“We weren’t doing electronic music with synthesisers, but with a bank of oscillators we stole from radio stations”: Jean-Michel Jarre and the creation of Oxygène

Jean-Michel Jarre.

In 2016 Jean-Michel Jarre released Oxygène 3, marking the end of a journey that began with his 1976 debut Oxygène. That year he looked back with Prog on how he’d been inspired to make the original, how it became the dominating record of his career, and the approach that inspired the last chapter of the story.

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