This is just a great great cd much more ambitious then cds like oxagen and equanox and quite a bit differnet
if your a fan of Laurie Anderson the you will love this cd
My only complant is it ends the last songs seems to be going along and just ends I guess they ran out of LP time I just wish it was longer
I love it !!

Per Amazons tracklisting, there is nothing new on this CD. The two tracks marked as 'Remix' were originally released on the album as this.

Human voice had never been used so creatively in electronica before -and I doubt anything in the same league was done after it. Zoolook got some undeserved bad press as merely another dance album (perhaps for the silly video) but it is one of the best synth albus ever, and probably the best of Jarre.

This CD is very different from the electronic synth wash efforts, such as "Oxygene" and "Equinoxe," that preceeded it. The sound is hard edged and "pointy." Jarre was an early user of sampled "Found Sounds," such as a baby's first words on "Diva," and the world-wide sounds, many of them African, on "Ethnocolor" foreshadowed the entire "World Music" movement.

"Ethnocolor" itself is worth the entire CD. Starting with sparse, edgy vocals, samples, and synth washes, he gradually builds and then WHAM; the percussion kicks in and all of the sounds pulse and bubble, as if you're listening to every radio channel in the world simultaneously.

The rest of the disc has various interesting things going on, including Laurie Anderson chanting in French on "Diva" (this era was also her creative peak), and various and sundry little snippets.

If you liked "Oxygene" and "Equinoxe," you MIGHT not like this disc, it is much harsher and "edgier." It's not really like classic Krautrock or Tangerine Dream either. Unfortunately, the samples on Amazon don't present these songs very well, as they are very long and change dramatically as the piece progresses.

Definitely worth a listen.

This is one that I have on cd/tape/album. I love the way each is differn't. The mixes on the cd are the bes, but the tape and vinal, have a certan rawness to them that I really love. It's party music for the well-informed.