Jean Michel Jarre: “Poltergeist Party”

Before chiptune was chiptune, Jean Michel Jarre was Jean Michel Jarre. He was a weird French electronic music composer who pioneered an idiosyncratic sound that became an inspiration to a generation of video game music composers. In other words, he made the bloops and bleeps sound like a satisfactory form of music unto itself, glossing over the limits imposed by primitive early synthesizers, and celebrating what they could do that no other traditional analog instrument could approach. Our highlighted track “Poltergeist Party” opens the full-length Deserted Palace. This is what the future sounded like in 1972. Via Transversales Disques.

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