Oxygène: New Master Recording, also known as Oxygène New Master Recording 2007 and Oxygène (New Master Recording), is a new recording of an album

Album

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 by Jean Michel Jarre

Jean Michel Jarre

Jean Michel André Jarre is a French composer, performer and music producer. He is a pioneer in the electronic, ambient and New Age genres, and known as an organiser of outdoor spectacles of his music featuring lights, laser displays, and fireworks.Jarre was raised in Lyon by his mother and...

 released in 2007, marking the 30th anniversary of the worldwide release of his album Oxygène

Oxygene

Oxygène is an album of instrumental electronic music composed, produced, and performed by the French composer Jean Michel Jarre. It was first released in France in December 1976, on Disques Dreyfus with license to Polydor. The album's international release was in summer 1977...

, and is Jarre's fourteenth studio album

Studio album

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. It is his first release on EMI Records

EMI Records

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.

The album was released in three different editions: a 5.1 Music Disc

5.1 Music Disc

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 edition featuring the new digital master recording of Oxygène, a CD and 2D DVD

DVD

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 special edition featuring Oxygène — Live in Your Living Room DVD (an exclusive private live performance of Oxygène, filmed in Lint, Belgium

Belgium

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), and a limited edition CD + 3D DVD featuring Oxygène — Live in Your Living Room DVD in stereoscopic

Stereoscopy

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 3D High-Definition, which also includes two pairs of 3D glasses.

To promote this major release, Jean Michel Jarre performed a series of ten Oxygène Live concerts in Paris

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

, inside the Theâtre Marigny, from December 12 to December 26, 2007. Jarre performed new 90 minute live performances of Oxygène, complete with new tracks, using only vintage synthesizers

Analog synthesizer

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 and assisted on stage by French musicians Francis Rimbert

Francis Rimbert

Francis Rimbert is a French musician and composer.- Biography :Francis Rimbert started playing classical piano when he was 5 years old. At the conservatory, he studied harmony, counterpoint, the fugue and orchestral leading...

, Claude Samard and Dominique Perrier.

In 2008, The Mail on Sunday

The Mail on Sunday

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newspaper distributed more than 2 million copies of the Oxygène: New Master Recording CD to its readers in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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. In that same year, Francis Dreyfus Music

Disques Dreyfus

Disques Dreyfus is a record label which is currently home to artists such as Klement Julienne. Jean Michel Jarre was part of the label for more than 20 years.Francis Dreyfus founded Disque Dreyfus in 1985...

 said it intended to bring legal actions against The Mail on Sunday and EMI, based on the claim that the contents of the CD do not come from a new re-recorded master, but are from the original master to which the French label owns the rights. Since Jarre has replayed the entire album on stage during his concerts in 2008, along with some previously unreleased sections, and does the same in the video on the DVD, many fans consider these allegations without foundation, although it is believed by some that the music on the CD was indeed remixed and remastered rather than fully re-recorded, due to the merely subtle changes with regard to the original Oxygène.

New Master Recording CD

1. Oxygène (Part I) – 7:39
2. Oxygène (Part II) – 7:54
3. Oxygène (Part III) – 3:06
4. Oxygène (Part IV) – 4:13
5. Oxygène (Part V) – 10:11
6. Oxygène (Part VI) – 7:05

Live in Your Living Room 2D DVD

Special edition only

1. Prelude (New Track)
2. Oxygène Part I
3. Oxygène Part II
4. Oxygène Part III
5. Variation Part I (New Track)
6. Oxygène Part IV
7. Variation Part II (New Track)
8. Oxygène Part V
9. Variation Part III (New Track)
10. Oxygène Part VI

• + The Making Of
• + Instruments Presentation

Live in Your Living Room stereoscopic 3D DVD

Limited edition only (plus two pairs of 3D glasses)

1. "Prelude" (New Track)
2. "Oxygène Part I"
3. "Oxygène Part II"
4. "Oxygène Part III"
5. "Variation Part I" (New track)
6. "Oxygène Part IV"
7. "Variation Part II" (New track)
8. "Oxygène Part V"
9. "Variation Part III" (New track)
10. "Oxygène Part VI"

• + The Making Of
• + Instruments Presentation
• + 3D gallery

External links

• Oxygène: New Master Recording at Discogs
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• Oxygène and Oxygène: New Master Recording at JarreUK