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Jean Michel Jarre was an early musical love of mine, which says a lot since I'm only 26. I could not believe that, when I first heard it, Oxygene II was record
by jwdunne 10y ago
Jean Michel Jarre was an early musical love of mine, which says a lot since I'm only 26.
I could not believe that, when I first heard it, Oxygene II was recorded in the 70s. With a simple, small multitrack recorder.
It honestly is a great example of using simple and minimal components to create something that ultimately sounds far more wonderful and complex as a whole. It's not to say that complex is good, it's more that the simplicity coming across as complex is awesome.
For me, II captures that but, despite how great they are, the others in Oxygene don't quite hit it like II does.
Check it out!
- novalis78 10y agoSame for me. I just learned that INTJs listen way too much to trance music :-). No wonder, when I first came across Jarre as a kid I was hooked for life. Many of his soundscapes seem to reside deep inside my brain.
- jwdunne 10y agoI usually come up as INFP and, more rarely, INTP so I think it may have something to do with the IN part :) I dislike dance clubs but I love trance and Jarre.
- lucio 10y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q00HQwO2Sg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q00HQwO2Sg
- lucio 10y agoMy order was Vangelis, then JMC, then The Alan Parsons P. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q00HQwO2Sg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q00HQwO2Sg
- zerothlaw 10y agoSame progression for me with a smattering of Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream, then branching to Jean Luc Ponty - I heard Pulstar on Albedo 0.39 and was hooked.
- jacquesm 10y agoIf you like Jean-Luc Ponty check out Alan Holdsworth (also played with Ponty on a number of tracks), Pat Metheny, Paul Winter, Leomoon, Return to Forever, John Abercrombie.
- jwdunne 10y agoThank you and the parent. GP's suggestions were pretty much the road I was on but clearly lost my way. Think there's more than enough here for a nice work commute playlist :)
- nwatson 10y agoI just can't get Jean-Luc Ponty out of my system. I read Chronicles of Narnia to JLP's Imaginary Voyage album in 1980 and have been hooked since. I listen to much else, and some of JLP's stuff gets a bit repetitive and formulaic, but he and his band have a track to fit every situation. For something a bit more experimental from JLP, try "No Strings Attached", https://youtu.be/EzLBZnDppD8 https://youtu.be/EzLBZnDppD8 . Great use of technology available at the time. Synthesizer, violin, and tape loop.