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Jarre released Metamorphoses, his first fully-vocal album, in 2000. The compositions and their arrangement on this techno-based album co-produced with Joachim Garraud are extremely imaginative, and marked a departure from Jarre's previous style. He began integrating sound effects, including the radio interference from mobile phones (used on the track "Tout est Bleu") and ... sampled his coffee making machine and also from Apple computers, including an implementation of Macintalk, a Macintosh program that allowed Jarre to have a computer generated voice speak his strange lyrics on the song "Love, Love, Love". Laurie Anderson made her second guest appearance in the Jarre discography on the opening track. The listener was also treated to collaborations with Natacha Atlas on vocals, and Sharon Corr of Irish pop group The Corrs on violin. Metamorphoses was not released in the USA until a couple of years later.
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Jarre's dedication soon paid off. In August 1976 Jean-Michel Jarre went into the studio to record his legendary concept album "Oxygène". This innovative electronic album went on to become a phenomenal hit on the international music scene. And, shortly after its release in November, the album’s title track "Oxygène" soared to the top of the charts around the world. "Oxygène" would not only become one of the best-selling French musical exports of all time, it would ... transform Jean-Michel Jarre from a rather obscure experimental musician into a huge international star. (The album would also win the prestigious "Grand Prix du Disque de l'Académie Charles Cros").
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Jarre composed the soundtrack for the film Les Granges Brûlées (Dreyfus Records, not released on CD until 2003) in the following year. In 1974 he met Michel Geiss, an electronics wizard and musician. A friendship was struck between them that has lasted ever since.
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