Blah Blah Cafe, the Jean-Michel Jarre forum

[Richard-Eastham]

Just dropping a note here on the forum about a work project I was involved with last week. My design practice was tasked with organising and running an architecture and urban design gallery and exhibition in an empty shop unit in Waterlooville, a UK town centre in need of regeneration. You can see some pictures of the event and other information here:

https://www.instagram.com/feriaurbanism/

Anyway, as the person in charge I brought along a Bluetooth speaker and gave the gallery room a JMJ playlist for three days. I wanted something unobtrusive yet listenable. My final selection was:

• Tokyo Kid
  Snapshots 1, 2 and 3 from EōN
  Waiting for Cousteau
  Synthy Sisters
  Crystal Garden
  If The Wind Could Speak (Movement 5)
  Don't Look Back (Movement 9)
  Equinoxe Infinity (Movement 10)
  Zero Gravity (JMJ x Tangerine Dream) - NOT the Above & Beyond Remix
  Equinoxe 7 (Ambiant Mix by Bruno Mylonas & Bruce Keen Remix)
  Last Rendez-Vous
  Chronologie Part 7

At one point somebody came over to me and said “... I like this acid jazz” – that was Last Rendez-Vous!

Does anybody have other suggestions for arty or architectural “Gallery & Exhibition” soundtrack music from Jean-Michel Jarre?

[Pat Gleeson]

Zero Gravity (JMJ x Tangerine Dream) - NOT the Above & Beyond Remix

The original - always - I wish JMJ would replace that dreadful "remix".

[Pat Gleeson]

Does anybody have other suggestions for arty or architectural “Gallery & Exhibition” soundtrack music from Jean-Michel Jarre?

Soul Intrusion
Equinoxe Infinity Movement 10
Crystal Garden (first 2 minutes or so)
Waiting For Cousteau (any length section you prefer)
Oxygene I
Magnetic Fields I (Middle section)
Chronologie 7
Oxygene 15
Equinoxe II
The Train & The River
Millions of Stars
Equinoxe III
First Rendezvous
Oxygene 18
The Heart of Noise Part 1
Oxygene 9 (Coda - last 2 minutes or so)
Windswept Canyon

[Richard-Eastham]

The Train & The River and Soul Intrusion - good calls, both!

[Dr_Jones]

Yeah, most of the Geometry of Love album probably works.

[nexxxus]

Ethnicolor II
Acropolis (Symphonic Jarre Version)
Together We Thrive: 'Mindfulness' edit (without the last five seconds 'jingle')
Vintage (ATB Lounge Remix)

[Dr_Jones]

C'est La Vie (ambient mix)

[shadow]

Vintage (ATB Lounge Remix)

Speaking of which, is this still available anywhere for purchase? I don't think it was ever officially released on disc.

[Richard-Eastham]

Vintage (ATB Lounge Remix)

Speaking of which, is this still available anywhere for purchase? I don't think it was ever officially released on disc.

I have that track as MP3 that I can send to you. Let me know if you want a copy.

[Richard-Eastham]

C'est La Vie (ambient mix)

I didn't know this track existed. Sounds intriguing!

[shadow]

I didn't know this track existed. Sounds intriguing!

I have that track as MP3 that I can send to you. Let me know if you want a copy.

And I happen to have de CD of the Ambient Mix, so

[Richard-Eastham]

I didn't know this track existed. Sounds intriguing!

I have that track as MP3 that I can send to you. Let me know if you want a copy.

And I happen to have de CD of the Ambient Mix, so

I have sent you a PM but it seems to have got stuck in my Outbox and won't send So here's the link I included, from where you can download the Vintage remixes. Thanks for the C'est La Vie remix!

https://spaces.hightail.com/receive/7J9qDhR5rV

[Dr_Jones]

The ATB remix of Vintage happened to be released on CD:
https://www.discogs.com/release/1679766 ... In-The-Mix

[Richard-Eastham]

The ATB remix of Vintage happened to be released on CD:
https://www.discogs.com/release/1679766 ... In-The-Mix

It's from that CD release that I ripped my MP3s.

I wonder if Vinatge was composed at the same time as the rest of the Téo & Téa album. Or if it was a much earlier work. It is the stand out track and I think the title may hint at the fact it is one from the vaults, added the what JMJ calls his weakest album. It sounds and feels like it could have been composed around the same time as Eldorado or it carries a melody that didn't make the Chronologie album.

[nexxxus]

The ATB remix of Vintage happened to be released on CD:
https://www.discogs.com/release/1679766 ... In-The-Mix

It is not the same version even if it is also present on the vintage EP purchased on iTunes at the time. On the ATB album, it's the classic shortened mix.
The lounge mix of ATB and others did not have a CD edition:
https://www.discogs.com/fr/release/1684 ... ge-Remixes.
I don't know if the iTunes version of this EP is the unique official version ?

I also wonder what to think of this promo version... Considering the length of the tracks :
https://www.discogs.com/fr/release/1283 ... re-Vintage