introduction
AMBIENT / ELECTRONICA

It is commonplace these days, especially on mixed 'dreamy' albums to have minute long introductory tracks (an overture, so to speak). I thought I'd toy with the idea. Does it work? Not quite. I was also thinking of getting a computer-generated/vocoded voice to speak the track list, but Jarre beat me to it.

twilight
ACID JAZZ / CHILL-OUT

Once upon a time, I despised jazz, but recently, as this track demonstrates, it is beginning to have a small influence. The chilled and groovy ambience provided by the bass and sax in this track make it one of my favourites - an opinion echoed be many of my 'listeners'.

traffic
AMBIENT / ELECTRONICA

Far from being the main theme for the album, Traffic is a progressive fill-in which develops over time. A recurring pattern exists throughout, changing in each carnation as drums, strings and piano weave in and out of each other. Note: for some reason parts of this track reacted badly to MP3 compression.

our island
AMBIENT / DRUM'n'BASS

The theme from London to Paris (on the first album) is given a new lease of life in a far more atmospheric ambient / drum n' bass incarnation. I like this track quite a bit, but that piano sound is just not lush enough...

disaster
CINEMATIC / ELECTRONICA

After seeing the film Gladiator and hearing its music, I was inspired to right a some almost-symphonic incidental music. This track sees me journey back to the days when I wrote the classical suite (see first album). I'd like to hear it with less 'synthesized' instruments, so perhaps this track needs revisiting.
Note: the track reacts badly to MP3 compression, so only an excerpt is given.

en masse
CINEMATIC / TRIP HOP

The genre of this track is... I don't know actually. One might say it's hip hop without the rapping (a marked improvement). It starts with a drum beat that sounds a bit lo-fi (such is the fashion, these days) which sometimes feels a bit tacky... perhaps it isn't lo-fi enough, but the soft bass crescendos and crisp piano chords soon take over to form a good contrast for the rest of piece. 

changing lanes
CINEMATIC / TECHNO

I started this a while ago, then after hearing the 'throbbing' techno soundtrack of the German film 'Lola Rennt', felt inspired to finish it. It's 'intelligent', melodic techno (or is that a contradiction in terms?) and like the previous track a crescendo provides for some hopefully-not-anti-climatical build-ups in the piece.
Note: there are number of compression artefacts in the MP3 file.

mute
AMBIENT / TRIP HOP / WORLD

This was another of my favourites. A decent mix with good bass vibes, breaks and a nice acoustic guitar riff. The only major gripe I have is, maybe, the length - it could stand to lose a minute or two, such as the Bay of Bengal reprise, maybe (see second album).