Jean Michel Jarre

Electronica Pioneer Jean Michel Jarre Returns With "Sessions 2000," His First North American Release In Five Years

Source: All About Jazz

To anyone with more than a passing interest in the history of popular music, Jean Michel Jarre is one of the pioneering musical greats. With his 1976 album, the groundbreaking Oxygene, he took popular music into an entirely new realm, one that hadn't existed before his arrival. Using the studio as an instrument an 8-track tape machine, a Mellotron, a home organ, crude home-made sequencers and a range of analogue synthesizers Jarre created the first truly commercial, mass-market album of ...
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