Which is fine with Jean-Michel Jarre is that it manages to renew to each disk, create a different climate, walk her listeners in a sound field always different, always renew. With this third disc (if you do not count the drives as "Deserted Palace" or "Burned Barns" out front "Oxygen" and who have had no success), Jarre is accelerating the pace began with "Equinoxe" and leaves definitely the style "hovering" ... the 70 page is turned. "Magnetic Fields - Part 1", with its 18 minutes, is truly staggering. It opens with a very rhythmic and sequenced part alternates fast and slow passage, melodic and non-melodic. For the first time, the famous Fairlight Jarre uses an innovative Australian music computer, first sample of the history, of which he is one of the first and all wealthy owners with Peter Gabriel. And that means: "real" sounds (voice, contrabass, jet ...) but deformed mark all the pieces of the disc. One idea Jarre push very far into the immense and fabulous "Zoolook" of 1984. After a "Magnetic Fields - Part 2" ultra-energetic intended to sell the disc (and accompanied by the first clip shot by Julian Temple), Part 3 returns to a softer atmosphere and calm, really beautiful. Part 4 gives a bit of pace with a catchy melody. The disc ends with a rhumba that Jarre announced as the last (after those of the two previous albums), but will have a little sister in "Oxygen 7-13" thirteen years later ... In short, a masterful drive, full of energy, full of varied sounds, original, innovative (for the time especially) in fluid melodies service catchy. A large jar, simply, although his masterpiece will come later ...
