Isolate - The Numa Years is a compilation album

Compilation album

A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...

 by Gary Numan

Gary Numan

Gary Numan is an English singer, composer, and musician, most widely known for his chart-topping 1979 hits "Are 'Friends' Electric?" and "Cars". His signature sound consisted of heavy synthesizer hooks fed through guitar effects pedals.Numan is considered a pioneer of commercial electronic music...

. It was released in March 1992 on CD and cassette

Compact Cassette

The Compact Cassette, often referred to as audio cassette, cassette tape, cassette, or simply tape, is a magnetic tape sound recording format. It was designed originally for dictation, but improvements in fidelity led the Compact Cassette to supplant the Stereo 8-track cartridge and reel-to-reel...

 and contains tracks issued on his own Numa Records label during the years 1984-1986. The songs (mainly in their extended or long forms) are taken from the albums Berserker

Berserker (Gary Numan album)

Berserker is the eighth studio album, and sixth under his own name, by electronic music pioneer Gary Numan, released in 1984. It was his first album to be released under Numan's own record label, Numa Records.-Overview:...

, The Fury and Strange Charm

Strange Charm

Strange Charm is the tenth studio album, and eighth under his own name, by electronic music pioneer Gary Numan, released in 1986 through by Numa Records. The album was not released in the United States until 1999 when it was issued in a digitally remastered form with five bonus tracks by Cleopatra...

. The four page insert contains printed lyrics to all the tracks.

CD copies of this album are known to suffer from CD bronzing

CD bronzing

CD bronzing is a specific variant of disc rot, a type of corrosion that affects the reflective layer of CDs and renders them unreadable over time...

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Track listing

1. "My Breathing" - 6:35
2. "Call Out the Dogs" - 6:41
3. "Emotion" - 8:00
4. "My Dying Machine" - 9:04
5. "Time to Die" - 4:08
6. "Berserker" - 6:04
7. "Your Fascination" - 5:10
8. "The Secret" - 6:40
9. "Creatures" - 6:36
10. "This is Love" - 4:29