Long before anyone was talking about drops or festival mainstages, there was a guy in a Paris apartment kitchen wiring together synthesizers and an eight-track tape machine, trying to figure out what electronic music could actually sound like. That record was Oxygene, and fifty years later, Jean-Michel Jarre is giving it the reissue treatment it probably should have gotten decades ago.
The 50th anniversary edition of Oxygene lands November 20 via BMG, marking the first time the album has been mixed in Dolby Atmos. For a record that basically predates the modern concept of electronic music…
