Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 3:08 pm
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Oxygene 7 - 13
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Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 4:01 pm
i love this album
my favourite track from this album is 9 or 12
my favourite track from this album is 9 or 12
Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 6:33 pm
Wow, I love a lot of this one, the last "analog" album
I love all the tracks from this album, sounds are excccccellent
My rate : 10/10 (because I can't rate higher)
Nothing to describe this album, take it in your CD player, seat you in a cumfortable seat and listen carefully ==> amazing
Around one hour of enormous pleasure
I love all the tracks from this album, sounds are excccccellent
My rate : 10/10 (because I can't rate higher)
Nothing to describe this album, take it in your CD player, seat you in a cumfortable seat and listen carefully ==> amazing
Around one hour of enormous pleasure
Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 7:31 pm
Sorry man, but in my opinion it still missed it's goal. I expected a different continuing, but that's just all a matter of taste... 
Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 7:56 pm
Great album! Great!
Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 11:31 am
LOL... it was never there! 
GeeJee you have heard it. You didn't mind the robotic feeling of this cover. 
And by the way... that cover was an exception, even though I did start work on a cover of Magnetic Fields 2 as well.
GeeJee you have heard it. You didn't mind the robotic feeling of this cover.
And by the way... that cover was an exception, even though I did start work on a cover of Magnetic Fields 2 as well.
Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 11:34 am
Okay, but you still have not answered my question.
EDIT: Okay, you just answered my question.
EDIT: Okay, you just answered my question.
Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 11:34 am
Cool - so where can I find it now?AnDrOiD wrote:LOL... it was never there!
GeeJee you have heard it. You didn't mind the robotic feeling of this cover.
And by the way... that cover was an exception, even though I did start work on a cover of Magnetic Fields 2 as well.
You should finish your MF2 version too...
Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 11:35 am
Hehe... you gotta love the edit button.Kanta wrote:Okay, but you still have not answered my question.
EDIT: Okay, you just answered my question.
Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 11:37 am
I don't know if it's still there?GeeJee wrote:Cool - so where can I find it now?AnDrOiD wrote:LOL... it was never there!
GeeJee you have heard it. You didn't mind the robotic feeling of this cover.
And by the way... that cover was an exception, even though I did start work on a cover of Magnetic Fields 2 as well.
You should finish your MF2 version too...
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Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 11:39 am
MF2, where? So, that's 2 covers you have made.
Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 11:39 am
Let's continue this discussion in that topic so we can return ontopichere.
Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2009 11:17 pm
My views/opinions...
Oxygene 7 (first part) - nice backing but the lead (the bit he plays on the laser harp on tour) is a bit cheap sounding, making it sound like something you'd get on a "synthesizer hits" album. Disappointing in that is an untterly disjointed continuation of Oxygene 6, with no musical reference at the start.
Oxygene 7 (the rest) - nice watery sounds and a slow weird ending.
Oxygene 8 - quite nice, perhaps one of JMJ's better tracks but not as good as Chronologie 4 which I kind of feel he was trying to imitate a bit. Lacks the punch and catchiness of other "hits" such as Oxygene 4, Equinoxe 5, RV 4 etc...
Oxygene 9 - obvious rip-off of Oxygene 1 and not as good.
Oxygene 10 - nice melody but in my mind it sounds like a couple of Commodore 64's were used to produce many of the tracks.
Oxygene 11 - the best track on the album, but not as good as the second bit of Oxygene 5. Seems to be a bit too Arpegiator/Digisequencer ish too! The short Odyssey Through O2 edit gives a glimpse of just how good it could have been...
Oxygene 12 - starts off well, nice catchy beat but the sounds are too brash and just sounds like someone hitting a cheap electronic keyboard at times. Quite good live, and I enjoy the Gdansk DVD version.
Oxygene 13 - ughhh, hate the minipops rhythm. Repetitive but nice melody. Nowhere near as evocative or brilliant as Oxygene 6. Overplayed at concerts.
Having said all that it has grown on me. There are nice melodies, but trying to retread the sounds and feel of the original Oxygene was a mistake in my view. A revisit of Oxygene like the PLD version was great, a fresh step forwards. This album, however, sounded tired on my initial listen, the first time I had listened to one of his studio albums and thought that. For me it certainly lacked the wow factor of the previous 2 albums (Chronologie and WFCousteau)
And I have to say the tracks are too dominant in every concert since its release, like JMJ is trying to force his audience to like the tracks in favour of say, Equinoxe 5, Orient Express, Mag Fields 4, Calypso 1 & 2, much of Chronologie and Zoolook etc.
And for the live interpretaion, it introduced the most annoying instrument into his live shows - the Theremin, which sounds like a cat could be being strangled for the most part.
I once read one fan saying there is more creative thought gone into Ethnicolor than the whole of Oxygene 7-13, and I am inclined to agree. Had the compositions been redone and using sounds and ideas to make it not a follow-up to Oxygene, it would have been so much better in my opinion. In fact there are little bits of Odyssey Through O2 which I find superior to O713.
Good, but no classic in my mind, and below par compared to all his previous main studio albums (including Mag Fields and Revolutions). In my mind, the real spirit of Oxygene always finishes with Part 6.
Overall mark 7/13 !
Oxygene 7 (first part) - nice backing but the lead (the bit he plays on the laser harp on tour) is a bit cheap sounding, making it sound like something you'd get on a "synthesizer hits" album. Disappointing in that is an untterly disjointed continuation of Oxygene 6, with no musical reference at the start.
Oxygene 7 (the rest) - nice watery sounds and a slow weird ending.
Oxygene 8 - quite nice, perhaps one of JMJ's better tracks but not as good as Chronologie 4 which I kind of feel he was trying to imitate a bit. Lacks the punch and catchiness of other "hits" such as Oxygene 4, Equinoxe 5, RV 4 etc...
Oxygene 9 - obvious rip-off of Oxygene 1 and not as good.
Oxygene 10 - nice melody but in my mind it sounds like a couple of Commodore 64's were used to produce many of the tracks.
Oxygene 11 - the best track on the album, but not as good as the second bit of Oxygene 5. Seems to be a bit too Arpegiator/Digisequencer ish too! The short Odyssey Through O2 edit gives a glimpse of just how good it could have been...
Oxygene 12 - starts off well, nice catchy beat but the sounds are too brash and just sounds like someone hitting a cheap electronic keyboard at times. Quite good live, and I enjoy the Gdansk DVD version.
Oxygene 13 - ughhh, hate the minipops rhythm. Repetitive but nice melody. Nowhere near as evocative or brilliant as Oxygene 6. Overplayed at concerts.
Having said all that it has grown on me. There are nice melodies, but trying to retread the sounds and feel of the original Oxygene was a mistake in my view. A revisit of Oxygene like the PLD version was great, a fresh step forwards. This album, however, sounded tired on my initial listen, the first time I had listened to one of his studio albums and thought that. For me it certainly lacked the wow factor of the previous 2 albums (Chronologie and WFCousteau)
And I have to say the tracks are too dominant in every concert since its release, like JMJ is trying to force his audience to like the tracks in favour of say, Equinoxe 5, Orient Express, Mag Fields 4, Calypso 1 & 2, much of Chronologie and Zoolook etc.
And for the live interpretaion, it introduced the most annoying instrument into his live shows - the Theremin, which sounds like a cat could be being strangled for the most part.
I once read one fan saying there is more creative thought gone into Ethnicolor than the whole of Oxygene 7-13, and I am inclined to agree. Had the compositions been redone and using sounds and ideas to make it not a follow-up to Oxygene, it would have been so much better in my opinion. In fact there are little bits of Odyssey Through O2 which I find superior to O713.
Good, but no classic in my mind, and below par compared to all his previous main studio albums (including Mag Fields and Revolutions). In my mind, the real spirit of Oxygene always finishes with Part 6.
Overall mark 7/13 !
Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 4:51 am
This is a brilliant album! It still sounds great today and I revisit it often when I want to dive into another world...
Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 8:42 pm
I'd put it HERE in my list of favourites;
Equinoxe
Oxygene
Rendezvous
Magnetic fields
Zoolook
Concerts in China
Revolutions
Waiting for Cousteau
OXYGENE 7/13 - I loved it at first - nice to hear a return to the older sound but has n't had the staying power for me.
That said, the order of such lists often shifts as music is just like food or any stimuli - after a while you require a change and are refreshed by something different - but I always seem to come back to those first 4.
Equinoxe
Oxygene
Rendezvous
Magnetic fields
Zoolook
Concerts in China
Revolutions
Waiting for Cousteau
OXYGENE 7/13 - I loved it at first - nice to hear a return to the older sound but has n't had the staying power for me.
That said, the order of such lists often shifts as music is just like food or any stimuli - after a while you require a change and are refreshed by something different - but I always seem to come back to those first 4.