Oxygène
Articles about Oxygène:
GroovBird Prooves You Don’t Have To Have Awesome Vintage Gear To Play Jean Michel Jarre’s Oxygen
Sunday Synth Jams: A faithful cover of Jean Michel Jarre’s Oxygene 13, played by GroovBird.
Three things to note about this video:
- GroovBird proves you don’t have to have awesome vintage gear to play classic synth music, if you’ve got some good gear and, more importantly, a good ear.
- Oxygen 13 was released in 1997, 20 years after Jarre’s original Oxygène, yet it matches the original album seamlessly.
- Jarre is one of the few artists that explicitly authorizes and encouragse fans to make covers and cover videos of his music for non-commercial use. Kudos to Jarre for a classy call on that.
Gear details below. Read more…
This video demos using two Small Stone Phasers as a stereo phaser effect for synthesizers to get the classic phased synth sound of Jean Michel Jarre. Read more…
This is a demo of the very rare EKO ComputeRhythm drum machine.
via kovalmoog:
This is a pretty rare drum machine manufactured by EKO in 1972 in Recanati, Italy.
Model ComputeRhythm, maybe one of 15-20 ever made (curiously SN #0113).
This particular one is owned by a musician living in Madrid, Luis De La Cruz, and It was repaired and slightly modified by me on the past months (www.synthoma.net).
Before giving back to its owner I have the chance to made these demonstration videos to show its features and incredible programing methods.
Due to the price it was mainly used by famous electronic musicians like Jean-Michel Jarre and Manuel Göttsching (founder member of Ashra Tempel). J-M Jarre has used it extensively on his first albums: “Oxygene” and “Equinoxe”.
If you’ve used the EKO ComputeRhythm, leave a comment with your thoughts! Read more…
This is a demo of the Electro Harmonix Small Stone Phase Shifter.
Jean-Michel Jarre used the Small Stone Phase Shifter on synth music classics Oxygene and Equinoxe.
via retrosound72:
strings: Logan String Melody 2 through ehx small stone
drums: Keio (Korg) MiniPops Junior
