What Are You Listening To?

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Getting lost in the Oxygene Trilogy today. This music is light years ahead of anything else ever created in the electronic realm. Pure genius at work. Recorded in a makeshift studio in his kitchen in 1976. The artwork by Michel Granger captures the mood of this album perfectly. Or maybe the music was inspired by the painting. Not sure. Anyway, when I am sick of listening to all the other albums I always return to this one. Just like DSOTM it does not age at all. Timeless beauty and simplicity.

Glad you appreciate JM Jarre’s masterpiece. I used to listen a lot of his music (I might suggest Zoolook if you would try some “very different” Jarre) but frankly I’ve never listened his later oxygene works. But there is a lot of music I regret that I haven’t listened when I used to listen a lot of music (not in recent decades…). Brian Eno’s music is among that (I know him just for the amazingly effective atmospheres in Zooropa and Numb). Since you like Brian Eno's 'Music For Films', perhaps you might like Vangelis’ soundtracks too? I would prefer Antarctica over Chariots Or Fire or Bladerunner, but there is an improper “soundtrack” that is actually superb for my tastes: although it was the soundtrack of a milestone for who (like me) was inducted into science by it, it’s more a compilation that includes classical music, providing an effective bridge from the past to modern electronic/ambient music: https://youtu.be/AQ720sKllMM .