Wow. It's quite hard to convey to anyone who hasn't worked with analogue electronic music gear, how much of an achievement this is. When Jarre made the album he had the luxury of adjusting stuff until it sounded good, then recording it (I'm not saying it was easy!) but to reproduce that performance live on instruments that are notorious for drifting out of tune, and to get all the echo delays correct and trigger everything at the right moments, is an immense challenge.
There is a "Jarre having a bad day" video associated with this performance which illustrates exactly the challenges you are referring to :) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bmAOLsMFRJo.html
Pardon my disagreement, but what we are hearing and seeing here is the result of four decades of study, exploration, discovery, growth and craftsmanship by a dedicated, accomplished, successful, amazing artist. If there’s any “Luxury” anywhere here, is in this amazing production, not in the creation of these sounds and this record in 1976, in a two-months sleepless marathon, in a built-at-home makeshift studio, by a then barely known young French artist. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--1NqnbRBlCo.html
Yea, just modulators sequencers and keyboards, don't even think they are playing back any samples, these are true musicians. They aren't just stealing and looping someone elses sounds.
1976 - I still remember when I went to buy this album with the cover of that skull inside the earth I listen to it today with the same desire and the same enthusiasm as back then no matter how many years have passed it really seems like an album made this year 2022
Carl Sagan's original Cosmos used parts of this album, as well as Vangelis's "Heaven and Hell" (main theme of Cosmos), Isao Tomita, and others of that time. Very interesting decade of electronic music experimentation.
Me too I love this, it's art and beautiful. You should try some of the newer stuff out it's called New retro wave or synthwave lots of stuff on RU-vid really good stuff.
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@mikelw3734 Nor me, I have the synths and have come to the conclusion that ambient music is the way forward! Lots of atmospheric sounds and happy accidents! Keep moving forward buddy!
the perfection of this recording today and the analog synths, makes me think that still in time nothing sounds so pure and perfect as the old analog synths, even with all the technology that exists today the analog sound can't be the same, it's amazing this piece of art, JMJ is an amazing musician
You have obviously never heard Omnisphere. I've played plenty of both both, and Omnisphere sounds every bit as good as any analog synth ever did or could. (Of course, its capabilities go far beyond anything analog synths could do.) And you have the added joys of total recall and automation, and it never drifts out of tune!
@@bradenmcdonald957 and Diva is even better for analogue synth tones... Jarre uses Omnisphere quite a bit in the Electronica albums, Oxygene 3 and Equinoxe Infinity, as well as Stylus RMX for some percussion loops (the main pattern on Oxygene 17 is a Stylus loop)
Only a millenial teen will think about discrete analog electronics as something outdated. Lots of contemporary analog instruments. Anyway, any real musician like Jarre, is happy to use ANYTHING CAPABLE OF MAKING NOISE, like Massive softsynth (I don't even like it). Spaceships also need resistors, capacitors, coils, alongside multicore microcontrollers.
@@levgtz8158 I never said they were outdated, even though they pretty much are. You can get better, more stable sounds from a software (or hardware) synth today than you ever could out of one of the old VCO synths; plus you get many more voices. You can simulate instability if you want, but why put up with it if you don't have to? I had an Oberheim and a Memorymoog that were both very challenging to get and keep in tune. You can wax nostalgic all you want about how great they were, and they were indeed GREAT in their era, but real musicians prefer to spend their time laying down tracks rather than wasting time trying to get the oscillators into tune. Plus, you have to either retrofit old synths with MIDI, use a CV converter, or track them wild. Yeah, they're outdated. And it should be obvious by now, I'm no millennial.
I was about your age when I started listening to synth music. Jarre, Kraftwerk, Vangelis and the like. Eventually Jarre became my favourite musician. 30+ years later, he still is. I'm 42 now :)
We used to walk up the nearest mountain to our village in Wales with a ghetto blaster and play this whilst watching the stars in total darkness until the early hours of the morning. Finally saw him live in concert at the 200th anniversary of the storming of the bastille in Paris! Life long member of the JMJ club
00:00 ►Intro 01:54 Prelude 05:39 Oxygène Part 1 14:38 Oxygène Part 2 21:26 Oxygène Part 3 26:19 Variation Part 1 29:57 Oxygène Part 4 35:23 Variation Part 2 38:49 Oxygène Part 5 48:44 Variation Part 3 53:03 Oxygène Part 6 58:37 End Credits
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@@christophecapello8154 I just clicked your video, out of curiosity. But quite frankly, it is atrouciously bad, especially compared to Jean Michel Jarre and given your shameless self promotion. Please, consider to GTFO.
Definitely one of the best ever. This ensemble toured the world, often with each concert being the centerpiece of a national celebration at the location. If anything went wrong, politicians (not musicians) got in trouble, even if it was just bad weather!
I remember being in the back of the family car driving down the highway at night listening to this blasting through my headphones, the stars out the windows providing the best video to go with this music.
100% - in my case it was in the back of my girlfriend's older sister's boyfriend's car - a Peugeot 205 GTI (it should really have been a Renault 5 GT Turbo, but...)
I consider this live performance as the higher achievement of all time in electronic music. The perfection of the performance, carried out walking on the thin ice of all this equipment weird temperament is amazing.
I am a metalhead by heart. But I can absolutely appreciate the ingenuity and innovation that went into this kind of music. So carefully crafted like a peace of art. Well done folks!
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Besides the music itself it is amazing how faithful this live version is to the original. No semi-crazy solos or improvs, just true to the originals we have come to love so much since their release.
Even I'm only 21, I grew up with heavy metal. rock and electronic music. Especially listening to JMJ. This music will always be with me and will be my genesis of my love to the synths. Oxygene was my first album that I got from my father and I'm proud that I grew up listening to rich music and not modern junk.
Hola, soy de Buenos Aires, Argentina. A Jean Michel Jarre lo escuché por primera vez en la década de los 80' con su disco " EQUINOXIO ", luego compré el disco " CONCIERTOS DE CHINA donde Jean Michel conoció a su esposa y fue el primero en introducir la música de occidente en el país asiático. Cuando pude conseguir " OXIGENO " me di cuenta que el que tocaba, es un genio por lo revolucionario que fue en la creación de la nueva música y primera en el mundo " LA MÚSICA ELECTRÓNICA ". Él es el Padre de la música electrónica mundial. Creativo y revolucionario. Gracias Jean Michel Jarre por su excelente trabajo 👍. Abrazo cordial desde Buenos Aires, Argentina. Saludos 🤗.
Looks like a crew of a fantastic spaseship that flies through the space. And we all are passengers. Jean-Michel Jarre, Dominique Perrier, Claude Samard, Francis Rimbert - bravo, maestros!
it pisses me off people in comments of ANY electronic music that are so obtuze in the mind they cant imagine anything else than spaceships and planets, I HAVE A QUESTION ,WHY ALWAYS SPACESHIPS AND PLANETS, NO MATTER WHAT ELECTRONIC MUSIC U HEAR?WHY NOT POATOES FRYING IN THE PAN, FOR EXAMPLE? SINCE YOU ALWAYS THINK OF EATING SOMETHING?
@@cristianmicu in this era the reference were nasa sounds, sci-fi effects and so on. I agree, electronic music is more than space age etc, but during the seventies the space reference was very powerful
Happy (soon to be) 45th Anniversary Oxygene!! I may be older & wiser but in my mind I am still that little child whose heart jumped for joy when she first heard this majestic piece of music. Can't describe how I felt then & still can't now. So incredible.
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Encontré éste video en RU-vid, lo estoy disfrutando lo máximo, tengo 60 años y más de 40 soy una gran admiradora de éste músico, magnífico y talentoso desde Chile un saludo para todos los que están viendo éste canal,. Gracias
It's fake. Playback. A real shame. You can see it when he is playing the Theremin. The movements he makes don't add up to what you hear. His left hand, at the vertical antenna is for the tone, his right hand, at the loop, is volume. But what he does is not correct, he makes lots of mistakes. And then you know it's all fake. Too bad. A real shame. But then again, this is what he has done for the past 30 years. Faking everything. A great mind lost.
I always love it when people claim his music sounds “stupid and simplistic “ Until I point out to them, that he made all those sounds the hard way. As he is the guy that ACTUALLY made the sounds you hear in modern day synthesizers as a preset ! He set the benchmark for synthesizer music .. Just as kitaro , tangerine dream, Kraft werk did He didn’t have any of that
Nothing about his work is simplistic. He's a perfectionist and you can hear it in his arrangements. I'm sure the other musicians are as accomplished as he is too.
it is fair to call it minimalistic, unburdoned by superflous sounds to convey the complete experience. he was learning under pierre schaeffer before making this. french groups chased puristic, artful form. brits (canadians) made it industrial (hence orb, orbital, etc). germans popularised it. either way it is always good to hear a master of the musique concrete.
Agreed. Personally I've always preferred it as a whole, though there are parts of Oxygene that are simply stunning. Both great albums, we're lucky to live in his time.
When I was much younger, his music uplifted me. It took me to other realms, other worlds, other places that only imagination can touch. It still does after all this time. It is more like the embrace of a dear friend, and it always will be.
I've loved Jarre's Oxygene for many years and only just found this on uTube and its awesome! I truly underestimated how many instruments he used/played! To see him produce his magic live is simply amazing. Thankyou to who ever posted this. Jarre is a true magician🇦🇺
I remember when I first listened to this in 1976 as a teenager in my native Port-au-Prince, Haiti after smoking a joint with a friend… I was floored! I felt like I was taken on a first class trip through the solar system! For the next few days I couldn’t stop listening to it again and again.
I was 10 when Oxygene was released and I stlli probably listen to it at least once every 2 months. This concert is one of the most beautiul interpretations of Oxygene I've heard.
J'ai grandi avec la musique de Jean Michel Jarre depuis dans le ventre de ma mère, grâce à mon père qui me l'a fait connaître, et c grâce à JMJ que j'ai appris la musique en autodidacte total jusqu'à maintenant, que de bon souvenir en écoutant et réécoutant cette musique !!!
I think putting soul into electronica was an act of total genius...and it was his genius and absolute humanity that achieved that....I'm not sure many people could have done that....certainly not Kraftwerk...I have to say it is JMJ's legacy....putting soul into electronica....it's an immense achievement....I totally salute him for that! This album was massive for me and my family, we would listen together...it was a transcendental experience, my mother knitting, my father with his eyes closed, totally absorbed in the music. We listened as a family, my two sisters and my parents and I...who does that anymore!! So, thank you JMJ for the wonderful experience.
"Music produced solely from electronic generators was first produced in Germany in 1953. Electronic music was also created in Japan and the United States beginning in the 1950s. An important new development was the advent of computers to compose music." Wikipedia But Jean Michel Jarre put it all together to make a masterpiece. I still have some of his cassettes, I love to listen to them to relax, or go to sleep.
Wow, never seen this live before, didn't think it could be done live. The talent it takes to do this with analog equipment like this manually to recreate such an intricate piece is astounding
JARRE IS JARRE the only ONE, since 70`s, your music is my inspiration to LIVE, my life. Next February, 2021, we are in a PARIS GALERIE one exhibition of our masterpieces works. My inspiration for our art & decoration concept comes from my wife, the universe & JEAN MICHEL JARRE specially with this MASTERPIECE, special with OXYGENE II & THE BEAUTIFUL OXYGENE IV. When I was racing car driver in Europe,, before start my training or race ALWAYS listen before OXYGENE IV & I still alive. MERCI, THANKS, GRACIAS, GRAZIE, DANKE, ARIGATO JEAN, ALL THE BEST MICHEL LONG HEALTHY LIFE JARRE
MAGNIFICENT!!!! I grew up on Jarre. It was he who influenced my listening of electronic and synth music. From Oxygene to Rendezvous and many other creations that Jarre put forth. This whole set brought me back and triggered so many memories that I was in tears for most of this. I wish that this would be re-released on Blue ray DVD. Merci Beaucoup Artiste' du Grande'!! Much Love
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Had the lovely pleasure of shaking his hand in December 2016 at an autograph session when he launched his Oxygene 3 in Bond Street, London. Previously, in October 2016, I was at the O2 Arena for his Electronica tour. One of the best 3 months of my life music-wise. The man is a legend and a genius... and also very humble with his fans.
There is something dark in our existence that constantly threatens our happiness. This doesn't mean denying the mix of dark and light present in all our lives, but trying to understand by looking at our experiences, and trying to ask ourselves a little more of what reality offers us. This is the essence of my musical project, which draws its inspiration from the immense music of Jean-Michel André Jarre
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I sold ALOT of HiFis using this music in the early 80's.... got me into electronic music and later onto riding the wave of techno at it's very inception ..... this is a great YT gift to the world
A l'époque, j'écoutais cela gravé sur un vinyle avec ma vieille chaine HI FI équipée d'une platine avec diamant. Aujourd'hui encore, toute la magie est encore bien présente grâce à cet vidéo "YOUTUBIENNE" et lorsque l'on branche son "ordi" sur un home cinéma, le résultat est optimum. Merci à ces excellents "musicos"... Et Jean Michel JARRE restera au fil du temps un musicien hors du commun.
Amazing! I was 16 when JMJ released Oxygene. Fantastic then, and still a world class composition today. Thanks so much for releasing this unique and treasured version.
Light years ahead of it's time. I remember listening to this album when I was eight years old and to this day is in my top 5 albums of all time. I'm a huge fan of most of the genre's of house music and this still matches up to what producers are pulling out of the bag today with Electronica.
Tangerine Dream although certainly not the short form tunes that JMJ presented on Oxygene, and MO probably took a leaf out of the minimalist playbook like Reich’s music for 18 musicians, adding a few more instruments. None of this detracts from the fact that these are two seriously good albums tho …
"Oxygene" and "Equinoxe" are all-time classics that flow into each other perfectly. I remember seeing this years ago when it was first aired and it's still wonderful to see and hear now. I'm amazing everyone has memorized all the knobs and buttons to do the effects and notes.
Batteur professionnel depuis les années 80 (variété ,jazz-fusion Rhoda Scott Guy N'Sangué (basse avec Jean Luc Ponty) et bien d'autres artistes , fan de synthés , fan de Pierre Henri , de la bonne musique électronique , et fan de ce que vous faîtes cher Jean Michel Jarre (j'avais joué d'ailleurs au conservatoire , à la classe de Francis Brana en percussions classiques un morceau pour percussions de Maurice Jarre votre père ...) ce concert est magnifique j'adore , tout en subtilité ! prenez soin de vous !
I am Spiritually Awake and Enlightened and ABSOLUTELY Love Jean-Michel and his music. One can be in Higher Dimensions and really enjoying and loving what it provides to ones Soul! Just Wonderful! Similar to Higher Consciousness and Intelligence Vibrations and Frequencies and Music! Its like coming home and/or traveling the Cosmos same difference really! He he 😃🤗🌷🌷🌷❤💜💙💖💚💛🏌️♀️🌈🌞🌟💎
Hopefully you're not following the New Age teachings, channels, and doing its practices, because the entire movement and that form of spirituality is a demonic deception that has nothing to do with the true Creator/God. Enlightenment is itself a demonic deception taught in the Eastern religions, which the Western New Age movement picked up. No human is enlightened nor can they be. The whole idea is anti-human, as it actually demands that you separate from God and become your own little god. Something that leads to death. That's why human beings actually die. Because that was the very first deception that Satan played on humankind, inspiring us to cut ourselves off from God, thinking we can become just like God. So Satan got humans to become just like him: prideful, godless, and ever obsessed with seeking knowledge and power. The reason why this world is full of false religions and false spiritual traditions and false secular ideologies is because Satan has flooded the world with elaborate lies. And mankind being highly ignorant and immature, create our own ideas too, most of them very wrong. This is why people are naturally against the true God, the God of the Bible, because of how contrary we have become, in our fallen and corrupted state, in comparison to the Creator of the universe, who is not an impersonal field of consciousness (as Satan's teachings claim), but is a personal being - who envelops the entire universe within Himself. And God's only desire is to save as many human beings as possible from death, because if a person dies with salvation, their body and soul are condemned to destruction. But if a person is saved by God, they are healed and given a new life, so that they may inherit immortality. Thus the teachings of the New Age work completely contrary to what God is a really offering to humanity.
16:18 OMG.... I listened soooooooooooooooooooooooooo many times to this... Oxygene, one of the masterpieces of music I was fortunate enough to listen to during my lifetime!... GENIUS!
2021 beautiful analogue synths... Thanks Jean Michell Jarre mit dieser Musik hat er sich Unsterblich gemacht . Noch in Millionen von Jahren wird das Gehört werden .
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I am 42 now and always come back to JMJ as to the Master of climat and music since I heard him in Polish TV when I was a child. And today after so many years I thought about JMJ during the night. I remember his concert In Your Living Room when it was in Warsaw and I was there. Thank you JMJ and publishers in YT for your being and making life more calm and so nice.
I am amazed at how they managed to even make this work. The gear is ancient and they still managed to knock out an amazing performance. The mistakes, and there were many, just added to the charm and realism of it all.
Non ci sono dubbi OXYGENE è uno dei dischi di musica elettronica più affascinanti nonché il capolavoro di JEAN MICHEL JARRE almeno per me !!!!!! Elettronico ma poetico ,era il suo album di esordio si era nel 1976 , e ricevette consensi non solo di critica musicale ma venne accolto anche favorevolmente anche dal pubblico e riuscì a vendere molto bene !!!!! Questo album ha una sua magia spesso sognante ma di tanto in tanto si accende anche con delle soluzioni ritmiche interessanti ,innovative , i rimandi alla musica classica sono abbastanza evidenti sempre ovviamente in un contesto di suoni elettronici !!!!!! Per apprezzarlo al MEGLIO per coglierne il più possibile anche i dettagli le sfumature dei suoni dell'album è consigliabile l'ascolto in cuffia !!!!!!
Zajebista muzyka ! Przypomina mi dzieciństwo, gdy mój brat tego słuchał, a ja podkradałem mu magnetofon i słuchałem całą noc. Muzyka wciąż na czasie!!!
After a stressfull day dont reach for the Bottle, reach for the Jarre.Have been listening to his music since the 70s,got so hooked in his music ,i wrote to Francis Drefus to find out when his next album will be realesed and they actually sent me letter of reply.Need i say more.God bless Jean. From Andyin Clacton UK.
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Never seen this before absolutely Brilliant what a session that is. Loved his music since about 1978 when a work mate lent me Oxygene to listen, was hooked after that. Never ages to listen to. Class Class Class
I listened to this watching Gallipoli movie and i felt in love with it at the moment. I bought the disc and everytime i want to get in relax listen to it and never fail.
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This is real synth love if an artist today actually takes the trouble to play with his full equipment and it is so exciting to see how the tracks are played and are building up piece by piece ! Thank you ! 😍
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His music has captivated me and since I first heard it as a teenager, and yet I don't know why. I've heard Oxygene, Equinoxe, Rendesvous, Chronologie, Revolutions, etc, so many times that I can take them apart in my mind and I understand the individual pieces of each composition. But when all the pieces are played together in a composition it somehow transcends their parts and becomes something more, that is spell-binding and extraordinarily special. His music is the very embodiment of what makes music so amazing and inexplicable -- the gestalt, the 'more than the sum of its parts' that signifies all truly great composition. Thank you for giving this to us, Jean Michel Jarre.
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So many intricacies that some may not even notice, but all those small adjustments are what elevate this to a higher art form. Such beautiful synergy between the musicians. For those that appreciate ambient/techno composition, this is one of those that others are measured against. Thank you, JMJ, for this first half, as well as the second half, and the rest of your creations. Its been a pleasure having your music in my life.
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