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Thursday, June 4, 2020

Jean-Michel Jarre-Oxygene (1976)

This is without a doubt the most influential and important electronic music album in history, as well as being the best-selling album globally (more than 25 million copies).
Son of the composer of soundtracks Maurice Jarre and outstanding student of one of the best Vanguard musicians of the 20th century, such as Pierre Schaeffer, Jean Michel Jarre would start at a very young age in the use of synthesizers and other electronic instruments.
In 1976 he would release his masterpiece, "Oxygene", an album that, based on the coordinates of the most repetitive contemporary music, with cyclical structures, clings to melodic and percussive patterns capable of competing with any catchy pop chorus.
The legacy of this enormous and magnificent work is based on several factors, on the one hand the revolutionary use of the impressive range of synthesizers and on the other the intelligent use of the stereo possibilities to produce a sound with surround effects and all with the conviction of a Jarre who knew how to define his style from this first great commercial success, an unmistakable style that managed to capture the attention of millions of followers around the world and that today continues to amaze and sound as if it were the day it was published.

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