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“By using Sellotape I could make it play two preset rhythms at the same time, creating cool beats”: 50 years ago this summer, Jean-Michel Jarre began making the album that took electronic music global

'Dum da da da dem. Dum da da da dum.' You know the one…

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Shakira performs to staggering two million people in Copacabana

Shakira performed a free concert for a huge crowd in Rio de Janeiro over the weekend.

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Jean-Michel Jarre urges music and film industries to embrace AI

French musician’s comments are in stark contrast to fears expressed by artists such as Elton John and Dua Lipa

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“This is a love and friendship story I have with Mexico that can’t be compared to anything. Thank you for all the excitement, all the joy you’ve made me feel”: Shakira breaks record for the largest gig in Mexico City’s Zócalo

She played free show to 400,000

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Jean-Michel Jarre announces first-ever Uzbekistan outdoor show for November

Jean-Michel Jarre will play Samarkand's Registan Square on November 1 to celebrate the city's hosting of the 43rd UNESCO General Conference

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“We’re analog animals living in a digital age”: From AI-driven stage design to collaborating with Brian May, we speak with electronic icon Jean-Michel Jarre

The synth pioneer reflects on his spectacular 2024 concert, Live in Bratislava, and his vision of the future of live performance

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“Young musicians are lucky to live in this world of ideas and disruption. Humans have a dark attitude to the future. But if we were right, we wouldn’t be here”: Jean-Michel Jarre predicts music will follow video games into immersive universes

The death of a mentor and the world-pausing Covid event gave the eternal pioneer a chance to discover another new approach to his art: “The visual field for a human being is 140 degrees, but the audio field is 360 degrees”

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“I’m proud to finally share this with everyone": Jean-Michel Jarre to release ‘audio visual record’ of his Bratislava mega-gig, which featured an appearance by Brian May

Live In Bratislava is out in September

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Jean-Michel Jarre to release Live In Bratislava in September

Jean-Michel Jarre's Live In Bratislava, featuring his first ever collaboration with Queen guitarist Brian May, will be released in September

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“It’s time to restore a dynamic vision for the future that’s not just about recycling our garbage and all that”: Disillusioned by the 21st century, Jean-Michel Jarre aims to inspire a new hope

While times and technologies have changed, the synth pioneer has never wavered from the “brave new world” ideas embedded in his analogue beginnings

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Jean-Michel Jarre announces first European tour for nine years

Electronic music pioneer Jean-Michel Jarre will tour across Europe throughout June and July

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Tangerine Dream announce new From Virgin To Quantum Years: Coventry Cathedral 22 live album

German electronic prog pioneers Tangerine Dream also announce further live dates for 2025

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“It provided a blueprint for the ecosystem we swear by today”: How music production became accessible to all thanks to a handful of innovators

We sat down to write a track with our laptop, and pondered how we got here? Maybe via our spare bedroom…or even a kitchen?

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“Certain things force you to progress… I’m free to do other things, but how much of a leap do I take?” Matt Berry on whether he prefers making music to comedy

Matt Berry’s Heard Noises coincided with the end of What We Do In The Shadows and his 50th birthday – making it the most confessional album of his career

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What Hi-Fi?

7 top test tracks that celebrate the iconic Moog synthesizer

Featuring The Beatles, Donna Summer, Parliament and more

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"Jean-Michel Jarre said he loved my music, but that I was too acoustic for him. That got me thinking": Urged on by fans, Mike Oldfield’s final album was a look back to his early years

Return To Ommadawn was a fresh exploration of the ideas on his third album – complete with a vinyl gatefold sleeve offering “hours of enjoyment”

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How to create Jean-Michel Jarre-style phasing with delay in your DAW using a free synth!

How to create that vintage Jarre sound, created from a single synth, that conjures a huge sound-stage.

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“A friend left music quietly playing for Eno while he was in hospital, which was thought to have inspired his initial idea for Music for Airports”: The origins and evolution of ambient techno

“A friend left music quietly playing for Eno while he was in hospital, which was thought to have inspired his initial idea for Music for Airports”

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Jean-Michel Jarre to release newly remastered 40th-anniversary version of Zoolook

Jean-Michel Jarre's 1984 album Zoolook to be reissued on vinyl with bonus track in January

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Jean-Michel Jarre to release limited edition Versailles live album

Jean-Michel Jarre will release 'phygital' live album Versailles 400 on vinyl and CD with exclusive digital content

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Paris 2024 Paralympic Games finish with sound and light spectacular

The 17th Paralympic Games ended on Sunday night with a spectacular son-et-lumière flourish in front of thousands of Paralympians as well as 65,000 spectators at a rain-soaked Stade de France in Saint Denis.

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Giant Club Night To Close Out Paris Games

More than 20 top French DJs are set to feature at the closing ceremony of the Paris Paralympics on Sunday that will give pride of place to electronic music.

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"We are going to celebrate what brings together the most people on the planet - sport and electronic music": Jean-Michel Jarre to headline the 2024 Paralympics Closing Ceremony

Cassius, Alan Braxe, Breakbot and Martin Solveig will also be performing in a stacked line-up of 24 acts

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“We weren’t doing electronic music with synthesisers, but with a bank of oscillators we stole from radio stations”: Jean-Michel Jarre and the creation of Oxygène

A story of challenges, limitations, the completion of its 40-year journey and working with Stockhausen – who “considered himself to be made of sound”

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15 of the greatest synth icons ever: Carlos, Hancock, Jarre and more

Legends one and all, we pick the synthesizer's greatest exponents. In order of true greatness…

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