Jean Michel Jarre Essentials & Rarities (2011)

Jean Michel Jarre "Oxygene 8", featuring remixes by Hani, The Sunday Club, Takkyu Ishino and the team of Dado & Salsotto.

Special version adapted from the Epic/Disques Dreyfus release "Oxygene 7-13".
Tracks 1-3: Remixed by Tokapi at Peak Top Studios D'dorf. Track 4: Remixed by Resistance D (Pascal Feos & Maik Maurice), produced at Plan Of Vision Studios - Frankfurt. Tracks 5 & 6: Remixed, manipulated, melanged and meccanoed by Loop Guru at the Shrine - April 1997.

The soundtrack for Jean Chapot’s film of the same name, Les Granges Brulees is somewhat reminiscent of Deserted Palace, with the music built up around several melodic leitmotifs which morph from the mournfully beautiful to the consciously sublime.

Just after his live performance in Houston to celebrate NASA's anniversary, Jean-Michel Jarre released Rendez-Vous, an appropriately cosmic-sounding album of glittering synth pop. It consists of the same music heard at the Houston concert and shows Jarre moving closer to conventional rock territory, though still with his distinct blueprint. The final track, "Last Rendez-Vous: Ron's Piece," was composed by Jarre for astronaut Ron McNair and was intended to be the first musical piece played and recorded in space. McNair's historic duty was cut short, however, by the Challenger shuttle disaster of January 1986.

Digitally remastered edition of this album from the French electronic music pioneer. Geometry of Love is the fifteenth studio album by Jean-Michel Jarre, originally released in October 2003. This album has more in common with the preceding Sessions 2000 album than releases prior, but the style here is still more electronica than jazz. The music was to be lounge music, played in the background or in the chill-out area of a club. The album was commissioned by Jean-Roch, as a soundtrack for his VIP Room nightclub in France.

AD Music is pleased to present this tribute album from Glenn Main, who’s first Introduction to the music of Jean Michel Jarre was a cassette recording of ‘Equinoxe’ and ‘Oxygene’ when he was just 9 years old. From the first play of ‘Equinoxe part 1’, Glenn was hooked and he repeatedly listened to the tape on headphones while hiding under his bedsheets. Glenn has followed the music of Jarre ever since and remains an avid fan, and his own music is clearly influenced by the French maestro…

The Concerts in China is a live album by Jean Michel Jarre, recorded in 1981 and released in 1982 on Disques Dreyfus. It was recorded during Jarre's Concerts in China tour of Autumn 1981, which consisted of five Beijing and Shanghai concerts in China; this was the first time a Western pop artist performed in China after the Cultural Revolution. The album is a balance of previously released tracks by Jarre, new compositions inspired by Chinese culture, and one rearranged traditional Chinese track ("Fishing Junks at Sunset"). The album consists mainly of live material, plus ambient sound recordings and one new studio track "Souvenir of China". Other new compositions recorded live include "Night in Shanghai", "Laser Harp", "Arpegiator" and "Orient Express". "Fishing Junks at Sunset" is a new arrangement of a very old traditional Chinese song known as the "Fisherman's Chant at Dusk", which was performed and recorded with The Peking Conservatoire Symphony Orchestra and is often wrongly attributed as being composed by Jean Michel Jarre, misled by the album inlay.

Celebrated as the European electronic music community's premier ambassador, composer Jean-Michel Jarre elevated the synthesizer to new peaks of popularity during the 1970s, in the process emerging as an international superstar renowned for his dazzling concert spectacles. Jarre has sold an estimated 80 million albums and singles. Musik aus Zeit Und Raum (Music from Time and Space) is a compilation album by Jean-Michel Jarre originally released in 1983.

Digitally remastered edition of this 1976 album from the French composer, performer and music producer. Jean Michel, the son of acclaimed film composer Maurice Jarre, is a pioneer in the Electronic, Ambient and New Age genres. Apart from his recorded output, Jean Michel Jarre is also fondly known as an organizer of outdoor spectacles of his music featuring lights, laser displays, and fireworks. Jean Michel has gone on to sell well over 80 million albums in the course of 40 years.