Jean Michel Jarre Essentials & Rarities (2011)

A 2 CD Box Set of some of Jarre's favorite pieces, hand selected by the Artist. Essentials includes songs from 1976 - 2000 representing a personal and musical journey honoring his relationship with Francis Dreyfus. The owner of Dreyfus Music. Rarities contains pieces created long before Oxygene, one of Jarre's best selling albums. Early examples of the way he manipulated sounds electronically and bridged the gap between electronic, classical and pop.

Essentials is a thoughtfully chosen selection of tracks from the Dreyfus period, covering the giant albums Oxygene, Equinoxe, Chants Magnétiques and more, digitally remastered in a care-applied way, by going back to the original analogue master tapes, and applying up-to date remastering technology. This system has bypassed the remastering mania of the 90 s, where often chunks of sound would be missed in a pixellated digital soup. The result is every bit as good as the original sound, carrying depth and range and conveying the excitement of Jarre s cutting-edge music as it was conceived.