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Jean-Michel Jarre: Music
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Jean-Michel Jarre went on to perform a series of concerts in trendy nightclubs in Cannes during the International Film Festival 2007. Then, in September of that year, France’s King of Electronic Music returned to basics, re-recording "Oxygène", the seminal electro album that had catapulted him to fame thirty years earlier. On this occasion, Jarre delved into his archives and dragged out the old synthesizers he had used to record the original "Oxygène", dusting off his Moog Modulars, his Mellotrons, his ARP 2600 and his trusty VSC3. He transported the lot to Studio Alphacam in Antwerp (Belgium) where he began recording "Oxygène" 2007 - old-school style without the use of a single computer or time code! The process was captured live on camera in a single take.
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Jarre released his first solo single "La Cage/Erosmachine" in (1971), but it was a failure. This was likely due to its experimental or futuristic sound. Only 117 singles were sold, and Pathé Marconi destroyed the remaining stock.[6] Jarre became the youngest composer to see one of his works played at the Paris Opera, at its reopening in 1971. It was the first time that elecronic music had been allowed to be used, and Jarre even had to paint his speakers gold to match the decor of the opera house. There he performed with the Paris Opera Ballet and choreographer Norbert Schmucki. He created the first electro-acoustic opera called "AOR".
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Jarre went on to surpass this concert the following year, masterminding a massive sound-and-light extravaganza to mark the end of the Millennium. Staged at the foot of the pyramids in Cairo on December 31st 1999, Jarre's mega-show - entitled "Les douze rêves du soleil" (The Twelve Dreams of the Sun) - was on a truly grandiose scale, necessitating a budget of 9.5 million dollars! 50,000 music fans turned out to watch the extravaganza which involved over 1,000 singers, musicians and dancers. Egyptian-born 'world music' star Natacha Atlas took to the stage at one point and the country's president Hosni Mubarak was one of the special VIPs in the audience. Part of "The Twelve Dreams of the Sun" was ... broadcast live on international television.
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Jarre was born in Lyon, the son of Maurice Jarre, a famous composer of film music, and France Pejot, a member of the French resistance during World War II. His grandfather, André Jarre, was one of the inventors of the first audio mixing consoles used by Radio Lyon[2], and he was ... involved, after World War II, with one of the first portable phonographs (the Tepazz) [3], which he gave to his grandson as a present.
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Jarre’s work ... influenced the development of a French contingent that is characterized by the electro-pop duo Air. Though Jarre has never produced anything so outrightly pop-oriented as the work of Jean-Benoit Dunckel and Nicolas Godin, it’s hard to imagine them coming up with their music without Jarre having existed. Like Air, Jarre himself places much more emphasis on his layers of instrumentally generated sound than on beats or samples, and in the end both manage to create a unique sonic universe which, while based on elements of other periods and styles, never really places itself firmly in any one genre.
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In 1983, Jarre provokes a stir by putting up for auction the unique copy of Music for Supermarkets at the Hotel Drouot Auction House in Paris and having the plates destroyed in presence of a bailiff. The LP was for a very short time one of the most sought-after collectors in history.
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