The 10 most pioneering electronic albums of the 1970s
10 Jean-Michel Jarre – Oxygène
Release Date: December 1976 | Producer: Jean-Michel Jarre | Label: Disques Motors/Polydor
While orbiting the same interminably pompous realms as Vangelis or Mike Oldfield at their most ponderously grandiloquent, it’s without dispute that French synth whizz Jean-Michel Jarre managed to craft an incredibly fresh-sounding soundtrack of expertly worked sequencers and drum machines.
His third LP, Oxygène pulses and weaves through filtered sweeps and winding arpeggios with technical mastery, Jarre draping the entire affair with layers of heady and evocative stir. While flirting perilously close to new age pitfalls, Oxygène’s merits shine brighter 50 years later, Jarre reeling off a record that could have come out a good five years later and still sounding cutting edge.
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