Blah Blah Cafe, the Jean-Michel Jarre forum

[radek tymecki]

I always wanted to recreate this marvellous sound.... still with no results anyone?

[Jakob BC]

Are we talking Faithless?

[radek tymecki]

indeed

[jp8000]

well, as the video shows, the lead is played on JP8000

[Jarp2600]

Sounds like something of sine+square and a lo-pass filter.

[radek tymecki]

JP was used live...

try this movie

[Jakob BC]

Yes Sister Bliss always play the lead on a JP8000, even in the musicvideo.
Since I got my SH201 last summer I have tried to recreate this lead, but I more or less gave up. The lead in the musicvideo doesn't match either the Album version or the Radio Edit, so I guess tehre are more versions of this lead.
Like Jip wrote I did also try with a square and a sine, there is definitely also a vibrato in the sound. I don't know how the chorus on the JP sounds, but that has crossed my mind.

In live versions it usually sounds like this:



or this:




I have always preferred the one from the official musicvideo

[Pete]

I remember I watched that song on TV and that the synth responsible for that sound had to be a Korg Prophecy.
Actually at the end of your video you can see the last member on the stage playing the main riff alone on a Korg Prophecy.

[Jakob BC]

I remember I watched that song on TV and that the synth responsible for that sound had to be a Korg Prophecy.
Actually at the end of your video you can see the last member on the stage playing the main riff alone on a Korg Prophecy.

Nah in the musicvideo you can see him tap some fast notes on the Prophecy that can never be the lead, besides that you always see Sister Bliss play the lead on her JP8k.