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Zoolook by Jean-Michel Jarre

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Tracklist

	Track	Duration	Listeners
5	Zoolookologie	3:48	18,312
212	Ethnicolor I	2:47	3,652
213	Diva	7:14	19,610
214	Zoolook	4:12	13,031
215	Wooloomooloo	3:21	11,400
216	Ethnicolor II	2:53	13,125
217	Blah Blah Cafe	3:26	11,338
219	Woolloomooloo	3:17	6,544
220	Ethnicolor	11:40	24,651

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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 musique concrète 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 wrote:
December 2011

Best Jarre album... is amazing!

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justine_tranter wrote:
September 2011

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

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PartySanCTG wrote:
April 2011

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

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narfit wrote:
September 2010

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...

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marcelodeassis wrote:
July 2010

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!

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Gothik_S wrote:
June 2010

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

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pol_noir wrote:
February 2010

She worked with Laurie Anderson in this album.

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ShadyAdy wrote:
May 2009

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. :-)

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mightythor83 wrote:
April 2009

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

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pc27 wrote:
April 2009

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

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shingouz wrote:
November 2008

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

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danextpope wrote:
November 2008

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

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Detuner wrote:
February 2008

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...

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Detuner wrote:
February 2008

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...

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