Zoolook
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Zoolook is the seventh album by Jean Michel Jarre, and released in 1984 on Disques Dreyfus. It makes extensive use of digital recording techniques and sampling. It is considered by many fans to be Jean Michel Jarre's most experimental album to date. Much of the music is built up from song and speech from over thirty different languages, together with other synthesizers, as well as more traditional instruments. Much of the tone of the album appears to be influenced by elements of musique concrète and by his time as a student of Pierre Schaeffer.
Parts of the album were reworkings of material that had already appeared as sections of the album Music For Supermarkets, released the previous year. The track "Moon Machine" was recorded for this album but not included; it later appeared on a flexidisc in Keyboard Magazine, the 12-inch release of Fourth Rendez-Vous, and the much later Images compilation album.
It is one of the first Compact Discs labelled as DDD: Digitally recorded, mixed and mastered.
