Jean Michel Jarre – Equinoxe IV (1981) [video]

Post by jacquesm » Mon, Apr 10, 2017, 2:28 AM UTC

TheOtherHobbes wrote: post #89

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Fans of Jean-Michel Jarre often also like: Tangerine Dream (DE): My favorite recordings are Logos and Poland (both live recordings), but there’s many other great ones, e.g. Force Majeure, Phaedra, Quinoa, … Redshift (UK): Love almost every single album they made. My all-time favorites are Redshift Wild 3, Redshift Wild 2, and Wild (all live recordings). Peter Baumann (DE): I particularly like the first few tracks of…

Isao Tomita. Classical music mostly played on a Moog, with an increasing collection of supporting polysynths as the years went by. Everything up to The Ravel Album is great. Tomita probably ranks as the only true Moog virtuoso sound designer. Literally nobody else used the instrument quite so creatively, or produced such an incredible range of distinctive sounds with it. This sounds like a recipe for cheese, but it's…

Post by bananaboy » Mon, Apr 10, 2017, 5:11 AM UTC

TheOtherHobbes wrote: post #89

secure wrote: post #22

Fans of Jean-Michel Jarre often also like: Tangerine Dream (DE): My favorite recordings are Logos and Poland (both live recordings), but there’s many other great ones, e.g. Force Majeure, Phaedra, Quinoa, … Redshift (UK): Love almost every single album they made. My all-time favorites are Redshift Wild 3, Redshift Wild 2, and Wild (all live recordings). Peter Baumann (DE): I particularly like the first few tracks of…

Isao Tomita. Classical music mostly played on a Moog, with an increasing collection of supporting polysynths as the years went by. Everything up to The Ravel Album is great. Tomita probably ranks as the only true Moog virtuoso sound designer. Literally nobody else used the instrument quite so creatively, or produced such an incredible range of distinctive sounds with it. This sounds like a recipe for cheese, but it's…

Post by mturmon » Mon, Apr 10, 2017, 5:40 AM UTC

TheOtherHobbes wrote: post #89

secure wrote: post #22

Fans of Jean-Michel Jarre often also like: Tangerine Dream (DE): My favorite recordings are Logos and Poland (both live recordings), but there’s many other great ones, e.g. Force Majeure, Phaedra, Quinoa, … Redshift (UK): Love almost every single album they made. My all-time favorites are Redshift Wild 3, Redshift Wild 2, and Wild (all live recordings). Peter Baumann (DE): I particularly like the first few tracks of…

Isao Tomita. Classical music mostly played on a Moog, with an increasing collection of supporting polysynths as the years went by. Everything up to The Ravel Album is great. Tomita probably ranks as the only true Moog virtuoso sound designer. Literally nobody else used the instrument quite so creatively, or produced such an incredible range of distinctive sounds with it. This sounds like a recipe for cheese, but it's…

Post by NTripleOne » Mon, Apr 10, 2017, 8:30 AM UTC

deng wrote: post #49

wazoox wrote: post #6

For the electronic music geeks, JMJ presents the gear he used to make this album: https://youtu.be/ctOhwRGdVvo About the "matrisequencer" and "digisequencer": the matrisequencer was conceived and built by Michel Geiss, an engineer who worked with Jarre for more than 20 years, from discreet components. It was horribly complex and expensive. In the early 90s, Geiss rebuilt it anew as the "digisequencer", with a tactile…

Wow. What I never really understood is: how did those people finance the gear? OK, in '81 JMJ was already famous, and for the original Oxygene in '76 he probably only had a fraction of the stuff you see in this video, but still: those machines were crazy expensive. Even one of them would have put most musicians in debt.

Post by raverbashing » Mon, Apr 10, 2017, 9:41 AM UTC

bborud wrote: post #80

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And today all of this fits inside a computer. Amazing

Kind of. As others have mentioned, the way you play an instrument is pretty important. It isn't hard to see the difference between playing a real harp and playing its software analog (no pun intended) on a keyboard. It may be a bit harder to understand how an actual modular synth is different if you have never spent any time playing one. Of course, the software based synths are more practical and easy to deal with si…