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One kid’s vinyl. Jean Michel Jarre  |  Oxygene - 1976.

I absolutely love the fact that so many of those early electronic musicians are also sci-fi enthusiasts. Like Jean-Michel Jarre loves Arthur Clarke and watched 2001 a space odyssey for like 50 times when it aired in 1968, Kraftwerk went full on that Metropolis aesthetics with their man-machine-isms, Tangerine Dreams making one space-themed album after another, Klaus Schulze on Dune, Gary Numan being so obsessed with Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep that he made 3 albums (as well as an android persona) almost entirely based on Philip Dick's futuristic dystopia, The Human League & John Foxx being fans of JG Ballard, etc.. Finding out about these little "crossovers" and influences really brings me joy since I love both retro electronic music & retro scifi.

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Jean-Michel Jarre, Place de la Concorde, Paris, France 1979

Regular listening. You can empty my collection but leave me with these and I’ll be happy.

Tubular Bells - Mike Oldfield

Rough & Rowdy Ways - Bob Dylan

Synchronicity - The Police

Fear Inoculum - Tool

Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake - Small Faces

Equinoxe Infinity - Jean Michel Jarre

Who’s Next - The Who

Apple Venus Vol 1 - XTC

The White Album - The Beatles

Wizard vibes~

Release: December 2, 1976

Lyrics: Instrumental

Songwriter: Jean-Michel Jarre

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Finally done something new

I did this to get back into the swing of things so it's a bit rough around the edges but it will do for now.

Jean Michel Jarre 1976 Oxygene

released 02.12.1976

Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene Full Album

Xenakis révolution. Le bâtisseur du son, (documentary/biography, 2022, 56', in French w/ French, Italian, English, Spanish, and Polish sub, and German dubbed), Directed by Stéphane Ghez, Arte / Cinétévé, 2022. Feat. Mâkhi Xenakis, Pascal Dusapin, George Aperghis, Jean-Michel Jarre, Trio Xenakis/Collectif Xenakis [Adélaïde Ferrière, Emmanuel Jacquet, Rodolphe Théry, and Jean-Baptiste Bonnard, Othman Louati, Emmanuel Curt]

(image: Xenakis à Persepolis, 1971. Photo: © Mali Letrange / Coll. Famille I. Xenakis)

Jean-Michel Jarre & Charlotte Rampling Cannes 1977