Ep. 16 Jean-Michel Jarre

Jean Michel Jarre Reflects on His Life as One of Electronic Music's
First Superstars Think EDC is huge? The French electronic pioneer
once played for 3.5 million fans. Everybody likes to talk about how
huge EDM has gotten, but you'd have to take the single day
attendance at EDC Las Vegas (134,000) and multiply 26 times to
reach the 3.5 million folks who witnessed Jean Michel Jarre's 1997
concert in Moscow. The event marked the fourth time Jarre broke his
own world record for largest outdoor concert attendance and capped
off a career that began during the infancy of electronic music of
the 1960s. "Electronic music is not born with Avicii," he says of
EDM's current dominance of the cultural conversation on the latest
episode of Rave Curious Podcast. Jarre reveals the thoughtful
foundation that propelled him to reach the absolute heights of
fame, from his early years helping to invent the very idea of
synthetically produced music as part of Paris' musique concrete
community, to his current undertaking of two albums, Electronica
and Electronica 2, that see the legend collaborating with artists
as diverse as Cyndi Lauper and Jeff Mills.