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"Le Pattern Monde" burst with a (dis)organised chaos which is almost reminiscent of the kind of laptop nerds /bedwetters people like Autechre and Squarepusher like us to think they are. The initial and title track starts mercilessly like a post industrial march, all digi-fuzz and sonic treatment overload. There's an interesting attempt in keeping everything together though; just when you think the mild apocalyptic tone will rule inside your ears, a beat or a bass line comes in to reassure the less intrepid souls.
There is indeed a soul at the bottom of this mass of electronic mayhem; Loozoo then even try the dance(y) card on "Political gigolo", a dub-hop heavy kind of dirge, ready for a polishing remix which could propel it into the disco stratosphere. "Destroy the Planet Earth" is instead commanded by a computer-generated robot-voice, a naive slice of cyber-cheese that somehow sums the album's vibe up concisely: a daft-but-clever mess of fairlight/moog intoxication drowned in a digital package by an ipothetical over-enthusiastic teenager. Which is a good thing, obviously.
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A post-industrial nightmare in the likes of John Carpenter's movies soundtracks, best listened in a dark room...
Chosen by MTV USA as soundtrack to MTV Making The Video