When is a door not a door? When it's Jean Michel Jarre!
| Making Friends Mew - + - - Play It Again Sam 
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| Nous continuons avec des chansons avec paroles... |
| Le Monde est virtuel Serge Fiori - Serge Fiori - GSI Musique 
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| Intouchable et immortel Daniel Belanger - Rêver Mieux - Audiogram
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| Jean Michel Jarre (b. 1948) is a French musician whose compositions in the 1970s contributed heavily to the popularization of electronic music. He took a more melodic and accessible route than the German artists of the period who predated him, but seems to have ended up feeding elements back into their work.
We start with the two "big" albums, Oxygene and Equinoxe |
| Part 4 Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene - Disques Motors |
| Part 5 Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene - Disques Motors |
| Part 5 Jean Michel Jarre - Equinoxe - Dreyfus |
| Part 6 Jean Michel Jarre - Equinoxe - Dreyfus |
| Jarre's third album, the Magnetic Fields (Les Chants Magnétiques) made heavy use of the then-new Fairlight CMI synthesizer. The first part of this album is a sidelong track that is perhaps the closest Jarre came to his Berlin school counterparts. |
| Part 1 Jean Michel Jarre - The Magnetic Fields - Dreyfus |
| Zoolook was an experimental release, featuring heavy use of vocal sampling in a somewhat musique-concrète style, as well as influences of "ethnic"/world music. The following album, Rendez-vous, sees a more bombastic and symphonic approach.
Special thanks to CKCU for the vinyl copy of Zoolook from the infamous 6-for-a-dollar sale back in 2001. Time for another one I say! |
| Ethnicolor Jean Michel Jarre - Zoolook - Dreyfus |
| Second Rendez-vous Part I/II Jean Michel Jarre - Rendezvous - Dreyfus |
| We conclude sorta where we began, with 1997's "Oxygene 7-13", which self-consciously adopts the instrumentation and some of the thematic material from the original Oxygene, and further explores them with some additional modern influences. |
| Part 9 Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene 7-13 - Dreyfus |
| Part 10 Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene 7-13 - Dreyfus |
| Next up... I've been planning to play this for ages but I keep not having time, so this week we're making time. It's a Mexican chamber group (I guess) with a keyboardist and guitarist, and an invited guest on electric bass. It's absolutely gorgeous and heavily features Roland, Moog, and Korg synthesizers. |
| En un viejo castillo Flüght - Flüght - Sol & Deneb |
| So Far Faust - So Far - Collector's Choice |
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