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Zoolook by Jean-Michel Jarre

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    Track     Duration Listeners
5 Zoolookologie 4:13 19,617
212 Ethnicolor I 2:47 3,690
213 Diva 7:14 20,005
214 Zoolook 4:12 13,315
215 Wooloomooloo 3:21 11,637
216 Ethnicolor II 2:53 13,358
217 Blah Blah Cafe 3:26 11,560
219 Woolloomooloo 3:17 6,666
220 Ethnicolor 11:40 24,987
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“Zoolook” is the fifth album by Jean Michel Jarre, and released in 1984 on Disques Dreyfus. It makes extensive use of digital recording techniques and sampling. It is considered by many fans to be Jean Michel Jarre’s most experimental album to date. Much of the music is built up from song and speech from over thirty different languages, together with other synthesizers, as well as more traditional instruments. Much of the tone of the album appears to be influenced by elements of and by his time as a student of Pierre Schaeffer.

Parts of the album were reworkings of material that had already appeared as sections of the album “Music For Supermarkets”, released the previous year. “Moon Machine”, a track that later appeared on a flexidisc in “Keyboard Magazine”, the 12-inch release of “Fourth Rendez-vous”, and the much later “Images” compilation album, was recorded for this album but not included.

It is one of the first Compact Discs labelled as “DDD”: Digitally recorded, mixed and mastered.
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  • thedamiano

    Best Jarre album... is amazing!

    December 2011

  • justine_tranter

    Best Jarre album. Beats even Oxygene and Equinoxe for me. [2]

    September 2011

  • PartySanCTG

    Best Jarre album. Beats even Oxygene and Equinoxe for me.

    April 2011

  • narfit

    Forgot what an amazing album this is, just listened to it for the first time in years and it's still as fresh and original as i remebered it. just one word amazing...

    September 2010

  • marcelodeassis

    A milestone in electronic music. The seamless connection between electronic components and progressive music. Ethinicolor is a great example of this: the first part suggests an atmosphere more intrinsic and the second part is presented with elements of strings and percussion working harmoniously with analog synthesizers. All with Jarre enjoying samplers which demonstrates concern for the environment using animal sounds. Simply fantastic and indispensable!

    July 2010

  • Gothik_S

    Yesterday my dad found vinyl version of this album. I couldn' t stop myself from touching it all the time :D

    June 2010

  • pol_noir

    She worked with Laurie Anderson in this album.

    February 2010

  • ShadyAdy

    I would hereby like to agree wholeheartedly with Shingouz. :-) And in response to Danextpope: the original album was released in November 1984, and actually had 7 tracks, not 6: (1)Ethnicolor, (2)Diva, (3)Zoolook, (4)Wooloomooloo, (5)Zoolookologie, (6)Blah-Blah Cafe, (7)Ethnicolor II. Only the 3'42" edit on the "Images" compilation (1991) is labelled "Ethnicolor I" - the original full-length 1984 version is just called "Ethnicolor". The album was first released on CD in 1985 with the same 7 tracks, although 'Zoolook' and 'Zoolookologie' were both remixes, and their positions switched so that 'Zoolook' was Track 5 instead of 3, and vice-versa. It was re-mastered and re-released in 1997 (as were all of Jarre's other albums), and was returned to the original 1984 track order and versions. The listing of tracks at the top of this page is just wrong - I've never seen a release of 'Zoolook' that runs in that cocked-up order. Hope that clears a few things up for people. :-)

    May 2009

  • mightythor83

    This is the first album I heard with him, and it's my favourite. I own it on LP. Really crisp sound!

    April 2009

  • pc27

    its jarre but at the time of conception,were the technologie becomes the inovation,and inspiration

    April 2009

  • shingouz

    Once upon a time, Jarre was a true innovator... This album is still his masterpiece.

    November 2008

  • danextpope

    Obviously, this is a track listing from a newer release. The original album released in the 80s had only six tracks: Ethnicolor I Diva Zoolook Wooloomooloo Zoolookologie Blah-Blah Cafe

    November 2008

  • Detuner

    so strange !!! Zoolook (track nr 4) is very close from aphex twin's windowlicker... same spirit same style : sick vocals samples + experimental funky beats + silly melody.... bizarre ? No, Richard D. James was 13 when zoolook came out in 1984...

    February 2008

  • Detuner

    so strange !!! Zoolook (track nr 4) is very close from aphex twin's windowlicker... same spirit same style : vocal samples + experimental funky beats + silly melody.... bizarre ? Richard D. James was 13 when zoolook came out...

    February 2008
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