Jean Michel Jarre* – Oxygène

Pressage de superbe qualité ! Un son mordant et limpide....

I'm blown away by the sound quality of this record. Unbelievable, this is as good as it gets.

Why is Oxygene spelled here with accent when there's no accent on neither the sleeve nor the label? Obviously the titel was without accent even though it's not correct in the French language.

One of the most effective attempts to make mood a communicative musical tool constructing out of the symphonic and the reflective a very wondrous and charming hyper-connectivity. We laughed at him in the punk era whilst secretly iring him. And let's all be honest about what once was just a guilty pleasure but is now 's national treasure. Oxygène sets standards most classical or dance or electronic trance or mood music would find it hard to scale the heights of. It speaks with the gift of the effortlessly smooth and through vividly painterly brushstrokes which Jarre must've inherited from his dad Maurice Jarre the much duller but still very worthy soundtrack master. Then discard him for his younger synthmaster offspring.
Though we now see how he made a mockery of any vogue and musical values and ideas that were once revolutionary. Jarre somewhat ironically helped to create the French new wave and also inadvertently boosted the espousal of new urgent sounds and dance grooves in the English speaking world too. But really no-one else had this skill and this vision. Smaller scale niteclub musos and expunks like Jacno were overawed by the master but still were Inspired to create transitional valuable work. A perfect French complement to his neighbours on the Krautrockscene this marvel just struck a chord with everyone who wanted a clearer and more sensuous punkier exploitation of the classical and the dance aesthetic. He'll take u into a trance where u love the world and u will wanna write great epics and go on global epicurean forays via transport or imagination. U won't need ecstasy with Oxygène. What now seem the absurdly trivial sluggish and wimpy sounds of Hacienda style house and clubmusic really seem more so when listened anywhere near in time to this brilliant lp. The selection Oxgène part 3 was a major top 10 hit and it is just one dance style groove and one mood away from perfection but it is only one Jarre mood. It won't Jarre with your groove. But the other moods represented on the Lp do push your nerves and your mind. If the listening verges on the easy it's only because Jarre makes the challenging segue into the approachable but not throwaway. That's art. Charlotte Rampling hitched a ride on his magical roundabout. And whilst acknowledging her French alterego became a wonderful muse who must've known this was her entering a new world of universal harmonics. She seems to have spurred him on to new heights as this was the start of a great sequence of lps. Through our retrospective specs no longer do we think oh oxgène the French tunes how quaint; its just Rampling's French fancy. Jarre is now an international part of what music means today. A whole soundscene of the World coming alive. Think koyaanisqatsi by Phillip Glass or all trance and house and anything in between. Think the imaginary and the real blending in a dream. Think Bowie's Low and Heroes' instrumental episodes complementing and being inspired by the impossible to ignore global presence of JMJ and we see how major the man and his refrains are in our time and all time. You've gotta respect the
pulses and impulses he describes with his electronic and electric remastery of keyboard technique and doff your onionseller's cap in his direction. We tried to label you Jean-Michel as a Eurocrat of sound- not punky enough for us- and yet all the while u were punking us. U were the keyboard firestarter the twisted firestarter himself!

My copy of this album has no Matrix / Runout stamping or etching. Besides that I'd say it is this version: https://discogs.programascracks.com/de/Jean-Michel-Jarre-Oxyg%C3%A8ne/release/10356049
Any ideas? Are there some issues without stamps at all?
Thanks!

Oxygène belongs to electronic music's Pantheon of eternal beauty. The fact that Space trips of this level were made back in 1976 is just mind blowing (check out 'Chronolyse' by Pinhas that was actually composed and produced the same year, as well as Phaedra by Tangerine Dream and Spiral by Vangelis, other fundaments of avant-garde music). Considered that it was way ahead of its time, it's amazing to think that this album reached a larger audience. Even today, more than four decades of its composition, it stands as a quintessential futuristic piece. Oxygène is arguably considered an anthology in the history of electronic music. Don't miss the chance of hearing it alone with the best speakers or phones you can find. Jean Michel Jarre at the peak of his power.

Crisp, clear, yet somehow intoxicating, like sucking down purified oxygen.

Fantastic album well balanced and enormous soundstage of those mighty analogue synthesisers...love in it

This original french pressing is the best! it has big dynamic range and sounds very warm. Indeed mr jarre, electronic music can sound warm and human. Masterpiece!

masterpiece, one of the best releases ever