Planet Jarre

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Planet Jarre
Compilation album by Jean-Michel Jarre

Publication
(s)

September 2018

Label (s) Sony Music

Genre (s)

Electronica

running time

2h 42m

production

Jean-Michel Jarre

chronology
Oxygene 3
(2016)
Planet Jarre Equinoxe Infinity
(2018)
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Planet Jarre
  FR 39 09/22/2018 (3 weeks)
  DE 5 09/21/2018 (4 weeks)
  AT 22nd 09/28/2018 (1 week)
  CH 11 09/23/2018 (4 weeks)
  UK 21st 09/27/2018 (1 week)

Planet Jarre is a compilation album by the French musician Jean-Michel Jarre , which was released on the occasion of his 50th music anniversary under the Sony Music label on September 14, 2018.

Specialty

Planet Jarre was released in different versions as Planet Jarre 2 CD (12-page booklet), Planet Jarre Deluxe 2 CD (24-page booklet), Planet Jarre Box Set 2 CD + 2 MC + Download Code and Planet Jarre Vinyl 4 LP . Basically, the concept album contains 41 pieces of music from past Jarre albums or previous compilations as well as some unreleased pieces and pieces played during the last live performances. Some titles have been shortened.

Jarre divided the music into 4 categories: 'Soundscapes', 'Themes', 'Sequences', 'Explorations & Early Works'. Categories 1 and 2 are on CD1, 3 and 4 on CD2. The box set also includes 2 music cassettes and an access code with which the music can be downloaded digitally and 12 tracks as a 5.1 surround version from the Internet.

Track list

- CD1 / LP 1 CD1 / LP2 CD2 / LP3 CD2 / LP4
Title # Soundscapes Themes Sequences Explorations &
Early Works
1 Oxygene 1 7:39 Industrial Revolution Part 2 2:22 Coachella Opening 3:58 Ethnicolor 3:30
2 Oxygene 19 5:01 Oxygene 4 3:46 Arpeggiator 6:15 Souvenir of China 4:00
3 Rendez-Vous 1 2:55 Equinoxe 5 3:45 Automatic Part 1
with Vince Clarke
2:58 Blah Blah Cafe 3:22
4th Millions of Stars 5:39 Oxygene 2 5:25 Exit
with Edward Snowden
5:45 Music for Supermarkets
(Demo Excerpt)
2:04
5 Chronology 1 3:23 Zoo ecology 3:44 Equinox 7 3:55 Roseland / Le pays de rose 2:21
6th Oxygene 20 5:30 Bells 2:09 Oxygen 8 5:24 La Cage 3:09
7th Equinox 2 5:01 Equinox 4 5:32 Stardust
with Armin van Buuren
4:37 Erosmachine 2:59
8th Waiting for Cousteau 3:00 Magnetic Fields 2 3:58 Herbalizer 3:26 hypnosis 3:27
9 The Heart of Noise
(origin)
2:36 Rendez-Vous 2
(Laser Harp)
4:09 Revolutions 3:23 The song of the Burnt Barns
La chanson des Granges Brulées
3:00
10 Rendez-vous 4 4:09 Happiness is a sad song 5:51
11 Chronology 4 4:08 Aor Blue 3:09
12 Last rendezvous 4:08

Major versions

year Output form medium country Label Catalog number comment
2018 original CD Europe Sony Music 19075833822 Digipak
12-page booklet
2018 original CD Europe Sony Music 19075833792 Digipak
24-page booklet
2018 original CD + MC
download code
Europe Sony Music 19075870642 Box set, limited edition
2018 original LP Europe Sony Music 19075833831

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  1. Chart sources: FR DE AT CH Charts UK

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