBOARD DANCE CHART *** Kickin USA KX4104 CD/Vinyl Single The lead single from KICKIN:MENTAL DETERGENT (VOL 2). One slamming cover of Blondie's new wave classic "Rapture" produced hard and fast for the nineties. From England's Kickin' Records. Features the soaring vocals of Anna Miotti over 4 mixes from Dance to Trance and onwards into breakbeat. The trance mix is truly beautiful. Reminds me of Rising High Collective's "Fever Called Love" Watch for this single to hit the charts in September. CFM BAND (9/1/93) Instinct Records EX254 - Full Length CD & Cassette The first full length artist project spinning off from our highly succesful THIS IS ACID JAZZ compilation series. The CFM Band is a warm, silky blend of classic funk, jazz, and dance rhythms. Already getting play on NY's CD101, Chicago's WNUA, San Diego's KIFM and other Adult/Lite Jazz stations. Seriously funky, seriously smooth. Dance DJ's will remember the classics "Jazz It Up" and "The Tap Dancing" The CFM Band is also featured on THIS IS ACID JAZZ VOLUME 3. THE CHILLOUT COMPILATION (8/4/93) Instinct Records EX257 - Double CD and Xtended Cassette An epic double-CD set on sale at regular single CD prices! Serious value, 150 minutes of sound! (100 minutes on cassette) Post Techno electronic music from some of the most important names in new ambient sound featuring The Irresistible Force, Moby, KLF, Meat Beat Manifesto (yes, they have a quiet side!), Young American Primitive, Mike Kandel of Existdance, Cosmic Baby, Earth to Infinity, Air Liquide, Moonwater and many more. 18 Tracks in all. A truly epic compilation and one we are quite proud of. MOBY: AMBIENT (8/4/93) INSTINCT RECORDS EX253 - CD and Cassette The final Instinct Moby release is his most intense and personal statement of musical direction. 12 tracks, all ambient. Sweeping, epic music covering a breadth of style and soundscapes. This is truly a stunning record that no fan of Moby or ambient music should be without! Still available: MOBY LP (EX241) Moby's debut LP featuring the Billboard Hits "Go","Drop A Beat", "Next Is The E" also available as 12" & CD Singles "Go" EX237, "Drop A Beat" EX240, "Next Is The E" EX247. MOBY:EARLY UNDERGROUND LP (EX250) avil. on CD & Tape KICKIN' MENTAL DETERGENT (VOLUME 2) (7/28/93) KX4103 CD, Cassette and Limited edition Vinyl EP 12 More tracks from the UK's hottest hardcore label! This is breakbeat techno at it's finest.. no filler. Return appearances from UK legends Wishdokta, K-90, and Zero Zero. More hot new previously vinyl only tracks from Ruff Rider, Tarsk, Twin Bass, Kicksquad, and introducing X-Static with thier stunning techno cover of Blondie's new wave classic "Rapture" Still out there: KICKIN MENTAL DETERGENT (VOL 1) featuring Messiah's "Temple Of Dreams" Also avail, breakbeat 4 track techno EP from RUFFRIDER "Crazy Ridims" (SEP004) POD COMMUNICATIONS PRESENTS: ATOM HEART (The Techno Evolution Continues) SONIC RECORDS SNC2026 CD, Cassette, and limited edition Vinyl EP From Germany's most unusual and most intense purveyors of hard trance comes this cutting edge compilation of post-techno electronic music. You may have heard Ongaku on Rising High Records, but they are a POD production, same with BI-FACE, and ATOMU SHINZO. Also featured is the quirky electro swing of the LISA CARBON TRIO, the hardcore attack of M/S/O, and much trance from ATOMU SHINZO, ATOM HEART, and URBAN PRIMITIVISM.