Oxygène: New Master Recording

Oxygène: New Master Recording
Studio album by Jean-Michel Jarre
Released	26 November 2007 France 11 December 2007 Worldwide
Recorded	2007
Genre	Electronica, new-age, ambient, chill-out
Length	40:10
Label	EMI
Producer	Jean-Michel Jarre
Jean-Michel Jarre chronology
Téo & Téa (2007) Oxygène: New Master Recording (2007) Essentials & Rarities (2011)

Oxygène: New Master Recording, also known as Oxygène New Master Recording 2007 and Oxygène (New Master Recording), is a new recording by Jean-Michel Jarre of his album Oxygène. It was released in 2007, marking the 30th anniversary of the original worldwide release. It is his first release on EMI Records.

The album was released in three different editions:

• a 5.1 Music Disc edition featuring the new digital master recording of Oxygène
• a CD and 2D DVD special edition featuring Oxygène — Live in Your Living Room DVD (an exclusive private live performance of Oxygène, filmed in Lint, Belgium)
• a limited edition CD + 3D DVD featuring Oxygène — Live in Your Living Room DVD in stereoscopic 3D High-Definition, which also includes two pairs of 3D glasses.

To promote this release, Jean-Michel Jarre performed a series of ten Oxygène Live concerts in Paris, inside the Theâtre Marigny, from 12 to 26 December 2007. Jarre performed new 90 minute live performances of Oxygène, complete with new tracks, using only vintage synthesizers and assisted on stage by French musicians Francis Rimbert, Claude Samard and Dominique Perrier.

In 2008, The Mail on Sunday newspaper distributed more than 2 million copies of the Oxygène: New Master Recording CD to its readers in the United Kingdom. In that same year, Francis Dreyfus Music said it intended to bring legal action against The Mail on Sunday and EMI, based on the claim that the contents of the CD did not come from the new re-recorded master, but from the original master of which the French label owned the rights.^[1]

Track listings[]

New Master Recording CD[]

1. "Oxygène Part 1" – 7:39
2. "Oxygène Part 2" – 7:54
3. "Oxygène Part 3" – 3:06
4. "Oxygène Part 4" – 4:13
5. "Oxygène Part 5" – 10:11
6. "Oxygène Part 6" – 7:05

Live in Your Living Room 2D DVD[]

Special edition only

1. "Prelude" (new track)
2. "Oxygène Part 1"
3. "Oxygène Part 2"
4. "Oxygène Part 3"
5. "Variation Part 1" (new track)
6. "Oxygène Part 4"
7. "Variation Part 2" (new track)
8. "Oxygène Part 5"
9. "Variation Part 3" (new track)
10. "Oxygène Part 6"

• + 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 1"
3. "Oxygène Part 2"
4. "Oxygène Part 3"
5. "Variation Part 1" (new track)
6. "Oxygène Part 4"
7. "Variation Part 2" (new track)
8. "Oxygène Part 5"
9. "Variation Part 3" (new track)
10. "Oxygène Part 6"

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

References[]

External links[]

• Oxygène: New Master Recording at Discogs
• Oxygène and Oxygène: New Master Recording at JarreUK
• Jean-Michel Jarre interview about Live In Your Living Room at Sound On Sound (archive.org)