Blah Blah Cafe, the Jean-Michel Jarre forum

Very appropriate film on the screen too (Forbidden Planet) - the first to use a totally electronic score for the soundtrack :)

I think Jarre is a big fan of science fiction and astronomy. He's definitely namechecked Arthur C Clark and Stephen Hawking so it doesn't surprise me that he's also a ...

Anyway, counting all these potential acts collaborating...these artists belong to different record labels. Jarre particularly belongs to Sony.
Sow how is it going to be?
E.g. label of Lynch will approve to collaborate for Jarre/Sony?

You know what I mean.

I don't think it would be a big ...

He was also making haunting score for movie The Thing.

and The Fog (brilliant score), Prince of Darkness, Big Trouble in Little China,.... :wink:

Actually Ennio Morricone did most of the Soundtrack for 'The Thing'. But he tried to make it match the atmosphere of the film so it sounds similar to ...

I'm looking forward to this new album. I hope Dominique Perrier will also be featured on it, I think he's one of Jarre's most important collaborators.

Unlike many others, I actually enjoyed 'Teo and Tea' too!

I think Jarre and Brian Eno sometimes move in some of the same social circles, they both ...

I wonder if there is some hidden motivation behind the tour...
Personally I wish he would just sit down in the studio with his team for one month, with his vintage analog gear, and make a new album.

JMJ is like most other acts of his era (70's - 90's) touring makes money, much more than album ...

The "bizzare" voice sample is one of the presets from the Fairlight.

The Zoolook album booklet implies that JMJ/his team recorded and processed voices from various peoples around the world. (If you've ever read the Remilleux JMJ biography, there is a photo of Michel Geiss, I think, outside a ...

You are entitled to your opinion but it sounds good to me. Please don't say anything Jean Michel would do I would like because that has never been the issue. Jean Michel has integrity. You don't like it then return it. :P

I love Jean Michel Jarre. Seriously. To be honest, discovering and ...

Fuck the loudness war... I'm sick of these badly mastered CD's that have been released over the last 5 years. I can actually hear digital distortion on many recent 'professionally' mastered albums on major labels. Where is the integrity?

Some really interesting people worked on Zoolook:

One of the assistant engineers on Zoolook was Alan Moulder, he went on to do mixing and production for famous alternative rock bands like Curve, Placebo, Smashing Pumpkins and Nine Inch Nails.

Another Zoolook engineer, David Lord, worked with Peter ...

The official release of CHRONOLOGIE was mixed by Michel Geiss and Jarre but apparently there was an alternate mix of the whole album done by Jean-Pierre Janiaud? And it apparently sounds very different to the official release?

Is this version available anywhere? Was it ever released or bootlegged ...

Jarre's nickname is "preset king" :wink: :mrgreen: :smoke:

I think on Oxygene, Equinoxe, Magnetic Fields and Concerts in China he didn't use any presets - I don't think many of the synths during that period had any presets!

His synth programming and use of effects on Oxygen and Equinoxe is ...

Dr_Jones wrote:I'm very suspicious of the 97 remaster, since the Equinoxe, Zoolook and Chronologie remasters are very bad.

I know that the Chronologie remaster has that horrible glitch in Part 4, but what is wrong with the Zoolook remaster? I have it and I can't notice any problems.

Thank you!