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Post by Pinwig on Nov 27, 2016 21:15:39 GMT
Excite!
I may have to keep and saviour over Christmas. Electronica still feels like a new album to me and heaven knows when we'll get another one.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 2, 2016 22:52:08 GMT
Downloaded and listened to this morning.
Good.
Liked it better than Electronica 2, but again there's no real amazing track, no Train and the River like Electronica 1.
Got it on again now through the headphones
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Post by Pinwig on Dec 2, 2016 23:20:16 GMT
This is going to be a Christmas holiday treat for me. Two weeks tomorrow it shall be played on the stereo and I will do nothing but sit and listen. Countdown... Started.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 4, 2016 20:55:16 GMT
Had a few listens now and it's grown on me. still not spectacular but ...
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 24, 2017 22:32:55 GMT
What did you think of Oxygene 3 Pinwig?
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Post by Pinwig on Jan 24, 2017 22:42:16 GMT
I really like it. I've listened to it a lot in the last few weeks and it's grown and grown on me. When you listen to retrowave synth music a lot of it is just bland, but go back to Oxygene 3 and Jarre is on another level. Sure, there isn't an individual stand out catchy tune like Part 4, but as an ensemble it really impressed me.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 22, 2017 18:52:58 GMT
So, given what he said in the Mike Oldfield thread I...I...don't think his stuff is very good. Forgive meeeee. -Ralph I should like Tubular Bells due to the heavy influence of electronic music and the Radiophonic Workshop on me but it just leaves me cold. How does Ralph feel about Jean Michel Jarre? |
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 22, 2017 20:51:34 GMT
He is not a fan.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 22, 2017 20:57:30 GMT
Music night on Planet Zero does not sound like a fun time.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 16, 2017 16:45:20 GMT
Got The Train and The River on because it's FAB
AND SOMEHOW IT'S TWO YEARS OLD??????????
HOW DID THAT HAPPEN??????????
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Post by Pinwig on Jun 30, 2018 11:51:46 GMT
New best of in September with a couple of new tracks. Got all excited for a minute as it lists Music For Supermarkets as being included, but it looks like it isn't the actual album. jeanmicheljarre.com/Limited edition version with the album on audio cassettes! |
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 18, 2018 19:36:31 GMT
EQUINOXE INFINITY!!!
EXCITE!
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 18, 2018 19:41:35 GMT
Oh I like the sound of this.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 18, 2018 21:45:26 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 29, 2018 19:09:53 GMT
Still getting my head round Planet Jarre, it's an odd beast, but the new version of Zoolookologie is worth the price of admission alone.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 1, 2018 8:13:23 GMT
Is it worth getting? I'm looking at it and thinking "yet another best of" of which the original Essential JMJ is still the best.
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Post by Pinwig on Oct 1, 2018 20:22:14 GMT
I would say yes on the whole. Four themed 'movements' collecting different styles of his music.
What this needs is a proper booklet that explains the source of the tracks and I can't find a fan website for Jarre that goes into the detail a fan would want. A lot of the tracks are not the original versions, but I need to go back through the remakes and remixes to work out if they're new to this release or perhaps the versions that appeared on Aero or some other remix disc. Eg. Oxygene 8 is definitely one of the million remix versions but I can't tell which.
This is most notable in the 'themes' movement, where several of the popular singles are enhanced versions. It annoys me I don't know if they're new to this disc or not. I need to know. I'm guessing a lot are new because I'm pretty sure I've not heard them.
Two of the tracks are totally new, Zoolookologie is so radically different it counts as new, there's an unreleased pre-oxygene track you don't really need and an excerpt from the demo version of Music for Supermarkets, so there is a reasonable amount of new stuff.
What hurts is the way some of the longer tracks have just been hacked to fit them on the disc. I'm thinking of doing a mix of this for my iPod that puts the full length versions back in. As it is the CDs are packed. Disc one is just over 82 minutes! The only other negative is too much of the early seventies beeps and squiggles stuff in the last movement.
It's nice to have a retrospective that groups together similar styles of music and covers his whole career. The 'sequences' movement really highlights how his sequencer tracks have evolved over the years when you put them next to each other. As a best of it's certainly had more thought put into it than just cutting tracks from albums. Not essential, but more interesting than a usual compilation.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 22, 2018 21:23:33 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 9, 2018 19:23:16 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 22, 2018 22:55:44 GMT
I really, really hope it's my speaker setup on the PC - through the monitor - but some of the second half of the new album was really painful to listen to :-( There was a sound used that really grated.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 6, 2018 21:16:13 GMT
It was the pc speaker set up at fault.
Several listens on the train and it's growing on me. Nothing stand out but generally good all round.
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Post by Pinwig on Dec 6, 2018 21:39:59 GMT
If you haven't heard them, Matt Berry's interviews with Jarre are a great listen. Well worth the time. planetjarre.podigee.io/ |
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Post by Pinwig on Jan 2, 2021 17:36:57 GMT
Well I had no idea *this* happened...
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Post by Pinwig on May 2, 2021 15:08:37 GMT
No he's not dead, he's done it again. Snuck a new album out while we weren't looking. www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08XRXSZKWNext hour cleared to pipe this through the stereo on Amazon music! |
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Post by Pinwig on May 2, 2021 18:00:34 GMT
Ah ha. Right. This new album, Amazonia, is an immersive soundtrack for a photographic exhibition by Sebastiao Salgado. He's done it using binaural sound, so it's like an 'all around you' thing designed to be heard while in the exhibition. Not so much music as an ambient soundtrack using voices, natural sound and some synth to link it all together.
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Post by The Doctor on May 2, 2021 18:54:15 GMT
I can't hear a difference between stereo and binaural sound. I've tried.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on May 2, 2021 19:02:58 GMT
It's to do with spacial positioning of the sounds - you were using headphones weren't you?
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Post by The Doctor on May 2, 2021 19:12:01 GMT
Yup. Did that with the DW episode and some radio episodes. Just sounded like stereo.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on May 2, 2021 20:06:34 GMT
I remember when Radio 4 did a binaural adaptation of Private Peaceful and offered four different versions fur download. I couldn't really tell the difference between them.
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Post by Pinwig on May 2, 2021 20:22:52 GMT
Blimey I must use social media more. I'm not up to speed here. www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-50335897Jarre did a physical album release using this software called snapshots from EoN but it's a 2 vinyl, 2 cd ltd ed that costs 300 euros. What the actual fuckery. I must find a way to hear this. I can't even install the app on any of my devices. |
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