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Planet Jarre: The Podcast

by Jean-Michel Jarre and Matt Berry

Jean-Michel Jarre is a true pioneer in electronic music. A two time Grammy nominee, with more than eighty million albums sold throughout his career, a four-time Guinness World Record holder for largest concert ever performed, and UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador, renowned for his one-off groundbreaking events at historical landmarks across the world. Jarre has been a key force in turning electronic music into the phenomenon it is today. An innovator on many levels, Jarre is often cited as an important influence by artists of the genre today. Matt Berry is an actor, writer, and musician. In 2015 he won a BAFTA award for his work on Toast of London. Berry himself is a composer and musician who has released six studio albums to date and is a longtime fan of Jean-Michel Jarre! In Planet Jarre: The Podcast, the two meet in Jarre’s Paris studio to talk about the roots of Jean-Michel Jarre´s career, his explorations into a completely new genre called “Electronic Music” and the instruments and t

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Episodes

  1. Bonus Episode: The Sounds Of Oxygene

    In this mini episode Jean-Michel Jarre walks Matt Berry through how he created some of the iconic sounds on the monumental album that is “Oxygene”. The use of minimal equipment in clever ways meant that “Oxygene” changed the sound of electronic music forever. Jean-Michel gives some deep insight…

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  2. Episode 5: The Future

    In 2018 Jean-Michel Jarre announced two album projects. The first is the career-spanning collection "Planet Jarre" for which he dug deep into his vaults and arranged in an innovative thematic way. The second is the upcoming "Equinoxe Infinity", an exciting new project based around artificial...

  3. Episode 4: Electronica

    “Electronica” is a Grammy nominated project that Jean-Michel Jarre released on two albums in 2015 and 2016. It features 32 collaborations with different artists including Pete Townshend, Moby, Armin van Buuren and Hans Zimmer. In this episode Matt Berry and Jean-Michel Jarre talk about the…

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  4. Episode 3: Playing live

    Jean-Michel Jarre has so far received FOUR Guinness World Records for playing to the biggest crowds the world has ever seen. His stage design continues to break new ground with every tour he plays. In this Episode Matt and Jean-Michel talk about how terrifying and surprising it was to play in…

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  5. Episode 2: OXYGENE

    This week Jean-Michel Jarre and Matt Berry discuss the process of creating an album that would change the course of Electronic Music forever, what cooking has to do with music production, and how works considered classics today were initially boundary-breaking experimentations. An episode that is…

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  6. Episode 1: The Early Years

    Matt Berry dives into the early years of Jean-Michel Jarre’s career, discussing how the noise of a railway station formed his early interest in strange sounds, selling a guitar to purchase his first electronic instrument and how thinking non-commercially lead to huge success.

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Jean-Michel Jarre is a true pioneer in electronic music. A two time Grammy nominee, with more than eighty million albums sold throughout his career, a four-time Guinness World Record holder for largest concert ever performed, and UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador, renowned for his one-off groundbreaking events at historical landmarks across the world. Jarre has been a key force in turning electronic music into the phenomenon it is today. An innovator on many levels, Jarre is often cited as an important influence by artists of the genre today. Matt Berry is an actor, writer, and musician. In 2015 he won a BAFTA award for his work on Toast of London. Berry himself is a composer and musician who has released six studio albums to date and is a longtime fan of Jean-Michel Jarre! In Planet Jarre: The Podcast, the two meet in Jarre’s Paris studio to talk about the roots of Jean-Michel Jarre´s career, his explorations into a completely new genre called “Electronic Music” and the instruments and t

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Jean-Michel Jarre is a true pioneer in electronic music. A two time Grammy nominee, with more than eighty million albums sold throughout his career, a four-time Guinness World Record holder for largest concert ever performed, and UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador, renowned for his one-off groundbreaking...

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Planet Jarre: The Podcast is created and hosted by Jean-Michel Jarre and Matt Berry.
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