Legendary electronic artist Jean-Michel Jarre is back with ‘BRUTALISM’, the dark new slice of Berlin techno taken from his upcoming 22nd studio album ‘OXYMORE’. An homage to the work of the late French composer Pierre Henry, the whole collection mixes electronica and ‘musique concrete’ to blur the lines of analogue and digital sound.
A thumping, powerful dance track that would perfectly suit a packed nightclub, parts of the recording process utilize unique sounds as raw material, with eerie industrial and digital outbursts appearing throughout ‘BRUTALISM’. With each single from the album planning for a selection of remixes and reworks from big names and up and coming artists, there is also plans for the digital VR space, ‘OXYVILLE’, to allow Jean-Michel Jarre to perform ‘BRUTALISM’ and other new songs live.
“That’s definitely a heavier track,” explains Jarre “I wanted to create an apocalyptic mood. Like a kind of big bang of Berlin techno, at the beginning when it was an explosion, that kind of feel, maybe due to the remains of the war.”
