Jean-Michel Jarre
Electronica 1: the Time Machine
Stream to Oct. 16
There are a million past lives’ worth of feelings on Jean-Michel Jarre’s new album, the sprawling and evocative Electronica 1: the Time Machine. You can listen to the album in the player above and pre-order it here.
It’s ultimately a wonderful survey of the last few decades of electronic music, hence the fitting subtitle, the Time Machine. The 67-year-old electronic music pioneer and concert producing visionary — he’s played at the Great Pyramids, collaborated with NASA, and played for an audience of 3.5 million people in Moscow — says he wanted to work with “artists of all generations” with whom he feels particularly connected with “by a common DNA.”
Among the 16 different collaborators are M83, John Carpenter, Tangerine Dream, Moby, Massive Attack, Lang Lang, Armin van Buuren and Laurie Anderson. This brings a special kind of welcome chaos to the record. There are wildly experimental songs, like the washes of joy and loss on “Suns Have Gone” and the tense mash-up of organics and synthetics, classical piano against relentless drum machines on “The Train & the River," and perfect throwbacks like the hopscotch beats and soaring vocals on “Glory” and the tinny, laser-like effects on “If...!” that mine the earliest electro-flourish elements.
Electronica 1: the Time Machine is a masterclass, a vibrant artifact and a monument to the first age of electronic music.
Tracklist:
1. “The Time Machine”
2. “Glory”
3. “Close your eyes”
4. “Automatic (part 1)”
5. “Automatic (part 2)”
6. “If..!”
7. “Immortals”
8. “Suns Have Gone”
9. “Conquistador”
10. “Travelator (part 2)”
11. “Zero Gravity”
12. “Rely on Me”
13. “Stardust”
14. “Watching You”
15. “A Question of Blood”
16. “The Train & the River”
by Andrea Warner via Electronic RSS
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