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Jean-Michel Jarre is a French composer, performer and record producer. He is a pioneer in the electronic, ambient and new-age genres, and is known for organizing outdoor spectacles featuring his music, accompanied by vast laser displays, large projections and fireworks. His 1st mainstream success was the 1976 album Oxygène. Recorded in a makeshift studio at his home, the album sold an estimated 18 million copies. Oxygène was followed in 1978 by Équinoxe, and in 1979, Jarre performed to a record-breaking audience of more than a million people at the Place de la Concorde. As of 2004, Jarre had sold an estimated 80 million albums and singles.
  1. Jean-Michel Jarre ) Équinoxe ) 1978 (Disques Dreyfus France)
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    Jean-Michel Jarre ) Équinoxe ) 1978 (Disques Dreyfus France)

    You are listening to the genuine Hi-Fi stereo sound transferred from the actual vinyl record in the best possible quality. Équinoxe (English: Equinox) is the 4th studio album by French electronic musician and composer Jean-Michel Jarre, released in December 1978 on the Dreyfus record label, licensed to Polydor Records for its worldwide distribution in 1979. The album was recorded from January to August 1978 in the makeshift recording studio set up in his apartment in Paris. The making of the album was done with a 16-track MCI tape. Jarre stated that Équinoxe was intended to represent a day in the life of a person, from waking up in the morning to sleeping at night. Equipment: ARP 2600 EMS VCS 3 EMS Synthi AKS Yamaha CS-60 Oberheim Polyphonic Synthesizer RMI Harmonic Synthesizer ELKA 707 Korg Polyphonic Ensemble Eminent 310 Unique Mellotron ARP Sequencer Oberheim Digital Sequencer Geiss Matrisequencer 250 Geiss Rhythmi-computer Korg Mini Pops EMS Vocoder 1000 🔘 Face A: Équinoxe Part 1 Équinoxe Part 2 Équinoxe Part 3 Équinoxe Part 4 🔘 Face B: Équinoxe Part 5 Équinoxe Part 6 Équinoxe Part 7 Équinoxe Part 8
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  2. Jean-Michel Jarre ) Les Chants Magnétiques ) 1981 (Disques Dreyfus France)
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    Jean-Michel Jarre ) Les Chants Magnétiques ) 1981 (Disques Dreyfus France)

    You are listening to the genuine Hi-Fi stereo sound transferred from the actual vinyl record in the best possible quality. Les Chants Magnétiques (English title: Magnetic Fields) is the 5th studio album by French electronic musician and composer Jean-Michel Jarre, released on Disques Dreyfus on 20 May 1981. The album reached number 6 in the UK, number 98 in the US and number 76 in Australia. The title of the album is a play on words in the French language. The literal English translation of the French title, "Les Chants Magnétiques", is "Magnetic Songs". However, the French word for 'fields' (champs) is a homophone of the French word for 'songs' (chants), so in French, if the title is spoken out loud, it can be interpreted as either magnetic fields or as magnetic songs. (Les Champs magnétiques was a surrealist book published in 1920.) The English title, "Magnetic Fields", is a literal translation of "les champs magnétiques" rather than "les chants magnétiques", and the pun in the original French title is lost in translation. The album is one of the first to use sounds from the Fairlight CMI. Its digital technology allowed Jarre to continue his earlier sonic experimentation in new ways. He also used instruments from the EMS company, among them the Synthi AKS, the VCS 3 and the Vocoder 1000. 🔘 Face A: Part 1 🔘 Face B: Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 (La Dernière Rumba) (The Last Rumba)
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