Artist: Jean-Michel Jarre
Title Of Album: Planet Jarre
Year Of Release: 2018
Label (Catalog#): Jean-Michel Jarre. Columbia, Sony Music
Country: Europe
Genre: Electronic, Ambient, New Age, Trance
Quality: FLAC (*tracks) / WEB FLAC (*tracks)
Bitrate: Lossless [24-48] / Lossless
Time: 02:41:43
Full Size: 2,01 / 1,07 Gb

41-track anthology • ‘themed’ and remastered • 5.1 mixes download-only! Sony will release Planet Jarre in September, a 50th anniversary Jean Michel Jarre anthology that will be available in three physical formats, including a super deluxe edition box set.
This new set features 41 works “hand-picked” by Jarre himself and re-mastered to deliver what the label describes as “a new and sparkling freshness to the sound of the package”.The super deluxe (or ‘Ultimate’ box set) is a new one for me – it comprises two CDs and two MCs (yes, cassette tapes). The vinyl box is packaged as a ‘book’ and has all the audio across four vinyl records, and there is a two-CD set also.

Jarre has divided the audio offering into four different sections and he explains the methodology: “Going through the body of my existing work for this project, I realised that I have four quite different styles of composition. There is this common idea that people are focusing on shorter and shorter moments of music by zapping constantly. This is not necessarily true. We are also spending more and more time in our day-to-day life listening to playlists. Wherever we are and whatever we do. This is the reason why I decided to divide this project into four different parts, four different worlds that make up my own world…my own planet. And I hope that you will enjoy the journey.”

The four parts are: Soundscapes, Themes, Sequences, Explorations & Early Works. Sequences features two new tracks: Coachella Opening and Herbalizer. The last disc features the previously unreleased demo recording of Music For Supermarkets, Jarre’s 1983 project which saw him press one copy of the album for auction before ordering the master tapes to be destroyed. Erosmachine from the same disc dates from 1969.

Tracklist:

CD 1
Soundscapes
1 Oxygene 1
2 Oxygene 19
3 Rendez-Vous 1
4 Millions of Stars
5 Chronology 1
6 Oxygene 20
7 Equinoxe 2
8 Waiting for Cousteau
9 The Heart of Noise (Origin)

Themes
1 Industrial Revolution Part 2
2 Oxygene 4
3 Equinoxe 5
4 Oxygene 2
5 Zoolookologie
6 Bells
7 Equinoxe 4
8 Magnetic Field 2
9 Rendez-Vous 2 (Laser Harp)
10 Rendez-Vous 4
11 Chronology 4

CD 2
Sequences
1 Coachella Opening
2 Arpeggiator
3 Automatic Part 1 with Vince Clarke
4 Exit with Edward Snowden
5 Equinoxe 7
6 Oxygene 8
7 Stardust with Armin van Buuren
8 Herbalizer
9 Revolutions

Explorations & Early Works
1 Ethnicolor
2 Souvenir of China
3 Blah Blah Caf?
4 Music for Supermarkets (Demo Excerpt)
5 Roseland / Le Pays de Rose
6 La Cage
7 Erosmachine
8 Hypnose
9 The Song of the Burnt Barns / La Chanson des Granges Brulees
10 Happiness is a Sad Song
11 Aor Bleu
12 Last Rendez-Vous

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