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Jean Michel Jarre, son of film composer Maurice Jarre, is one of the true pioneers of electronic music. Oxygene is one of the original e-music albums. It has withstood the test of time and the evolution of digital electronica. Jarre's compositional style and his rhythmic instincts were his strong points in 1976. While his popularity has escalated exponentially over the years, he never quite achieved the quality of this amazing recording. The innocence and freshness provide most of its charm. Jarre's techniques and ability provide the rest. This epic CD will appeal to fans of Tonto's Expanding HeadBand, Tangerine Dream, Synergy, Kraftwerk, and Klaus Schulze. --Jim Brenholts, All Music Guide
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33 of 33 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Pure electronic perfection - heaven,
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This review is from: Oxygene (Audio CD)
At time of writing this album is nearly 30 years old. It doesn't sound it. Any artist who uses any electronic instrument owes a debt to this album. Firstly because Jarre developed many of the instruments played on this and secondly because he broke new ground. I have his earlier work: this is so breathtakingly different it is difficult to imagine it is by the same artist. This disc is visionary. Quick guided tour - for me the album speaks of movement through air, perhaps flight. We are taken through atmospheres and eventually arrive at a stormy coast. If you can allow your mind to wander with this music guiding you will be rewarded.I rate this top of all music ever experienced. I can have it on repeat all day and not tire of it. If I wish to relax it is superb. Jarre has recorded many fine albums - I reccomend Equinoxe, Zoolook and Waiting for Cousteau particularly, but this disc defines Jarre and it created a genre. There aren't many other discs can make the same claim. In 20 years time I can believe this could be played as classical music. This is the original synth album and very very difficult to beat
29 of 30 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Stunning Instrumental,
This review is from: Oxygene (Audio CD)
Imagine the scene in 1976. One unheard of French gent, a simple 8 track recording studio, mostly self made. Simple monophonic and primitive polyphonic synthesisers which no one could understand and a album consisting of 6 instrumental pieces of music strung together with no vocals titled Oxygene. Sounds dull ? Forget it.This was an incredible achievement in anyones eyes. Electronic music in 1976 was a mostly unheard of style and only a handfull of artists broke thru to the public domain being held back not because of thier talent but because of simple prejudice and a misunderstanding of the style. Many a talent in this field struggled for many years, Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk, Tomita, Vangelis to name a few. Then Jarre delivered this masterpiece which caught the publics imagination then spawned many a wannabe in subsequent years. Futuristic, majestic, deep, dark and melodic the music swirls and envelopes you in a timeless wash of synthestic tunes bubbleling to the occasional sequence or beat of an ancient drum machine or sequencer and those who ventured are rewarded with a album you can play and play and play. Anyone around in 1976 would remember the haunting melodies on offer here, as slowly the media picked up on the LP, a fresh alternative to other 'popular music' of the day. The single Oxygene Part 4, managed to get to no.2 in the UK and even today the sounds created by Jarre then, seem as futuristic as ever even in todays over reliance of synthetic sounds especially in the manufactured world of pop. Oxygene will never tire. Fo me, the slow outro Part 6 is stunning and a little sad as the final synth wash and bird sounds fades into the speakers, leaving silence. Fantastic Jarre pushed the old techonolgy on this album and continued to pave the way up until Zoolook. For me, Jarre lost the magic and the distance early electronic artists had gained as then every man and thier band used a synthesier but with more comes less. Jarre struggled to capture the magic on the sequel which shows that the technology of today will never give rise to the true experimentation of the mid 70's. Buy some magic and buy Oxygene.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Milestone In Electronic Sound,
This review is from: Oxygene (Audio CD)
First of all, this must be the best electronic album ever created. Although it may not be the album that began the elctronic revolution (Wendy Carlos' Switched-On Bach did that), this album certainly made elctronic music much popular. Being a musician myself, at the end of a concert in which I appeared playing Magnetic Fields Pt. II, a member of the audience said to me, after the concert, that she used to play this legendary album to her young daughter to help her sleep. It would have certainly helped.I don't think that Jarre has ever been recognised for this brilliant ambient album. Part 1 is pure ambience with VCS3 burbles mixing in and out with chilled-out Mellotron strings. Part 2 is probably a better song than Jarre's most popular Oxygene 4 with its brilliant complex melodies. Part 3 is another unrecognised masterpiece. A gigantic bass dominates the piece showing a great a synth programmer Jarre is. Part 4 is the most popular Jarre piece with its swirling noises and rock/pop-like melody. Part 5 is probably my favourite Jarre song, especially the last half. The first half is similar to Part 3 with its large bass and relatively thin melody. Then, the ambience crossfades into a groovy masterpiece with Jarre almost improvising through the blues scale on top of the bass and hi-hat-like synth. Then, the album ends with the most chilled-out part of the album, Part 6, where the sounds of the sea (recreated with Jarre's synthesizers) merges with Jarre's simple-but-excellent melody. The perfect ending to the perfect album. Please, do Jarre a favour. If you're a fan of ambient electronic music, BUY THIS ALBUM NOW!!!!!!!!
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