{"id":770,"date":"2007-11-20T12:29:29","date_gmt":"2007-11-20T11:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=770"},"modified":"2007-11-20T12:33:28","modified_gmt":"2007-11-20T11:33:28","slug":"jean-michel-jarre-oxygene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=770","title":{"rendered":"jean michel jarre &#8211; oxygene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text\/html; charset=iso-8859-1\"> <META content=\"MSHTML 6.00.6000.16544\" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE><\/STYLE> <\/HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>or to give this release its full and proper title :  <\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><EM><FONT face=Arial size=2>oxygene 30th anniversary edition &#8211; 3d and 2d  dvd<\/FONT><\/EM><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>oh, yes,&nbsp;30 years have passed since this  ground breaking, and massively popular,&nbsp;electronic album was released, and  i have to say, this is one album that even now holds a dear space in my heart.  <\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>you see, many <EM>many<\/EM> years ago, though not  quite 30, i purchased a double play cassette (in woolworths in <EM>ilkley<\/EM>  fact fans !) with this album on one side, and the follow up <EM>equinox, <\/EM>on  the flip. <\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>the cassette was my first venture into the world  of music with purely with synths, and became a mainstay in my mono <EM>itt<\/EM>  branded cassette deck&nbsp;and so even in this primitive listening capacity, i  would suggest, formed a core part of my music listening pattern for the rest of  my life. <\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>of course, prior to hearing <EM>oxygene, <\/EM>i was  uneducated in the ways of the cool electronic music due to lack of the necessary  exposure, so <STRONG>jean michels jarres<\/STRONG>&nbsp;simplistic melodies,  sweeping ambience were a sonic revelation to a young&#8217;un stuck in the middle of  the yorkshire dales. <\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>this album sounded, and with its unusual artwork of  the earth\/skull,&nbsp;looked like the future.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>in fact, i would even be so brave to suggest that  many of the stars of technology enhanced music that blossomed in the 90s (ie the  <EM>warp records<\/EM>\/idm golden era) probably listening to this album  intensely, and all the cool name dropping of <STRONG>can<\/STRONG>,  <STRONG>tangerine dream<\/STRONG>, <STRONG>stockhausen<\/STRONG> etc, became  purely an exercise in rewriting personal history thus negating this monster its  true place in history.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>i mean, i would be the first to admit that  following <STRONG>jean michel jarres<\/STRONG> <EM>zoolook <\/EM>album, where the  studio toys were developing into digital and sampling, he totally lost the  ability to make music of any real value, and so drifted off into the world of  hugely ambitious staged shows using various cities as backdrops, and that  sodding laser harp gimmick.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>thankfully though, nothing can take away the pure  nostalgic rush of the debuts purity, and with the remastering makover, i have to  say, this album once again sounds absolutely amazing even if the contents are  overly familiar from the mass of tv documentaries that lifted particular  sections ad infinitum.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>for the collectors there is alongside the polished  up sonics is a dvd subtitled, <EM>live in your living room.<\/EM><\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>and i have to say, this is the best &#8216;extra&#8217; i have  ever had the fortune to watch.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>basically, <STRONG>jean michel jarre<\/STRONG> along  with 3 other musicians, dust down&nbsp;the composers&nbsp;vast collection of old  analogue synths, set them up in a basic studio seting, and recreate the album  live. <\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>all in one take, without any laptops, computers,  mixing or supposedly any overdubs.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>sounds boring ? <\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>nah &#8211; its an absolute joy to watch these men and  machines, (several of which are held together with metres of masking tape, and  require recabling live duriung the performance to make the next recognisable  swooshing noise) perform an extended version of the album with a minimum of fuss  and no special effects, other than the small matter that this is also available  in something called <EM>3d stereoscopy vision<\/EM>. <\/FONT><FONT face=Arial  size=2>well, i guess jean michel cant stop the madness totally.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>thankfully, this unnecessary visual gimmick is not  required to enjoy the performance of the classic album, instead all you need is  a dvd player, a pretty nice tv, and a big fat sofa, and let the nerd pleasing  nostalgia-fest begin.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><EM>more detail<\/EM> : <A  href=\"http:\/\/www.jeanmicheljarre.com\/\">here<\/A><\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BODY><\/HTML><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>or to give this release its full and proper title : oxygene 30th anniversary edition &#8211; 3d and 2d dvd oh, yes,&nbsp;30 years have passed since this ground breaking, and massively popular,&nbsp;electronic album was released, and i have to say, this is one album that even now holds a dear space in my heart. you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}