Jean-Michel Jarre is celebrating the 50th anniversary of his groundbreaking 1976 album ”Oxygène” with a special reissue remastered from the original tapes, releasing November 20 via BMG.
It will be available in multiple formats, including 180g vinyl half-speed mastered at Abbey Road Studios – and marks the album’s first-ever Dolby Atmos 5.1 release on an exclusive Blu-ray media book.
– When I created ”Oxygéne”, I was working directly with analogue instruments and tape, and the sound had a particular depth, movement and life of its own. For this anniversary edition, we returned to the original tapes with the aim of preserving that character rather than changing it, Jarre says.
The release caps off a busy autumn for Jarre, which also includes working on new music and the launch of his new instrument history book ”Machines” (October 29), with Vince Clarke, Gillian Gilbert, Richie Hawtin, Johnny Marr, Gary Numan, Nick Rhodes and Hans Zimmer.