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JMJ is back - and he's brought along some friends!

This is the first part of a 2-CD project where Jean Michel Jarre has travelled the globe and recorded with his contemporaries, those who inspired him and those who he has influenced.

He wrote each track with the collaborating artist in mind and then left room for the other party's own ideas and input and the result is a glorious mix of styles and sounds - but it is still very much a JMJ album.

Especially good are the tracks recorded with Air, Vince Clark, Armin van Buuren and Pete Townsend. But the real treasure and the track we EM fans have been waiting for is the joint effort with Tangerine Dream, one of the last things Edgar Froese did before his untimely death. This is a tasteful, slow-burner with TD's characteristic sequencer work and floating melodies.

It took me a while to get to grips with 'Electronica Part 1' mainly because of the vast range of styles - but once I got accustomed to it and was able to appreciate every track on its own I can now see the album as a whole and am playing it regularly. Jarre revisits his past and gets a grip on the future here. Now I am looking forward to part 2 (JMJ & KS ???? Daft Punk ????) and also to what his next solo effort will be.

Really enjoying KS music right now. Currently Big In Japan and the Dresden Concert, the latter not played in some years.

More good news for EM fans - Tangerine Dream are still going strong !

The remaining 3 members are to issue a new EP 'Quantum Key' as a taster for the 'Quantum Gate' album that has been recorded based on ideas that Edgar Froese had before his demise.

Info and sound previews here:
http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2015/ ... k-preview/

I didn't like the snippets I heard sadly. I'll give it another go though. A shame Peter Baumann came into the group again and went so quickly, but he seems to flit about a bit with things.


Current mood (and I think for the foreseeable future) is 'Velvet Voyage' from Klaus Schulze's Mirage album. Not much 'velvet' in my interpretation of it, more a totally desolate winter landscape with a lone voice crying out in the middle of it all 'Destinationvoid?' Definitely

K.S 'Mirage' is ok. It's the later 'Dig It' the Permed one can't be doing with. It's a fully digitally recorded.. The furst track is even called 'Death Of An Analogue'

I do like 'Dig It' and it was one of the first KS lp's I ever heard. Where he began to lose it for me was 'Audentity' which I still can't really appreciate. After that his output in the late 80's and 90's is very patchy. Although there are some real high points. 'In Blue' with Manuel Gottsching for example

Spielglokken (s'cuse spelling) is good from Audentity. Played part 1 of Kontinuum today - lovely!

Yay! Kontinuum is a late-period classic.

You loike Schultze Berlin school then you should get Sequentia ...errr summat cd titled "Blue...errr summat" . Spanish guy. Very good. Three long tracks.

Jarre has always been mediocre.
Oxygene sounding something at first cos there was so little to compare it with.
I quit with Jarre after "China". He just get progressively more soft.

Worldbeat-shits.

After "hong Kong live" he is basically an embarrassment.