Jean-Michel Jarre- Oxygène Pt. 4-6 (First Listen)
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I was born 1973.
Heard it sometime in radio when i was a child...i was catched!
Thanks for voice on this music.
It is music that influced generations...including me.
MUSIC IS LOVE
Appreciate you watching and your comment bingo :) I can imagine your reaction when you first heard it :)
Oxygène... the soundtrack of the universe.
Magma the soundtrack of outer space.
we are surrunded by gaz but we keep ignore it. Breathe.
Next one should be equinox
Definitely. In two parts : I - IV and then V - VIII
Agreed. One of his best works.
Either Equinoxe or Rendezvous. :-)
@@cutthr0atjake Zoolook and Chronologie too, for me.
Chronologie was the Jarre album I played the most. Part 2 was my favourite.
I'll tell you a few things about Oxygene's B-side: All I know for now
This is par excellence the single from the album and the song that made Jean Michel Jarre famous. The wind sound is made by the VCS 3 monophonic synthesizer and the rhythm by the Korg Mini pop 7 drum machine. The string cushion throughout the entire track is made by the Eminent 310U and the sound is processed by a pedal. Smalltone by Electroharmonix that gives it that so shall we say… spatial sound. The sound of the main melody is made with the ARP 2600 and was programmed by Michel Geiss. The violins or strings of the melody are made with the Eminent and the third melody or variation is made with an RMI Harmonic Synthesizer, a device Michel Geiss insisted Jarre buy. The basses were recorded by hand and possibly made with the ARP 2600, although there is no information on what synthesizer they were made with.
The special effects “Pssssssssss” are done with the AKS and the special effects at the end of the song that link to part 5 are done with the ARP 2600. This sound could also be produced by vcs 3, since there are videos with a perfect emulation of that sound recreated by both synthesizers.
Part 5 begins with a few notes from the Farfisa organ with the whole palm of the hand on the keys and which creeps towards the top of the keyboard. This keyboard is also in charge of the melody during the first minutes of this first part in which the theme is divided. The low notes are made if I remember correctly by the RMI harmonic synthesizer that will play a fundamental role in the second part of the topic. The high notes are more than likely also from the RMI due to the peculiar type of sound that this synthesizer has. In the second part, the RMI arpeggiator kicks in, making a fast and frenetic bass sequence until the end of the song. Rhythmic sounds with white noise are also made with the RMI while the melody solo is made with the Eminent 310U Organ. The short note rhythmic sounds that accompany the main melody solo are played on the Eminent 310U. The sound of waves crashing “Or fireworks rising and exploding” was made with the ARP 2600 and programmed by Michel Geiss
The rhythm of part 6 is done by the Korg Mini Pop. The theme is played entirely on the Eminent. Halfway through the song, a high-pitched sound made with the RMI harmonic synthesizer is added to the melody, but it is barely noticeable. The sound of the seagulls is made with the ARP 2600 synthesizer.
Some anecdotes:
This album has currently sold 18 million copies.
Jean Michel recorded it in his kitchen, since he lived in a tiny apartment in the center of Paris with black painted walls.
The apartment was completely empty because his ex-girlfriend had taken everything in the apartment.
Jarre hardly had any instruments, so Michel Geiss had to lend him some synthesizers in order to carry out the great ideas he had told him about.
The mellotron had several broken keys, so Jarre had to adapt the chords from Oxygene Part 2 to the keys that worked.
To record Oxýgene and having so little money, Jarre had to go to a thrift store where he bought a Scully 8-track recorder. The album was recorded in 6 weeks.
A hug.
Thank you so much for giving us this info! Really appreciated! ❤
There are rumors about Dominique Perrier being heavily involved in the composition / production. Do you know anything more about this?
@@christiand8243 Perrier was not involved in the Oxygene album in any way, although he had already known Jarre since 1973, since they collaborated on the recording of Christophe's album "Les paradis perdus" with Perrier playing the keyboards, including the Mellotron, while Jarre composed the lyrics for the songs. At that time, Perrier was totally involved with his Space Art group. A hug.
One of the best albums ever. Equinoxe is just as good as this album which is his next one. These 2 are amazing. Oxygene Part IV is probably his most popular song
If more people are, like me, using (good, sennheiser) earplugs, they have to be pushed a bit more inside the ear canal until the bass part is heard... It is very much better with the whole sound spectrum. I need to buy good headphones to not have to do this every so often.
Yes, Oxygene IV was a single hit in Germany with 20 weeks in the charts
Oxygene Part IV & Magnetic Fields 2 [ China 1981 ] were his best
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These two albums are hist best indeed.
Somehow I never really managed to get into his more recent music that came after that but Oxygene and Equinoxe, I've been a fan of these two albums since my teens in the mid 80s and I still love listening to them.
@@TimvanderLeeuw Oxygene 7 - 13, released around 1997, I think--is outstanding, and perfectly compliments the original Oxygene album.
I bought this album in 1984. After that I bought practically all albums that were released.
JM Jarre is one of the greatest geniuses in the history of music.
He’s the godfather of électronic Music 👍🏼
This visionary masterpiece may take you as close to heaven as our consciousness on earth will ever allow 😮
Oxygene and Equinoxe are the two classic Jarre albums, but his 1984 album, called Zoolook is probably one of the most underrated masterpieces of all time, I strongly recommand you checking that one out and reacting to it.
One of the first albums that used a sampler, using strange human voices as effects and there is no other album like Zoolook ever since.
Zoolook is brilliant
+1 for Zoolook
+1 for Zoolook - especially the co working with Laurie Anderson!
Your second bottle of the best champagne! JMJ changed my life, back in '76/'77.......
Listening to the music is only half of his magic. His live shows were the thing. He lit up whole buildings, got their cooperation. Rendez-Vous Houston closed the highway, because people stopped to watch.
Classic and space.. Sometimes I 've cried because I remembered what it was like when I listened to the album as a child. Space travel !!!
Jarre has been doing a lot of collaboration projects in recent years with his Electronica albums. I found this posted on a JMJ related forum, mentioning an interview with Mike Oldfield:
Oldfield is interviewed about the upcoming Return to Ommadawn.
He says that after asking fans what he should do next they told him that they wanted him to move back to his acoustic roots. The article then says:
"What also clinched his decision was a comment from synth pioneer Jean-Michel Jarre.
- I saw that Jean-Michel Jarre was doing a live Facebook chat with his fans, and I went online to follow what was being said. One person asked him whether he might ever collaborate with me, and his answer was interesting, because he said that he loved my music but that I was too acoustic for him. This got me thinking. If someone like him believes I'm an acoustic musician, the it showed important that part of my career has been. So with all this overwhelming evidence, I felt it would be very exciting to do a project again along those lines."
I would love to hear a collaboration album between Jarre and Oldfield!
Speaking for those of us over 60, you don't need to search for a better word. Older is what we are, ya young pup. And I don't know about the rest of y'all, but I'm just happy as hell I made it.
I used to listen to this and Equinox laid on a bed in a dark room with headphones, no sensory input other than the music, beautiful.
I did the same but I was tripping, good times
I did the same but I was tripping
JP, Jarre is brilliant. So many emotions with his music! In my high school class we were obsessed with Oxygene. We decided to do a play just so we could blast Oxygene IV with big speakers. The play was horrible, but the music was sublime.
Some of Jean-Michel works that I love:
Equinoxe (1978), Magnetic Fields (Les Chants Magnetiques) (1981), Concerts in China (1982, live! one of the first westerners to tour China), Zoolook (1984), Revolutions (1988), Metamorphoses (2000)
Mike Oldfield's The Songs of Distant Earth is well worth a reaction ... loosely Based on Arthur C. Clarks Novel of the same name , his album is a masterpiece .
my dad has a cassette tape that shows when his friends dived in the sea during the summer night and filmed all the fish and sharks and much more and then they added this song as background sound, this song fits well with deep sea music, best deep sea music
Takes me back to my teenage years listening to Oxygene in the dark, watching the lights on my graphic equaliser on my aiwa hifi jump to the music. Parts 2 and 4 always my favorites
Part 4 was the one I heard first way back in 1976. I was sold. 😁
It’s pronounced Michelle like the girls name. 😊
As of 2016 ,'Oxygène' had sold an estimated 18 million copies and is one of the best-selling French, electronic and instrumental albums in history. His name is pronounced Jion-Michelle.
Listening to this music gives chills
Painting landscapes with music.
Definitely!
so good! EPIC! ICONIC! CLASSIC!
This music brings back a lot of youth memories... Thanks for reacting to it.
Happily Dan! Thank you for watching
Jarre .. again. He is a pure genius, a "man of future", the "time traveller". I am fan of electronic music and also the pioneers such as Jarre, Vangelis, Tangerine Dream, Tomita, etc. Jarre for me is the greatest in electronic/melodic field. Vangelis for me is the greatest in electronic symphonies. But Jarre is a step ahead because he brought an idea of future through music so real, and so refreshing that each album from him for me it was such as christmas gift. I was always curious how a new album from Jarre would be. And he still huge always trying to go further in A.I field, VR and thinking how music is changing our perception of world.
Great JARRE congratulacion fantastic music jjj from CHILE happy new year happy happy
I know this year is going to be very positive when I see some video with someone listening to my favorite electronic artist pop up.
He's 72 now, but still at the cutting edge of electronic music, and still innovating. He did just did a VR concert, and you should check out the range of speakers he helped develop. When this album came out there was literally nothing else like it.
I was introduced to this album in 1977 by way of an Audiophile Vinyl double pressed LP played on a $10,000 Oracle Turntable through a CARVER Class "A" Amplifier and JBL Tower Speakers with 15" Bass Drivers. It is a Masterpiece!
Oxygene Pt 4 used to be played frequently on radio that time (and even made it to the charts in several countries, particularily in Germany)
Favourite parts of the album.
First album I ever bought! So great to see this getting a reaction!
Just found your channel,
I first heard this album in 1978,as a 8 year old kid, It's stayed with me eversince, it's a incredible album, still in My All Time Top 10
He has 2 Follow albums since, which takes Oxygen up to part 16
Ty so much for listening with me Scott!
One of my favs...Brilliant.
Nothing short of mesmerising!
Absolutely!
Got this for my Christmas 1977, along with Works Vol 2 by ELP.......great times.
Blues scale with a cha-cha rythm, all done with synthetizers. So ahead of his time!
This , 4, is THE track of the album.... hair on the back of my neck on end.. chill down your spine ....it 44 years old....... this will be played in years to come like we play Motzart, Beethoven....now...
I love it! Finally, a "young guy" who appreciates the longer forms of music. The MO and JMJ comparison of a solo artist with his plethora of instruments creating complex music.
This is my childhood to young adulthood.
Ty so much Samson!
Looking at the comments here brings back lots of memories. Jarre-Oxygene is a great album, really good transitions how the track are interwoven and lay on each other. it is interesting that someone like JP is exploring this foundation electronic music for the first time. I arrived at Jarre via the Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze , Kraftwerk path, as they were earlier. Tanergine Dream; Phaedra, Ricochet and Rubycon for starters. Klaus Schulze; Blackdance, Cyborg, Timewind for a start. This was the start of electronic music in the 70s mainly in Germany. In this music one song equals one side of the LP. I hope you have fun exploring this path, we did.
Part IV is one of those instantly recognisable electronic hooks even if you’ve never known what the song is called.
It was a big deal in the UK.
On its own, it was released as a single here in July 1977, got to No.4 in the singles chart and stayed on it for 9 weeks, but you heard it elsewhere too.
Numerous British TV shows about technology used it as incidental background music, and it was a favourite in arcade machines.
Down the road from my childhood home was an indoor children’s “soft play centre”, common in the UK, a gigantic funhouse essentially, full of padded climbing walls, all covered in netting, big slides into ball pits etc. and they had a gaming arcade section in one corner, and that’s where I first encountered Oxygène Part IV, and I remember it making me feel uneasy as a kid, it sounded creepy and weird to me.
Flash forward to me a couple years back, I get into electronic pop/synth-pop/new wave/post punk/synthesiser stuff and I rediscovered the track and realise how important it was!
Justin, I bought this album in 1976 when it came out and loved it, but the problem was that in 1974 I'd already heard the seminal, groundbreaking masterpiece that is Kraftwerk's 'Autobahn', and for sheer synthesizer genius it really couldn't hold a candle to it. It's the 20+ minutes long piece to which all subsequent synthesizer works need to be compared, though I would claim that there's never been a work since that comes anywhere close to achieving its level of utter brilliance. Like Pink Floyd's 'Echoes', it's just simply perfect, and any person who loves synthesizer music has just GOT to hear it. It's the piece upon which Kraftwerk's world-beating reputation is founded and I'm really looking forward to your reaction when you eventually hear it as I can guarantee you will be utterly blown away by it as I was then, and still am to this day.
Ty Steve, ill try to keep that one in mind!
Agree to disagree. To each his own. I'd take Oxygene over Autobahn any day.
@@JustJP Cool. Just note, the longer you leave hearing it, the more I reckon you'll regret having left it that long.
@@neptune9 Fair enough. Though, I'm exceedingly confident Justin's going to end up strongly disagreeing with you.
Autobahn was an important milestone, but has dated horribly, and like much of Ralf’s work it’s a bit of a dirge (TEE is better musically). But the secret sauce in Kraftwerk was Karl Bartos - The Robots, The Model, Computer Love, all impossible without Karl.
If you enjoy this, Hawkind, and Gong, I strongly recommend TIM BLAKE and the song NEW JERUSALEM 👌. Blake was in Gong and a pioneer in using the synth on stage ... as well as Hawkwind.
Also, Mr Justin, I've suggested the song CROSSING THE LINE by Stomu Yamashta's GO. GO featured Steve Winwood, Al DiMeola on guitar, Michael Shrieve drummer on Santana's first 7 albums, Stomu on percussion, and Klaus Schulze on keyboards (from Tangerine Dream). Even though Jarre is French, most of the electronic music originated in Germany and called Krautrock. Groups like Gong, Kraftwerk, and Tangerine Dream defined this style. Thus requests are pouring in for Tangerine Dream. However, I think you'd find Tim Blake and Go as ear candy too!
Oxygene Pt 4 is probably his best well known track....he did about 20 years later do Oxygene Pt 7-13 which was pretty decent if a bit more danceable. Then just a few years ago he did Oxygene 3 (Pt 14-20) which was a return the the Oxygene classic 1976 album...worth listening to them all :)
JP, Your knowledge of music and sound is spoken so well. Love your channel. Thank you
It was so satisfying to hear your first impressions on Jarre's Oxygene, you bring lots of information and great recommendations (I've taken my notes) in a light and good humor way. Thanks a lot! This was special for me because I've been listening to Jarre since I was a baby in 84, as my dad used to play a lot the first albuns -Oxygene, Equinoxe, Magnetic Fields, in China and Zoolook. From those albuns in 84 until Heart of Noise (great song) Jarre is part of my life. Mike Oldfield too, so it was great to hear you impression on both genius. Thanks, JP!
Ty so much! I'm glad you enjoyed the video😄
It's incredible that Part 4 actually hit the top ten in the singles charts here in the UK. I recall it being so different to usual chart material and yet it really captured people's imagination - I immediately went out to buy it on vinyl and played it over and over, finding new things each time it played. I'd thoroughly recommend the next in sequence, "Equinoxe", and indeed at least the next four albums beyond that. Jarre became one of the earliest 'western' artists allowed to perform in China and the excellent "Concerts in China" double album is also a standout.
I love it! Can't believe this was done in 1976...
Tons of great stuff from the '70s. Don't think the technology for great production was just invented. They just needed to afford it. A lot of Buddy Holly stands out from the late 1950s(!) only because he _insisted_ on only the best, and it sounds like it was made today, and he's in the room with you. Check out his "It Doesn't Matter Anymore" and you'll see what I mean. Nothing at all like JMJ in any way, but as good recording fidelity as you'll ever hear! I just want the myth of music all sounding bad when it was recorded before a certain period to go away, because it's simply untrue.
My favourite track from jarre
Chants magnetic fields part 2
Equinoxe part 5
Equinoxe part 4
Chants magnetic fields part 4
Chronologie 4
Forth renez vous
Do Rendezvous. Part 2 got me hooked on JMJ for life. I never get tired of listening to Oxygene. A true masterpiece in my opinion and never dated. How he did that with 8 tracks and no computers, midi etc is a mind boggling achievement.
Oxygene and equinoxe one of the best albuns ever
Unbelievably coming up to half a CENTURY old! So glad to have grown up in the time of Jean Michel Jarre
4 to 6 is just an incredible sequence, just legendary - up there with Vangelis' Blade Runner
JMJ has a record For biggest concert with 3.5 million people
MAGNETIC FIELDS PART 1.
Other great piece of electronic music
There is a youtube video Oxygen live in your living room.They play Oxygene live with the original instruments.
JMJ is an absolute legend!! Now!!! 1974's "Phaedra" from Tangerine Dream, 1977's "Spiral" from Vangelis, or 1978's "The Bermuda Triangle" from Isao Tomita. Electronic music masterpieces!!!
Switched on Bach? Brandenburg Concertos? Well tempered synthesizer? Walter/Wendy Carlos?
Klaus Schulze Timewind?
Manuel Gottsching & Michael Hoenig Early Water?
Part IV was released as a single in the UK, got in the top 10 as did the album (which went platinum)
I am glad that someone recommended JMJ to you and welcome to the Jarre zone.
In your previous video you said this album didn't feel like something from 1976, but more like 2020; I would say that JMJ is more like Doctor Who or Doc Brown a time traveller from the distant future.
Really happy that you were listening to this album on headphones; especially when the music started to soin inside your head or it gives you that impression; wonderful stuff. Then the waves crashing onto the shore with the seagulls and we are now on a beach.
Truly cosmic!
JMJ and Mike Oldfield two modern day musical prodigies, similar but different.
Part 4 JMJ released as a single and it charted.
It would have been great if they covered each other's albums or did a collaboration.
Maybe they still can; let us hope.
I hope you get back to your normal sleep patterns; I am having the same problem at the moment and it isn't good.
I was hoping that they might have put JMJ into Skyrim.
Ty Duckula, definitely feels a bit time traveler-ish!
@@JustJP Here is a link czcams.com/video/hNeBT3mUxd8/video.html you and your viewers might like watching.
I hopeyour sleep patterns are back to normal.
I love Jean Michel Jarre. See my comments on the first three songs.
The second album, Equinoxe, is equally great.
Try Tangerine Dream:
The song or album: White Eagle
Try the album Stratosphere. Or Pergamon.
Try Klaus Schulze:
Try the album X. Or Dune. Or Digit.
Try Vangelis with the album Antarctica.
Try Software with the album Syn-Code. Or Digital Dance.
Future sound of London with the album Lifeforms.
Next station: Equinoxe ;-)
You should try a bit of Tangerine Dream, "Ricochet" and "Phaedra"
Good ideas of Oldfield and Jarre sharing covers of their masterpieces, interesting concept ;-)
(hope they read this)
Oxygene Part IV's melody was infact played on an ARP 2600. There are no Moog synthesizers on the album.
The ARP creates that very reedy brass sound. The sound can also be heard in the bond film Moonraker when Bond keys a security entry pad and it plays back tones.
The percussion on the album was actually modified korg minipops drum machines modified by Michel Geiss who was actually more responsible for the albums sound than people realise.
The drum machines were played through ehx small stone phaser pedals with their 9v batteries somewhat flat as it gave a warmer sound.
It was an extrodinaryily 'mcgyvered' album given the crude instruments used.
Hello, I'm sorry to contradict you. Jean Michel Jarre claimed in an interview a few years ago that he used a minimoog provided by Michel Geiss on Oxygene, although he used it very little. Likewise, in the biography of Jean Michel Jarre written and published by journalist Rubén Alonso, it is also specifically mentioned that Jarre used a minimoog in the recording of Oxygene that did not appear on the credits because it was hardly used. Also, if you notice, in the Oxygene live in your living room recording, the deep and powerful bass that sounds in part 5 while the farfisa organ plays the melody, they are made with a minimoog with the same sound of the original album.
The cycled rythm is the second part of Oxygene V has served as a base for Giorgio Moroder. Both Jarre and Moroder worked in the same studios at that time. Moroder did a copy of it and compose a disco hit « I feel love » on a line largely inspired by it.
I agree,Oxygene is a really good album but when you get the likes o Equinoxe,Magnetic Fields, Oxygene 7-13, Rendez Vous, China Concerts,Jarremix,Cities in Concert Houston,Zoolook,then you will see why he's so well respect in the Synth music circle. I've seen him 8 times now live and it's absolutely not one to miss especially his Laser Harp which controls probably one of the most sought after Synthesisers The Elka Synthex......
I have a short video on my phone of Maestro Jarre playing the laser harp the only time I've seen him live, a couple of years ago here in Seattle. I have no idea how to go about sharing it though...
JMJ never really clicked for me when I was exploring music in my teens during the 80's...perhaps it was because back then the sound wasn't as revolutionary as it may have been in the 70's but also I felt by limiting his resources to just synths - whilst they could create some great sound scapes - they could never create the range and sort of emotion you got from hand played instruments - like Oldfield did. Of course Oldfield used synths as well but as part of a whole orchestra of instruments, electronic and acoustic. Back then - once I listened to a JMJ album I enjoyed it but rarely went back to it for a long time - I didn't need to - I got all that I was going to get out of it on that first listen and any subsequent plays were unlikely to provide anything new or anything worth re-visiting again! To me they are the epitome of background music - inoffensive - but not strong enough to put them in the forefront of my mind.
May i recommend a couple of albums, if you haven't heard them, firstly, Phaedra by Tangerine Dream (1973), then Rubycon by the same band (1975) both highly influential works in the early electronic music era. Rubycon perhaps more so. Then take a leap to 1981 and Jean Michel Jarre's live work 'the Concerts in China', fab stuff.
Ty Steve!
Ahh yes... the China concerts. Back in the days, he was the first Western musician allowed to perform in communist China, I think. Still have this registration on VHS.
His track 'Souvenir de Chine' is perhaps my favourite; it's so melancholic and tranquilizing.
Part 5 is my fave from side two. One thing I love about old step-sequencer music like this is that due to the nature of the hardware and the lack of synchronisation as per digital MIDI you end up with these unusual time signatures and as they'll all slightly drift around it creates a very organic sound. When MIDI arrived and that enabled you to tighten up everything and it all got more complex, as a result, it's clear that something was lost in the process. By Jarre's 3rd record even though it's still mega it was far less lush and didn't feel like you were flying through the cosmos.
Also whilst I've always been a huge die-hard fan of Tangerine Dream (up until the mid 80's when the 2 core members parted ways) and their often detached and alien/mechanical-like quality to their music the way Jarre and Vangelis were able to make electronic instruments sound so personable and human was quite remarkable. Can't think of anyone else who was able to do this quite so well.
Based on your reaction to Jarre, I'd also suggest you check out Tangerine Dream, Justin. Saw their album Rubicon mentioned below and would also point you to Phaedra from the year before (1974)
Great album and many great electronic musicians at that time where artists like Mike Oldfield, Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream and Giorgio Moroder were giants during this era...
Mike Oldfield has done several electric albums, but at that time he was purely an organic instrumentalist.
Klaus Schulze? Manuel Gottsching? Isao Tomita? Walter/Wendy Carlos?
These are my reasons why a second visit to Jean-Michel Jarre should go through The Concerts in China. Aside from his music, Jarre was massive thanks to his concerts, and the China album has it all. It is a selection from their first three albums (the most genuine), it has exclusive pieces that have not been re-performed, there are arrangements by the Beijing Symphony Orchestra, it was the first concert by a Westerner authorized in China (I assume that no lyrics helped) and the covershe is very cool.
This got by me but I had to mention I really like this album and have for a long time. The Millennium concert was great!!!!!
This is really great and I have been looking for a long time. Thanks!
If interested, there is video of Jarre recreation of this album live called, Oxygene Live in your living room
Don't know if anyone else has mentioned this. There is a video called Oxygene Live In Your Living Room. For one of the Oxygene anniversaries JMJ with the help of some other musicians recorded a video of themselves playing Oxygene album live from start to finish on as many original instruments they could get together. It's interesting to see all the original 70s analogue instruments. There's also a short interview video about making of Oxygene video. I first heard the Equinox album then the Oxygene one and bought all albums since then. Been to a few of his concerts also. He's still at the fore front of technology having performed a live VR concert on New Year's Eve which is available to watch on his CZcams channel.
Listening to JMJ's music also lead me onto other similar musicians such as Tangerine Dream. They also had music featured in GTA. JMJ collaborated with Tangerine Dream on one of his Electronica album tracks.
Wonderful. It is nostalgic
JMJ came out on the cusp of the transition between Analog and Digital. Through MIDI
It doesn’t actually matter, but in case you are wondering, once posted on CZcams, you have the the right speaker on the left and vice versa. Jean-Michel Jarre had it the other way round.
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My best mate died 3 years ago. Oxygene pt 4 was played as his casket disappeared behind the curtain. His brothers had picked it out of his collection. I burst into tears. Back in the 80s, when we were teens, we listened to this, Tangerine dream, Klaus Schulze, Vangelis... anything electronic with a pulsating sequencer, while shrooming out to the hypnotic repetition and mind expanding whooshes. People say the Euro-Electronica that evolved from proto Kraut Rock is soulless and mechanical. Well they are wrong. This moved us to galaxies unknown.
I was lucky enough to see Jarre in concert a few years ago at an indoor arena where his laser and light show all add to the music but nothing can compare to his outdoor citywide concerts and I suggest you watch his Rendezvous Houston concert from 1986 which he dedicated to the victims of the Space Shuttle victims, one of whom was going to record a piece of music in space to be included on one of his tracks.
Hi JP, may I recommend from the same year (1976) the Album "Albedo 0.39" by Vangelis. Another "one man band", mainly a keyboard player but plays drums, bass, gamelan and others. He has been around since the sixties in bands, including Aphrodite's Child, but went solo, nearly joined Yes, worked with Jon Anderson from Yes (Jon & Vangelis, four albums) and became the go to guy for soundtracks (Chariots of Fire, Blade Runner, Alexander).
Albedo 0.39 was the album that hooked me. If you don't fancy doing the full album then listen to the first track "Pulstar" after that it all gets spacey, dramatic sequenced madness. Tracks 1. "Pulstar" 2."Freefall" 3."Mare Tranquillitatis" 4."Main Sequence" 5. "Sword of Orion" 6. "Alpha" 7."Nucleogenesis (Part One)"8."Nucleogenesis (Part Two)"9."Albedo 0.39"
You forgot "The Bounty" (Mel Gibson) soundtrack.
Yes! Albedo 0.39 is a great Vangelis album ! (like a mix of electronic and progressive music). Heaven and Hell (1975) is also really good !
@@gog583 and 1492: conquest of paradise
@@a.k.1740 that was my second Vangelis album. Fantastic melodies and our there choral arrangements
"At the first stroke
The time will be..."
That opening bass riff, gorgeous Justin.. And then that melody kicks in.. Stunning, absolutely stunning imho. The unique sounds washing over the music.. Just out this world to me butty.. 👍
Then it gets slightly darker, more ambient.. The beat breaks in stunning butty.. And Part 6 ♥️ ♥️ ♥️
What a way to finish an album Justin.. Oxygene, to me is an absolute masterpiece.. And Yes, The Tubular bells reference is justified butty. The waves crashing are just so trance like.. ❤️
Once again, your review is absolutely right. 😊 You get it Justin.
Awesome channel.. The best songs, done in detail, depth.. And total respect butty. 😊 😊 😊
As you really liked this album, you cannot avoid his next two albums; _Équinoxe_ and _Le Chants Magnétiques/Magnestic Fields_ , since they are his other masterpieces. Someone here also mentioned _Zoolook_ which is another masterpiece.
As you discovered with _Oxygène_ , you cannot really put Jean-Michel Jarre’s music into words, just express the music in emotions. That is why _Oxygène_ is my favourite album of all time. It is simply timeless!
Btw... Champs magnétiques/magnetic fields and Chants magnétiques/magnetic songs are pronounced the same way but have two different meanings. He just played on words
Hi JP that "clicking" sound got me hooked on JMJ. It is a preset called a quijada only found on a Korg minipop 7 rhythm machine. The quijada is a Peruvian percussion Instrument made from an animals jaw with loose teeth.
Thats so cool, ty for the info Adrian!
Oxygene part iv was JMJ's "big hit single" Top 10 in UK and Ireland Number 3 in French charts and did well in other European countries . Not sure if it was released in US ?
Great to hear the Album on your Channel.
With regard to birth of a genre comments on synthwave etc
Mike Oldfield was first signing for Branson on Virgin followed very quickly by Tangerine Dream and if you want to hear pioneers of layering pulsating sequences from early 70's check them out. Phaedra, Ricochet, Tangram etc. Well worth going down the TD rabbit hole!
Part 4 went 1st in the french charts, as far as I can remember. In the 70's, French medias didn't broadcast any kinda rock or electronic music though his music was. That's why he'd been labelled as a poppish artist.
And last thing about him, he's Maurice Jarre's son.
These are my favorite parts of this song...just love it!
I love that the ending isn't hurried.
Try to hear Rubicon by Tangerine Dream. If you haven’t already.
Yes, Rubycon can´t be left out.
@@Partyschreck-kq3rm Rubycon, Phaedra, Stratosfear, all genius for me.
Oh man, Rubycon is so good!! And Phaedra, Ricochet, Stratosfear, Encore (Live!!!!) , Force Majeure, Poland (Live!!!!), and Tyger.
@@MrSinnerBOFH Good list, though I'd subtract Tyger (I do not like singing!), and add Logos Live.
Saw TD live in 81 on the 'Exit' tour at the Manchester Apollo
Part IV was the radio play single in the UK - peaking at number four on the UK Singles Chart.
YOU MUST DO MAGNETIC FIELDS by Jean - Michel Jarre
Wow! Thanks for the Mellotronsoul link!
Enjoy!
You must take a look, and listen to JMJ Equinox !! from 1978. The album Oxygen is by the way produced at JMJs privat appartment, he build a studio in his old kitchen :-)
I remember a spectacular he did ON the river thames in London on a barge!
It was epic.
Cant remember the actual year,late 70's early 80's?
My fave track of his is on this album but dont ask me which track,it starts with a thunderstorm,then lifts off.
Really energetic and classical.
You'll love it.
Destination Docklands. September 1988. Was there myself.
Been a Jarrehead all my life, I can totallly relate to your reactions, this is mindblowing now, as it was for me back in the late seventies. A part of Jean Michel building his music as if it was classical comes from his dad Maurice Jarre, who himself was a great music writer, for instance Maurice Jarre wrote the music to the film Dr. Zivago. If you want to go for the most exreme experimenting J.M album you should take a listen to Zoolook. Best wishes from Denmark.
I highly doubt that there had been any infuence from his Maurice Jarre. He divorced from Jean-Michel's mother when his son was 5 years old and went to America abandoning his son. JMJ only met his father a few times and never knew him really, after his death he wasn't even that sad. He was never close to his dad and this was also the reason he kept a distance from Hollywood scores.
I agree, he should check out Zoolook.
Ty Erik!
@@hatzegopteryx.sounds3637 totally agree on both: not being influenced by Maurice and he should listen to Zoolook.
Hey JP just loved your assessment of my most favourite music hero's work. I am in my 50s now but have been listening to JMJ'S music for over 4 decades. Every time I play Oxygene it's like the first time- still exciting after all these years! The man IS a genius! (PS - it's Mi-shell Not Mi-kel, but you're forgiven) ❤
An influential synth album worth checking out is Wendy Carlos’ “Switched On Bach” from 1968 (under her previous name Walter Carlos). Carlos worked extensively with Robert Moog of Moog synthesizers, testing and suggesting modifications that she wanted Moog to implement. Synths in general were seen as mere toys until Carlos got her hands on the Moog and brought it out of the shadows. Another goodie is “Snowflakes Are Dancing” by Isao Tomita, released in 1973/74. A must if you’re into DeBussy. Again, done on a Moog but also with a Mellotron.
...and Equinoxe is a great album of Jean Michel Jarre. Thanks for your reaction to Oxigene. Greatings from Chile!
Ty Vlas! Hope you have a great weekend 🔆
Need to queue up Stratosfear, Phaedra, or Rubicon from Tangerine Dream
or ricochet.
We should warn JP all these one track per side material.
And by the way : great channel ! Great work ! I rediscover these oldies I loved when I was teenager !
Ty so much!