Hi, well, yeah, Jean Michel Jarre¥s music is our link here, and, our fauvorite music.
But How are your others?

Mine: Vangelis, Enya, Bjork, Kraftwerk, Dido & Faithless, classic music and cinema soundtracks, and... now too, MOBY!

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I very rarely listen to anything except JMJ,but I do also like Art of Noise,Mike Oldfield,and Sky who for those who don't know were a 5 piece instrumental group from here in th U.K who were popular in the late 1970's & 1980's,& one of their most successful singles was Tocatta.

WENDY CARLOS, OZRIC TENTACLES, TANGERINE DREAM, YELLOW MAGIC ORCHESTRA, VANGELIS, NEURONIUM, KRAFTWERK, ENIGMA, KLAUS SCHULZE, GOBLIN, RICK WAKEMAN, LADYTRON, HAWKWIND, SCHILLER, ANDY PICKFORD, JAN HAMMER, HAROLD GROSSKOPF, HAROLD FALTERMEIER, KARL BARTOS, ARENA, ASIA, SAGA, SPOCK'S BEARD, ELP, GANDALF, DOM F SCAB, KAZUMI WATANABE, LEE RITENOUR, MARCUS MILLER, SPIRO GYRA, EAT STATIC, BT, CAMEL, PETE NAMLOOK, ZAPPA, STEVE ROACH, MICHAEL STEARNS, BRYAN ENO, GENESIS, PETER GABRIEL, RONNY JORDAN, THOMAS DOLBY, WEATHER REPORT, JOE ZAWINUL,......................................just a little selection

Well, Jarre's music is my first favourite, of course, as well as Geiss, Rimbert, Rondat, TK, and anyone else that worked with Jarre, but to follow in order of preference, my list follows:

• Jean-Luc Ponty-- A French Jazz Violinist (Coherent Jazz, mind you)
• Alan Parsons/The Alan Parsons Project -- progressive rock group rather similar to Jarre instrumental-wise, and history-wise (it was the project until Parsons' main partner, Eric Wolfon, decided to move in a different direction; Eric Wolfson is much like Michael Geiss in this regard, if I am not mistaken that Geiss made a similar "jump-ship")
• Emerson, Lake and Palmer (and whichever band any of these three later formed) Kieth Emmerson is arguably the best keyboardist in the world. I'd even hold him above Jarre if he ever played a circular light-up keyboard.
• Isao Tomita, who was one step ahead of Jarre in performing in surround sound, but similar in the experimental regards.
• Steve Burns, the guy who was the host of Blues Clues at the beginning; his only album so far is Songs for Dustmites
• Tchaikovsky, because he was Russian
• Mussorgsky, because he was Russian, too, and because Pictures at an Exhibition is so awesome
• Bach, because of the Harpsicord
• Holst, bacause of The Perfect Fool and The Planets
• I also like the folks that perform video game music as actual compositions, like Stemage (Metroid in Metal form), and the Relics of the Chozo (VERY similar to Jarre's Aero style, IMO) (various artists), along with some other Video Game remixes.

Avid interests (in no particular order):

Barenaked Ladies, They Might Be Giants, "Weird Al" Yankovic, The Decemberists, Carbon Leaf, Weezer, 3 Doors Down, Neil Diamond, Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins, The Postal Service, and some others I can't think up right now.

These last few I don't listen to very often, but I love their music.

*A newcomer to this list is Safri Duo, thanks to seeing them in the Aalborg video (I didn't know they were percussionists before then). I have yet to get any of their CD's, however, so they have not been properly placed in the list.

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THE PRODIGY, CHEMICAL BROTHERS,DAFTPUNK,DEPECHE MODE, OZRIC TENTACLES,APHEX TWIN,E.L.P,EARLY GENESIS (PETER GABRIEL YEARS),WILLIAM ORBIT, ORBITAL AND OF COURSE THE TOP MAN -------JEAN MICHEL JARRE.

Jean-Michel Jarre, Mike Oldfield, Enigma, Brian Eno, Kraftwerk, Gorillaz, Sandra, Fatboy Slim.

Ofcourse "Jean Michel Jarre", but the others are...

...

- Daan
- Kraftwerk
- Mike Oldfield
- Pet Shop Boys
- Francis Rimbert
- Patrick Rondat
- Vangelis

Greetzzz...

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Jean Michel Jarre sur scène - Oxygene
Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene In Concert - Bruxelles

Apart from Jarre:
Jaco Pastorius, Kraftwerk, Wagner, Booker T and the MGs, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Iron Maiden

Off the top of my headÖ.
Tetsu Inoue, Pete Namlook,Atom Heart (Senor Coconut), Jonah Sharp (Spacetime Continuum), Gier Jennsen (Biosphere), Bobby Bird (Higher Intelligence Agency), Mixmaster Morris (Irresistible Force), Ritchie Hawtin (Plastikman), Jeff Mills, Laurent Garnier, Josham Paap (Speedy J), The Orb, Orbital, William Orbit, David Holmes, LTJ Bukham, Sasha, BT, Hybrid, Massive Attack, Pink Floyd, Hendrix, The Doors, Tangerine dream (70-78), Klaus Schulze, Brian Eno, Kraftwerk, Aphex Twin, Autechre (seeing them tomorrow yey!), Ian Boddy, + everything else Iíve forgotten.

Kraftwerk, Isao Tomita, Enigma (sometimes), Vangelis.

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I like:

Schiller, Leama & Moor, Solarstone. Probspot, Above & Beyond, Paul Oakenfold, Kyau & Albert ...

All doing great electronic music

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I like-

Kraftwerk, Brian Eno, The Beatles, The Stone Roses, Thom Yorke, Radiohead, Moby, Ian Brown, Leftfield, Madness, New Order, Oasis, Royksopp, The Specials and Dominik Eulberg.

Vangelis, MikeOldfield, minimal (it's a genre ), that's it i think...ow yes.. movie soundtracks (james horner etc..)

Hugely into Peter Gabriel. You need to give some of his soundtracks airtime, Long Walk Home, Passion and Birdy. If you can get hold of Ovo there is some amazing work on there. I saw the Millennium show twice before I realised Gabriel was the composer.

Mark Shreeve, Mid year Tangerine Dream (Haslinger years esp). Vangelis Soundtracks (Chariots of Fire/Bladerunner)

When I want to be cultured - Tomita (Planet Suite is awesome)

Also been listening to Alex Storer's work (he is on hereand is producing some nice work)

And Meesha as well.

And lots and lots of Oxygene and Equinoxe.

Nice thread

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Röyksopp, Space (Didier Marouani), some The Knife tracks

Nice thread indeed

In no particular order:

Brian Eno (Apollo is an ambient masterpiece - a must own)
Kate Bush (Everything except The Red Shoes)
Peter Gabriel
Kraftwerk
Mike Oldfield (First 4 albums, Amarok, Distant Earth and others)
Vangelis
Pink Floyd

Plus a lot of classical stuff (Alan Hovhaness is a favourite)

I listen to Jarre, of course, I also listen to FC Kahuna, Gorillaz and the Fourplay String Quartet. I particularly like the quartet because they electrify their instruments, they can make violins sound like electric guitars, sitars, in one song, clarinets! And the best part is, they're local, I'm actually friends with a couple of the guys.

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Fractal art, most inspired and based around Jarre's music, the songs I've heard anyway.
I fully support;
- a JMJ concert in the North Pole, Australia, New Zealand and other Southern hemisphere countries!
- a 'Myst' soundtrack render by JMJ!
The Revelation Tour - The Ages of Myst IV
Oxygène 4 (Aero) - Jean Michel Jarre in Serinia
Aerologie - Jean Michel Jarre in Haven
Equinoxe 3 (Aero) - Jean Michel Jarre in Tomahna
Equinoxe 4 (Aero) - Jean Michel Jarre in Sprie

My tastes are fairly broad I guess:

Instrumental/New Age

Mike Oldfield (wonders whether Music of the Spheres will be renamed Tubular Bells IV?)
Kitaro (What ever happened to Kitaro?)
Larry Fast / Synergy (His 1978 album CORDS is as good as Equinoxe)
Vangelis (Pull the finger out, V, and remember you are a human, not a bleedin Greek God!)
Chicane (I wish I could replicate there soaring strings...)
Tangerine Dream (from 1969 to 1988, everything after this is worthless, despicable and not worthy of the acclaim it somehow gets)
Enya (before I realised what a repetitve money grabbing perosn she really is!)
Deep Forest (there self titled first album is a must buy for every JMJ fan)

Mainstream

Pink Floyd (Dark Side of the Moon, Greatest album ever)
Coldplay (so shoot me..I love ColdPlay)
David Gray (Seen him 3 times live, the guys a genius)
David Kitt (The Big Romance shows what can be done with a little equipment and a lot of songwriting skill)
Crowded House (who doesn't love these guys?)
U2 (to an extent)
Early O.M.D (Architecture and Morality is a classic of electronic music)

Classical:

Henry Gorecki (His Symphony of Sorrowful Songs is the greatest piece of music ever)
Erik Satie (Gymnopedies is the Melody of Melodies)
Samuel Barber (Marvelous composer for strings)
Philip Glass (Mr prolific, not always on the mark but I love him anyway...Glass Engine is the best thing on the web)

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I would say the following are my all time favs (in no order.)

Tangerine Dream
Andy Pickford
Mark Shreeve
Mike Oldfield

10CC
Pink Floyd
Muddy Waters
Eric Clapton
ELO


Chris

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When I was younger (in the 80's and 90's) i almost only listened to instrumental synth music - Jarre, Vangelis, and some Kitaro etc. Over the years, that has changed, as my musical tastes have changed.


Here's what I listen to these days, i rough order of how often it is in my mp3 player:

- Lunik (Great Swiss pop band - discovered them through Delerium where Lunik's vocalist, Jaël sings on one of their songs. I just love Lunik! Check out their songs "Through Your Eyes", "Bad Timing", "Fall", "Slide", or "Let Go", and you'll se what I mean)
- MiNa (The two main members of Lunik, more acoustic sound and slower tempo than Lunik, otherwise quite similar and great music)
- Loreena McKennitt (mmmm, "Nights of the Alhambra")
- Dido (looking forward to the 3rd album as the first two were great)
- Delerium (some is great, some is not so great, but exciting and unique music)
- Within Temptation (especially the album "The silent force")
- Evanescence (great music in the autumn)
- Mike Oldfield ("Tubular Bells II" and "-III")
- Enya (at least "Watermark", "Shepherd Moons" and parts of the other albums, but I don't listen much to Enya anymore)
- Kitaro (the best album, "Oasis" is almost up to the level of Oxygene/Equinoxe, but not quite there)
- Vangelis (I hardly ever listen to Vangelis anymore)


And, of course, Jean Michel Jarre, who has been a mainstay in my playlists for the last 22 years.


So there you have it. Almost everything from pop (or, some of it is more in the genre of "Adult contemporary" than "bubblegum pop" ) to New Age, World Music, to darker more "Gothic" rock for those dark, rainy autumn nights.