Product Description

'Oxygene' is electronic pioneer and keyboard maestro Jean-Michel Jarre's classic 1976 album. Famed for it's melodic lushed spaced-out electronica, this is the album that captured Jarre at his zenith. The lead single 'Oxygene IV' is one themost recognisable electronic pieces in recent history. This30th anniversary edition contains 'Oxygene 1976', 'Oxygene 7-13 1997' and a bonus album containing remixes of 'Oxygene 7-13' simply titled 'Re-Oxygene'.

Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Oxygene
2. Oxygene
3. Oxygene
4. Oxygene
5. Oxygene
6. Oxygene

Disc 2:

1. Prelude
2. Oxygene
3. Oxygene
4. Oxygene
5. Variation 1
6. Oxygene
7. Variation 2
8. Oxygene
9. Variation 3
10. Oxygene

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4833 in Music
• Released on: 2007-12-03
• Number of discs: 2
• Formats: Enhanced, Live

Customer Reviews

Brill DVD
I was hoping JMJ would start re-releasing his earlier work in 5.1 surround and my prayers have been answered. I've fallen in love with the album again. Let's hope he does the same thing with Equinox, Rendez Vous etc......

Beautiful photocopy
This album is like a doodle you are particularly proud of. You did a doodle and you want to repeat it but no matter how close you are technically and how much you concentrate somehow it is just not the same. It always lacks that spark of creativity.

This album is almost identical to the original. The original did betray its LP origins by falling silent in the middle but the copy brings us into the CD age by ensuring continuity. The mix is slightly richer on the copy but somehow fails to capture the atmosphere of the original.

The copy is some 25 seconds longer than the original and yet track IV seems somehow rushed. Still sublime and richer in sound but rushed nonetheless.

Why 5 stars then? Well it is still one of the finest pieces of music ever written, copy or not.

Improved sound, no-frills packaging
Unlike the 3D edition, which is actually quite fiddly with its glasses and fairly spartan sleeve notes, at least this edition dispenses with unneeded fripperies and flounces. Packaging is functional, which is not a bad thing though Michel Granger's new version of the original sleeve art is striking.

I own Oxygene both on original CD and remastered in The Complete Oxygene but this new version sounds noticeably clearer, crisper and sharper in every way. Even listening to a 256k AAC rip of the album on my iPod sounds appreciably better than previous versions, particularly when you listen to parts like the bass at the start of part 5, for example.

Quite simply this new version sounds wonderful.

The DVD is also of great interest, especially with JMJ giving us a quick tour of some of the instrumentation used. And the immediacy of the performance is very refreshing, making me look forward to seeing it performed live at the Albert Hall in March 2008.

This new disc is worth owning simply because of the quality of the music. One of the great electronic music albums and a key moment in 70's art.