INTERVIEW
It's one of the best-selling electronic music albums of all time. With "Oxygène", released in 1976, Jean-Michel Jarre exploded. Guest of It arrived this week Saturday, on the occasion of the release of his autobiography "Melancolique rodeo", the artist has returned to his early career and the "good fairies" who have made him the legend of the music that it is today. Of which Europe 1.
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"There is a good fairy among others that explains the success of Oxygen, it's Europe 1," he recalls. "The first time Oxygen [Oxygen Part I, the first track of the album of the same name] will pass, it is Europe 1 who plays it entirely, which was very rare. ". Composed in a kitchen "in the midst of disco and punk," the album has nothing beautiful to be a success at the time, it will "even become a planetary".
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"I was sure she was going to be 21st century music"
"This music is linked to space, to the future, and then at the same time, there's the title, Michel Granger's very strong cover, this scorched earth from which a skull emerges ... All this makes this album has become, without my knowing it, a reference form in relation to electro music and a way of passing messages through music ", analyzes Jean-Michel Jarre. But, "being one of the first [in electro music], I was sure it was going to be 21st century music."