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Jean Michel Jarre 1981 Studio Footage


Post Posted Mon Dec 15, 2025 3:59 pm
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Preparing for the China concerts and a video for the Magnetic Fields 4 single release. Pretty amazing footage, seeing Perrier and Rizzitelli at work with JMJ.
Post Posted Mon Dec 15, 2025 5:54 pm
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The (relatively) lo-fi version of Orient Express slaps 8)

(Also, for a moment I thought he said "how's it going?" around 1:25-1:27)
Post Posted Tue Dec 16, 2025 3:22 pm
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That's the first time I have seen a complete Magnetic Fields 4 video (shame about the watermark). But it has got me wandering (sorry if this is classed as off topic) what other music videos were not included on the Images VHS (apart from Equinoxe 5)?
Post Posted Tue Dec 16, 2025 3:23 pm
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Dr_Jones wrote: Mon Dec 15, 2025 3:59 pm Preparing for the China concerts and a video for the Magnetic Fields 4 single release. Pretty amazing footage, seeing Perrier and Rizzitelli at work with JMJ.
Not to forget Frédéric Rousseau.
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Post Posted Wed Dec 17, 2025 12:03 am
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JMJ looking super cool, wearing aviator shades indoors 8)

I would love to know more about "who is doing what and how" - that's quite a gang in the studio and I'd love to know how they are collaborating. Magnetic Fields Pt. 4 is one of my absolute favourite JMJ tracks.
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Post Posted Wed Dec 17, 2025 3:14 pm
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Richard-Eastham wrote: Wed Dec 17, 2025 12:03 am JMJ looking super cool, wearing aviator shades indoors 8)

I would love to know more about "who is doing what and how" - that's quite a gang in the studio and I'd love to know how they are collaborating. Magnetic Fields Pt. 4 is one of my absolute favourite JMJ tracks.
This kind of a rare glimpse into the studio dynamic does make one wonder when and how they came up with stuff like lowering the octaves of a Fairlight choir sample to get the starting sound of RV1 -- or who came up removing the "hiss"/second sound from the D-50 Machine Run preset (Industrial Revolution: Overture) for the main loop - and making the "hiss" sound return at a later point when the Machine Run sequence is "glitching out" ;)
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Post Posted Sat Mar 07, 2026 8:56 pm
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Dr_Jones wrote: Mon Dec 15, 2025 3:59 pm

Preparing for the China concerts and a video for the Magnetic Fields 4 single release. Pretty amazing footage, seeing Perrier and Rizzitelli at work with JMJ.
The 2nd part of the video with MF4, how's come Dominique was playing the main lead of the track? Why not JMJ? If he plays anything in this very track.

....Kind of these things were always the mistery regarding JM, though.
Post Posted Mon Apr 06, 2026 1:19 am
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Post Posted Wed Apr 08, 2026 8:26 am
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rinogurr wrote: Mon Apr 06, 2026 1:19 am
From 12'00" is that the original Oxygene artwork behind him? The non-square version by Michel Granger than was then adapted for the album cover. If so, wow :o and I wonder where it is now.

This is a great collection of reels, from what I consider to be a very creative time for JMJ, perhaps his most creative. Full of confidence after Oxygene and Equinoxe, and he'd found a winning formula but was determined to try new things and not just repeat himself.
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It seems that the video of the Orient express rehaearsal is not available anymore. Do you know if another link exists ?
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Post Posted Mon Sep 21, 2026 10:45 pm
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Blatman wrote: Mon Sep 21, 2026 7:49 am It seems that the video of the Orient express rehaearsal is not available anymore. Do you know if another link exists ?
This is the whole video report (a 50 minute TV show), I made it private so I hope it won't get flagged or banned:
[edit]nevermind, it's blocked already... I'm looking for an other way.

Here:
Post Posted Tue Sep 22, 2026 5:31 pm
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Still plays okay here
Post Posted Tue Sep 22, 2026 8:14 pm
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Dr_Jones wrote: Mon Sep 21, 2026 10:45 pmThis is the whole video report (a 50 minute TV show), I made it private so I hope it won't get flagged or banned:
Apologies if this is a little off-topic, but where does everyone get these INA videos of Jean-Michel from?

I've just been going to the main ina.fr site and looking up his name and filtering it by videos, but I've only ever gotten videos of him on talk shows or little segments from news broadcasts.

Am I looking on the wrong INA site? Are there different INA sites that I'm unaware of? Genuinely curious and would love to know! :)
"Bring in this Monsieur Jarre, he is one of ours... He has almond eyes, and they're very dark..."

- From the self-titled "Jean-Michel Jarre" biography, 1987 / 1988.







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