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JMJ - MOJO Magazine - November 2015



Jean-Michel Jarre Electronica’s first star returns with protégés in tow, but first: the synth-rock polymath discusses big gigs, space catastrophe and ’80s excess in this month’s MOJO interview.

Source: http://www.mojo4music.com/21704/mojo-26 ... in-content

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Interesting interview, he talks about things we already know, but also about the Dustbins (the drummer suggested he should go to GRM, after he saw JMJ expiriment with tapes and speeding up, reversing his guitar solos) and problems he faced in his carreer, like this:

"There's a positive side to all that success but a dark side in your personal life, because your relationships become twisted.

Q: When did you have that realisation?

In the early '90s. Success attracts sharks and even though you're convinced it won't happen to you, it does. You discover you've signed bad deals and made wrong moves. I had to change, but it's like trying to turn the wheel on a huge ship, it takes time."

He also explains why he wrote for Hardy, Juvet ('it was a way to make a living.') and jokes about the sales of his first two albums ('about 100 copies, which might be considered a reasonable figure nowadays.'), his dislike for CDs and the state of the music industry. 6 pages in total.

A taste of francophobia in Blackwell's mouth

thanks, Jones!

I think more evil and more pissed you can not look .
The interviews run fine, and there is nothing to complain about. All positive thinking.

I think he no longer has to laugh for some reason. Something must have changed him. Too bad !

Jean Michel Jarre: “I Thought Kraftwerk Were Americans Singing In German”

In this month’s MOJO Interview, the Frenchman explains why he and Ralf Hütter are at different ends of the electronic spectrum.

By MOJO Staff - 2 October 2015

WHILE THEY MIGHT both be obsessed with modulations, channels and frequencies, Jean Michel Jarre says he felt at the opposite end of the spectrum to other ’70s European electro pioneers, like Kraftwerk.

The subject of this month’s MOJO Interview, available in our new issue (November 2015 / #264) on sale now in the UK, the Frenchman explains that he did not feel much fraternité with his German contemporaries. Indeed, he initially believed Kraftwerk were actually Americans applying a fake Euro fragrance.

“I thought we had opposite visions of electronic music. Tangerine Dream and Kraftwerk had a very robotic, mechanical approach. I had a more impressionist vision – a Ravel/Debussy approach,” he tells MOJO’s Mark Blake.

“I had a more impressionist vision of electronic music.” - Jean Michel Jarre

“I was obsessed with the idea that no two sounds on Oxygène should ever be exactly the same. I wanted a heartbeat feel, something human. I also wanted music that had its own European identity, without blues or African roots. When I first heard Kraftwerk, I thought they were an American band singing in German.”

Though that was not necessarily a bad thing to Jarre’s ears.

“I thought it was very cool. But Autobahn made me think of an electronic Beach Boys,” he explains. “I didn’t know any different because I was in my cellar in France and Tangerine Dream and Kraftwerk were in their cellars in Germany and neither of us knew much about the other.”

Jarre goes on to discuss the disorientating success of his 1976 album Oxygène, the extraordinary supershows that turned him into an electro-pop mogul, the “dark” days of the ’80s and his experience of the horrific Challenger space shuttle disaster, for whose flight he was providing music.

Source: http://www.mojo4music.com/21853/jean-mi ... in-german/

Can someone please post scans of this interview?

Thank you!!

Great, thanks Doc!

Photos are not coming through on here...

Anything I do wrong?

Great interview. I eagerly await next years tour plans!