This is from Elf's interview with JMJ in 2018:
https://domino.elfworld.org/the-journey ... p-playing/
Sessions 2000– Sessions 2000 (2002)is also an album that’s very different from what you’ve done before. And not a very well liked one, by many. Some say it was your “getting out of my contract album.”
– That’s right. It’s absolutely true. II had some real issues with my record company, Dreyfus Records, and this started a very dark period of my life, actually. It also heralded a ten year long court case with Dreyfus. Francis Dreyfus and I were friends, and we grew up together, but I wanted to follow a different path than he wanted me to. He was saying “the Internet is just a joke and it’s not going to last,” and he was just not into technology. Instead he became more and more involved with jazz and his label for that. He released old Charlie Parker records in mono, and I thought that was great. I even encouraged him to do it. But I felt we were simply not on the same page anymore.
However, when Jarre expressed a wish to move on, Francis Drefyus said Jarre owed him two more albums.
– I told him that it wasn’t the case, because we had signed with Sony worldwide, and they had an option for two more albums. But he wouldn’t budge, and finally he didn’t want to talk to me anymore, I had to take everything through his lawyer. I was so upset, that the following Christmas, I put two albums on his desk, and I said goodbye. It was Sessions 2000 and Experimental 2001. This made him so furious that he didn’t want to release them. But he had to release at least one, so they went with Sessions 2000. They still have an entire album, that has never been released.
Since Drefyus was so into jazz, Jarre made Sessions 2000 like an electro jazz album. However, Dreyfus hated it, but he had no choice to but to release it.
– And then it ended up being named the best independent album of the month in the UK, he he. But there are some moments on that album that I really like.
