Planet Jarre: 50 Years of Music

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Planet Jarre: 50 Years of Music
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Compilation album by
Jean-Michel Jarre
Released14 September 2018
Recorded1968–2018
Genre Electronica, ambient
Label Sony Music
Producer Jean-Michel Jarre
Jean-Michel Jarre chronology
Radiophonie vol. 9
(2017)		Planet Jarre: 50 Years of Music
(2018)		 Equinoxe Infinity
(2018)

Planet Jarre: 50 Years of Music is a compilation album by French electronic musician and composer Jean-Michel Jarre, released on 14 September 2018 [1] to commemorate Jarre's 50 years in the music business. [2]

Contents

A total of forty-one tracks [3] were chosen by Jarre himself for inclusion, [4] among them two new songs ("Herbalizer" and "Coachella Opening"). Jarre remastered, and in some cases "retouched", the tracks himself. During the process, he decided that he had pursued four quite different styles of composition and therefore divided the project into four "universes" - "Soundscapes", "Themes", "Sequences" and "Explorations and Early Works". Some tracks were released in 5.1 surround sound. [5]

Contents and release

Jarre's new-mix "retouched" versions for the album comprised Chronologie Parts 1 and 4, Oxygène Parts 2, 8 and 20, Équinoxe Parts 4 and 7, "Bells" and "Fourth Rendez-Vous"; as well as edits of the 2004 AERO version of "Last Rendez-vous" and the intro section of "Ethnicolor", a three-minute "Waiting for Cousteau" excerpt, and the title track from 1988’s Revolutions. (The latter was actually "Revolution, Revolutions", the title track from the 1991 Revolutions reissue, which had removed Kudsi Erguner’s sampled ney flute part and substituted an Arabian singer and orchestra.)

Two fuller 2018 remixes were also presented. 1984’s "Zoolookologie" appeared in a new trance-inspired version, and there was a reworking of the 1982 live version of "Magnetic Fields Part 2" from Les Concerts en Chine (with crowd noise removed and new synth overdubs added).

The "Explorations and Early Works" section of the album contained two previously unavailable rare or unreleased tracks. One was "Aor Bleu" (part of a suite of compositions Jarre had developed while studying musique concrete with Pierre Schaeffer at Groupe de Recherches Musicales in the 1960s, and which he’d previously revisited as part of a masterclass in Bourges during 2002). [6] The other was one of the pieces from the super-rare Musique pour Supermarché album, 1982’s single-copy art/collectable-commerce experiment. Although the latter track was billed as a demo, it was later identified as "Part 1" from the album.

All of the other rare tracks had been released seven years earlier on the Essentials & Rarities compilation. These comprised three more GRM-era pieces ("Happiness is a Sad Song" - originally produced for "Les Fêtes de la Jeunesse" in Reims in 1968 - and both sides of Jarre’s 1971 debut single "La Cage/Erosmachine"), two tracks from 1973’s Les Granges Brulees, and "Hypnose" (actually "Hypnose (Partie 2) Instrumental", the Jarre-written-and-performed b-side of a 1973 Dominique Webb synthpop single).

The compilation's release was accompanied by the announcement of Équinoxe Infinity, a 40th anniversary sequel to his 1978 album Équinoxe , due for release on 16 November 2018. [7] [8]

Track listing

Disc 1: Soundscapes
No.TitleOriginal releaseLength
1."Oxygène, Pt. 1 [9] " Oxygène 7:39
2."Oxygène, Pt. 19" Oxygène 3 5:01
3."First Rendez-Vous" (Remastered) Rendez-Vous 2:55
4."Millions of Stars" Métamorphoses 5:39
5."Chronology, Pt. 1" (new "retouched" mix/edit of second movement) Chronologie 3:23
6."Oxygène, Pt. 20" (new "retouched" mix/edit, without intro)Oxygène 35:30
7."Équinoxe, Pt. 2" Équinoxe 5:01
8."Waiting for Cousteau" (three-minute excerpt - new "retouched" mix) En attendant Cousteau 3:00
9."The Heart of Noise (The Origin)" Electronica 2: The Heart of Noise 2:36
Disc 2 : Themes
No.TitleOriginal releaseLength
1."Industrial Revolution, Pt. 2" (Remastered) Revolutions 2:22
2."Oxygène, Pt. 4"Oxygène3:46
3."Équinoxe, Pt. 5"Équinoxe3:45
4."Oxygène, Pt. 2" (New "retouched" mix)Oxygène5:25
5."Zoolookologie" (New 2018 remix/reimagining) Zoolook 3:44
6."Bells" (New "retouched" mix)Métamorphoses2:05
7."Équinoxe, Pt. 4" (New "retouched" mix)Équinoxe5:32
8."Magnetic Fields, Pt. 2" (Remix of live version with new studio overdubs) Les Concerts en Chine 3:58
9."Second Rendez-Vous (Laser Harp)"Rendez-Vous2:20
10."Fourth Rendez-Vous" (Remastered, new mix)Rendez-Vous4:09
11."Chronology, Pt. 4" (Remastered, new mix)Chronologie4:08
Disc 3: Sequences
No.TitleOriginal releaseLength
1."Coachella Opening [10] "New track3:58
2."Arpegiator"Les Concerts en Chine6:15
3."Automatic, Pt. 1" (featuring Vince Clarke) Electronica 1: The Time Machine 2:58
4."Exit" (featuring Edward Snowden) Electronica 2: The Heart of Noise 5:45
5."Équinoxe, Pt. 7" (New "retouched" mix)Équinoxe3:35
6."Oxygène, Pt. 8" (New 2018 remix/reimagining) Oxygène 7-13 5:24
7."Stardust" (Featuring Armin van Buuren)Electronica 1: The Time Machine4:37
8."Herbalizer"New track3:26
9."Revolutions [11] "Revolutions3:23
Disc 4: Explorations and Early works
No.TitleOriginal releaseLength
1."Ethnicolor" (New "retouched" mix/edit of introduction)Zoolook3:30
2."Souvenir of China"Les Concerts en Chine4:00
3."Blah Blah Cafe" (Remastered)Zoolook3:22
4."Music for Supermarkets (Demo Excerpt) [12] " Musique pour Supermarché 2:04
5."Roseland (Le pays de rose)"Les Granges Brûlées2:03
6."La Cage"1969 45 rpm; collected in Essentials & Rarities 3:09
7."Erosmachine"1969 45 rpm; collected in Essentials & Rarities2:59
8."Hypnose [13] "1973 Dominique Webb 45 rpm; collected in Essentials & Rarities3:27
9."La Chanson des Granges Brûlées"Les Granges Brûlées2:45
10."Happiness is a Sad Song"Essentials & Rarities5:51
11."Aor Bleu"Previously unreleased3:09
12."Last Rendez-Vous" (New "retouched" mix/edit) AERO 4:08

5.1 Tracks

Formats

Charts

Chart (2018)Peak
position
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [14] 22
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [15] 16
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [16] 22
Czech Albums (ČNS IFPI) [17] 99
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [18] 23
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista) [19] 45
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [20] 5
Polish Albums (ZPAV) [21] 20
Scottish Albums (OCC) [22] 15
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE) [23] 11
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [24] 11
UK Albums (OCC) [25] 21

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