GENRE..... Electronic, Instrumental, Ambient, New Age

LABEL..... Discovery Records

MODE ..... VBRkbps / Joint-Stereo

REL.DATE... 05.27.2011

COUNTRY... France

“Essentials is a tribute to my friend Francis Dreyfus, publisher and founding president of Francis Dreyfus Music who passed away in 2010. I specially compiled some excerpts of my albums, released on his label, all linked to our relationship.” Jean Michel Jarre

[01] SOUVENIR OF CHINA (3′59)
[02] OXYGENE 2 (3′12)
[03] ARPEGIATEUR (6′16)
[04] OXYGENE 4 (4′14)
[05] EQUINOXE 4 (6′42)
[06] CALYPSO 2 (2′28)
[07] ZOOLOOK (3′52)
[08] MAGNETIC FIELDS 1 (5′20)
[09] MAGNETIC FIELDS 2 (4′02)
[10] EQUINOXE 5 (3′55)
[11] INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION 2 (2′22)
[12] RENDEZ-VOUS 4 (3′59)
[13] GLORIA, LONELY BOY (5′30)
[14] OXYGENE 6 (6′21)
[15] SPACE OF FREEDOM [MARCH, 23] (8′02)

CD2 - RARITIES
“Rarities: For the very first time, compiled here is a selection of tracks I composed much before Oxygene, in the late sixties and early seventies at the Music Research Center in Paris headed by Pierre Schaeffer, and in my first home studio.” Jean Michel Jarre

[01] HAPPINESS IS A SAD SONG (5′53) (Previously Unreleased) - [1968]
[02] HYPNOSE (3′29) - [1970]
[03] EROSMACHINE (2′58) - [1969]
[04] LA CAGE (3′23) - [1969]
[05] CHANSON DES GRANGES BRULEES / SONG OF THE BURNT BARNS (2′45) - [1973]
[06] WINDSWEPT CANYON (7′39) - [1970]
[07] THE ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN (0:52) - [1970]
[08] DESERTED PALACE (2′22) - [1970]
[09] LE PAYS DE ROSE / ROSELAND (2′01) - [1973]
[10] RAIN FOREST RAP SESSION (1′40) - [1971]
[11] BLACK BIRD [3'06] - [1972]
[12] MUSIC BOX CONCERTO (2′41) - [1971]
[13] IRAQI HITCH-HIKER (2′25) - [1971]
[14] LES GRANGES BRULEES / THE BURNT BARNS (3′13) - [1973]
[15] LA CAGE (Vitalic RMX) (4′16) - [2010]
[16] EROSMACHINE (Vitalic RMX) (3′45) - [2010]

 

 

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