''Oxygène 7–13'' (known as "Oxygène 2" on the Oxygène Trilogy box set) is the twelfth

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by French

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musician and composer

Jean-Michel Jarre Jean-Michel André Jarre (; born 24 August 1948) is a French composer, performer and record producer. He is a pioneer in the electronic, ambient and new-age genres, and is known for organising outdoor spectacles featuring his music, accompani ...

, released by Disques Dreyfus on February 1997. It is the sequel to his 1976 album ''

Oxygène ''Oxygène'' (, en, Oxygen) is the third studio album by French electronic musician and composer Jean-Michel Jarre. It was first released in France in December 1976 by Disques Motors, and distributed internationally in 1977 by Polydor Records. J ...

'' released previously two decades, used the same synthesizers and is dedicated to Jarre's former mentor, experimental musician

Pierre Schaeffer Pierre Henri Marie Schaeffer (English pronunciation: , ; 14 August 1910 – 19 August 1995) was a French composer, writer, broadcaster, engineer, musicologist, acoustician and founder of Groupe de Recherche de Musique Concrète (GRMC). His inno ...

. The album cover art was created by long-time collaborator

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Background

''Oxygène 7-13'' is dedicated to his mentor at the GRM,

, who had died two years before. The album was recorded and mixed by Jarre together with Patrick Pelamourges and René Ameline respectively at Oxygene studio and Croissy studio. It was also the last album by Jarre featuring

Michel Geiss Michel Geiss is a French sound engineer, instrument designer and musician who was a long-time collaborator of Jean Michel Jarre. He has also collaborated with other famous French artists such as Marc Lavoine, Patrick Bruel or Laurent Voulzy L ...

as collaborator. It also had the collaboration of the keyboardist

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and the programmer Christian Sales. He combined the "spherical sounds" of the 1976 album with contemporary rhythms. Eschewing digital techniques developed in the 1980s, in an interview for ''

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'' he said:

Release

''Oxygène 7-13'' was released in February 1997. "Oxygène 7", "Oxygène 8" and "Oxygène 10" were released as

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. A number of

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es of ''Oxygène 7–13'' tracks were made, including those comprising most of the album '' Odyssey Through O₂''.

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's "

Toxygene "Toxygene" is a single by electronic music artist the Orb. It was released in 1997 as the first single from the album ''Orblivion''. The song was originally commissioned as a remix of Jean-Michel Jarre's "Oxygène 8" from '' Oxygène 7–13''. H ...

" was originally going to be a remix of "Oxygène 8". However, The Orb "obliterated it" and reassembled only a few fragments for their new song. The album was followed by a promotional indoor European tour, and a concert in

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, Russia in which he would break for the fourth and last time his record for the largest audience in an open-air concert with a total of 3.5 million.

Track listing

All tracks by Jean-Michel Jarre.

Equipment

Adapted from liner notes of the album: *

ARP 2600 The ARP 2600 is a semi-modular analog subtractive audio synthesizer produced by ARP Instruments, Inc. History Developed by a design team headed by ARP namesake Allen R. Pearlman and engineer Dennis Colin, the ARP 2600 was introduced in 1971 ...

EMS VCS 3 The VCS 3 (or VCS3; an initialism for ''Voltage Controlled Studio, version #3'') is a portable analog synthesizer with a flexible modular voice architecture introduced by Electronic Music Studios (London) Limited (EMS) in 1969. EMS released ...

EMS Synthi AKS The EMS Synthi A and the EMS Synthi AKS, is a portable modular analog synthesiser made by EMS of England. The Synthi A model debuted in May 1971, and then Sythni AKS model appeared in March 1972 a with a built-in keyboard and sequencer. The EMS ...

* Eminent 310 Unique *

Mellotron The Mellotron is an electro-mechanical musical instrument developed in Birmingham, England, in 1963. It is played by pressing its keys, each of which pushes a length of magnetic tape against a capstan, which pulls it across a playback head. A ...

M400 *

Theremin The theremin (; originally known as the ætherphone/etherphone, thereminophone or termenvox/thereminvox) is an electronic musical instrument controlled without physical contact by the performer (who is known as a thereminist). It is named afte ...

Yamaha CS-80 The Yamaha CS-80 is an analog synthesizer released in 1977. It supports true 8-voice polyphony, with two independent synthesizer layers per voice each with its own set of front panel controls, in addition to a number of hardwired preset voice set ...

Quasimidi Raven The Quasimidi Raven was a German made synthesizer aimed at the dance music market. It also featured an 8-track sequencer, arpeggiators, real-time control knobs and effects. The Raven can be upgraded with the RavenMAX card. This increases the sam ...

* Digisequencer *

Akai MPC The Akai MPC (originally MIDI Production Center, now Music Production Center) is a series of music workstations produced by Akai from 1988 onwards. MPCs combine sampling and sequencing functions, allowing users to record portions of sound, modif ...

3000 * Nordlead * JV 90 * K2000 *

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Korg Prophecy The Korg Prophecy is considered one of the earliest (mid-nineties) virtual analog (a.k.a. VA) synthesizers, although its synthesis capabilities went beyond many of its VA contemporaries. Details Along with the Korg Z1, the Korg Prophecy is a d ...

* Roland TR-808 *

Roland DJ-70 The Roland DJ-70 is a 16-bit linear A/D Conversion & 20-bit linear D/A Conversion sampling workstation and was released in 1992 by Roland Italy. Roland DJ-70MKII The Roland DJ-70MKII was released in 1996 by Roland Italy. It had 37 keys, 8 Play ...

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications and sales

References

External links

''Oxygène 7–13''
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