Jean Michel Jarre
 

Anyone like Jean Michel Jarre? He's a french pioneer of electronica music. His Oxygene and Equinoxe stuff is great.


Listen: http://www.lostsoul.net/howards/midi...oxygene4-1.mid

Oxygene contrasts to bands such as the futuristic sound of Kraftwerk, and sort of murky sound of Tangerine Dream. It has a strongly melodic sound. His second album Equinoxe incorporates more rhythmic elements, and a greater use of sequencing on bass lines.

Jean Michel Jarre was superb in his hayday , but he just ain't got the production skillz of these modern pioneers nowadays

I dont' know. I've got Oxygene and I think it stands up to any modern ambient.

Electronic music would not be the same, without Jean Michel Jarre. And to this day, no one has equaled his live show. If you don't believe me, hunt down a copy of his Houston concert CD. The entire downtown skyline was backdrop to the concert.

Groundbreaking stuff...

Jean Michel Jarre's music is the closest thing to how I'd conceptualize alien music that humans could appreciate. It's clearly melodic and lovely, but has a sortof haunting, alien tinge to it.

Great stuff.

That a great description Minstrel, I still have my vinyl copy of Oxygene and it's in pretty good shape all things considered.:yeah: His albums introduced me to the world of electronic music, and even now no one has created such a unique signature sound like he did.

Tangerine Dream wipe the floor with JMJ and are far more influential. JMJ is certainly more popular but it is fairly traditional fare when compared to the Electronica that was a part of Krautrock.

I like Tangerine Dream and Kraftwerk as well JH, but JMJ had a melodic approach that simply worked for me. I have about 1/2 of TD's catalog in my library now, and am working on the other half.