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Everytime I listen to Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene II, I feel this is "future" too. I've recently heard it in a commercial of some car with traction control and

Everytime I listen to Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene II, I feel this is "future" too. I've recently heard it in a commercial of some car with traction control and some digits projected on road. Connect LCARS and Oxygene and you have perfect futuristic music player?

StavrosK 11y ago
The problem with these is that they're the 80s' future.
- vidarh 11y ago
  Oxygene was '76 ('77 most places outside France), but has largely avoided sounding dated, to the point where in particular Oxygene 2 is still regularly used to evoke a sense of futurism in TV and ads etc. If you want to pick out "80's future" electronica, then the Airwolf theme or Crockett's theme (Miami Vice) would be more natural choices in my opinion... Or if sticking to Jarre, tracks like Moon Machine or Computer Weekend, which sounded cheesy at the time too. And for those who likes their 80's cheesy, purply-neon, metallic, there's also the Outrun subreddit [1] which tries hard to take it places where even the 80's wouldn't go - turns out there's several electronica sub-genres dedicated to it as well. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/outrun https://www.reddit.com/r/outrun
vidarh 11y ago
My two favourite Jarre tracks and two of my all time favourite pieces of music are Oxygene II and Last Rendez-Vous (Ron's piece; so named because Challenger astronaut Ron McNair was meant to have played it from space and record it to be played during Jarre's Rendez-Vous Houston concert - as a result Jarre almost cancelled the concert after the explosion, but was convinced by people at NASA to go ahead, with a replacement playing the piece, as a tribute; I rarely care about "background" behind music, but that piece is hauntingly sad to begin with and the story behind it magnifies it greatly). If you haven't yet, you should check out the two opening tracks to Electronica 2. They are basically an exploration of Jarre's early symphonic style with lots of references to Oxygene (though not Oxygene II) and Rendez-Vous to the point where I keep being "cued" by it to expect well known sequences from those albums that never comes (normally this would detract from it, but it works well).

StavrosK 11y ago

The problem with these is that they're the 80s' future.

vidarh 11y ago
Oxygene was '76 ('77 most places outside France), but has largely avoided sounding dated, to the point where in particular Oxygene 2 is still regularly used to evoke a sense of futurism in TV and ads etc. If you want to pick out "80's future" electronica, then the Airwolf theme or Crockett's theme (Miami Vice) would be more natural choices in my opinion... Or if sticking to Jarre, tracks like Moon Machine or Computer Weekend, which sounded cheesy at the time too. And for those who likes their 80's cheesy, purply-neon, metallic, there's also the Outrun subreddit [1] which tries hard to take it places where even the 80's wouldn't go - turns out there's several electronica sub-genres dedicated to it as well. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/outrun https://www.reddit.com/r/outrun

vidarh 11y ago

My two favourite Jarre tracks and two of my all time favourite pieces of music are Oxygene II and Last Rendez-Vous (Ron's piece; so named because Challenger astronaut Ron McNair was meant to have played it from space and record it to be played during Jarre's Rendez-Vous Houston concert - as a result Jarre almost cancelled the concert after the explosion, but was convinced by people at NASA to go ahead, with a replacement playing the piece, as a tribute; I rarely care about "background" behind music, but that piece is hauntingly sad to begin with and the story behind it magnifies it greatly). If you haven't yet, you should check out the two opening tracks to Electronica 2. They are basically an exploration of Jarre's early symphonic style with lots of references to Oxygene (though not Oxygene II) and Rendez-Vous to the point where I keep being "cued" by it to expect well known sequences from those albums that never comes (normally this would detract from it, but it works well).