Blah Blah Cafe, the Jean-Michel Jarre forum

[Velodynamic]

I'm listening to the vinyl of E2 THON.
What disapoints me a bit here is the track Electrees.
Is it really supposed to sound thinner on the vinyl then via digital streaming?
Eventhough I really like the composition I'm just not satisfied with the mixing of sounds
so a kind of "mixed" feeling. The only "Yello" in WTWTAW is the voice...nah mediocre.
In These Creatures I could as well had put on an Enya album. The only difference is that she can sing her lyrics not just rambling a lot of words.
Never been a fan of Gary Newman's songs and not this time either. Can't stand the voice.
What You Want - rap is not my thing. I would like to hear this track instrumentally.
Cirkus - too childish or I'm too old. A bit of the same feeling I had with the Teo & Tea album strikes back again.
The Architect sounds like a cheap intro to some TV-show. Boring drum pattern and unlike a real architect things are happening quite randomly it seems.
Walking the Mile is for me like listening to Sessions 2k with a ghost hammering out the lyric.

My favourits so far are:
Gisele (in) Brick England Exit The Heart Of Noise 1 and 2 As One Switched On Leon, Swipe To The Right and Falling Down.

[funkygreenalien]

My top 10 of Electronica 1 & 2

1 ) M83 - Glory
2 ) Fuck Buttons - Immortals
3 ) Rone - The heart of noise part 2
4 ) Air - Close your eyes
5 ) Gesaffelstein - Conquistador
6 ) Massive attack - Watching you
7 ) Armin Van Buuren - Stardust
8 ) Jeff Mills - The architect
9 ) Primal Scream - As one
10 ) Cyndi Lauper - Swipe to right

[icecubes]

I'm always pulled back to Automatic, Pt. 1. Very short lived high but worth the wait.

[Velodynamic]

Why are we talking Electronica 1 in a thread about Electronica 2: The Heart Of Noise ?
There is already a thread about them both here:

http://www.zoolook.nl/forum/viewtopic.p ... start=3210

[Velodynamic]

The DR-numbers doesn't look good at all for the CD. http://dr.loudness-war.info/album/list/ ... chel+jarre

Does anybody have some numbers for the vinyl?

If only we could have at least DVD-Audio or SACD.

[Christophe]

I got my 7" of "What You Want" on Thursday. It is one sided! And also it's a transparent clear (translucent) vinyl. The version of this song is the same as the albumversion. Nothing special except for the translucent vinyl. It's also a limited edition, but not mentioned or numbered on this record.

Greetings,


Christophe

[AnDrOiD]

Favourite top 10 tracks:

01. Falling Down
02. The Heart of Noise, Pt. 1
03. The Heart of Noise, Pt. 2
04. Electrees
05. Gisele (wish it was instrumental though)
06. Here for You
07. Why This, Why That and Why
08. Brick England
09. Exit
10. Switch on Leon

[Finaero]

In the past week, I've started listening to "These Creatures" more than before while "As One" and "Circus" have become more neglected - yet I still like them as much as I did before.

(Even though I did wake up a couple of days ago to "Circus" playing in my mind, which is a good mark anyhow )

[toman]

For information , " As one " is just a remix of a title of Primal Scream " Come Together ( as one ) " of 1991 :

[shadow]

I got my 7" of "What You Want" on Thursday. It is one sided! And also it's a transparent clear (translucent) vinyl. The version of this song is the same as the albumversion. Nothing special except for the translucent vinyl. It's also a limited edition, but not mentioned or numbered on this record.

That's awesome! I hate the track, but I want it just for that!


Edit: Also now that I think about it. Still no replacement download for the album. This really is something.

[Violator]

It is one sided!

They could add instrumental version as B-side and Exit (edit/video version) as B-side of Exit 7" but they didn't do that. Sony is really annoying company.

[Christophe]

It is one sided!

They could add instrumental version as B-side and edit/video version as B-side of Exit 7" but didn't do that. Sony is really annoying company.

For me it's also strange commercial a one sided 7". But at least we get one! The last official 7" of Jarre was around 1993 I think. And this is also the second time (first time was a promotional blue colored "Oxygene Part 4" I think) in Jarre's 7" history that we have an colored vinyl (in this case a clear one).

Greetings,


Christophe

[funkygreenalien]

Verdict:

Electronica vol. 1: 8/10

Electronica vol. 2: 4/10

[Domestos]

Verdict:

Electronica vol. 1: 8/10

Electronica vol. 2: 4/10

Think I'd have to agree with that.

[Robi]

Volume 1 : 7/10

Volume 2 : 8,5/10