Essential Jean-Michel Jarre (2005)

About this title: French electronic music pioneer Jean Michel Jarre is an artist who requires a reintroduction every generation. Despite his massive success in the '70s and '80s, including his world-record-attendance-setting 1978 concerts at the Place de la Concorde in Paris, Jarre's impressive and influential catalog lacks the ubiquitous status of similar innovators Kraftwerk and Giorgio Moroder. Granted, most of Jarre's most infamous work lacks the machine dance pulse that has kept his peers in a brighter spotlight. Instead, Jarre's most popular recordings can be heard echoed in the incredibly popular, yet ... read more

Tracks:

1. Oxygene, Pt. 4 [Jarre]
2. Zoolookologie [Jarre]
3. Equinoxe, Pt. 4 [Jarre]
4. Oxygene, Pt. 8 [Jarre]
5. C'est la Vie [Jarre]
6. Ethnicolor 1 [Jarre]
7. Oxygene, Pt. 2 [Jarre]
8. Equinoxe, Pt. 5 [Jarre]
9. Souvenir de Chine (Souvenir of China) [Jarre]
10. Chronologie, Pt. 4 [Jarre]
11. Revolution, Revolutions [Jarre]
12. L' Orchestre Sous la Pluie (Band in the Rain) [Jarre]
13. Calypso [Jarre]
14. Quatrième Rendez-Vous (Fourth Rendez-Vous) [Jarre]
15. Oxygene, Pt. 6 [Jarre]
16. Diva [Jarre]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.