Jean-Michel Jarre - Zoolookologie

[@derby378]

I had this played at a party in Texas 40 years ago, and the dance floor exploded. I'm still surprised this track wasn't more popular.

[@_JellyDonut_]

I'm a huge fan of new wave and electronic music, or at least I thought I was, and I've never heard of this dude at all. I just randomly came across it and was like "how did I miss this?". As someone who's obsessed with Kraftwerk I'm about to do a deep dive on this dude. Unlike them it looks like he has a ton of material

[@GodOfVictory501]

Zoolook is an absolute masterpiece of an album.

[@christiand8243]

💯💯💯

[@datutturugang666]

facts

[@leszekjezierski9414]

True! IMHO very underated album!

[@lunatecx7646]

personal favorite

[@OMG_so_Nerdy]

Don't care what people say. I love this song. It's so creative

[@Samlnrd]

Commandes les Contes de l'infini, et ceux du Vortex pls

[@azulmidnightful]

This piece of art belongs to the Louvre museum as a testament of what the 80s aesthetic were . Simply and self explanatory.

[@SeverityOne]

I've been in love with the blonde ever since I saw this video, even though she's probably a grandmother by now.

[@Colaris99]

JMJ, the only musician to make machines actually sing in their 'natural voice' :)

[@tfn212]

Actually he used samples with Fairlight CMI. Back then, samplers were heck expensive so making that song was freaking great. While Oxymore, while using samples like Zoolook with more modern style, the results are mixed, probably because sampling is recently more general and cheaper, even relatively free than in 80-s

[@UlysseLaarwall]

Merci Jean-Mich pour le Docteur Who en slibard, vivement Noël, Bisou Graham. (Commander Les contes de l'infini)

[@kirestojanoski997]

Master Jarre was ahead of time!

[@RickJamesEstate]

master jarre give kirestojanoski997 a sock!!!!

[@Der_Langenauer]

This song is an absolute masterpiece in all its inimitable uniqueness!

[@timursab5513]

This melody has the most significant sign of genius music -you can read the sense without words

[@Rebousez_moi]

as tu commandé les contes de l'infini JM? - Sylvia

[@brunobailly7013]

The very definition of 80's aesthetic in a 3 minute video.

[@cameronv205]

Also in Grace Jones's music vid for her cover of "Love is the Drug" and some of her EARLY 80s vids.

[@agavehouse]

And for that very reason this Music video needs to be preserved for all time :) Micro Men brought me here too..child of the 80s. loving it

[@tq2769]

YES!

[@ernestoribeiro2226]

NEW WAVE

[@SkandikFilm]

In the 1980's I had this song on LP but I didnt see the video until today.

[@roydhatta]

This song still blows away 80% of what's playing these days.

[@thomassby7139]

and the last 20% doesn't qualify as music anyways 😁

[@konami1979]

This is one of the Eightiest things that ever Eightied in the Eighties.

[@PutItAway101]

It's like they took the "eighties" dial and turned it up to eighty.

[@nothingisreal6816]

Aphex fan o/

[@alfresco4976]

I added like #80. Had to.

[@rodolfopalma4018]

And This kzbin.info/www/bejne/rWTamYpsar2fa5Y

[@MindbenderMilo]

Second most, Toto Coelo’s I Eat Cannibals wins that prize.

[@asmodeusasteroth7137]

In 87 I cranking this on the record player thought the equalizer in my big speakers I miss the eighties love the look Music and tge background effects I feel old and sad now

[@PepperpotTeam]

Tu vas nous manquer, Jean-Mi. On t'aime ! On se retrouve à Noël

[@gwladysgerard9647]

J'ai pas trop compris le délire 🤣

[@dello54]

@@gwladysgerard9647 t'as pas la rèf, nous si

[@gwladysgerard9647]

@@dello54 je n'étais pas présente à tout les live c pour ça

[@davidparsons7284]

This song has AMAZING layering and texture. Not to mention EXTREMELY catchy! Heard this when I was 5 years old and loved it. I searched a while and found the album and the whole thing is surreal and incredible. I own a few Jarre albums now. They just don't make music like this anymore and it's sad. I'll never forget 80's music!!

[@Sqlut]

Hello, while you are right on your first half and this music, and everything Jarre and Kraftwerk made in this era was awesome, I beg to differ on your point about today's music. Music, and especially electronic music is still evolving in a permanent rebirth fashion, but it's not put on TV or in medias anymore, you have to search it on Internet. A good example is worth a thousand words so just be sure to listen with proper sound equipment and check "KOAN Sound - Viridian Dream", or if you are not in a hurry, quickly look at their album "Polychrome", or the last Tipper album, or Culprate last album "Deliverance". The sound design, the layers, the production quality, melodies, the feeling of the tracks, I hope it would just erase your sadness. If you enjoyed it, I just have about a dozen artists who are pushing forward in their own specific directions

[@jlperron4702]

@@Sqlut I'm checking it out now. Good suggestion. Indeed I am finding it a bit hard to decide on what is good and not so good in terms of electronic music nowadays, being a closet composer myself. Generally if the composer throws in nice changes it tends to make all the difference to may ears. Thanks for the suggestion. The bass in Virian Dreams is pretty out there. But let's face it, Jarre probably had to put in a lot more hard work to get his results then most electronic composers now cuz the computers tend to do a lot of the preprogrammed multi layered textures now. As well as pre-sequenced, or pre-arpeggiated. If you know what I mean.

[@Sqlut]

@@jlperron4702 Of course. The difference with Jarre is that old electronic producers had to physically produce the instruments in order to obtain electronic sounds such as Kraftwerk did. They had to be physically creative and find new ideas on how they could obtain this snare or that kick that would sound "not that well" compared to today's standards. Today, it's kind of different because we are at a time where every physical "sound machines" are created and easilly available to produce signals. Everything except softwares, and this is where it gets interesting. If you ever check at Tipper's skills, you might see that he also produces softwares that allow him to push the limits further and this is what allows him to create tracks like "Spunion" or "C'est La Vie". Everything available, also means it's harder to master your equipment, in front of an infinity of possibilities, you have to gather an infinity of knowledge, push the limits of an infinity of softwares and maybe, after a decade or production, you may obtain something that sounds really good like Culprate or Tipper, or you might be quickly satisfyed with your work and end up like all these shitty electronic producers who fills the biggest rooms todays. Just a few things about KOAN Sound. This album is the result of 3 long years of work, each minute is the result of more than an hour of produced music. I don't know if it was less or more work than Jarre, but the dedication and high quality results are both presents in my opinion (at least it's way better than 99% of other electronic music for sure), and this is mostly what I wanted to share with you because you seemed a bit disappointed about todays electronic music. ;)

[@winterland2011]

In my humble opinion, in 1984, Kaftwerk had said everything. After Tour de France, maybe after Computer World, music in general got them finally. Electric Cafe was good, but far from being groundbreaking. And after that, you know...Ralf stopped creating anything new (expo 2000, and Tour De France 2003).

[@chaigtin259]

@@Sqlut Sadness erased : "KOAN Sound - Virtual Light" : thanks so much, pure magic! Viridian Dream too, chills!

[@Rebousez_moi]

Salut c'est Corinne mon JM on veut un disque 45 tours pour Chritmas bisous mon JM on t'aime vive les troubadourds du slibards

[@thomaspouchin8000]

Je suis là grace à moi !

[@GallifreyAcademy]

Et moi grâce à toi !

[@hugosmith5381]

Ce morceau n'a aucun putain de sens !

[@thomaspouchin8000]

Si mais faut connaître le concept de l'album pour comprendre 🤷

[@hugosmith5381]

@@thomaspouchin8000 Bah en général JMJ je trouve que c'est un Ovni de la musique et j ai jamais trop bien compris son délire 😅

[@Grimes_68]

The magic of Fairlight!

[@campanita4215]

Merci pour cette saison 12 Jean-Michel à l'année prochaine ! Dommage que t'ait raté la gnôle...

[@nougat117]

Merci pour cette saison 12, à l'année prochaine !

[@nbongo]

I bought this album, Mom thought I was crazy. If I remember correctly, this is the most upbeat song on the album, the rest is pretty dark!

[@MarvinSumpter]

First track Ethnicolor is mindblowing

[@VinchVolt]

This is the stuff you'd usually see in a video from the 2010's trying to imitate the "look" of the 80's, when in actuality this really was from 1985 (the album came out in 1984, but this song was released as a single the following year). Incredible.

[@darcy_taylor3103]

Jean Michel Jarre - Legend of Electronic Music ! Greets from Poland ;-)

[@EVANDAV7]

J'adore ! à quand un feat avec la Pepperpot Team ? Bisou, Graham 😘

[@campanita4215]

J'adore! À quand un feat avec Pepperpot?

[@Rebousez_moi]

On attend Roubignoles dans la nouvelle saison 1 de docteur nour, une série henguelaise

[@Sophia-xd4hs]

À quand un feat avec la #PepperpotTeam ? L'idéal serait pour le dernier Live à l'arrache/Jeudi Whittaker. Bisous Graham !

[@niso7969]

Merci pour la saison 12 JM ! A l'année prochaine ^^

[@obsoletegeek]

So much synthesizer. I love it.

[@ronanhughes3861]

I think the zoolook album was done manly with the CMI Fairlight sampler. So technically they're just 80's computer processed sounds. I'm sure he also used old synths but yeah, mainly found sounds electronically processed.

[@capitancloss87]

+Ronan Hughes Not only. On track Jarre used brand new in 1984 Emu-Emulator II sampler.

[@Dixerrn83]

+Ronan Hughes a synthesizer is any electronic device which generates electronic signals and converts them to sounds so a sampler qualifies as a synthesizer I would imagine

[@ronanhughes3861]

+Dixerrn83 Fair Point! But the timber of the sound is just replication digitally by the fairlight, unlike something like a mellotron, which has actual physical samples. Your point's completely correct, but the fairlight doesn't play an actual sample, but just a crude 8 bit representation of it. Still, thanks for the replies! P.S.: I got oxygène, equinoxe, magnetic fields and zoolook as a record from a record shop! They're in superb vinyl and warm analogue condition! ;)

[@BenHelweg]

Of course the Obsolete Geek is here!

[@Sophia-xd4hs]

Je crois que tu as mis le doigt sur quelque chose d'intéressant Jean-Michel ! Même si j'étais à deux doigts de me tromper de vidéo.

[@MisterrKay4ever]

Une mélodie de bruits...avec ce titre JM Jarre a montré qu'il est un des plus grands Maestros de la musique lectronique

[@thetenthplanetproductions150]

This music video is the living esssence of the 80s

[@AJLangford]

Fucking brilliant. One of my favourite albums of the 80's. Still groundbreaking today. Genius.

[@GallifreyAcademy]

Merci pour la saison 12 à l'année Prochaine ❤

[@viviennetovich7465]

you can't make more 80's than Jean-Michel Jarre

[@gaoeykreg]

Interesting how this aesthetic has recently come back in fashion! Love this track :)

[@francishodge5189]

Another forgotten brilliant 80s electronica by the legendary Jean Michel Jarre

[@Killian_]

Merci pour cette saison, à l'année prochaine !!

[@carnifexx]

this is the 80's in a video, thanks.

[@fabiend474]

Vive les dimanche rubygnolsunday

[@bibidutardis2198]

merci pour cette saison et a l'annee prochaine mais aussi l'episode de Noel

[@walid5782]

Merci pour la Saison 12, on se revoit au Christmas Special

[@Headpanic]

Послушал эту композицию пару-тройку раз на флэхе в машине, она мне очень понравилась. Решил найти исполнителя. Оказалось, что исполняет её мой старый добрый друг Жан-Мишель Жарр. Бывает же такое совпадение - понравилась мелодия, но ты не знаешь, кто её исполняет... потом находишь её в интернете... и ВНЕЗАПНО оказывается, что её исполняет твоя САМАЯ ЛЮБИМАЯ группа/артист, все композиции которых, ты, казалось бы, выучил наизусть = )

[@anthonyrogers4137]

I LOVE 'ZOOLOOKOLOGIE'!!! 😍 I'm so happy to be reunited with it 😃🎶🤩 I haven't heard it for years since around the time I bought the 'Zoolook' CD album in '84 or '85. I didn't look at my clock, but my body-clock suggests that I listened to this on repeat for 1 to 2 hours while I was drawing this afternoon 😊 🎶✨💖😍😃👍 Greetings from Australia 👋😃🐨🦘🦜✨

[@АлексейЛукин-о2х]

1984. But so perfect as born today. Love it! My youth, my life. JMJ, you did it!

[@mortonichabod49]

Merci pour cette saison 12 Jean-Michel, à l'année prochaine ! #JeudiWhittaker

[@silvanafloreschavez7996]

Cada vez que veo este video, aprecio lo increible que es JEAN MICHEL JARRE al manejar la cultura, el arte y la ciencia y tecnología

[@bibidutardis2198]

J'ai mis le doigt sur une bonne video. Merci Thomas

[@gwladysgerard9647]

Commandez les comptes de l'infini. On se revoie pour la prochaine régénération/bi-génération. Zoubie.

[@keesvandiepen7761]

Amazing Oh Superman! I enjoyed this record early 80's so much! Still do so!

[@Sophia-xd4hs]

Merci aux Pepperpots ❤ ! Ce fut un véritable plaisir de vous suivre en live, continuez d'être aussi géniaux et créatifs ! Et merci aussi aux modérateurs qui font un travail pas facile pour que les lives se passent bien. Et à mes yeux, le dernier live est définitivement The Greatest Live in the Galaxy. Merci aussi à toi Jean-Michel, pour avoir créé Zoolookologie et même si tu n'as pas lu nos messages, j'espère que tu as pu commander l'annual ! Toi tu sais, moi je sais, les autres ils ont pas compris ! Zoubis les Zarbis et rendez-vous au prochain Jeudi Whittaker.

[@campanita4215]

Oh ! Qui a éteint la lumière ? Les vashta nerada ont envahi le live de Pepperpot !

[@joaoypsilon]

The magician of the futuristic contemporaneity

[@MmostlyRandom]

this is my fave Jarre track. i must have heard it a thousand times and it gives me goosebumps every time (ive got them right now :)

[@EVANDAV7]

Salut, c'est encore nous ! :D

[@emori96]

cant believe this track. speechless

[@angelphiquebouquiniste2876]

Zut, tu as raté la gnole, mais merci pour cette saison 12, jean michel, à l'année prochaine !!

[@faberbosc6639]

Un de ses chefs-d'oeuvre Le morceau est percutant à souhait !

[@deliabrahaa1030]

C'est vrai!

[@barnabarinludocratique6262]

En revanche le clip ne casse rien

[@faberbosc6639]

@@barnabarinludocratique6262 Ah, les années 80....

[@MisakiPopo]

This is so groovy gosh

[@marcmore7184]

THIS MUSIC IS THE 80s IN ITS MOST ABSOLUTE EXPRESSION!!!

[@gwladysgerard9647]

Superbe saison 12 de docteur Who a l'année prochaine pour l'épisode spécial

[@thomaskolb8785]

OMG, this clip has not aged well. It certainly remedies my nostalgia for the 80's.

[@BirbarianHomeGuard]

The La Defense performance of this is iconic.

[@miguelangelrebollo9397]

Tremendamente novedoso y muy ritmico, J.M. Jarre graba Zoolook, una Obra realizada con la inclusion de voces rescatadas de diversos pueblos del planeta, que combinados con los sonidos de sus ya familiares instrumentos electronicos, dan como resultado el trabajo mas complejo que haya creado el musico galo. Jarre sensacional.

[@octavioespinosa1987]

Excelente analisis

[@marietian4491]

Belle composition Beau clip La légende Jean-Michel Jarre

[@V8AmericanMuscleCar]

I'm so happy I found this! Great tune!! I haven't heard this since the 80s. It definitely should have been a bigger hit.

[@dello54]

Achetez tous votre Brendannual de la Pepperpot Team #jeudiwhittaker en force !

[@TamasKalman]

only 600k views?! one of the most underappreciated 80s gem.

[@DragonQueen78]

As a kid I was obsessed with this album. I have admired Jarre's work ever since and have just about every album

[@arkadycolom4103]

You know it is a master when you rediscover his music everytime.

[@tititc9172]

Brendan Zookool bien ! J'aime =)

[@Rebousez_moi]

coucou les troubadours. a quand un feat avec JM - Corinne

[@MarvinSumpter]

This song has been selected for my playlist 'The Great Big Music Bin'

[@campanita4215]

Bonjour, je cherche le Pepperpot Annual, est-ce bien ici?

[@Sophia-xd4hs]

Pour la troisième fois, je viens ici grâce à la merveilleuse #PepperpotTeam et au dernier #JeudiWhittaker.

[@Rebousez_moi]

Coucou c'est la vieille du bus et y'a Eccleston à côté de moi!!!!

[@BSIII]

Jean Michel Jarre is a legend. All the way back to Oxygen 🔥

[@Samlnrd]

Merci la Pepperpot Team !

[@vatromet1]

Ahhh what a great times

[@cien1975]

A friend of mine recreated the cover-art of "Zoolook" on his C-64, drawing every pixel by hand, using "Koala-Painter". That impressed me so much that I still remember it today.

[@tef6740]

Merci de nous avoir supporter. Coeur sur vous ! Pepperpot en force !^^

[@trenza30]

Gros bisous Graham, oublie pas ton écharpe fais froid dehors

[@tsdrabble]

Wow truly fabulous tune

[@zoolook3264]

The whole Zoolook album is a Masterclass in how to use Samples creatively and not just as loops - 5/5.

[@GallifreyAcademy]

C'est pas ici pour l'annual ? :o

[@_JellyDonut_]

How is this song not more popular in the US? I'm a huge electronic music fan (at least I thought I was) and I'm just now finding out about JMJ. This should be on every 80's station right along side Axel F and Rockit

[@almthomson]

This was my Studio monitor test in the 1990's for tight bass etc - still as clear as then - My Ferrograph S1s reproduced the fast base drums immaculately and totally tight

[@orlandogomes5031]

y pensar que bailabamos esta musica en los 70 ---->> and think that dancing music in 1970

[@Samlnrd]

Slibard + mollets + troubadours, le combo gagnant !

[@damienfarhate2587]

A l'année prochaine pour la saison 13, Merci beaucoup ! 😉 Rendez vous dans le Pepperpot annual. Bisous Graham et vive Doctor Who #teamPepperpotTeam #TeamTardistory #TeamGallifreyAcademy #TeamMDL16 #TeamDoctorWho

[@ericksonjohna]

I've loved this song and album for a long time, but I never realized how hilarious the video was until today!

[@Rebousez_moi]

merci pour la saison 1 JM c'est grâce à toi et ta prod olalalala je suis ému - bisous JM, bisous graham - Corinne 2024

[@xaraxen]

Feels like I'm listening to 10 tracks all at once.

[@RTK171]

you are listening to 10 tracks at once I think he has 40 samples of all different languages put thru a ego synth and then multi tracked them all to get this ☺☺

[@whatareyoudoingheretoday]

really agree with you after listened all tracks of 'Zoolook'...

[@marie-heleneveau669]

Années 9o

[@manueldpmingopereznavales5109]

@@marie-heleneveau669 80's

[@lady_kuribo]

Merci pour cette delicieuse saison de Doctor Who , a l'an prochain #jeudiwhittaker #pepperpotlovesdhawan merci EDF aussi pour le live de pepperpot

[@clarissedufeux-leroy3026]

RIP Pepperpot Team :'(

[@justinrichards9625]

40 years, still love this track and album