Very, very, very disappointing....Not much you can and should say about this album. Jarre has become more of a follower than a searcher...

Very, very nice-sounding pressing. It's also on heavyweight vinyl, so it feels great. The album itself is magnificent.

Horrible. Kitschy almost all along. There's no a single newby, nothing interesting solution, nor, a single good sound. Disappointing as during the last decade. IMHO the best track is that with Tangerine D. and interestingly with P Townshend. Jarre is used to be a pioneer but always had a twisted sense to the kitsch. Now, it turned out in full-lenght.

Pas trés inspirés tous cela...et trés vite ennuyant,....la suite peut-être ?

All 3 art-prints were mispressed (only grey print, no color). New ones with the color on have been mailed out in december 2015 to all buyers of the box set

90s-2000s cover aesthetics, wtf face on the photo, pseudo-ambitious exceedingly vast work that needs "parts", historical wink like "I'm a vet, I can sum electronic music history up and show you all the way for tomorrow", loads of duo-mutual-shared-composition-work-featuring-and-arm-long-credits, and just plain flat epic-ish awfully mastered tracks that still damn feature 2010-style vocoded voices and annoying self-claimed emotional high-pitched male singing. DAMN. Disappointing again. JM, where art thou?

Big names - generic outcome. IMO the only interesting [or at least worth second listening/coming back to] collabs here are with AIR, Fuck Buttons and 3D [that track should be listed as 3D feat. JMJ lol] - those tracks stand out. And Moby - to some extent, if you are into his despair-tronica. The Vince Clarke collab is [claps??] disappointing. The rest is some bland mix of late-JMJ generic dance stuff, nothing mind-blowing [with a nicey piano track at the end]. The album in general sounds like an attempt at sounding epic. It has more of historical value as a gathering of well-known or established music producers. P.S. And I will never accept the fact that my childhood electronic hero, once a pioneer and one of electronica gods, JMJ, one day started doing 4/4 dancey stuff. It's not ground-breaking anymore, it's just going with the mainstream flow. Sad.

A comment based on having heard less than 25% of the album can hardly be taken seriously. You didn't even give JMJ the fairness of hearing it all. And yes, there is a common musical thread. Not sure why you didn't see it.

Granted, I have only listened to the 90 seconds iTunes preview for most of the tracks, but the general impression I have is pretty similar.I have also noticed that most reviewers of this album fall into one of two camps:1) those who absolutely love it and thinks this is Jarre's music evolving into the future instead of standing still by recording another Oxygene/Equinoxe2) those who think Jarre should indeed give us another Oxygene/Equinoxe instead of this commercial-sounding pop...and I think neither are exactly on the money here.The premise of the project is definitely interesting, but unlike Daft Punk's stellar collaboration album "Random Access Memories" does "Electronica pt.1" never manage to form a cohesive "whole" that is more than the sum of its parts.There is no common musical thread in this album, which probably hurts it much more than the lousy mastering of the digital versions.If this were a book, J.M. Jarre would not be credited as one of the authors, but as the editor.

Great idea and musicians but the mastering... No life in it at all...

Spot on!, I have ripped my LP and found it to be really dynamic, a tad too bassy but it could be work.My rip:http://dr.loudness-war.info/album/view/97653

This won't work. Once the waveform is nearly looking like a brick-wall, nothing can bring the dynamics back.The procedure you are suggesting is just like doing a make up and adjusting volume levels.It doesn't remaster anything. Remastering would require the original sound data available before mastering stage.

I know that it can be done, but it shouldn't have to be done, if I was a musician then I would want my work to be clear and balanced so that my listers can hear and feel what I wanted to give them. I have seen and herd that the LP has very good dynamics so I will report back on that.

Well why don't you remaster it yourself. I fix a lot of albums myself. Fix EQ, volume level etc. If you got the skills then go ahead.

It sounds like it's mastered for headphones, imho.