Blah Blah Cafe, the Jean-Michel Jarre forum

[Jote]

Or Jarre himself is getting deaf too.

While this might be true, I'm positive that's not the cause. I'm pretty sure he's not involved with thoroughly checking what comes out of mastering. Perreau is to blame IMO.

VR, AI, terrible mastering, occasionally immature musical pieces. The last few years...
A downward career. Feels like that.

Which "last" few years? I think 2015-2018 were very good.

[shadow]

Someone uploaded 122 to YouTube, it's a pretty great tune! Now, the wait for whenever this will be delivered...

Seriously, at least bother saying what's the situation instead of this! :/

[Finaero]

I've tried to order it through Ginza. Hope I'll be lucky.
Amazon UK says this will be released August 7.

[Dr_Jones]

FNAC is apparently charging credit cards for people who ordered recently, so it seems they are ready to send out the next batch. I wonder if it's fixed. We'll see.

[shadow]

We'll see, here's hoping I'll receive a email from Amazon soon that they've shipped.

[Jote]

As of today Amazon UK no longer displays "7 August 2020", says "currently unavailable". Perhaps just all the allocated copies have been pre-ordered...

[1906]

Ron Boots (groove.nl) had 15 copies in stock.
They were sold in 5 minutes.

[shadow]

Sweet lord... That's something...

[Finaero]

I do like how JMJ himself hasn't addressed this release in any way whatsoever.

(Compared to the HSBC stuff, which he seemed to promote quite actively)

[Dr_Jones]

I do like how JMJ himself hasn't addressed this release in any way whatsoever.

(Compared to the HSBC stuff, which he seemed to promote quite actively)

I remember there was an interview a while ago where someone asked about Radiophonie 9. He told the interviewer that he has nothing to do with the release, that it was all Franceinfo's thing, but he liked doing the music. And not related to the release itself, there were several items at Franceinfo about his involvement in creating the "sound identity".

[Dr_Jones]

So, apparently Amazon UK began dispatching some of the orders. Really curious whether Hexagones 300-327 are in stereo on that one.

[shadow]

Nothing yet from Amazon Germany, but I'll keep it updated here.

[Jote]

It appears that some amazon.co.uk and late FNAC orders went through, but not all of them. Amazon canceled a bunch of orders, FNAC also started canceling orders today.

It appears that the Amazon copies still have the mono tracks (Hexagone 300-327)

[Dr_Jones]

re-orders from my record shop (where I got the previous copy) have been cancelled too.

[shadow]

Still nothing on my end, I have a feeling I'll be missing out on this one. Did the previous release get a second print? I remember there being rumbling, but that they'd need permission from Jarre himself. So..?