While everybody seems to hail the new and upcoming LEAETHER STRIP DCD, the Belgium label Alfa Matrix has made a fine decision to license the new HEADSCAN CD for the European market from the Canadian label Artoffact. Regarding the given quality of the music of this new and long-awaited "Pattern Recognition", I would like to ask which act deserves the "star" status... Anyway – we have here THE release of this cold winter, a modern, up-to-date and high-end Electro/Industrial album with intelligent undertones! Take some influences from the likes NEGATIVE FORMAT, haujobb. and IMPLANT as a far away reference, plus a lot of own creativity – and this all cannot really explain this phenomena called HEADSCAN. The complexity discovered here simply in the bass lines produces already some eargasms! Their both pre-released tracks from their EP’s, "Dead Silver Sky" and "Lolife" are of course included – but here are almost 5 pieces available which could be called more convincing then the singles! Great stuff to share the motion of the dancefloors are rich included with "Synchrony", "Arrache-Moi" or "Carnal Knowledge", while "Permafrost" or "Antenna Manifold" simply surprise with strange vocal manipulations. The globally futuristic attitude behind the music of these both talented musicians is featured through uncountable thrown in FX samples on almost all tracks, no matter here, that the music often breaks with existing style boundaries between Electro, Techno and Trance. It is always hard to drown in superlatives, but here...? Go out and get it!!!