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Domestos wrote: Mon Feb 19, 2024 8:12 pm Hah. I came here to say, “ah fucking hell man, not AI generated artwork ”

Each to their own

Haha! I don't think the AI stuff is great but it is loads better than the awful Oxymore and Oxymore Works album covers. At least there is a return to the link between the artwork and the music. But nothing comes close to the 'classic' Granger covers - Oxygene, Equinoxe, Rendezvous, and Chronologie.

It might be AI, but it's, like Richard says, better than Oxymore and Welcome to the Other Side imho. It's much easier on the eye.

This is good news, quite predictable, because the project is well prepared with a mastered rendering... therefore all the ingredients for a release. I'm hoping for a physical edition with the Director's cut concert, uncensored, long, rehearsals and other bloopers . To be serious, I can't find this Director's cut on 6play as indicated, so I don't know, I'll have to go into exile.
The cover is very pretty, shimmering but I found the original, the one to promote the concert very good, sober and sufficient.
In any case, hearing about A.I. or the multiverse is too much. For me it is not progress and ARTificial is not Art.
Use VR yes but in moderation.
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Yeah, a neat CD for this concert would look great in my CD collection. I'm always for nice CD booklets and reading credits too.

A physical release is not too likely - at least in the short term - IMO, bearing in mind the diminishing returns sales wise of JMJ's recent output. WTTOS sold well as a download, but barely charted later as a physical release, Oxymoreworks didn't chart at all. The extra cost involved in producing physical product probably doesn't make financial sense given the poor sales outside the regular studio albums and compilations.

Pat Gleeson wrote: Wed Feb 21, 2024 10:45 am A physical release is not too likely - at least in the short term - IMO, bearing in mind the diminishing returns sales wise of JMJ's recent output. WTTOS sold well as a download, but barely charted later as a physical release, Oxymoreworks didn't chart at all. The extra cost involved in producing physical product probably doesn't make financial sense given the poor sales outside the regular studio albums and compilations.

The video will be posted on youtube (as well as a making of, as Kanta posted above) that makes a chance of a physical DVD/BR release smaller too.

Source: https://www.instagram.com/stories/jeanm ... ZrY2RxOHk4

Kanta wrote: Thu Feb 22, 2024 4:17 pm



Source: https://www.instagram.com/stories/jeanm ... ZrY2RxOHk4

Instagram?
Last time it was very slow ; Facebook is bad now?

Robi83 wrote: Thu Feb 22, 2024 8:49 pm Facebook is bad now?

Always has been

Amazon Music:

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Analyzed: VERSAILLES 400 LIVE / Artist: Jean-Michel Jarre
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DR Peak RMS Duration Title [codec]
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DR5 -0.86 dB -8.26 dB 2:25 01 - Le Château (Live) [flac]
DR6 -0.86 dB -10.87 dB 3:14 02 - Epica Oxygene (Live) [flac]
DR5 -0.81 dB -7.69 dB 3:41 03 - The Opening (Live) [flac]
DR6 -0.89 dB -8.93 dB 6:40 04 - Oxygene 2 (Live) [flac]
DR6 -0.84 dB -8.99 dB 5:20 05 - Equinoxe 4 (Live) [flac]
DR6 -0.91 dB -7.79 dB 3:31 06 - Equinoxe 7 (Live) [flac]
DR6 -0.90 dB -8.46 dB 2:58 07 - Industrial Revolution Part 2 (Live) [flac]
DR7 -0.87 dB -9.69 dB 5:48 08 - Chronology (Live) [flac]
DR5 -0.83 dB -7.45 dB 3:33 09 - The Architect (Live) [flac]
DR4 -0.94 dB -8.69 dB 3:12 10 - Oxygene 19 (Live) [flac]
DR4 -0.90 dB -8.49 dB 4:53 11 - Zero Gravity (Live) [flac]
DR5 -0.72 dB -7.25 dB 3:25 12 - Falling Down (Live) [flac]
DR5 -0.77 dB -8.05 dB 4:41 13 - Stardust (Live) [flac]
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Number of files: 13
Official DR value: DR5

Sampling rate: 48000 Hz
Average bitrate: 1838kbs
Bits per sample: 32 bit

Dr14 T.meter 1.0.16
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And aaargh, fade outs, the audience gets a fade-out after each track... Streaming is terrible.

The fantoms of Versailles evaporated, the fade in/out between each tracks for a live.... definitely no luck...
I made a version from the Youtube stream that I was able to find in its entirety, much better than the W9 broadcast.
Certainly the streaming album offers a stronger sound but it loses something.

Dr_Jones wrote: Thu Feb 22, 2024 9:20 pm And aaargh, fade outs, the audience gets a fade-out after each track... Streaming is terrible.

and weird fades, sounds like they mix to a mono sound fake audience... weird ...

VERSAILLES 400 LIVE by Jean-Michel Jarre