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ZZERO wrote: I'm in close contact with Spanish distributor KARONTE, who manages the JARRE catalogue. Today they send me a PDF file with the complete list of records available in Spain. I think that this document will be interesting for you al, especially because finally "Sessions 2000" is out of print in DREYFUS catalogue.

Here you can download the file (courtesy of FAIRLIGHT JARRE www.jeanmicheljarre.es):

http://jeanmicheljarre.es/wp-content/up ... -20111.pdf

'Chronologie' right down there at the bottom, almost neglected one could say - maybe this will follow 'Sessions 2000' and drop out of the Dreyfus catalogue?

Jean Michel Jarre talks about his new album:
http://www.euronews.net/2...t-his-new-album

Kanta wrote:Jean Michel Jarre talks about his new album:
http://www.euronews.net/2011/06/06/jean ... -new-album

Well spotted Kanta

It's now on the ''le mag' arts section on the TV channel - just looked at it. World European Tour would be best way to describe it Elf. He seems determined to play outside Europe at some stage, so that's something

Pat Gleeson wrote:It's now on the ''le mag' arts section on the TV channel - just looked at it. World European Tour would be best way to describe it Elf. He seems determined to play outside Europe at some stage, so that's something

Well...He already did a concert in Beirut and Monaco can hardly be called Europe

Monaco is some stupid tax-free haven and had nothing to do with Europe

Someone has no strenght at geography...

Pat Gleeson wrote:

Kanta wrote:Jean Michel Jarre talks about his new album:
http://www.euronews.net/2011/06/06/jean ... -new-album

Well spotted Kanta

Thank you, Pat.

shadow wrote:Me to with one very big exception, the audio is pushed to the Max, I never thought Jarre would take part in the Loudness war

Neither did I.

The Essentials part of the package has to be the worst thing Jarre has released in his entire career. He and the guy he's working with, have completely and utterly ruined those tracks.
I was quite disgusted by the whole thing, I couldn't believe it. The tracks sound like they were mastered by a complete amateur with a couple of dodgy plugins. They are horribly squashed in places. Some timbres have changed for the worse. Oh and did I mention: needlessly loud!!!!

The Rareties tracks suffer the same, only perceptually just not as much, simply because their sound hasn't sunk into the wider public consciousness prior to this release.

But at least the newness of the material, makes up for the loudness blunder.
I quite enjoyed the experimentation on offer.

With great music, like Jarre, you're meant to turn it up (that's what the damn volume knob is for), because it's so good. Not turn it down, because your ears are feeling fatigued after half a minute, because it's hazardously loud.
This ain't music for clubin' for Christsakes. Besides, how many people are gonna pick this up and play it in their shops/centeres/malls.... Not to mention that would only cheapen the music.

No-one escapes from the Loundess War, and the only victims are us, the listeners :-/

Dr_Jones wrote:No-one escapes from the Loundess War, and the only victims are us, the listeners :-/

Jon likes this. . .

What is loundess?

Essentials et Rarities entered directly to the 1st place in french charts...


oooooooooops sorry... seems like it is 61st place indeed.


http://www.disqueenfrance.com/fr/monopage.xml?id=256595

Analog-Umph wrote:(...) The tracks sound like they were mastered by a complete amateur with a couple of dodgy plugins. They are horribly squashed in places. Some timbres have changed for the worse. Oh and did I mention: needlessly loud!!!!(...)

Magnetic Fields could have been louder, that would not have hurt me...

Dv_ wrote:Essentials et Rarities entered directly to the 1st place in french charts...


oooooooooops sorry... seems like it is 61st place indeed.

Not bad - for an umpteenth compilation - it remains to be seen where it will be next week, but all in all not a bad chart placing