Blah Blah Cafe, the Jean-Michel Jarre forum

[Kanta]

Just edited your post with the f word just in case anyone finds it offensive. Coen.

[Dr_Jones]

Just edited your post with the f word just in case anyone finds it offensive. Coen.

Fair, but the real offense is this remaster

[Kanta]

Just edited your post with the f word just in case anyone finds it offensive. Coen.

Fair, but the real offense is this remaster

Okay, that is understandable but still at least it is not 100% of the album.

[Phil]

Another odd thing: this release has the 1984 non remix version of Zoolookologie and the 1985 remix version of Zoolook.

Personally, i think both are from 1984... (but Zoolook "1985 Remix" is very similar) :



Zoolook 2014 -> DR7 only (DR = Dynamic Range)



Zoolook 1984 -> DR13

[Finaero]

:\ Such a shame.

Not as big of a shame that my vinyl versions of Zoolook aren't in that good condition so I can't make a fancy Zoolook 30th Anniversary edition of my own, and I lack the 1984 CD version. Probably would include the normal album + the compilation CD versions of the Zoolook + Zoolookologie extended mixes in it. I wonder what else could be added...

[Robi]

A certain time has slowly recently come, once people has been geting bored of jarre.

He even can't "loan" a man who could make a decent remasterization. Rather than being a cisac vagabond, he had better paying more attention on musical productions.


Considering ALL these happenings or results, or "achievements".....this is how one can consider future music productions. If any on the way.

[Jon]

A certain time has slowly recently come, once people has been geting bored of jarre.

He even can't "loan" a man who could make a decent remasterization. Rather than being a cisac vagabond, he had better paying more attention on musical productions.


Considering ALL these happenings or results, or "achievements".....this is how one can consider future music productions. If any on the way.

Sometimes it's not the sole responsibility of the artist. Things can and do slip through the net. One reason, for the case of these Jarre remasters, could be down to the amount of albums being worked on. We do not know the time frame each album gets. Then there is whether Jarre is present 24/7 with these albums. That I doubt when you look at all these venues he attends. That is time consuming, So when you hire a professional to work on your recordings, you have to rely on that person being the "professional" they are.

In early 2005 when I was working with composer/producer/conductor Jeff Wayne, we were doing a fans meet & greet show. Jeff and his team with Sony had been working on putting his 1978 album Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds into 5.1. After I spent a little time in his studio listening to how the album was being reconstructed, he kindly sent me a copy of the entire album before it went through its final mastering at Sony. Infact, what I heard was taken directly from the master that was ready to go to Sony that very week and regarded as "done". Being a huge fan of the album, I spotted several glitches within the recordings that once I informed Jeff, the album was halted and the glitches rectified (my claim to fame there with that album release). But it comes to show that the artist thought the album was in a stage of completion. Imagine the fans picking those faults out once the album has gone to press and in stores.

In short, what I am saying is that regardless mistakes can happen and slip through the net despite how much of a perfectionist you are. Even perfectionism can get in the way of being a perfectionist as you are so orientated on one thing while letting other things pass by.

[Black Bird]

Just edited your post with the f word just in case anyone finds it offensive. Coen.

Ha ha ha so true !

[Phil]

Is left/right swapped like the 1997 remasters?

Sounds normal!

Greetings,


Christophe

Left & Right are the same (and there is no remix) on new remaster.

But i found something very curious on the 1997 remaster, all titles have not left & right swapped : (waveform comparison)

"Green" = left & right NOT swapped | "Orange" = swapped

Zoolook "1984" (first CD) vs "1997" :

01 - Ethnicolor
02 - Diva
03 - Zoolook : not sure
04 - Wooloomooloo
05 - Zoolookologie
06 - Blah Blah Cafe : not sure
07 - Ethnicolor 2

Same thing with Equinoxe "1983" (first CD) vs "1997" :

01 - Equinoxe I
02 - Equinoxe II
03 - Equinoxe III
04 - Equinoxe IV
05 - Equinoxe V : not sure
06 - Equinoxe VI
07 - Equinoxe VII : not sure
08 - Equinoxe VIII : First part only ?? => click to open image file (Equinoxe VIII)

Edit : Equinoxe Studio Masters 2011 & 2014 CD (same remastering) have left/right swapped ( track 1 to 8 ).

[Goudeskitchen]

So, it looks like the new 'Chronology' remaster is not just a typo as they've changed the album cover text to show the English title now.

http://www.sonymusic.pl/albumy/jean-michel-jarre-chronology

According to this website (and this was posted on a Facebook group), it will also have the Revolution, Revolutions version on Revolutions but I'm not totally surprised by that due to the, a-hem, 'copyright' issue.

[Finaero]

I'm quite sure I'm in the ultra-minority here, but after all these years I've finally finalized my conviction that the PLD version (AKA Revolution, Revolutions) is definitely the better one. For me, anyway. Got no shame about it!

As for "Chronology", hey, I'm glad they're focusing on the real issues with these remasters! HEH, HEH-

[Robi]

A certain time has slowly recently come, once people has been geting bored of jarre.

He even can't "loan" a man who could make a decent remasterization. Rather than being a cisac vagabond, he had better paying more attention on musical productions.


Considering ALL these happenings or results, or "achievements".....this is how one can consider future music productions. If any on the way.

In short, what I am saying is that regardless mistakes can happen and slip through the net despite how much of a perfectionist you are. Even perfectionism can get in the way of being a perfectionist as you are so orientated on one thing while letting other things pass by.

I see this point...the probelm is, the new album is supposed to be mastered by this David fellow...

[moviemaker]

Zoolook (30th Anniversary Edition) (Remastered):

iTunes available for download - 14 November 2014:
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/zoolo ... d936769238
Amazon UK available for download - 14 November 2014:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00P ... 34&sr=8-14
Amazon Germany available for download - 14 November 2014:
http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B00P78X ... 720&sr=8-1

Of course... not available in the US iTunes store. Hilarious.

When will he release his new album featuring David Lynch and others?

[Robi]

When will he release his new album featuring David Lynch and others?

See my signature.

[Kanta]

Biography of David Perreau - Sound Engineer
By Jérôme

David Perreau is an engineer born in 1968. After studying physics in high school Grandmont Tours, he began his career in 1989 at Radio France. 5 years later, he joined the NRJ Group, where he will stay 13 years.

There he supports audio processing management all radios of the group (NRJ, Chérie FM, Nostalgia, Rire & Chansons) in France and abroad, and participates in the development of many settings functions on ranges treatment. In 1998 he was appointed to the direction of the audio technical service and developing several projects such as the digitization of the group's studios in the country, or the establishment of a transfer management system and dissemination of remote advertising.

In 2002, he founded the company in Paris DPMS Mastering Sound Design that works especially for the music industry. Furthermore stamped NRJ projects Perreau among its first customers David Guetta and Joachim Garraud . When Jean-Michel Jarre approach it in 2003, to entrust disappointment with the result of mastering makes his album "Geometry of love", he suggested he contact David Perreau. Thus began a long collaboration that continues today.

Among the highlights of this cooperation include modification by a Perreau processing to manage the 5.1 format of the album "Aero" (2004). In addition, his work on the DVD "Jarre in China" gets the THX Ultra 2 George Lucas (2004). From 2007, he signed his regular involvement of his nickname Dave Dadwater (father + water). In 2008, David Perreau became technical director of the new Goom Radio launched on the internet. Then in 2010, he founded "Yakuda Audio" specializes in audio processing for radio and television. Soon after, Jean-Michel Jarre implies a long project remastering of his previous work, beginning with the ancient rare titles grouped on the compilation "Rarities" . Follow most of his albums are sold again on vinyl and CD media between 2011 and 2015.

Website: http://yakudaaudio.com/

Participation to albums
2003 - Geometry of love (uncredited)
2004 - Aero
2004 - Jarre in China (DVD)
2005 - Live From Gdansk (Koncert W Stoczni)
2007 - Téo & Téa
2007 - Oxygène (30th Anniversary)
2011 - Essentials and rarities
2011 - Oxygène, Equinoxe, Magnetic songs (vinyl remasters)
2014 - Oxygène, Equinoxe, Les chants magnétiques, Les concerts en Chine, Houston/Lyon, Destination Docklands (remasters CDs)
2015 - Zoolook, Rendez-vous, Révolutions, En attendant Cousteau, Chronologie (remasters CDs)

Participation in concerts
2011 - Royal Wedding in Monaco

Source and credit: http://aerozonejmj.fr/david-perreau-2003/#more-3013