Jean Michel Jarre
Jean-Michel Jarre shares his musical milestones with Matt Everitt in a programme first broadcast in 2015.
Jean-Michel Jarre shares his musical milestones with Matt Everitt in a programme first broadcast in 2015.
Jean-Michel Jarre, one of the architects of modern electronic music, a man who's sold over 80 million albums worldwide and has made and broken the world record for highest concert attendance three times - the current record is for his 1997 show in Moscow for an audience of 3.5 million people. But he's also a groundbreaking musician whose work with synthesizers influenced Daft Punk, Air, Massive Attack, Hot Chip, Moby, Bjork and the whole electronica movement.
In an interview recorded at the time of the release of an album (a series of collaborations with the likes of Air, Massive Attack and Laurie Anderson) fittingly called Electronica, Jean talks about his deeply musical early life, when he was exposed to jazz, rock n roll, soul and classical music, as well as studying with electronic and experimental music pioneer Pierre Schaeffer.
Jean-Michel discusses how, along with the likes of Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream, he helped define what was possible with the synthesizer, and how he took it to new peaks of popularity with his albums Oxyg猫ne (1977) and Equinoxe (1978). He also discusses his enormous outdoor live concerts (featuring his famous laser harp) and the relationship between electronic music and art.
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Jean鈥怣ichel Jarre
EQUINOXE PART 6
- Equinoxe.
- Disques Dreyfus.
- 2344120.
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Jean鈥怣ichel Jarre
EQUINOXE 4
- THE ESSENTIAL.
- DREYFUS.
- 826-420-2.
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脡dith Piaf
LES TROIS CLOCHES
- 25TH ANNIVERSARY.
- EMI.
- 7905612-1454.
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Ray Charles
What'd I Say
- THE DEFINITIVE SOUND OF ATLANTIC SOUL.
- WARNER.
- 7567-80595-9.
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Bob Neel, Chet Baker, Carson Smith & Russ Freeman
Long Ago and Far Away
- Let's Get Lost The Best of Chet Baker Sings.
- Pacific Jazz.
- CDP-7929322.
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The Who
BABA O'RILEY
- WHO'S NEXT.
- POLYDOR.
- 527 760-2.
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The Who
ANYWAY ANYHOW ANYWHERE
- THE WHO MY GENERATION.
- MCA.
- 088112 92.
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Kraftwerk
Autobahn
- Autobahn.
- Mute.
- CDSTUMM = 303.
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Jean鈥怣ichel Jarre
OXYGENE - PART I
- OXYGENE.
- POLYDOR.
- N/A-2310 555.
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Jean鈥怣ichel Jarre
OXYGENE (PART IV)
- OXYGENE.
- DREYFUS/POLDYDOR.
- 824 746-2.
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Jean鈥怣ichel Jarre
Equinoxe Part 5
- EQUINOXE.
- POLYDOR.
- POLD-5007.
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Jean鈥怣ichel Jarre
Rendez-Vous 4
- Essentials and Rarities.
- Disques Dreyfus.
- FDM46050362872.
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Jean鈥怣ichel Jarre
Blah Blah Cafe
- ZOOLOOK.
- POLYDOR.
- X-X.
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Laurie Anderson
O SUPERMAN
- John Peel - Right Time, Wrong Speed.
- Warner Special Marketing.
- 51011-63972.
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Jean-Michel Jarre and Laurie Anderson
Rely On Me
- Electronica 1: The Time Machine.
- Aero Productions, Columbia, Sony Music.
- 88875123472.
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Jean鈥怣ichel Jarre
SOUVENIRS OF CHINA
- AERO.
- WARNER MUSIC FRANCE.
- REF-001.
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Nicolas Godin
Elfe Man
- Contrepoint.
- Because Music 鈥�.
- 256460525.
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The Dears
Lost In The Plot
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The Beatles
A Day In The Life
- APPLE.
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Tricky
Aftermath
- 4th And Broadway.
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The Bar-Kays
Shake Your Rump To The Funk
- Mercury.
Broadcasts
- Sun 4 Oct 2015 13:00麻豆社 Radio 6 Music
- Wed 7 Feb 2018 01:00麻豆社 Radio 6 Music
- Wed 17 Jul 2019 01:00麻豆社 Radio 6 Music
- Sun 1 Mar 2020 04:00麻豆社 Radio 6 Music
- Fri 12 Jun 2020 01:00麻豆社 Radio 6 Music
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