Jean-Michel Jarre Released Oxygène 3 in 2016

Jean-Michel Jarre released the album Oxygène 3 in 2016. Over his career, Jarre has sold 80 million albums. His two Electronica albums placed him in the UK top 10 for the first time in 25 years. Jarre was also the first Western musician to perform in China.

Jarre worked on electronic music for 10 years before recording his first album, Oxygène. He recorded the initial Oxygène album in six weeks with limited resources, featuring cover artwork by artist Michel Granger. The album was rejected by every record label it was sent to before being accepted by Les Disques Motors.

In 1969, the 21-year-old Jarre joined the Groupe de Recherches Musicales directed by Pierre Schaeffer. He worked with Schaeffer for three years and went to Cologne to work with Stockhausen. Jarre began his musical work with a British-made VCS3 built by Peter Zinovieff.