Jean-Michel Jarre
Everything we have written about Jean-Michel Jarre: the listening guide, then each record in release order.
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A first album made on a second-hand organ in a Paris kitchen, and the concerts that filled city squares. Five records, in order.
Oxygène
An album that sold eighteen million copies got some of its beat from two rhythm-box buttons held down with sticky tape. Jarre's kitchen record from Paris.
Équinoxe
Jarre wanted to throw out a cassette sketch. Michel Geiss talked him out of it, and it became Part 7. A 1978 record that follows one day from waking to sleep.
Les Chants Magnétiques
A French pun that loses half of itself in English. The 1981 record where a Fairlight sampled trains and cogwheels, and the door it opened into China.