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After working for years as a screen composer (like his father, Maurice Jarre) and songwriter, Jean-Michel took the synthesizer away from the experimental soundscapes it was currently ensnared in, using it as a serious compositional tool on his trailblazing 1977 LP "Oxygene." Not only is that album a crucial release in the history of electronic music, but it’s still a totally transfixing listen, some 40 years after "Oxygene" hit the U.S. charts and rocketed to #2 UK. Jean-Michel followed the six "Oxygene" tracks on that album with seven more on "Oxygene 7–13" in 1997, and has now created seven new ones on the 2016 release "Oxygene 3." You can get that new album on vinyl here, or all three "Oxygene" albums on CD. The most eager electronic-music enthusiast will want to pick up the six-disc set here: all three albums on CD, all three albums on 180-gram clear vinyl and a coffee-table book full or rare photos and essays about the creation of this breathtaking body of work, whose sounds are at once classic and modern and whose moods shift seismically from the dark and moody to the bright and buoyant! Sony Legacy.