I read the discussion about the Zoolook recording with interest and, by cross-relating it to some other information, I came to a conclusion that, as Jarre continued to work on in the 1980s, he may have had more and more pieces that happened to be composed and recorded during recording sessions but nevertheless were never included in the respective albums released afterwards. Even now, unlike the reissues of recordings by many other artists, to name the Pet Shop Boys for example (with heaps of remixes and long versions, a marketing trick to boost sales, apparently) the reissues of older Jarre's albums are never supplemented by such left-overs, the only exception being Teo and Tea, and perhaps the singles and remixes of Chronologie and Oxygene 7-13 as well. I think that lately Jarre has found himself faced with the choice between yielding in to the taste of the industry and composing standard 4-minute tracks complemented by remixes and continuing to work on concepts out of which no track may be taken.
It would be interesting to know whether or not there have been any tracks that were composed for his first two albums but were not included in the end.
Blah Blah Cafe, the Jean-Michel Jarre forum
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