Blah Blah Cafe, the Jean-Michel Jarre forum

TBH I wouldn't expect the setlist to be much different from his last VR endeavor. I know.... and that's what worries me! The music wasn't good back in June but that VR experiment was a sort of non-specific virtual world. To take the same beats-heavy EDM track list and drop it straight into the actu...

I wonder if we get new reworks of the classics (given that he's got that new production assistant who replaced Stephane) The guy in the red tracksuit top? I remember the photo being posted on here somewhere but cannot remember his name. Not sure about his attire. This guy https://www.facebook.com/R...

Jote wrote: ↑Tue Dec 08, 2020 3:47 pm I wonder if we get new reworks of the classics (given that he's got that new production assistant who replaced Stephane)

The guy in the red tracksuit top? I remember the photo being posted on here somewhere but cannot remember his name.

Another New Year's Eve concert, 21 years' after Egypt...

That would be a good JMJ super fan quiz... name the laser harp! Isolate one note, then ask: 1) Which track? 2) How was the sound produced?

Doesn't the Laser Harp sound come from the Elka Synthex? At least, it did on the Rendezvous album, but maybe since then. he's found other ways of producing this same sound?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elka_Synthex

I've always thought the MF (or LCM) album was trying so desperately hard not to be 'Oxynoxe' that it doesn't really have it's own character, and seems to be flailing for ideas and direction. MF4 though, stands out somewhat from the rest - the only track on the album with its own identity - and it i...

I like MF5, it's the ultimate realization of the "surrealism" theme of this album. I like this abrupt change in tone, where the second part of MF4 is dreamy, and the MF5 is like waking up from this dream. Suddenly you're in a bright living room listening to a radio or something. At least ...

Does anybody know if the vocoder section that begins at 2' 02" is actual lyrics? If so, what's being said? Or are they nonspecific sound effects? Sometimes when I listen, I think I can work out a lyric... then the next time, I can't!

Dr_Jones wrote: ↑Mon Nov 30, 2020 3:47 pm The single mix has a nice variation at the end

This is cool! I wasn't familiar with that version. Thanks for sharing.

Adam wrote: ↑Mon Nov 30, 2020 2:44 pm Last Rhumba does seem very out of place, I tend to skip that one when listening to the album & end it on part 4, for me it spoils the whole mood of the album.

Me too!

Vaporware: I recall reading about the Monaco Concert being lined up as a live CD release too. Didn't happen. However, I would be surprised if EoN doesn't arrive on Android. Surely there is too much tied up in the development/investment to not want to roll it out further?

Sorry, at 10 seconds, not 40 seconds!

At 40 seconds in that promo video, you can see Paris La Défense on the wall screen!

Thanks Adam and Dr Jones - def think Mag Fields 4 has potential to be tweaked and refreshed. I know Mag Field 2 gets all the attention, but it isn't even in the top three on the album! Pt 4, then Pt. 1 (last movement), Pt 1 (first movement) and Pt 3 are all better in my opinion. No idea what Pt 5 is...