Jean Michel Jarre* ‎– Oxygene

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This is the entry for the original recording of 'Oxygene', do not add the "New Master Recording" here.

Tracklist

Oxygene (Part I) 7:40
Oxygene (Part II) 8:20
Oxygene (Part III) 2:50
Oxygene (Part IV) 3:50
Oxygene (Part V) 11:10
Oxygene (Part VI) 5:55

Versions

Title Label Cat# Country Year
Oxygene (LP, Album) Les Disques Motors 2933 207 France 1976
Oxygene (8-Trk, Album) Polydor 8T-1-6112 Canada 1976
Oxygene (Cass, Album) Polydor CT-1-6112 US 1976
Oxygene (LP, Album) Polydor 2344 068 Philippines 1976
Oxygene (LP, Album) Polydor 2310 555 New Zealand 1976
Oxygene (LP, Album) Polydor 2344 068 Germany 1976
Oxygene (LP, Album) PolyGram Do Brasil, Polydor 2310 555 Brazil 1976
Oxygene (LP, Album) Polydor 2344 068 India 1976
Oxygene (LP, Album) Polydor 2344 068 Netherlands 1976
Oxygene (LP, Album) Polydor 2344068 Germany 1976
Oxygene (LP, Album) Polydor 2344 068 Scandinavia 1976
Oxygene (LP, Album) Polydor 2344 068 Germany 1976
Oxygene (LP, Album) Polydor PD-1-6112 US 1976
Oxygene (LP, Album, Clu) Polydor, Bertelsmann Club 27 646-9 Germany 1976
Oxygene (LP, Album, Ltd) Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab MFSL 1-212 US 1976
Oxygene (LP, Album, Whi) PGP RTB LP 5715 Yugoslavia 1976
Oxygène (8-Trk, Album) Polydor 8T-1-6112 US 1976
Oxygène (Cass, Album) Les Disques Motors 3 222 215 France 1976
Oxygène (Cass, Album) Polydor 3100 398 New Zealand 1976
Oxygène (Cass, Album) Polydor 3100 398 Scandinavia 1976
Oxygène (LP, Album) Polydor 2310 555 Italy 1976
Oxygène (LP, Album) Polydor K.K. MPF 1098 Japan 1976
Oxygène (LP, Album) Polydor JAR 1 Canada 1976
Oxygène (LP, Album) Polydor LP 5715 Europe 1976
Oxygène (LP, Album) Polydor PD-1-6112 US 1976
Oxygène (LP, Album) Polydor 2310 555 Australia 1976
Oxygène (LP, Album, Ltd) Polydor JAR 1 Canada 1976
Oxygène (LP, Album, TP) Polydor PD-1-6112 US 1976
Oxygene (8-Trk, Album) Polydor 3801 383 UK 1977
Oxygene (Cass, Album) Polydor 3100 398 Canada 1977
Oxygene (LP, Album) Polydor 2310 555 UK 1977
Oxygene (LP, Album) Polydor, Phonogram 2310 555 Greece 1977
Oxygene (LP, Album) PGP RTB LP 5715 Yugoslavia 1977
Oxygene (LP, Album) PGP RTB, Polydor LP 5715, 2344 068 Yugoslavia 1977
Oxygene (LP, Album) Polydor 2310 555 Portugal 1977
Oxygene (LP, Album) Polydor 2310 555 Canada 1977
Oxygeno (Oxygène) (LP, Album) Polydor, Polydor 2310 555, LPR 16225 Mexico 1977
Oxygène (8-Trk, Album) Polydor 3801 383 Canada 1977
Oxygène (Cass, Album) Polydor 3100 398 Spain 1977
Oxygène (Cass, Album) Polydor 3100398 Greece 1977
Oxygène (Cass, Album) Polydor 3100 398 UK 1977
Oxygène (LP, Album) Polydor 2310 555 South Africa 1977
Oxygène (LP, Album) Polydor 23 10 555 Spain 1977
Oxygene (LP, Album) Polydor 30.245 Venezuela 1978
Oxygène (Ed. Circulo De Lectores) (LP, Album) Polydor 56655 Spain 1978
Oxygene (Cass, Album, RE) Les Disques Motors MTO 40-77000 France 1979
Oxygène (LP, Album, RE) Les Disques Motors MTO 77000 France 1979
Oxygène (LP, Album, RE) Les Disques Motors, Les Disques Motors MTO 77000, MTO 77 000 France 1979
Oxygene (CD, Album) Polydor 800 015-2 France 1983
Oxygene (CD, Album) Polydor, Disques Dreyfus 800 015-2 Germany 1983
Oxygene (CD, Album) Polydor, Disques Dreyfus 800 015-2 Germany 1983
Oxygene (CD, Album) Disques Dreyfus FDM CD-77000 France 1983
Oxygene (CD, Album) Disques Dreyfus, Les Disques Motors none, MCO 1000 France 1985
Oxygene (LP, Album, RE) Polydor 2310 555 Brazil 1985
Oxygène (Cass, Album) Polydor 3100 398 Brazil 1985
Oxygène (LP, Album, RE) Les Disques Motors MLP 1000 France 1985
Oxygene (LP, Album) Polydor 422-827 885-1 Y-1 US 1986
Oxygene (LP, Album, RM) Polydor 2344 068 Germany 1986
Oxygène (Cass, Album, RM) Disques Dreyfus 827 885-4 Y-1 US 1986
Oxigene (Cass, Album) PGP RTB, Polydor LK 57310 Yugoslavia 1987
Oxygene (LP, Album, Ltd, RE, Box) HMV Classics C 88 1-3 UK 1987
Oxygene (Cass, Album) Les Disques Motors 824 746-4 France 1989
Oxygène (LP, Album) Polydor 800 015-1 Spain 1990
Oxygène (CD, Album, RM, RE) Disques Dreyfus 824 746-2 France 1991
Oxygène (CD, Album) Disques Dreyfus FDM 36140-2 France 1992
Oxygène (CD, Album) Disques Dreyfus FDM 36140-2 USA & Canada 1992
Oxygene (CD, Album) Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab UDCD 613 US 1994
Oxygene (LP, Album) Beloton RGM 7128 Belarus 1994
Oxygene (CD, Album, RM) Disques Dreyfus FDM 36140-2 France 1997
Oxygene (CD, Album, RM, RE) Epic, Epic EPC 487375 2, 487375 2 France 1997
Oxygene (MD, Album, RE, RM) Epic, Disques Dreyfus, Epic, Disques Dreyfus EPC 487375 8, 487375 8 Europe 1997
Oxygene (CD, Album, Ltd) Epic, Epic MILLEN9, 4952212000 UK 1999
Oxygène (LP, Album, Ltd) Simply Vinyl (S12) SVLP 072 UK 1999
Oxygene (LP, Album, RE, 180) Disques Dreyfus FDM 46050 36140 1 France 2011
Oxygene (CD, Album) Polydor K.K., Polydor P33P 50022, 800 015-2 Japan  
Oxygene (CD, Album, RM) Disques Dreyfus FDM 36140-2    
Oxygene (LP, Album, RE) Disques Dreyfus, Polydor 2310 555 UK  
Oxygène (CD, Album) Disques Dreyfus 824 746-2 France  
Oxygène (Cass, Album) Polydor, Phonokol 3100398, 2344068 Israel  
Oxygène (Cass, Album, RE) Polydor 800 015-4 Spain  
Oxygène (Cass, Album, RM) Disques Dreyfus FDM 36140-4 Poland  
Oxygène (LP, Album, RE) Les Disques Motors, Les Disques Motors MLP 1000, 824 746-1 France  
Oxygène (LP, Album, RE) Disques Dreyfus, Polydor 2310 555 Greece  

Recommendations

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Reviews & Discussion

NRGman Jan 03, 2012

referencing Oxygene, CD, Album, 800 015-2

I recommend this to anyone chasing a full, dynamic and uncompressed version of Oxygène, this one is for Audiophiles.
rush4you Oct 16, 2011

referencing Oxygène, Cass, Album, RM, FDM 36140-4

hi contributor guys, i guess this release should be French 1992 remaster.
i have no any proper confirmation, but i find this.
fdm 36140-4
1992 french remastered
here: http://home.arcor.de/millionsofstars/music/oxygene.htm
may i have right or not, could anybody confirm this release ( i know it hard ).
BR,
ttooyyss Jul 16, 2011 (edited 9 months ago)

referencing Oxygene, LP, Album, 2933 207

Simply one of the best albums in the history of music. Very fresh, original, unparalelled and incredibly deep. Wondertunes, BACH-ian depth (the last track), dramatic, hypnotic, energic. All in one. In 1976, it was simply shocking. The cover was shocking. This is one of the most important albums of all time, I could even rate it to No.1. (I don't mention Kraftwerk here, that's another story....) Maybe there's NO other album equals!!!!
Club_Bizarre Feb 22, 2011

referencing Oxygène, CD, Album, 824 746-2

I have this one, but, when was it released?? Year?? There was CDs in 1976??
jeromelun Aug 19, 2010 (edited 9 months ago)

referencing Oxygène, LP, Album, LP 5715

(edited)
Rated 5/5
Review by PaulWay Dec 08, 2004 (edited over 7 years ago)

referencing Oxygene, CD, Album, 800 015-2

This album catapaulted Jean Michel Jarre onto the international stage and into most electronic music listeners' record collections. Brilliant use of technology to produce haunting bubbles of sound, driving melodic lines, and deep organ-like resonances all interweave to produce an album of surprising complexity. It also stands up to repeated listening very well. As an introduction to electronic music, this has few betters.
Rated 4/5
Review by _.-M-o-r-B-e-a-T-._ Oct 22, 2003

referencing Oxygene, LP, Album, 2344 068

This LP from 1976 (!) is a good example for how much ahead of it's time Jean Michel Jarre always was. Not only because of the wonderfull synthy melodies of Oxygen II and IV, which for sure everybody has already has heard somewhere. I also find a second thing interessting: This is somehow the oldest electronic mixed album I own, since all the Tracks merge into
another and you can not exactly tell where exactly one is meant to end and the other to begin.
Rated 4/5
Review by PaulWay Sep 26, 2003

referencing Oxygène, CD, Album, 824 746-2

This is the album that first got me started into electronic music, the indication that this was what turned me on. While it is slightly dated, it is still one of the classics and should be listened to (apart from the rather dull track 3) from end to end as a mental and spiritual journey. Jarre's mastery of the classic technology of the analog era makes this the inspiration for many other artists - you can trace a lot of psychedelic trance's synth sweeps and ring modulations back to this album.

Highly recommended.
Rated 5/5
Review by technoblade Jan 08, 2002

referencing Oxygène, LP, Album, 2310 555

Oxygene is JM's first success album. In France, we heard it in many tv advertisement, and as the tv news generic.

This album is the result of the first JM's experimentations with synth. His first attempt was Deserted Palace (1972), in which he only used two synth : one Farfisa organ and one EMS VCS3. The Track "Windswept Canyon" sounds like an outline of Oxygene's style.

The use of stereo and panoramic effects in Oxygene has revolutioned electronic music, and it has imposed a very different style for the experimental musicians of the 70's.

The sound of the Eminent organ through the phasing Small Stone, effects on the VCS3 and AKS, the deep basses of the ARP 2600, hybrid sounds of the RMI, the band echoes of the Revox... This is the definite proof of the evocation potential of the synths. And JM uses their sound as a poetic instrument, evoquing reality through a sensual and human filter.

Definitely a must have for electronic music lovers !