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Jean-Michel Jarre: Electronica 1 - The Time Machine

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Label: Columbia Records
Released: 2015.10.15
Time:
 69:24
Category: Electronic
Producer(s): Jean-Michel Jarre
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Media type: CD
Web address: Jarre_Jean_Michel
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Purchase date: 2015
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] The Time Machine [with Boys Noize] (Jarre, Boys Noize) - 3:54
[2] Glory [with M83] (Jarre, M83) - 4:12
[3] Close Your Eyes [with Air] (Jarre, Air) - 6:15
[4] Automatic. Pt. 1 [with Vince Clarke] (Jarre, Vince Clarke) - 3:06
[5] Automatic. Pt. 2 [with Vince Clarke] (Jarre, Vince Clarke) - 3:03
[6] If..! [with Little Boots] (Jarre, Little Boots) - 3:13
[7] Immortals [with Fuck Buttons] (Jarre, Fuck Buttons) - 4:24
[8] Suns Have Gone [with Moby] (Jarre, Moby) - 5:55
[9] Conquistador [with Gesaffelstein] (Jarre, Mike Lévy) - 3:09
[10] Travelator [Part 2] [with Pete Townshend] (Jarre, Townshend) - 3:10
[11] Zero Gravity [with Tangerine Dream] (Jarre, Tangerine Dream) - 7:12
[12] Rely on Me [with Laurie Anderson] (Jarre, Anderson) - 2:54
[13] Stardust [with Armin van Buuren] (Jarre, Armin Van Buuren) - 4:37
[14] Watching You [with 3D of Massive Attack] (Jarre, Robert Del Naja, Euan Dickinson) - 4:09
[15] A Question of Blood [with John Carpenter] (Jarre, John Carpenter) - 2:58
[16] The Train & The River [with Lang Lang] (Jarre, Lang) - 7:13

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Jean-Michel Jarre - Keybards, Computers, Mixing, Audio 3D Mixing, Producer

Air - Contributor
Laurie Anderson - Contributor
Boys Noize - Contributor
John Carpenter - Contributor
Vince Clarke - Contributor
Robert "3D" del Naja - Contributor
Fuck Buttons - Contributor
Gesaffelstein - Contributor
Jean Michel Jarre - Contributor
Lang Lang - Contributor
Little Boots - Contributor
M83 - Contributor
Moby - Contributor
Tangerine Dream - Contributor
Pete Townshend - Contributor
Armin van Buuren - Contributor

Joachim Garraud - Executive-Producer, Coordinator
Alain Corieux - Mixing
Joachim Garraud - Mixing
Maxime Bourgrer - Audio 3D Mixing
David Dadwater - Mastering
Eric Cornic Graphic Design
Constantin Mashinskiy - Cover Photography
DR - Photography
Barnaby Southcombe - Administrator
Edith Napias - Administrator
Fiona Commins - Management
Louis Hallonet - Management
Frank Rosset - Audio 3D
Jean-Luc Haurais - Audio 3D
Claude Samard - Production Team
Marco Grenier - Production Team
Stephane Gervais - Production Team
Jean-François Cecillon - Special Consultant
Orion Navaille - Technical Assistance
Patrick Pelamourgues - Technical Assistance

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2015 CD Columbia 88875108352



In many ways, Jean-Michel Jarre is a natural fit for today's electronic music culture, with its fireworks and bombast. The French producer was a pioneer of flashy outdoor events—laser harps, pyrotechnics, crowds of a million or more, and budgets running into the millions, set in places like the Great Pyramids of Giza. His records sold like hotcakes—his 1976 debut, Oxygène, is said to be France's best-selling album ever—and featured spacy, arpeggio-laced fantasias, halfway between the "cosmic" synthesizer music of Tangerine Dream and the techno-pop of Kraftwerk, but they often veered dangerously close to kitsch.

The French musician's last new album was in 2007, but now he returns, borrowing a page from Giorgio Moroder's playbook, with an album clearly designed to introduce him to a new generation. There are 16 songs on Electronica 1 and 15 collaborators ("Automatic", a co-production with Yazoo's Vince Clarke, is in two parts), and they run the gamut, from titans like Tangerine Dream and Laurie Anderson to rising dance-music stars like Gesaffelstein.

Fellow synth maestro John Carpenter represents the electronic old school along with Anderson and whatever surviving members of Tangerine Dream are now using the name. The classical pianist Lang Lang lends a little high-culture gravitas, and Pete Townshend is here for some reason. Then, on the contemporary side, there's the French synth-pop soundscaper M83, one of the artists indebted to Jarre's sense of texture and volume, along with the adrenaline-loving techno producer Boys Noize, the prog-minded electronic duo Fuck Buttons, and the electro-pop singer and musician Little Boots.

But this diversity presents our first problem. Because unless you approach Electronica 1 as a collection of unrelated songs designed to be cherry-picked for playlists—and given the generic title, maybe that's the point—there's little to hold it together. In the first three songs we're taken from buzzing, high-energy techno-pop with Boys Noize, a billowing schaffel number with M83, and a weird New Order-goes-New Age pastiche with Air, and it never gets more coherent than that, unless you count Jarre slathering filters and bright, buzzing synths on everything like so much Cool-Whip as a common denominator.
And that brings us to our second problem: apart from a few songs—the moody "Automatic", with Vince Clarke, and maybe the goth-leaning Gesaffelstein track—the music just isn't very good. "Suns Have Gone" is an anodyne electro-house bouncer featuring a mopey Moby. The Tangerine Dream tune features some nice, pinging synths, but there are literally dozens, if not scores, of Tangerine Dream records you'd be advised to reach for first. "Rely on Me" saps Laurie Anderson's voice of its arch, critical qualities and turns her into the centerpiece for a sultry downtempo cut you'd expect to find on a Hôtel Costes compilation.

Maybe the song that makes the most sense is the Armin van Buuren collaboration "Stardust", and that's because the trance icon is most like Jarre himself in his fondness for whooshing effects, gleaming synths, and big, emotional-button-pushing chord changes. Of all contemporary electronic styles, trance is the only one where Jarre's influence is really felt; it would have made more sense to team him up with a dozen producers from that style, where a real back-and-forth exchange of ideas might have taken place. Instead, Electronica 1 is mostly a matter of superimposing one style upon another—sort of like tracing shapes on the pyramids with lasers.

Philip Sherburne - October 19, 2015
© 2015 Pitchfork Media



In the late 1970s, Jean-Michel Jarre’s albums Oxygène and Équinoxe sold in their zillions, demonstrating that electronic music could be embraced by mainstream tastes. Almost 40 years later, the list of Jarre’s collaborators on Electronica 1: The Time Machine reads like a who’s who of electronic music, including Massive Attack, Moby, Air, Vince Clarke, Laurie Anderson and John Carpenter. True, by assembling such a stellar lineup, Jarre is reminding us of his status as a pioneer. But this does not feel like a cynical exercise – perhaps because Jarre was shrewd enough to work in person with his collaborators rather than remotely by sharing digital files. Jarre’s soaring washes of chords are present on tracks such as Conquistador (with French techno artist Gesaffelstein) and Zero Gravity (one of the last recordings of the late Edgar Froese of Tangerine Dream). But, by and large, the new age retro-futurism that characterised Jarre’s earlier work is replaced by a focus on accessible modern pop.

Jon Dennis - 15 October 2015
© 2015 The Guardian



On one track on Jean Michel Jarre's forthcoming Electronica 1: The Time Machine album, the French musician uses almost a century's worth of electronic instruments.

The first sounds on Close Your Eyes, a collaboration with French duo Air, emanate from a bank of oscillators, the kind used by electronic music pioneers Karlheinz Stockhausen and Pierre Schaeffer during the '50s. Over the next six minutes, Jarre and Air build a piece that incorporates tape loops, theremin, a Minimoog, a Vocoder, early sampling synthesizers and digital keyboards. The track ends with a sound created by an app on Jarre's iPad.

"It was kind of a nightmare to get it all together," says Jarre, 67, "but it really works, because you can use the warmth of the analog instruments and the precision, the edgy and crispy sounds of the digital plug-ins."

Close Your Eyes is Electronica 1 in a microcosm. Jarre's first album in eight years, coming out Oct. 16 via Ultra Music, features collaborations with prominent electronic musicians from the past five decades, from Jarre's early contemporaries in Air and Tangerine Dream to new EDM stars Armin van Buuren and Gesafflestein. Other acts on the album include Moby, Depeche Mode's Vince Clarke, filmmaker John Carpenter and classical pianist Lang Lang.

"The challenge and excitement in this project was to merge our DNAs, to find a fair balance between the style of the collaborator and mine," Jarre says.

Jarre has been a top name in electronic music since the 1970s, when his album Oxygène became a worldwide phenomenon, ultimately selling more than 15 million copies. He's also known for staging massive public events, sometimes playing in front of more than a million people.

Jarre dedicated four years to the Electronica project, which will see a second volume released in the spring. "The idea was to gather around me people who are directly or indirectly linked to electronic music, and who have been or still are a source of inspiration to me," he says.

In a time when musicians can take advantage of technology by sending files of their recordings back and forth online, often collaborating without ever meeting, Jarre injected a personal touch by traveling for face-to-face sessions.

"It's quite unusual to start a song from scratch and say, 'Let's share our toys together,'" he says. "Most of the time, when you are in the studio, you are revealing yourself, you're a bit naked. You can express your weaknesses, your awkward way of approaching sound. Sharing these intimate moments is like inviting somebody into your private room.

"It's very different from sending a file in an abstract way. It may work, but, as we know, it's more for marketing reasons to have these kind of collaborations. In this case, it was something I wanted to share with this person in particular."

Some of Jarre's choices were obvious picks, like Moby and Laurie Anderson. Others, like Pete Townsend, were less so. But Jarre says The Who guitarist ranked high on his wish list.

"He was the first guy to introduce sequencers into rock music with songs such as Baba O'Riley," Jarre says. Also, "as one of the creators of the rock opera as a genre, he has an epic approach to performance that's quite close to my approach of performances for big concerts."

The Electronica 1 track on which Townsend appears, called Travelator Part 2, is part of a three-part collaboration Jarre plans to release as a separate EP near Christmas.

While Carpenter may be best known as a director, the film scores he wrote, particularly for 1978's Halloween, did much to popularize electronic music. "People don't realize enough how important and influentical John Carpenter has been in electronic music," Jarre says. "He did his soundtracks by himself, using mostly electronic and analog synthesizers. He's a cult figure with DJs these days for good reasons."

Zero Gravity, the track Jarre created with German group Tangerine Dream turned out to be the group's final recording, as founder Edgar Froese died suddenly from a pulmonary embolism a few weeks after their sessions. Though both acts are considered giants of the scene, Jarre says, "We had never really met before."

Jarre says so many people accepted his offer to work together that he had to write more music, enough to release a second volume in the spring. "It was a like a birthday party where you launch invitations, expecting half of the people to come, and they all join the party," he says.

Electronica 2 will feature pairings with Cyndi Lauper, Gary Numan, film composer Hans Zimmer and director David Lynch.

Jarre expects to play some festivals next year and possibly stage a world tour. "Some collaborators might join forces in certain cities or special concerts," he says. "I'm excited to share the stage with some prestigious people that I love and respect."


Brian Mansfield, USA TODAY - August 28, 2015



Electronica 1: The Time Machine is the eighteenth studio album by French electronic musician Jean Michel Jarre, released on 16 October 2015 by Columbia Records. It was recorded with the help of 15 separate collaborators, including Vince Clarke, Gesaffelstein, M83, Armin van Buuren, John Carpenter Robert "3D" Del Naja of Massive Attack fame, Pete Townshend (from The Who) and the late Edgar Froese of Tangerine Dream, the collaboration being one of Froese's last projects before passing away in the January of 2015.

The first mention of any new work by Jarre was on 20 April 2015 when he announced Conquistador as result of his collaboration with French techno producer Gesaffelstein. On May 15, 2015 a second collaboration, this time with French electronic band M83 titled Glory was announced, with a music video for the track being released on June 23, 2015. A third collaboration, this time with German electronic band Tangerine Dream was announced on 22 June 2015.

The collaborations were teased over a period of months in 2015 before the album itself was finally announced by Jarre on his Twitter account on 10 July 2015, back then it was still under its project name "E-project". It is to be his first release of original music since his 2007 album Téo & Téa. Pre-orders of the album were announced on ITunes, Amazon.com and Spotify, as well as 2 limited edition box sets.

On 28 August 2015, details of the album and the title Electronica volume 1 (The Time Machine) were officially announced, together with the Little Boots track If..!. A trailer accompanying the announcement has Jean Michel Jarre talk about the concept of this album and how it all came together. There's also a 2nd volume coming out in Spring 2016.

In an interview with Billboard, Jean Michel Jarre said of the album: "I've wanted to tell a story for a while regarding electronic music history and its legacy from my point of view and experience, from when I started to nowadays. I planned to compose for and collaborate with an array of artists, who are, directly or indirectly linked to this scene, with people I admire for their singular contribution to our genre, that represent a source of inspiration for me over the last four decades I have been making music, but who also have an instantly recognizable sound. At the outset, I had no idea how this project would evolve, but I was delighted that everybody I reached out to accepted my invitation."

The Electronica project started as early as 2011, when Jean-Michel Jarre started his collaboration with David Lynch.

The spectrogram of the track "Continuous Mix" contains several hidden secrets. User "audiolab" at forum rt22.mybb3.ru revealed phrases "Ancient astronauts", "Always trust your vision", Jarre's portrait and unknown bit sequence. After that Jan Szulew decrypted bit sequence unveiling two 32-bit binary strings which represent floating point numbers of WGS84 coordinates (latitude and longitude respectively). Coordinates point to the center of Obelisk of Luxor on Place de la Concorde, where the first big JMJ concert happened in 1979.

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