OXYGENE 4 (EXTENDED VERSION) cover played on vintage synthesizers - music by Jean-Michel Jarre

I recorded this cover of OXYGENE IV - music by Jean-Michel Jarre.

NO SAMPLES were used - just the real thing (vintage electronic instruments). Every sound was played by hand and recorded onto multitrack without MIDI - like Jarre did in 1976. It was hard work - it required good timing - but I enjoyed the recording process very much. At the first picture in the video you can see a part of my studio. I used only the following vintage analog synthesizers / instruments:

EMINENT 310 Unique (for the strings and pads with Small Stone)
KORG MINIPOPS 7 DRUMBOX
ARP ODYSSEY (brass-like lead sound)
KORG MS-20 (bass)
MOOG MICROMOOG for the sequencer sound, white noise FX and the lead sound with ELECTRIC MISTRESS flanger.

It took three days to record and mix this track. Recording and mixing was doing digitally with LOGIC - I also used the reverb and delay plugins - as well as some equalizer plugs.

I used some of the original Instruments from Oxygene (Korg Minipops 7, Eminent 310U, Small Stone) and some other synths (I don't have a RMI or an ARP 2600). However, the ARP Odyssey that I used is the small brother of the 2600 and its basic sound is similar). For the RMI sounds I used the Micromoog, which has very fast envelopes.

Music reproduced by kind permission of Jean Michel Jarre, see

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhO7ZFxMEN8

As a big JMJ fan I always wanted to make a very good OXYGENE 4 cover - as a maxi-single version, that never existed. For all JMJ fans (including me), here it is...

There are many Oxygene 4 covers on YouTube... but to come as close to the original as this, you need analog equipment - you will not get such a sound from digital stuff, vst plugins...

It is recorded in stereo, enjoy it...

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Jean
• Michel
• Jarre
• Oxygene
• IV
• Eminent
• 310
• equinoxe
• Korg
• MS-20
• Moog
• Micromoog
• ARP
• Odyssey
• Minipops

[PercivalFromWales]

I salute you for what is so much more than 'just' a cover. You expanded on the original in a way that is highly creative yet perfectly aligned with the overall atmosphere of the original. Listening to your rendition of this track is like entering an alternative reality that is close to, yet different from ours.

[AnalogAudio1]

@PercivalFromWales Thank you for this comment, that is a very interesting point of view. One of the best comments as yet :-)

[jjmourajr]

Hey, couldn't you possibly make a lossless audio file for us? I would like very much to have your version in better quality audio...

[AnalogAudio1]

@jjmourajr I can send you a high definition mp3 if you give me your email address.

[donpepperoni0]

Good Job! Just one question, did you eat the sweets afterwards?

[AnalogAudio1]

@donpepperoni0 not the ones you see in the video. But I had enough of them around... :-)

[TheVoiceOfNow]

Wow, this is almost as close as one could get to the original.

nice extended part as well!

[WiiViiDoo]

Lol, This is in GTA IV

[heythanksbutnothanks]

I agree with thevoiceofnow this is as near to the original as anyone could get, probably even JMJ, which is why the extended bit was good to hear. I hope you do not mind I downloaded this as a wav file using DVDsoft and I have listened to it on my Ipod many times..great stuff.

[djstarmo]

AMAZING!!!!

[MalcaratMartinez]

Amazing cover !! some of the sounds are quite identical !!! I have huge respect for people like you ...keep it up !

[GregSaxify]

This is the BEST version! You are an inspiration! However any attempt on my part be all will be using digital CZ's!l

[aaronmcphee]

Excellent!!! & true to the original, thank you for waking my ears up early on a Sunday morning.

[PhobiaGuy]

Will me screaming give you an idea of how impressed i am? I have no exclamation that fits...."AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA­AAAAAAAHHHHHH"

[thhedk]

This is SO good!

I have made some real good jarre-covers in software synth and know how ard it is to get all the details.

Making all this on old analogs is just unbelieveble.

[oxiigen]

i usually don't like covers, but this is one of those rare exceptions... bravo maestro!

but this wasn't made in one take, right!?

[musicofEagle]

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