Although modern gear is more powerful, portable, flexible and probably able to digitally reproduce pretty much every sound here, the point is that this guy had no-one to learn from. He couldn't just select a few patches and tweak them - all the sounds had to be crafted from oscillators, filters etc. So it's kind of like comparing constructing an Ikea chair with carving one from trees you chopped down yourself. Respect the craftsman, even if the music ain't your bag.
Pioneering. Like watching the original TRON. I remember watching that in the cinema - it was amazing... When you realise every single thing, including atmospheric effects, lighting, shadows and literally everything else wasn't coded untill they coded it.
Isao Tomita, Wendy Carlos and Jean Michel Jarre are three I know if who are the pioneers in synthesizer music that has brought joy to my ears. And those who created the variety of synthesizers have made science fiction movies of the 50s special.
Oxygene and Équinoxe, two of my favourite albums. I have the originals and still play them regularly. Fantastic music, absolutely timeless masterpieces.
I was born 79 and I was raised with Jean Michel Jarre and other similar artists, and I still love their music and are still listening to it and probably will until the day I take my last breath.
@@MusicWizard79 And me too. 37 years old. My parents listened it. And I do it, including Oxygene and Equinoxe. I have grown with it, and Jarre made my an electronic music liker. Later I've found many other wonderful elecronic music (first of all trance and new age). But Jarre's music is present with me all my life.
I was 14 when Oxygène came out. It was literally lifechanging, and shaped my appreciation of music forever. I loved it then, and at 60, I still do today.
Oxygene and Equinoxe were by far the greatest electronic albums ever to be made...you can listen to them today and they still sound like they came from the future.
@@jamiepastman5594 Definitely not. It might be, on a melodic aspect, a bit more experimental at some moments, but it was very basic synth with instruments around, and the melody was mostly cacophonic. JH was fidgeting with toys, JMJ was composing symphonies.
@@nicojar these are opinions, not facts. Also; there is more than one melody on First Seven Days, and (even though I'm a professional full time musician for over 40 years) I have absolutely no idea what cacophonic means, is that a new word ? Anyway, you have your opinion, I have mine, that's the beautiful thing about music. Sweeping statements about things being the "best" are idiotic
@@jamiepastman5594 You're mean spirited for saying that. Admiration of a musicians work is subjective, so that makes your opinion just that, "your opinion." Do tell where you get your holier than thou superior credentials. We're waiting.
Uhm... that turnout wasn't for his music. Are you serious? He did a concert in HOUSTON after the crash of the Space Shuttle, Challenger, in 1986. Because he dedicated Rendezvous (fourth part) to that event there was a large turnout to see the show. IN HOUSTON. By design. American patriotism is why that many people amassed. Like having a benefit concert in New York City after 9/11 and claiming people turned out for the musicians.
@@DiffEQ Who mentioned Houston? He did the same in Paris and Moscow. Each time beating his own record, no live aid, no disasters, just him and his performance.
Every sound is instantly recognisable. To make an album of music with this equipment in the early 70s is where the talent and skill of this man shines very brightly
Love that collage of old synthesizers! They all have a sound and personality of their own and their sounds have only been imitated by modern synths but not duplicated!
En tant que batteur compositeur, fan de Pierre Henri, et des premiers synthétisers ,quand je vois ça !!! j'hallucine ! magnifique, Jean Michel à su faire une musique qui touche tout le monde avec ces incroyables instruments électro , franchement j'adore ce grand artiste, tout comme Vangelis !
Musicians today do not realise how easy they have it... In those days people like Jean Michael, Vangelis and Kraftwerk didn't just make their own music. They made their own musical instruments.... Listen to him at 1:48 about the sequencer he conceived. Seriously fucking incredible...
One thing that never fails to impress me is just how unbelievably musical Oxygene is. He uses every piece, as an instrument, as if it was part of an orchestra. Oxygene is as timeless as Beethoven's 5th.
+zedster911 hm. i think, that this would be kinda not so interesting. or do you see, how a modern film composer like James Horner, John Williams or others are composing with a pen and paper?
These are such antiques and, I saw him recently in concert, he is still using them! It changed my view immensely on him, playing live and with such passion.
A brilliant musician, composer and master of the synthesizer (let's not forget, with a large musical and technical assistance from Michel Geiss, another genius in the world of synthesizers)
Jean, Twoje utwory słyszałem po raz pierwszy w roku 1975. Od tamtej pory jestem Twoim fanem, miłość do tej muzyki zaszczepiłem również moim dorosłym już synom, z którymi byłem na Twoim pamiętnym koncercie w Stoczni Gdańskiej.👍❤️
He's so incased in music, so fascinated by it. It just doesn't come to his mind who's good, who's not, when he has a chance to show his 'children', he toys. He's excited proud of THEM, not about himself. The positive side of nerdiness :)
I remember him as a very friendly guy. I met him in 1978 on the set of "Die Hamburger Krankheit" He was surrounded by people but still took the time to chat with a 12 year old
JMJ first albums in the early 80ies were an inspiration for my own development in synthesizer music. He is a real handmade sound artist icon, and this video sample let us feel his strong passion to legendary machines, especially in relation to his Oxygene Album which I remember was one of my favorite disc when I was young teenager. Thanks for this video.
Straightaway you hear the sound from his record from 1976, 30 years later in the studio! Now, either he remembers what the settings were or he has those pieces of paper to show him where to set the controls or he hasn't moved the controls on some of those things since 1976! It's the era of making a _few_ _great_ sounds. This is so in contrast to the digital workstation or modern virtual analog or post-2000 analog era where you've got guys in revews who say 128 or 1000 memories are not enough, plenty to store their 1000 crap sounds, every one forgettable and they all sound the same. I just heard some guy playing an Alesis A6 Andromeda. It sounded just the same as some other guy on a new Prophet-12 and some other guy on a Roland Jupiter 80. Yawn! Here I stumbled across this video of Jarre today 24 September 2014 and the last time I heard most of the sounds he playing was when I last heard Oxygene probably when I bought it on CD in the 1990s! So he is unique.
+Dave Bellamy " Now, either he remembers what the settings were or he has those pieces of paper to show him where to set the controls or he hasn't moved the controls on some of those things since 1976!" Well... Most Producers who use analogue synths either write down what they did, use so called "Preset sheets" or simply take a picture of their settings ^^
All I could think was how much money was he getting back then from his dad Maurice (who I know was rich due to soundtrack work) because he'd have to have been loaded to have had more than 1 of an instrument.
Oxygen and Equinox are two of the most influential albums of all time, and not just for electronic and synth music. JMJ's was a pioneer with these two works and while others were also breaking new ground, JMJ's use of the sounds were very unique to him. Excellent video, excellent music and an excellent creator.
+Pioneer707 I'm into both artists, and Kraftwerk didn't predate Jarre by a decade. The fact that you describe JMJ as elevator music simply proves that you have no experience of writing or producing electronic music, dance or otherwise. Early Kraftwerk is very rough experimental and really hard to listen to, often without melody or rhythm. It wasn't until Autobahn and TEE that Kraftwerk got their signature sorted, roughly the time of Oxygen. Both artists are important, but as for influence and popularity, check out their album's sales figures.
It's amazing he takes all of those sounds - that sound so cheesy by themselves - and meld them into "Oxygene!" Just goes to show that it's not just the gear.
Yeah, you can give someone ten grands worth of studio equipment - and you'll get the audio equivalent of soda pop... Others you can give a stylophone to and get something that would make Mozart look skyward and ask "why is my music so mediocre!?!?".
no he's not, I can't even express my indignity at the negative comments here. How can you like electronic music and not have massive respect for Jarre? hes probably the most influential pioneer, and oxygene has stood the test of time. I can't say the same for your boi skrill.
Maybe they are just too young to have any feeling towards this. No matter what, JMJ really pushed the electronics music forward while still created his own sound. Like it or not, he deserves big respect.
That Theremin is something else... A gem of a clip... I'll be thinking of all of these instruments and of course efforts next time I listen to JMJ... We're honored to experience all of these auric delights.
This man is absolutely fucking genius. This whole interview goes to show that nothing can get in the way of musical talent. If you want to be creative, you will do so.
I have been listening to JMJ for almost my whole life, Oxygene still takes me on a cosmic tour and gives me chills to this day, just beautiful inspiring electronica from the early days, lots of other great EDM since but JMJ started this journey for me, and even though I don't follow him or know much about him these days, his music had a big impact on my life.
Great instruments, great musician, great memories. I was a young teen when I heard Oyxgene for the first time and it influenced my whole life in several ways.
I still have some of his old cassettes, he introduced me to the world of electronic music. Come to think of it, he probably he introduced the world to electronic music
Introduced the world to electronic music. You know nothing if you believe that. YOUR experience and knowledge isn't very deep on the subject if you make such an inane comment like that. Wow.
Yeah maybe a youngster, walter/wendy carlos 1969 and various one of groups like Lothar and the Hand-people 1969 or White Noise by Delia Derbyshire on Island records or even Musique Concrete stuff from the 50's....and kraftwerk etc were all earlier doesnt know anything
1. I LOVED his comment about the noise generator, saying that all it needed was some phasing and "musical intention". Musical intention is everything. Forget about millions of dollars worth of gear. What you do with what you have is everything. 2. Where can I get those beautiful floor lamps?
@blackdevilguitars Well said, and that very "noise generator" was an EMS VCS3... try pricing one out. JMJ couldn't exemplify any more the very antithesis of 'creativity borne of a shoestring budget.'
I boght Oxygene a few years ago. Listening late at nigh,t I fell asleep, and woke up to the sound of the first synth he demonstrates in this video. I kept hearing the sshhhoooOO - pkkhhh sound, and was convinced someone was launching rockets somewhere in my city. I looked out the different windows, wondering where they were coming from,, where they were landing before I realized I heard them best near the speakers. I had a good laugh when I figured it out. I hope Jean-Michel sees this and has a good laugh too.
It's easy to poke fun, but the guy got me in to electronic music when I was a kid and so I love him for that, and I still enjoy the odd listen to a bit of Rendezvous or even the oddly fractured Zoolook. Good on you Jean-Michel but come on mate sort out that syrup no-one's fooled 😃
What a fantastic interview with an absolutely legendary pioneer of electronic music. His equipment is a living/working example of the progression of electronic equipment of the 20th century. What a fabulous collection!!
A true electonic poet. J'ai toujours aimé le travail de JM Jarre. Planant qui vous transporte dans des dimensions supérieures. Et en plus il a dû inventer ses propres sons !
My first love was “Space”, magic fly. I then heard Jean. I’ve been hooked, ever since. If I ever need to “relax” I find a dark room and listen to Jean. I can honestly say, without you, I would not be here today
His audience is much much larger than 100 or so million French speakers. It only makes sense he speaks in the language that more of his audience understand and have subtitles for the rest.
I've listened to Oxygene / Equinoxe hundreds of times since they were released, I still hear new things in them. Now seeing these vids on YT of JMJ talking and I'm learning even more. It's great gear, but his message is -- it's not about the gear, it's about you finding what speaks to you. These were what he used; you can hear it as soon as he touches them. You might have to use something else. Presets and preprogrammed software sound great, but literally anyone can use them, and it all sounds the same. Experiment. Explore. Be the next JMJ by going where nobody else is going
I love you and have done since in the beginning of the 80íes when I first heard of you.... you''ve been a geat inspiration thru my own musical carrier...and when iI sit in my studio and nothing new comes to me..I ususually play one of your songs on my synths..
I remember when you could buy a Moog kit from radio shack and build your own A friend of mine did it and while he played it i would play my Violin with him .those were the days my friend ,those were the days of magic .And here we are today still mesmerized and enthralled by those mysterious and magical sounds that can transport us to a place you will never find any other way .
Nie ma słów .. po prostu pierwszy na świecie stworzył muzykę TRANCE.. i jest Best Of the Best w tym co robi . Wielki szacun dla Jara bo bez niego nie bylo by wielu miłośników tej kategorii .
Loved it! It is very nice to hear from himself how it how he'd done it. When I was still living in Brazil Oxygene Part II played in a commercial and I finally got a hold of it! A friend lend me the cassette tape! Oxygene from JMJ and Chase from Girorgio Moroder were my first electronic music ever and I still love them to this day!!! Awesome!!!
It was a hot summer day of 1982. We were 13 years old, enjoying ourselves at a community swimming pool. Two things happened to me for the first time in my life. I climbed the 2m tower just to realize that things look terrifying when you stand there, but the girls were watching (or so I thought, ) so I just had to jump. And then I couldn't stop! :) Oh yes, and the other thing. I heard Souvenir de Chine from the big PA system there for the first time in my life. The sound was so new and fresh, and it just grabbed my soul. We had a rock band - yes! when we were 13! and we just had to learn that song. Now some #$%$%$#@# years go by, and I can write this comment that Jean Michel Jarre himself can actually see! Now, HOW AWESOME IS THIS! :)
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Although modern gear is more powerful, portable, flexible and probably able to digitally reproduce pretty much every sound here, the point is that this guy had no-one to learn from. He couldn't just select a few patches and tweak them - all the sounds had to be crafted from oscillators, filters etc. So it's kind of like comparing constructing an Ikea chair with carving one from trees you chopped down yourself. Respect the craftsman, even if the music ain't your bag.
Pioneering. Like watching the original TRON. I remember watching that in the cinema - it was amazing...
When you realise every single thing, including atmospheric effects, lighting, shadows and literally everything else wasn't coded untill they coded it.
Although modern gear is more powerful old gear is more reliable
Isao Tomita, Wendy Carlos and Jean Michel Jarre are three I know if who are the pioneers in synthesizer music that has brought joy to my ears. And those who created the variety of synthesizers have made science fiction movies of the 50s special.
@@parasiteunit If you listen carefully, you can tell some of the sounds in Tron are from both the Apple II and Atari computers of the 80s.
His music is still superior to most of today's stuff!
Oxygene and Équinoxe, two of my favourite albums.
I have the originals and still play them regularly.
Fantastic music, absolutely timeless masterpieces.
At the age off 15 I loved this stuff. Now 40 years later. I still do.
I was born 79 and I was raised with Jean Michel Jarre and other similar artists,
and I still love their music and are still listening to it and probably will until the day I take my last breath.
same, I am 45 now
@@MusicWizard79 And me too. 37 years old. My parents listened it. And I do it, including Oxygene and Equinoxe. I have grown with it, and Jarre made my an electronic music liker. Later I've found many other wonderful elecronic music (first of all trance and new age). But Jarre's music is present with me all my life.
Yes.
I was 14 when Oxygène came out. It was literally lifechanging, and shaped my appreciation of music forever. I loved it then, and at 60, I still do today.
Been loving his music for over 40 years, but this was the first time I've seen him play let alone speak. What a treat - thanks for posting this video!
Oxygene and Equinoxe were by far the greatest electronic albums ever to be made...you can listen to them today and they still sound like they came from the future.
No I don't agree. He used less gear, but Jan Hammer's "The First Seven Days" blows away anything Jarre ever did. There, I said it...
@@jamiepastman5594 Definitely not. It might be, on a melodic aspect, a bit more experimental at some moments, but it was very basic synth with instruments around, and the melody was mostly cacophonic. JH was fidgeting with toys, JMJ was composing symphonies.
@@nicojar these are opinions, not facts. Also; there is more than one melody on First Seven Days, and (even though I'm a professional full time musician for over 40 years) I have absolutely no idea what cacophonic means, is that a new word ? Anyway, you have your opinion, I have mine, that's the beautiful thing about music. Sweeping statements about things being the "best" are idiotic
@@jamiepastman5594 I just TH-camd "The First Seven Days", wondering, how many edibles you were on when you posted that?
@@jamiepastman5594 You're mean spirited for saying that. Admiration of a musicians work is subjective, so that makes your opinion just that, "your opinion." Do tell where you get your holier than thou superior credentials. We're waiting.
Any man who can get over 1.1 million people to turn up at one concert gets my respect
You forgot to meant 3,5 million people concert in Moscow in 1997. That's astonishing. French electro is the best.
@@marekpumex when you're 3 Kms from the scene, can you consider your attending the concert ?
@@jeandurand3095 Well Guinness World Record Commission did think like this :D
Uhm... that turnout wasn't for his music. Are you serious? He did a concert in HOUSTON after the crash of the Space Shuttle, Challenger, in 1986. Because he dedicated Rendezvous (fourth part) to that event there was a large turnout to see the show. IN HOUSTON. By design. American patriotism is why that many people amassed. Like having a benefit concert in New York City after 9/11 and claiming people turned out for the musicians.
@@DiffEQ Who mentioned Houston? He did the same in Paris and Moscow. Each time beating his own record, no live aid, no disasters, just him and his performance.
JMJ is a living legend. His melodies will remain stuck in my brain forever!
Every sound is instantly recognisable. To make an album of music with this equipment in the early 70s is where the talent and skill of this man shines very brightly
Add to that the fact that a record company took a chance on this guy and pressed him onto vinyl!
@@rusty1187 that wouldn't happen now
Jarre; an absolute genius who will never be matched. True musical magician 🎩 🇦🇺
Mr Jarre is an Electronic Pioneer and visionary light years ahead of his time. Thank you for your wonderful music!
Love that collage of old synthesizers! They all have a sound and personality of their own and their sounds have only been imitated by modern synths but not duplicated!
En tant que batteur compositeur, fan de Pierre Henri, et des premiers synthétisers ,quand je vois ça !!! j'hallucine ! magnifique, Jean Michel à su faire une musique qui touche tout le monde avec ces incroyables instruments électro , franchement j'adore ce grand artiste, tout comme Vangelis !
Musicians today do not realise how easy they have it...
In those days people like Jean Michael, Vangelis and Kraftwerk didn't just make their own music. They made their own musical instruments....
Listen to him at 1:48 about the sequencer he conceived.
Seriously fucking incredible...
One thing that never fails to impress me is just how unbelievably musical Oxygene is.
He uses every piece, as an instrument, as if it was part of an
orchestra.
Oxygene is as timeless as Beethoven's 5th.
Imagine if Bach, Beethoven and Debussey did a TH-cam download of how they made their music... This is an important addition to the History of Music
+zedster911 hm. i think, that this would be kinda not so interesting. or do you see, how a modern film composer like James Horner, John Williams or others are composing with a pen and paper?
There are videos of Shostakovitch and Stravinsky explaining how they wrote their music.
They did, but tapes were lost.
After all these years, he's still as enthusiastic as ever around these wonderful instruments.
These are such antiques and, I saw him recently in concert, he is still using them! It changed my view immensely on him, playing live and with such passion.
A brilliant musician, composer and master of the synthesizer (let's not forget, with a large musical and technical assistance from Michel Geiss, another genius in the world of synthesizers)
Jean, Twoje utwory słyszałem po raz pierwszy w roku 1975. Od tamtej pory jestem Twoim fanem, miłość do tej muzyki zaszczepiłem również moim dorosłym już synom, z którymi byłem na Twoim pamiętnym koncercie w Stoczni Gdańskiej.👍❤️
Вы не представляете, как я смотрю и радуюсь. Очень хорошо, что он всё это сохраняет. И удивительно, что эти инструменты всё-еще в рабочем состоянии.
Amazing modesty in this guy who is a legend. One of the very few in this genre. I hope there are more of these videos.
I was just thinking that myself.
He's so incased in music, so fascinated by it. It just doesn't come to his mind who's good, who's not, when he has a chance to show his 'children', he toys. He's excited proud of THEM, not about himself.
The positive side of nerdiness :)
I remember him as a very friendly guy. I met him in 1978 on the set of "Die Hamburger Krankheit" He was surrounded by people but still took the time to chat with a 12 year old
JMJ first albums in the early 80ies were an inspiration for my own development in synthesizer music. He is a real handmade sound artist icon, and this video sample let us feel his strong passion to legendary machines, especially in relation to his Oxygene Album which I remember was one of my favorite disc when I was young teenager.
Thanks for this video.
Wow 13 years old video on youtube !
Than you for this gem 🙏
Legendary. That was synthesized music. Still is today. A lot of logic and talent needed to create epic tracks.
As a huge fan of Oxygene and Equinoxe, this is amazing to see so many years later: thanks so much for uploading!
Equinoxe changed my life for good! Thank you Jean Michel.
I seen Jean Michel Jarre Play live in Dublin Ireland on 10.10.2016 A dream come true for me, an amazing show indeed. Fantastic, thank you. Justin
I saw a concert in front of 300 people done with this machines ... It was just amazing...
Thank you JMJ and fuc* the jalous ;-)
"There is no memory so I need few of them for different family of sounds" hahaha he is a true legend.
Straightaway you hear the sound from his record from 1976, 30 years later in the studio! Now, either he remembers what the settings were or he has those pieces of paper to show him where to set the controls or he hasn't moved the controls on some of those things since 1976!
It's the era of making a _few_ _great_ sounds. This is so in contrast to the digital workstation or modern virtual analog or post-2000 analog era where you've got guys in revews who say 128 or 1000 memories are not enough, plenty to store their 1000 crap sounds, every one forgettable and they all sound the same. I just heard some guy playing an Alesis A6 Andromeda. It sounded just the same as some other guy on a new Prophet-12 and some other guy on a Roland Jupiter 80. Yawn!
Here I stumbled across this video of Jarre today 24 September 2014 and the last time I heard most of the sounds he playing was when I last heard Oxygene probably when I bought it on CD in the 1990s! So he is unique.
+Dave Bellamy " Now, either he remembers what the settings were or he has those pieces of paper to show him where to set the controls or he hasn't moved the controls on some of those things since 1976!" Well... Most Producers who use analogue synths either write down what they did, use so called "Preset sheets" or simply take a picture of their settings ^^
@@davebellamy4867 I'm totally with you. It's all about finding a character.
He probably have every single machine set for a specific sound. They're set on that sound indefinitely.
All I could think was how much money was he getting back then from his dad Maurice (who I know was rich due to soundtrack work) because he'd have to have been loaded to have had more than 1 of an instrument.
I saw him play Houston Texas 1986 it was mind blowing
Oxygen and Equinox are two of the most influential albums of all time, and not just for electronic and synth music. JMJ's was a pioneer with these two works and while others were also breaking new ground, JMJ's use of the sounds were very unique to him. Excellent video, excellent music and an excellent creator.
+Pioneer707 I'm into both artists, and Kraftwerk didn't predate Jarre by a decade. The fact that you describe JMJ as elevator music simply proves that you have no experience of writing or producing electronic music, dance or otherwise. Early Kraftwerk is very rough experimental and really hard to listen to, often without melody or rhythm. It wasn't until Autobahn and TEE that Kraftwerk got their signature sorted, roughly the time of Oxygen. Both artists are important, but as for influence and popularity, check out their album's sales figures.
absolutely true !
I've actually shaken the hand that played all those influential tunes :-)
David Harry tubular bell Oldfield started all thx to virgin Branson than came Jean Michel
"Oxygen and Equinox are two of the most influential albums of all time."Not in reality.
I have many of his albums. His music is magical. He was the first electronic artist I heard and has remained one of my favorites.
Got all of them. And together with Vangelis, Mike Oldfield and Kraftwerk he is my all time favorite. :)
Klaus Schulte top all
I remember Oxygen no. 4 as a kid. That's the first full synth tune that I know. His music was regarded as futuristic and it really was.
It's amazing he takes all of those sounds - that sound so cheesy by themselves - and meld them into "Oxygene!" Just goes to show that it's not just the gear.
Yeah, you can give someone ten grands worth of studio equipment - and you'll get the audio equivalent of soda pop...
Others you can give a stylophone to and get something that would make Mozart look skyward and ask "why is my music so mediocre!?!?".
Zoolook album is more better for me than Oxygène album.
JMJ is one of the pioneers of electronic music. It was in the early 80's that his music caught my attention and I've been hooked ever since.
Oxygene is an amazing album, as is Equinoxe. Genius.
Agreed!
Jean is a musical genius. I loved his first three albums. He must have gotten the musical part from his father, it all seems to fall into place.
Jean-Michel
This is awesome! A dream studio.
no he's not, I can't even express my indignity at the negative comments here. How can you like electronic music and not have massive respect for Jarre? hes probably the most influential pioneer, and oxygene has stood the test of time. I can't say the same for your boi skrill.
Maybe they are just too young to have any feeling towards this. No matter what, JMJ really pushed the electronics music forward while still created his own sound. Like it or not, he deserves big respect.
That Theremin is something else... A gem of a clip... I'll be thinking of all of these instruments and of course efforts next time I listen to JMJ... We're honored to experience all of these auric delights.
This man is absolutely fucking genius. This whole interview goes to show that nothing can get in the way of musical talent. If you want to be creative, you will do so.
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Mostly he is a daddy's boys.
I have been listening to JMJ for almost my whole life, Oxygene still takes me on a cosmic tour and gives me chills to this day, just beautiful inspiring electronica from the early days, lots of other great EDM since but JMJ started this journey for me, and even though I don't follow him or know much about him these days, his music had a big impact on my life.
Great instruments, great musician, great memories. I was a young teen when I heard Oyxgene for the first time and it influenced my whole life in several ways.
I have every album you’ve made. Thanks Jean Michel for the wonderful music you’ve created.
I still have some of his old cassettes, he introduced me to the world of electronic music. Come to think of it, he probably he introduced the world to electronic music
Introduced the world to electronic music. You know nothing if you believe that. YOUR experience and knowledge isn't very deep on the subject if you make such an inane comment like that. Wow.
Yeah maybe a youngster, walter/wendy carlos 1969 and various one of groups like Lothar and the Hand-people 1969 or White Noise by Delia Derbyshire on Island records or even Musique Concrete stuff from the 50's....and kraftwerk etc were all earlier
doesnt know anything
Funny to read some of the comments. Whether you like JMJ or not, you have to admit that he knows (and I think) and loves his synths.
Thank you Mr Jarre for showing your wonderful instruments!
love all those synths in my bedroom, i would never go out. a genius who has influenced a lot of music artists.
1. I LOVED his comment about the noise generator, saying that all it needed was some phasing and "musical intention". Musical intention is everything. Forget about millions of dollars worth of gear. What you do with what you have is everything.
2. Where can I get those beautiful floor lamps?
@blackdevilguitars Well said, and that very "noise generator" was an EMS VCS3... try pricing one out. JMJ couldn't exemplify any more the very antithesis of 'creativity borne of a shoestring budget.'
What I lack and what most lack is "all it needed was some phasing and "musical intention". Musical intention is everything"
Probably about half a million for all that rare, vintage analog gear.
My mom has one of those floor lamps, sadly no synths hahaha.
@@motosporttouring yes but getting a noise generator and a phaser is an easy task for anyone!
He seems like he's having so much fun, I love it!
Superb collection of synths and a legend taking us round them :)
What more can you ask for!!!!!
10/10
I boght Oxygene a few years ago. Listening late at nigh,t I fell asleep, and woke up to the sound of the first synth he demonstrates in this video. I kept hearing the sshhhoooOO - pkkhhh sound, and was convinced someone was launching rockets somewhere in my city. I looked out the different windows, wondering where they were coming from,, where they were landing before I realized I heard them best near the speakers. I had a good laugh when I figured it out. I hope Jean-Michel sees this and has a good laugh too.
That is the best setup I have ever seen dude!! ;)
It's easy to poke fun, but the guy got me in to electronic music when I was a kid and so I love him for that, and I still enjoy the odd listen to a bit of Rendezvous or even the oddly fractured Zoolook. Good on you Jean-Michel but come on mate sort out that syrup no-one's fooled 😃
Brian Rhodes No way that is a wig lol no way.
I have like all of his LPs in LP form. Brings me back in time and the LP cracking noise is a must in JMJ.
What a fantastic interview with an absolutely legendary pioneer of electronic music. His equipment is a living/working example of the progression of electronic equipment of the 20th century. What a fabulous collection!!
A true electonic poet. J'ai toujours aimé le travail de JM Jarre. Planant qui vous transporte dans des dimensions supérieures. Et en plus il a dû inventer ses propres sons !
oh im in heaven! i could listen to him for hours about how they work!
The eminent sounds heavenly
WOW!!! so good to find out where all those superb sounds came from👍👍👍👍👍
My first love was “Space”, magic fly. I then heard Jean. I’ve been hooked, ever since. If I ever need to “relax” I find a dark room and listen to Jean. I can honestly say, without you, I would not be here today
A master at work
This man is a new Mozart of the Age.!!
yeahhh, this collection is mind blowing. great album
It's lovely seeing JMJ talk in English and watching it subtitled into French!
Magnetic Fields, my favourite album :)
That reference to Walter Carlos at around 5:30 is gold
Possibly the best video I've seen on TH-cam, seriously.
Very much enjoyed his concert last Saturday in Nuremberg. He's such a talented and gentle person.
the master aint rockin no laptop
+blipblip88 He is now
+Will Prat His new stuff is hideous though
+KILLAGORILLA7000 I like it.
It's funny that he is French and he is speaking English and the subtitles are in French !!!
+Jez2008UK He speak with a very good french accent isn't it?
Me too :))
As it should be old boy
lol!! i'ts funny i didn't even think about that until you said it.
His audience is much much larger than 100 or so million French speakers. It only makes sense he speaks in the language that more of his audience understand and have subtitles for the rest.
r asa Which part of 'It's funny' didn't you understand ?
I love everything about this. Especially the Tufnel syrup.
" no but these go up to eleven..."
what an amazing collection! I'd give my right eye for an hour alone with those machines
If there's a Heaven it would be that room for me.
I've listened to Oxygene / Equinoxe hundreds of times since they were released, I still hear new things in them. Now seeing these vids on YT of JMJ talking and I'm learning even more. It's great gear, but his message is -- it's not about the gear, it's about you finding what speaks to you. These were what he used; you can hear it as soon as he touches them. You might have to use something else. Presets and preprogrammed software sound great, but literally anyone can use them, and it all sounds the same. Experiment. Explore. Be the next JMJ by going where nobody else is going
I already thought I heard a theramin on Oxgene .. Amazing trip trough musical history ! Thanks for posting.
I love you and have done since in the beginning of the 80íes when I first heard of you.... you''ve been a geat inspiration thru my own musical carrier...and when iI sit in my studio and nothing new comes to me..I ususually play one of your songs on my synths..
so cute. like having bob ross talk about old synths instead of happy trees.
+kenbrisby hilarious great analogy
He's more like a French Ozzy Ozbourne
kenbrisby. Porn
I like when he said: "When the brain is not working anymore"...Lol :)
I remember when you could buy a Moog kit from radio shack and build your own A friend of mine did it and while he played it i would play my Violin with him .those were the days my friend ,those were the days of magic .And here we are today still mesmerized and enthralled by those mysterious and magical sounds that can transport us to a place you will never find any other way .
Big JMJ fan, thanks for showing me his tools over time.
Synthgasm
A musical genius.
great video...! ty for sharing.
Thanks dad for bringing me to this guys live show in sweden!
Musical genius! 😁
Is there an english translation for the french subtitles?
Nie ma słów .. po prostu pierwszy na świecie stworzył muzykę TRANCE.. i jest Best Of the Best w tym co robi .
Wielki szacun dla Jara bo bez niego nie bylo by wielu miłośników tej kategorii .
¡Gran demo! love JMJ music ❤️
Oh god, that moog keytar!
Mad genius in his lab
JMJ - Oxygenius Of Electronic Music ! Greets From Poland ;-)
Thank you for explaining in English all you equipment. You have some of the most interesting musical equipment i have seen anywhere.
more than 2M US dollars in stuff there
and to think that it can all be done in software now and run on a $50 cellphone !
with ultra shit sound and no soul :)
porjo38 No ypu can't If you want to do something really good.
porjo38 nope
@@porjo38 not really true.
Legend
Loved it! It is very nice to hear from himself how it how he'd done it. When I was still living in Brazil Oxygene Part II played in a commercial and I finally got a hold of it! A friend lend me the cassette tape! Oxygene from JMJ and Chase from Girorgio Moroder were my first electronic music ever and I still love them to this day!!! Awesome!!!
It was a hot summer day of 1982. We were 13 years old, enjoying ourselves at a community swimming pool. Two things happened to me for the first time in my life. I climbed the 2m tower just to realize that things look terrifying when you stand there, but the girls were watching (or so I thought, ) so I just had to jump. And then I couldn't stop! :) Oh yes, and the other thing. I heard Souvenir de Chine from the big PA system there for the first time in my life. The sound was so new and fresh, and it just grabbed my soul. We had a rock band - yes! when we were 13! and we just had to learn that song. Now some #$%$%$#@# years go by, and I can write this comment that Jean Michel Jarre himself can actually see! Now, HOW AWESOME IS THIS! :)
Heaven.
He has all that gear and knowledge but take note kids... he doesn't have a mobile phone!!
GenosPerformer yes he does
I heard he uses two cans between string!
My very first influencer! Great video! Thanks
This is still one of the best videos on gear of the entire internet.