Wow. It's quite hard to convey to anyone who hasn't worked with analogue electronic music gear, how much of an achievement this is. When Jarre made the album he had the luxury of adjusting stuff until it sounded good, then recording it (I'm not saying it was easy!) but to reproduce that performance live on instruments that are notorious for drifting out of tune, and to get all the echo delays correct and trigger everything at the right moments, is an immense challenge.
There is a "Jarre having a bad day" video associated with this performance which illustrates exactly the challenges you are referring to :) th-cam.com/video/bmAOLsMFRJo/w-d-xo.html
Pardon my disagreement, but what we are hearing and seeing here is the result of four decades of study, exploration, discovery, growth and craftsmanship by a dedicated, accomplished, successful, amazing artist. If there’s any “Luxury” anywhere here, is in this amazing production, not in the creation of these sounds and this record in 1976, in a two-months sleepless marathon, in a built-at-home makeshift studio, by a then barely known young French artist. th-cam.com/video/-1NqnbRBlCo/w-d-xo.html
Yea, just modulators sequencers and keyboards, don't even think they are playing back any samples, these are true musicians. They aren't just stealing and looping someone elses sounds.
1976 - I still remember when I went to buy this album with the cover of that skull inside the earth I listen to it today with the same desire and the same enthusiasm as back then no matter how many years have passed it really seems like an album made this year 2022
Carl Sagan's original Cosmos used parts of this album, as well as Vangelis's "Heaven and Hell" (main theme of Cosmos), Isao Tomita, and others of that time. Very interesting decade of electronic music experimentation.
Me too I love this, it's art and beautiful. You should try some of the newer stuff out it's called New retro wave or synthwave lots of stuff on TH-cam really good stuff.
I was about your age when I started listening to synth music. Jarre, Kraftwerk, Vangelis and the like. Eventually Jarre became my favourite musician. 30+ years later, he still is. I'm 42 now :)
With digital synthethisers you have set poliphonic sound samples or generated, somewhat tweakable sounds in sound banks, and all you need to do is play these sounds real time, and you can even use a multitrack sequencer. Whereas with analogue synths you must create basic sounds real time, you must tweak them real time and you must produce enjoyable music using a multitude of these sounds and instruments. You must be familiar and be able to play perfectly with all those knobs and buttons, remember all your previous settings, and change those real time to get a desired sound. That's amazing! That's why these instruments have much more expressive capabilities than their digital counterparts. Their drawback is that they are very difficult to play and really need a genius to make music with them. Their expressive capabilities, like those of a rare vintage violin, shine only in the hands of a great master like Jean-Michel Jarre.👍♥️🎼🎵🎶🎹
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We used to walk up the nearest mountain to our village in Wales with a ghetto blaster and play this whilst watching the stars in total darkness until the early hours of the morning. Finally saw him live in concert at the 200th anniversary of the storming of the bastille in Paris! Life long member of the JMJ club
Tangerine Dream although certainly not the short form tunes that JMJ presented on Oxygene, and MO probably took a leaf out of the minimalist playbook like Reich’s music for 18 musicians, adding a few more instruments. None of this detracts from the fact that these are two seriously good albums tho …
I remember being in the back of the family car driving down the highway at night listening to this blasting through my headphones, the stars out the windows providing the best video to go with this music.
100% - in my case it was in the back of my girlfriend's older sister's boyfriend's car - a Peugeot 205 GTI (it should really have been a Renault 5 GT Turbo, but...)
the perfection of this recording today and the analog synths, makes me think that still in time nothing sounds so pure and perfect as the old analog synths, even with all the technology that exists today the analog sound can't be the same, it's amazing this piece of art, JMJ is an amazing musician
You have obviously never heard Omnisphere. I've played plenty of both both, and Omnisphere sounds every bit as good as any analog synth ever did or could. (Of course, its capabilities go far beyond anything analog synths could do.) And you have the added joys of total recall and automation, and it never drifts out of tune!
@@bradenmcdonald957 and Diva is even better for analogue synth tones... Jarre uses Omnisphere quite a bit in the Electronica albums, Oxygene 3 and Equinoxe Infinity, as well as Stylus RMX for some percussion loops (the main pattern on Oxygene 17 is a Stylus loop)
Only a millenial teen will think about discrete analog electronics as something outdated. Lots of contemporary analog instruments. Anyway, any real musician like Jarre, is happy to use ANYTHING CAPABLE OF MAKING NOISE, like Massive softsynth (I don't even like it). Spaceships also need resistors, capacitors, coils, alongside multicore microcontrollers.
@@levgtz8158 I never said they were outdated, even though they pretty much are. You can get better, more stable sounds from a software (or hardware) synth today than you ever could out of one of the old VCO synths; plus you get many more voices. You can simulate instability if you want, but why put up with it if you don't have to? I had an Oberheim and a Memorymoog that were both very challenging to get and keep in tune. You can wax nostalgic all you want about how great they were, and they were indeed GREAT in their era, but real musicians prefer to spend their time laying down tracks rather than wasting time trying to get the oscillators into tune. Plus, you have to either retrofit old synths with MIDI, use a CV converter, or track them wild. Yeah, they're outdated. And it should be obvious by now, I'm no millennial.
@mikelw3734 Nor me, I have the synths and have come to the conclusion that ambient music is the way forward! Lots of atmospheric sounds and happy accidents! Keep moving forward buddy!
I am a metalhead by heart. But I can absolutely appreciate the ingenuity and innovation that went into this kind of music. So carefully crafted like a peace of art. Well done folks!
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@@christophecapello8154 I just clicked your video, out of curiosity. But quite frankly, it is atrouciously bad, especially compared to Jean Michel Jarre and given your shameless self promotion. Please, consider to GTFO.
Definitely one of the best ever. This ensemble toured the world, often with each concert being the centerpiece of a national celebration at the location. If anything went wrong, politicians (not musicians) got in trouble, even if it was just bad weather!
Agreed. Personally I've always preferred it as a whole, though there are parts of Oxygene that are simply stunning. Both great albums, we're lucky to live in his time.
Besides the music itself it is amazing how faithful this live version is to the original. No semi-crazy solos or improvs, just true to the originals we have come to love so much since their release.
Even I'm only 21, I grew up with heavy metal. rock and electronic music. Especially listening to JMJ. This music will always be with me and will be my genesis of my love to the synths. Oxygene was my first album that I got from my father and I'm proud that I grew up listening to rich music and not modern junk.
I always love it when people claim his music sounds “stupid and simplistic “ Until I point out to them, that he made all those sounds the hard way. As he is the guy that ACTUALLY made the sounds you hear in modern day synthesizers as a preset ! He set the benchmark for synthesizer music .. Just as kitaro , tangerine dream, Kraft werk did He didn’t have any of that
Nothing about his work is simplistic. He's a perfectionist and you can hear it in his arrangements. I'm sure the other musicians are as accomplished as he is too.
it is fair to call it minimalistic, unburdoned by superflous sounds to convey the complete experience. he was learning under pierre schaeffer before making this. french groups chased puristic, artful form. brits (canadians) made it industrial (hence orb, orbital, etc). germans popularised it. either way it is always good to hear a master of the musique concrete.
Encontré éste video en TH-cam, lo estoy disfrutando lo máximo, tengo 60 años y más de 40 soy una gran admiradora de éste músico, magnífico y talentoso desde Chile un saludo para todos los que están viendo éste canal,. Gracias
Looks like a crew of a fantastic spaseship that flies through the space. And we all are passengers. Jean-Michel Jarre, Dominique Perrier, Claude Samard, Francis Rimbert - bravo, maestros!
it pisses me off people in comments of ANY electronic music that are so obtuze in the mind they cant imagine anything else than spaceships and planets, I HAVE A QUESTION ,WHY ALWAYS SPACESHIPS AND PLANETS, NO MATTER WHAT ELECTRONIC MUSIC U HEAR?WHY NOT POATOES FRYING IN THE PAN, FOR EXAMPLE? SINCE YOU ALWAYS THINK OF EATING SOMETHING?
@@cristianmicu in this era the reference were nasa sounds, sci-fi effects and so on. I agree, electronic music is more than space age etc, but during the seventies the space reference was very powerful
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I consider this live performance as the higher achievement of all time in electronic music. The perfection of the performance, carried out walking on the thin ice of all this equipment weird temperament is amazing.
I was 10 when Oxygene was released and I stlli probably listen to it at least once every 2 months. This concert is one of the most beautiul interpretations of Oxygene I've heard.
Happy (soon to be) 45th Anniversary Oxygene!! I may be older & wiser but in my mind I am still that little child whose heart jumped for joy when she first heard this majestic piece of music. Can't describe how I felt then & still can't now. So incredible.
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"Music produced solely from electronic generators was first produced in Germany in 1953. Electronic music was also created in Japan and the United States beginning in the 1950s. An important new development was the advent of computers to compose music." Wikipedia But Jean Michel Jarre put it all together to make a masterpiece. I still have some of his cassettes, I love to listen to them to relax, or go to sleep.
It's fake. Playback. A real shame. You can see it when he is playing the Theremin. The movements he makes don't add up to what you hear. His left hand, at the vertical antenna is for the tone, his right hand, at the loop, is volume. But what he does is not correct, he makes lots of mistakes. And then you know it's all fake. Too bad. A real shame. But then again, this is what he has done for the past 30 years. Faking everything. A great mind lost.
J'ai grandi avec la musique de Jean Michel Jarre depuis dans le ventre de ma mère, grâce à mon père qui me l'a fait connaître, et c grâce à JMJ que j'ai appris la musique en autodidacte total jusqu'à maintenant, que de bon souvenir en écoutant et réécoutant cette musique !!!
Wow, never seen this live before, didn't think it could be done live. The talent it takes to do this with analog equipment like this manually to recreate such an intricate piece is astounding
I think putting soul into electronica was an act of total genius...and it was his genius and absolute humanity that achieved that....I'm not sure many people could have done that....certainly not Kraftwerk...I have to say it is JMJ's legacy....putting soul into electronica....it's an immense achievement....I totally salute him for that! This album was massive for me and my family, we would listen together...it was a transcendental experience, my mother knitting, my father with his eyes closed, totally absorbed in the music. We listened as a family, my two sisters and my parents and I...who does that anymore!! So, thank you JMJ for the wonderful experience.
Pink Floyd 1965, and there were several before them,.... Tangerine Dream started 1967, Jean Michael Jarre first recording 1973, Gershon Kingsley also started in mid 1960s
Reminds me of not having a family at all. Never experienced Christmas, Birthdays, Holidays etc... Been alone since I was 16. Im 54 now. And still alone.. I havent seen a friend for more than 15 years now (they are all married and have their own families) I have accepted my destiny...that I will always be alone 😢
Great soothing space music. I was young and this was played at home by my family. Then the family was complete. Miss my late mother,and then u are going to listen to this. Just tears and goosebumps. Nice verry nice. Real kick. Moms I miss you.😭
JARRE IS JARRE the only ONE, since 70`s, your music is my inspiration to LIVE, my life. Next February, 2021, we are in a PARIS GALERIE one exhibition of our masterpieces works. My inspiration for our art & decoration concept comes from my wife, the universe & JEAN MICHEL JARRE specially with this MASTERPIECE, special with OXYGENE II & THE BEAUTIFUL OXYGENE IV. When I was racing car driver in Europe,, before start my training or race ALWAYS listen before OXYGENE IV & I still alive. MERCI, THANKS, GRACIAS, GRAZIE, DANKE, ARIGATO JEAN, ALL THE BEST MICHEL LONG HEALTHY LIFE JARRE
When I was much younger, his music uplifted me. It took me to other realms, other worlds, other places that only imagination can touch. It still does after all this time. It is more like the embrace of a dear friend, and it always will be.
I've loved Jarre's Oxygene for many years and only just found this on uTube and its awesome! I truly underestimated how many instruments he used/played! To see him produce his magic live is simply amazing. Thankyou to who ever posted this. Jarre is a true magician🇦🇺
Had the lovely pleasure of shaking his hand in December 2016 at an autograph session when he launched his Oxygene 3 in Bond Street, London. Previously, in October 2016, I was at the O2 Arena for his Electronica tour. One of the best 3 months of my life music-wise. The man is a legend and a genius... and also very humble with his fans.
Batteur professionnel depuis les années 80 (variété ,jazz-fusion Rhoda Scott Guy N'Sangué (basse avec Jean Luc Ponty) et bien d'autres artistes , fan de synthés , fan de Pierre Henri , de la bonne musique électronique , et fan de ce que vous faîtes cher Jean Michel Jarre (j'avais joué d'ailleurs au conservatoire , à la classe de Francis Brana en percussions classiques un morceau pour percussions de Maurice Jarre votre père ...) ce concert est magnifique j'adore , tout en subtilité ! prenez soin de vous !
I sold ALOT of HiFis using this music in the early 80's.... got me into electronic music and later onto riding the wave of techno at it's very inception ..... this is a great YT gift to the world
Light years ahead of it's time. I remember listening to this album when I was eight years old and to this day is in my top 5 albums of all time. I'm a huge fan of most of the genre's of house music and this still matches up to what producers are pulling out of the bag today with Electronica.
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I saw him solo in an "intimate" venue shortly after MJ legalisation in Colorado. Second hand smoke was all that was needed to make it one of the best musical light shows I've ever seen.
There is something dark in our existence that constantly threatens our happiness. This doesn't mean denying the mix of dark and light present in all our lives, but trying to understand by looking at our experiences, and trying to ask ourselves a little more of what reality offers us. This is the essence of my musical project, which draws its inspiration from the immense music of Jean-Michel André Jarre
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Hola, soy de Buenos Aires, Argentina. A Jean Michel Jarre lo escuché por primera vez en la década de los 80' con su disco " EQUINOXIO ", luego compré el disco " CONCIERTOS DE CHINA donde Jean Michel conoció a su esposa y fue el primero en introducir la música de occidente en el país asiático. Cuando pude conseguir " OXIGENO " me di cuenta que el que tocaba, es un genio por lo revolucionario que fue en la creación de la nueva música y primera en el mundo " LA MÚSICA ELECTRÓNICA ". Él es el Padre de la música electrónica mundial. Creativo y revolucionario. Gracias Jean Michel Jarre por su excelente trabajo 👍. Abrazo cordial desde Buenos Aires, Argentina. Saludos 🤗.
MAGNIFICENT!!!! I grew up on Jarre. It was he who influenced my listening of electronic and synth music. From Oxygene to Rendezvous and many other creations that Jarre put forth. This whole set brought me back and triggered so many memories that I was in tears for most of this. I wish that this would be re-released on Blue ray DVD. Merci Beaucoup Artiste' du Grande'!! Much Love
I am amazed at how they managed to even make this work. The gear is ancient and they still managed to knock out an amazing performance. The mistakes, and there were many, just added to the charm and realism of it all.
A l'époque, j'écoutais cela gravé sur un vinyle avec ma vieille chaine HI FI équipée d'une platine avec diamant. Aujourd'hui encore, toute la magie est encore bien présente grâce à cet vidéo "YOUTUBIENNE" et lorsque l'on branche son "ordi" sur un home cinéma, le résultat est optimum. Merci à ces excellents "musicos"... Et Jean Michel JARRE restera au fil du temps un musicien hors du commun.
I remember when I first listened to this in 1976 as a teenager in my native Port-au-Prince, Haiti after smoking a joint with a friend… I was floored! I felt like I was taken on a first class trip through the solar system! For the next few days I couldn’t stop listening to it again and again.
"Oxygene" and "Equinoxe" are all-time classics that flow into each other perfectly. I remember seeing this years ago when it was first aired and it's still wonderful to see and hear now. I'm amazing everyone has memorized all the knobs and buttons to do the effects and notes.
Cómo alguien puede hacer rozar juntas al arte, la belleza, la locura y el buen gusto de música en medio de ese cadejo y provocar esa acometida de delicia en mí; de mi tierra Huancané-Puno-Perú saludos Jean Michel Jarre
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I listened to this watching Gallipoli movie and i felt in love with it at the moment. I bought the disc and everytime i want to get in relax listen to it and never fail.
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C'est impressionnant de voir le prodigieux Dominique Perrier surfer sur tout cela avec décontraction et maestria... / It's impressive to see the prodigious Dominique Perrier surfing all this with relaxation and mastery ...
I am 42 now and always come back to JMJ as to the Master of climat and music since I heard him in Polish TV when I was a child. And today after so many years I thought about JMJ during the night. I remember his concert In Your Living Room when it was in Warsaw and I was there. Thank you JMJ and publishers in YT for your being and making life more calm and so nice.
16:18 OMG.... I listened soooooooooooooooooooooooooo many times to this... Oxygene, one of the masterpieces of music I was fortunate enough to listen to during my lifetime!... GENIUS!
Amazing! I was 16 when JMJ released Oxygene. Fantastic then, and still a world class composition today. Thanks so much for releasing this unique and treasured version.
Wow. It's quite hard to convey to anyone who hasn't worked with analogue electronic music gear, how much of an achievement this is. When Jarre made the album he had the luxury of adjusting stuff until it sounded good, then recording it (I'm not saying it was easy!) but to reproduce that performance live on instruments that are notorious for drifting out of tune, and to get all the echo delays correct and trigger everything at the right moments, is an immense challenge.
Espectacular!
isn't he just out of this world
There is a "Jarre having a bad day" video associated with this performance which illustrates exactly the challenges you are referring to :)
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@@benoitdurand714 Yes indeed! I've seen that one before... perhaps that's what I had in mind :)
Pardon my disagreement, but what we are hearing and seeing here is the result of four decades of study, exploration, discovery, growth and craftsmanship by a dedicated, accomplished, successful, amazing artist.
If there’s any “Luxury” anywhere here, is in this amazing production, not in the creation of these sounds and this record in 1976, in a two-months sleepless marathon, in a built-at-home makeshift studio, by a then barely known young French artist.
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Not a computer or laptop in sight. Pure classical.
Yea, just modulators sequencers and keyboards, don't even think they are playing back any samples, these are true musicians. They aren't just stealing and looping someone elses sounds.
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Synths are computers in a fundemental way, they just have piano style keyboards.
The 'light show' almost defo computer generated.
@@robstammers7149 analogic system are not computer.
1976 - I still remember when I went to buy this album with the cover of that skull inside the earth I listen to it today with the same desire and the same enthusiasm as back then no matter how many years have passed it really seems like an album made this year 2022
I was born in 1974 and still have the same enthusiasm. My Dad inadvertently introduced me to him throughout my youth.
This and Spiral from Vangelis
Carl Sagan's original Cosmos used parts of this album, as well as Vangelis's "Heaven and Hell" (main theme of Cosmos), Isao Tomita, and others of that time. Very interesting decade of electronic music experimentation.
im 59 and i love this music still even after over 40 years
It never loses its magic!
Takes you back doesn't it amazing sounds he's a keyboard God.!!!👌😎
Me too I love this, it's art and beautiful. You should try some of the newer stuff out it's called New retro wave or synthwave lots of stuff on TH-cam really good stuff.
The music is always alive.
Thats right, i am 62 .I love it too.
00:00 ►Intro
01:54 Prelude
05:39 Oxygène Part 1
14:38 Oxygène Part 2
21:26 Oxygène Part 3
26:19 Variation Part 1
29:57 Oxygène Part 4
35:23 Variation Part 2
38:49 Oxygène Part 5
48:44 Variation Part 3
53:03 Oxygène Part 6
58:37 End Credits
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Thanks! Now if someone else could make a list of synths used in this video...
@@soundcheck6885 It’s ALL OF THEM!
(Sorry. My jokes are bad.)
The Real MVP
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I'm ten and I love this music
Carter Stevens It is the best!
Good on ya! I first heard it when I was your age, I'm 50+ now, never, ever get tired of hearing his music. Especially Oxygene and Equinoxe.
Its not about the age, but your grade of spirtual intelligence... :)
i was twelve i am with you
I was about your age when I started listening to synth music. Jarre, Kraftwerk, Vangelis and the like. Eventually Jarre became my favourite musician. 30+ years later, he still is. I'm 42 now :)
With digital synthethisers you have set poliphonic sound samples or generated, somewhat tweakable sounds in sound banks, and all you need to do is play these sounds real time, and you can even use a multitrack sequencer.
Whereas with analogue synths you must create basic sounds real time, you must tweak them real time and you must produce enjoyable music using a multitude of these sounds and instruments. You must be familiar and be able to play perfectly with all those knobs and buttons, remember all your previous settings, and change those real time to get a desired sound.
That's amazing! That's why these instruments have much more expressive capabilities than their digital counterparts. Their drawback is that they are very difficult to play and really need a genius to make music with them. Their expressive capabilities, like those of a rare vintage violin, shine only in the hands of a great master like Jean-Michel Jarre.👍♥️🎼🎵🎶🎹
Oxygene is and will be Jean Michel Jarres finest piece of music. A classic that people will listen to in 100 years as classic music :)
Why is Music capitalized? Written English should follow German rules now?
@@b43xoit always!!!
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I Agree with Equinoxe also...
I think this music will be long forgotten in 100 years. Sorry.
It doesn't matter how many years have passed since the first Oxygéne, his music still brings you beyond the boundaries of our solar system.
this man is voyager 1 and 2 on his own...;
It's nice to watch the magic unfold, second by second, minute by minute, layer by layer.....magical, like the first time I heard this....
Absolutely! Timeless Masterpiece.
I always thought this masterpiece wasn't written on earth.
buttttt dont forget Vangelis.....
I am 70 and I love Oxygen from my early radio days in Chile at 1974, Oxygen is life...
We used to walk up the nearest mountain to our village in Wales with a ghetto blaster and play this whilst watching the stars in total darkness until the early hours of the morning. Finally saw him live in concert at the 200th anniversary of the storming of the bastille in Paris! Life long member of the JMJ club
Oxygene by JMJ and Tubular Bells by MO are two ground-breaking masterpieces that came out of original inspiration without precedence.
I agree...
Well dont forget Vangelis .
@@connectthedots5678 I agree too....
Tangerine Dream although certainly not the short form tunes that JMJ presented on Oxygene, and MO probably took a leaf out of the minimalist playbook like Reich’s music for 18 musicians, adding a few more instruments. None of this detracts from the fact that these are two seriously good albums tho …
I remember being in the back of the family car driving down the highway at night listening to this blasting through my headphones, the stars out the windows providing the best video to go with this music.
100% - in my case it was in the back of my girlfriend's older sister's boyfriend's car - a Peugeot 205 GTI (it should really have been a Renault 5 GT Turbo, but...)
LOL ME TOO THEN YELLO Flag Album blasting away
This proves that to listen to this music, you need to have your eyes and ears in the stars!😊
For me this brings back memories of summer holidays in the German Alps, my dad playing on the car stereo as we drove though the beautiful scenery.
the perfection of this recording today and the analog synths, makes me think that still in time nothing sounds so pure and perfect as the old analog synths, even with all the technology that exists today the analog sound can't be the same, it's amazing this piece of art, JMJ is an amazing musician
You have obviously never heard Omnisphere. I've played plenty of both both, and Omnisphere sounds every bit as good as any analog synth ever did or could. (Of course, its capabilities go far beyond anything analog synths could do.) And you have the added joys of total recall and automation, and it never drifts out of tune!
@@bradenmcdonald957 and Diva is even better for analogue synth tones...
Jarre uses Omnisphere quite a bit in the Electronica albums, Oxygene 3 and Equinoxe Infinity, as well as Stylus RMX for some percussion loops (the main pattern on Oxygene 17 is a Stylus loop)
Only a millenial teen will think about discrete analog electronics as something outdated. Lots of contemporary analog instruments. Anyway, any real musician like Jarre, is happy to use ANYTHING CAPABLE OF MAKING NOISE, like Massive softsynth (I don't even like it).
Spaceships also need resistors, capacitors, coils, alongside multicore microcontrollers.
@@levgtz8158 I never said they were outdated, even though they pretty much are. You can get better, more stable sounds from a software (or hardware) synth today than you ever could out of one of the old VCO synths; plus you get many more voices. You can simulate instability if you want, but why put up with it if you don't have to? I had an Oberheim and a Memorymoog that were both very challenging to get and keep in tune. You can wax nostalgic all you want about how great they were, and they were indeed GREAT in their era, but real musicians prefer to spend their time laying down tracks rather than wasting time trying to get the oscillators into tune. Plus, you have to either retrofit old synths with MIDI, use a CV converter, or track them wild. Yeah, they're outdated. And it should be obvious by now, I'm no millennial.
it s digitaly converted on poor quality mp3 for youtube so speaking about perfection here seem to be inapropriate ... but yes its really beautifuff
Those are sounds of my youth. Finally, in my fifties, I can afford the instruments myself and love to play like this.
I can't... In the end of my 50th im still unable to play an instrument... but i still can hear this beautifull sounds!
@@mikelw3734 You're never too old to start and enjoy.
Im 18 and i just now discovered this i still got years left to live and im happy for it
@mikelw3734 Nor me, I have the synths and have come to the conclusion that ambient music is the way forward! Lots of atmospheric sounds and happy accidents! Keep moving forward buddy!
I am a metalhead by heart. But I can absolutely appreciate the ingenuity and innovation that went into this kind of music. So carefully crafted like a peace of art. Well done folks!
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This is perhaps one of the best synth ensembles I've ever heard.
The best (not one the best)!
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@@christophecapello8154 I just clicked your video, out of curiosity. But quite frankly, it is atrouciously bad, especially compared to Jean Michel Jarre and given your shameless self promotion. Please, consider to GTFO.
Definitely one of the best ever. This ensemble toured the world, often with each concert being the centerpiece of a national celebration at the location. If anything went wrong, politicians (not musicians) got in trouble, even if it was just bad weather!
The best electronic album ever made. Nothing approaches it.
Equinoxe approaches it :)
Agreed. Personally I've always preferred it as a whole, though there are parts of Oxygene that are simply stunning. Both great albums, we're lucky to live in his time.
@@2112jonr I find it hard to separate them - I bought them as a double album in a gatefold sleeve!
I totally agree with you on that one Ernest.
Probably more accurately “electric” since analog reined the day. But, semantics. 😆 amazing though, no doubt.
Besides the music itself it is amazing how faithful this live version is to the original.
No semi-crazy solos or improvs, just true to the originals we have come to love so much since their release.
Even I'm only 21, I grew up with heavy metal. rock and electronic music. Especially listening to JMJ. This music will always be with me and will be my genesis of my love to the synths. Oxygene was my first album that I got from my father and I'm proud that I grew up listening to rich music and not modern junk.
I always love it when people claim his music sounds “stupid and simplistic “
Until I point out to them, that he made all those sounds the hard way. As he is the guy that ACTUALLY made the sounds you hear in modern day synthesizers as a preset ! He set the benchmark for synthesizer music ..
Just as kitaro , tangerine dream, Kraft werk did
He didn’t have any of that
Nothing of simplistic, he's a pioneer
Nothing about his work is simplistic. He's a perfectionist and you can hear it in his arrangements. I'm sure the other musicians are as accomplished as he is too.
@@ricardoluiscigana2746 he's not a pioneer, he had a style yes but not a pioneer, and it is simplistic, even though i love it
it is fair to call it minimalistic, unburdoned by superflous sounds to convey the complete experience. he was learning under pierre schaeffer before making this. french groups chased puristic, artful form. brits (canadians) made it industrial (hence orb, orbital, etc). germans popularised it.
either way it is always good to hear a master of the musique concrete.
Him and Michel giess
I am 66 heard it first in 1977/78 in Room number 109 Saraswati hostel IIT Chennai India and even now the Mystique of Oxygene is breathtakingly unique
Oxygene - Live In Your Living Room was recorded in high definition at Alfacam Studios in Lint, Belgium on september 19th 2007 🎹
Сегодня посмотел на dvd впервый раз -это шедеврально!
Эта музыка делает мир лучше.
Мне 38 лет
🌍🌎🌏💀💀💀
When electronic music was art ......................
It is an art nowadays too. But not popular.
*I don't say about those stupid DJs, who think that they make original beautiful music*
Born.....
Un pionero de la música electrónica, jean Michael Jarré hacía esto antes que nadie.
Parfaitement exact !.....avant la techno et autres dérivés il y avait Jean Michel Jarre......les autres n’en sont que de pâles copies......
Habe Jean Michel Jarre in München erlebt , weiß nicht mehr wann 12,13,14 ?? !, Aber damit ist ein Lebenswusch in erfüllung gegangen ! Danke
A million years from now musicians will wonder on this composition and realise that human kind were not all bad but quite wonderful.
Maybe our music is the only thing keeping us alive:P
This is like seeing an old friend after so many,many years... not as you remembered him, a little different, but still amazing
This will always be a timeless classic......Viva Jean Michel!
I've been trying to get him to play this live in my living room for years. Finally!
In the genre of electronic music, this is by far the best album ever made, and indeed it will be played in 100 years, just like the Beethoven pieces.
all those beautiful analogue synths....
yeah. the laptop-"artists" of today do not even know what that is
ian Numanfan wright Sadly, not all period-correct. A couple digital synths were used in the first Oxygene, too!
@@1312_PV , are you thinking of the RMI Harmonic Synthesizer ? I think it"s the unique digital gear used in Oxygene...
This is real art. That is amazing.
@@MemoryLaneCinema I know 😆. But I haven't money for those things) Because I am only 12 now. Nice:)
Humans working together in telepathic harmony to create beauty
Genius masterpiece. Timeless. Even After decades it feels modern
I still have this thing on vinyl. It is still in my view the finest bit of electronic music of all time.
Ça fait 40 ans que j’adore cette musique et je ne m’en lasse pas .
Moi aussi
Oxygène est clairement une des plus merveilleuses choses que l'électronique ait permis à l'humain de créer, et ce live est pure magie.
You can almost smell the old electronics. Simply wonderful.
Behringer makes clones of the ARP2600 and the Minimoog Model D.
And has also announced that a clone of the EMS VCS3 is in the working process.
Encontré éste video en TH-cam, lo estoy disfrutando lo máximo, tengo 60 años y más de 40 soy una gran admiradora de éste músico, magnífico y talentoso desde Chile un saludo para todos los que están viendo éste canal,. Gracias
Somos muchos los chilenos cautivados por su musica adelantada en los 70....Grande Jarre
Hi, just a little correction, Jean Michel Jarre is French. He is from Lyon. But yes he is great.
Looks like a crew of a fantastic spaseship that flies through the space. And we all are passengers. Jean-Michel Jarre, Dominique Perrier, Claude Samard, Francis Rimbert - bravo, maestros!
those are the synthists in the background.
it pisses me off people in comments of ANY electronic music that are so obtuze in the mind they cant imagine anything else than spaceships and planets, I HAVE A QUESTION ,WHY ALWAYS SPACESHIPS AND PLANETS, NO MATTER WHAT ELECTRONIC MUSIC U HEAR?WHY NOT POATOES FRYING IN THE PAN, FOR EXAMPLE? SINCE YOU ALWAYS THINK OF EATING SOMETHING?
I can only imagine spaceships and planets LOL
@@cristianmicu in this era the reference were nasa sounds, sci-fi effects and so on. I agree, electronic music is more than space age etc, but during the seventies the space reference was very powerful
@@cristianmicu You have a blockage in you and should work on That! Otherwise that would Not bother you!
Every once in a while, I find a gem ,searching you tube.This is ,by far the biggest,most expensive diamond I had found.
Back in '83 The first CD I ever bought was this album. Classic.
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Magnifique - I just can't stop playing the video. It's absolutely fantastic. JMJ, you're a legend
This is amazing live concert thank you Jean Michel for sharing it with us.
and in 2021, this is still on TOP!! jarre is so ahead of his time, true legend
Absolutely! Love and LIGHT! ❤💜💙💖💚💛🏌️♀️🌈🌞🌟💎
Its correct..
J. M. Jarre is still..
I consider this live performance as the higher achievement of all time in electronic music. The perfection of the performance, carried out walking on the thin ice of all this equipment weird temperament is amazing.
I was 10 when Oxygene was released and I stlli probably listen to it at least once every 2 months. This concert is one of the most beautiul interpretations of Oxygene I've heard.
Happy (soon to be) 45th Anniversary Oxygene!! I may be older & wiser but in my mind I am still that little child whose heart jumped for joy when she first heard this majestic piece of music. Can't describe how I felt then & still can't now. So incredible.
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It's remarkable how you can recognize works of genius when you first hear them. They then become timeless.
"Music produced solely from electronic generators was first produced in Germany in 1953. Electronic music was also created in Japan and the United States beginning in the 1950s. An important new development was the advent of computers to compose music." Wikipedia
But Jean Michel Jarre put it all together to make a masterpiece. I still have some of his cassettes, I love to listen to them to relax, or go to sleep.
This is easily the finest live synth performance I’ve ever seen. Every player is a master!
Yes, it's like watching several gods creating time and space
It's fake. Playback. A real shame. You can see it when he is playing the Theremin. The movements he makes don't add up to what you hear. His left hand, at the vertical antenna is for the tone, his right hand, at the loop, is volume. But what he does is not correct, he makes lots of mistakes. And then you know it's all fake. Too bad. A real shame. But then again, this is what he has done for the past 30 years. Faking everything. A great mind lost.
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except that his is not life and fake. just watch how jarre switches positions between perspective cuts. he moves 10 meters in milliseconds
J'ai grandi avec la musique de Jean Michel Jarre depuis dans le ventre de ma mère, grâce à mon père qui me l'a fait connaître, et c grâce à JMJ que j'ai appris la musique en autodidacte total jusqu'à maintenant, que de bon souvenir en écoutant et réécoutant cette musique !!!
This album still blows me away after all these years,,pure class..
Wow, never seen this live before, didn't think it could be done live. The talent it takes to do this with analog equipment like this manually to recreate such an intricate piece is astounding
For 40 years now: Whenever the mainstream takes over, I return to him and his timeless music - thank you for that!
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I think putting soul into electronica was an act of total genius...and it was his genius and absolute humanity that achieved that....I'm not sure many people could have done that....certainly not Kraftwerk...I have to say it is JMJ's legacy....putting soul into electronica....it's an immense achievement....I totally salute him for that! This album was massive for me and my family, we would listen together...it was a transcendental experience, my mother knitting, my father with his eyes closed, totally absorbed in the music. We listened as a family, my two sisters and my parents and I...who does that anymore!! So, thank you JMJ for the wonderful experience.
I want to hear this played so loud that my connective tissue hears the music and my ears become redundant...
this guy is the father of the elctronic music with vangelis/ kitaro real inmaginacion
Gershon Kingsley came long before either of those, even Tangerine Dream dates back to 1964
not fathers - just sons and grandchildren of the 1910-19650 GODS OF ELECTRONIC/CONCRETE EDEN!
Pink Floyd 1965, and there were several before them,.... Tangerine Dream started 1967, Jean Michael Jarre first recording 1973, Gershon Kingsley also started in mid 1960s
I Love Kitaro & Vangelis !!
KraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaftwerK!
I love to listen to this when I am going to sleep.
Simply does not age a single bit. Still as enjoyable in 2022 as the first time I heard it back in the 70's. Merci Monsieur Jarre x
Reminds me of not having a family at all.
Never experienced Christmas, Birthdays, Holidays etc...
Been alone since I was 16.
Im 54 now. And still alone..
I havent seen a friend for more than 15 years now (they are all married and have their own families)
I have accepted my destiny...that I will always be alone 😢
2020 I still in my own space of universe...
you're not alone :)
Great soothing space music. I was young and this was played at home by my family. Then the family was complete. Miss my late mother,and then u are going to listen to this. Just tears and goosebumps. Nice verry nice. Real kick. Moms I miss you.😭
JARRE IS JARRE the only ONE, since 70`s, your music is my inspiration to LIVE, my life. Next February, 2021, we are in a PARIS GALERIE one exhibition of our masterpieces works. My inspiration for our art & decoration concept comes from my wife, the universe & JEAN MICHEL JARRE specially with this MASTERPIECE, special with OXYGENE II & THE BEAUTIFUL OXYGENE IV. When I was racing car driver in Europe,, before start my training or race ALWAYS listen before OXYGENE IV & I still alive. MERCI, THANKS, GRACIAS, GRAZIE, DANKE, ARIGATO JEAN, ALL THE BEST MICHEL LONG HEALTHY LIFE JARRE
JMJ, Vangelis, Rychi Sakamoto and Brian Eno. What hero’s of music.
Imagine them together.
When I was much younger, his music uplifted me. It took me to other realms, other worlds, other places that only imagination can touch. It still does after all this time. It is more like the embrace of a dear friend, and it always will be.
I've loved Jarre's Oxygene for many years and only just found this on uTube and its awesome! I truly underestimated how many instruments he used/played! To see him produce his magic live is simply amazing. Thankyou to who ever posted this. Jarre is a true magician🇦🇺
Had the lovely pleasure of shaking his hand in December 2016 at an autograph session when he launched his Oxygene 3 in Bond Street, London.
Previously, in October 2016, I was at the O2 Arena for his Electronica tour.
One of the best 3 months of my life music-wise.
The man is a legend and a genius... and also very humble with his fans.
Michel, I love your music since 1979, as I bought my first record from you, at the age of 12.
Fantastic music! I love this music! One of my favorite compositions!
Amul with good taste!
Batteur professionnel depuis les années 80 (variété ,jazz-fusion Rhoda Scott Guy N'Sangué (basse avec Jean Luc Ponty) et bien d'autres artistes , fan de synthés , fan de Pierre Henri , de la bonne musique électronique , et fan de ce que vous faîtes cher Jean Michel Jarre (j'avais joué d'ailleurs au conservatoire , à la classe de Francis Brana en percussions classiques un morceau pour percussions de Maurice Jarre votre père ...) ce concert est magnifique j'adore , tout en subtilité ! prenez soin de vous !
I sold ALOT of HiFis using this music in the early 80's.... got me into electronic music and later onto riding the wave of techno at it's very inception ..... this is a great YT gift to the world
Light years ahead of it's time. I remember listening to this album when I was eight years old and to this day is in my top 5 albums of all time. I'm a huge fan of most of the genre's of house music and this still matches up to what producers are pulling out of the bag today with Electronica.
I remember this being a revelation in it's time - still gives me goosebumps
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Went to the Sunday Destination Docklands and can still say it is one of if not the most amazing days/nights of my life.
I saw him solo in an "intimate" venue shortly after MJ legalisation in Colorado. Second hand smoke was all that was needed to make it one of the best musical light shows I've ever seen.
There is something dark in our existence that constantly threatens our happiness. This doesn't mean denying the mix of dark and light present in all our lives, but trying to understand by looking at our experiences, and trying to ask ourselves a little more of what reality offers us. This is the essence of my musical project, which draws its inspiration from the immense music of Jean-Michel André Jarre
Jean Michel Jarre is for me,a very great Entertainer !!!
This DVD is worth every single penny. Listening to Oxygen in DTS sound is phenomenal...
What a great assortment of synths, I even noticed what appears to be 2 VCF 3 synths. Oxygene is one of my favorite Jean Michele Jarre compositions.
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Hola, soy de Buenos Aires, Argentina. A Jean Michel Jarre lo escuché por primera vez en la década de los 80' con su disco " EQUINOXIO ", luego compré el disco " CONCIERTOS DE CHINA donde Jean Michel conoció a su esposa y fue el primero en introducir la música de occidente en el país asiático. Cuando pude conseguir " OXIGENO " me di cuenta que el que tocaba, es un genio por lo revolucionario que fue en la creación de la nueva música y primera en el mundo " LA MÚSICA ELECTRÓNICA ". Él es el Padre de la música electrónica mundial. Creativo y revolucionario. Gracias Jean Michel Jarre por su excelente trabajo 👍. Abrazo cordial desde Buenos Aires, Argentina. Saludos 🤗.
No debes olvidar a la ola ALEMANA......TANGERINE DREAM ......KRAFTWERK
Argentina tiene un Piazzolla
Y Francia un Jarre
Los más grandes músicos de sus respectivos paises
I could listen to this all day & night... just blows me away...
Me too
I concur! 💗
MAGNIFICENT!!!! I grew up on Jarre. It was he who influenced my listening of electronic and synth music. From Oxygene to Rendezvous and many other creations that Jarre put forth. This whole set brought me back and triggered so many memories that I was in tears for most of this. I wish that this would be re-released on Blue ray DVD. Merci Beaucoup Artiste' du Grande'!! Much Love
You and me both mate/mon ami!
I am amazed at how they managed to even make this work. The gear is ancient and they still managed to knock out an amazing performance. The mistakes, and there were many, just added to the charm and realism of it all.
They weren’t mistakes. They were ‘artistic’ licence 😊.
A l'époque, j'écoutais cela gravé sur un vinyle avec ma vieille chaine HI FI équipée d'une platine avec diamant. Aujourd'hui encore, toute la magie est encore bien présente grâce à cet vidéo "YOUTUBIENNE" et lorsque l'on branche son "ordi" sur un home cinéma, le résultat est optimum. Merci à ces excellents "musicos"... Et Jean Michel JARRE restera au fil du temps un musicien hors du commun.
Thumbs up if at 14:36 you get pumped when oxygene part 2 comes in.
Oh yes!
Me
goosebumps
Oxygen 2 is Orgasm 2!
A live masterclass in pioneering analogue electronic wizardry.....
THE ART OF NOISE: Magic, sit back and listen. Feels like I am in Outter Space. Regards
I remember when I first listened to this in 1976 as a teenager in my native Port-au-Prince, Haiti after smoking a joint with a friend… I was floored! I felt like I was taken on a first class trip through the solar system! For the next few days I couldn’t stop listening to it again and again.
*FAREWELL DOMINIQUE PERRIER, MAY YOUR SOUL REST IN THE PEACEFULNESS OF THE UNIVERSE*
"Oxygene" and "Equinoxe" are all-time classics that flow into each other perfectly. I remember seeing this years ago when it was first aired and it's still wonderful to see and hear now. I'm amazing everyone has memorized all the knobs and buttons to do the effects and notes.
I came for a minute and i am already 30 minutes in. Incredible musicians!
Cómo alguien puede hacer rozar juntas al arte, la belleza, la locura y el buen gusto de música en medio de ese cadejo y provocar esa acometida de delicia en mí; de mi tierra Huancané-Puno-Perú saludos Jean Michel Jarre
I am as old as the Earth and I loooooooove this. It beats with my Heart and my soul.
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I listened to this watching Gallipoli movie and i felt in love with it at the moment. I bought the disc and everytime i want to get in relax listen to it and never fail.
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C'est impressionnant de voir le prodigieux Dominique Perrier surfer sur tout cela avec décontraction et maestria... / It's impressive to see the prodigious Dominique Perrier surfing all this with relaxation and mastery ...
I've never thought that I could watch this until the end. But I'm still here at 35 minutes, and I still love it 🥰
Makes me feel like I'm 6 years again. AMAZING
When I run in the mornings this is the album I play absolutely brilliant even after decades of listening 😊
I am 42 now and always come back to JMJ as to the Master of climat and music since I heard him in Polish TV when I was a child. And today after so many years I thought about JMJ during the night. I remember his concert In Your Living Room when it was in Warsaw and I was there. Thank you JMJ and publishers in YT for your being and making life more calm and so nice.
16:18 OMG.... I listened soooooooooooooooooooooooooo many times to this... Oxygene, one of the masterpieces of music I was fortunate enough to listen to during my lifetime!... GENIUS!
Amazing! I was 16 when JMJ released Oxygene. Fantastic then, and still a world class composition today. Thanks so much for releasing this unique and treasured version.
I was 14
3 and I started listen to in 1980
@@user-ph5zx2zc8v wow
@@germanshepherdlover2613 NO?
I was 17, just one year older than you, listening to Oxigene just blew up my mind.