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Comment by ChrisMarshallNY | Hacker News Reader

Jarre is fairly notorious about enforcing copyrights and whatnot. He might be having thoughts about sending a letter...

Amusingly, then, I was introduced to Jarre's music through a little C-64 demo[1] that came as an extra on one of my pirated floppy disks back in the '80s, which contained a SID rendition of one of his songs. The whole music lineup on that demo was awesome[2]. It had an unusually large influence on the "tree" of electronic music artists I went on to discover in my youth.

1: https://csdb.dk/release/?id=34955

2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vSNPCcDAAE

Oh I remember this, except the version I had had a four-way-mirrored parabolic thing growing and shrinking and changing colour. That was a great demo.

The C64 was tremendously influential on my listening. I like a lot of electronic music now probably due on the incredible music that came out of that thing. That, and the electronic music in Doctor Who.

Interesting. You have a reference? Been listening to his music for ~40 years and this is the first I hear that.

He was the chair of the European Artists representative organization. Don't remember the name. He played hardball.

There's still a lot of his stuff I can't get on Apple Music.

But he has been very open to collaborating with folks, and pushing remixes (as long as he gets a cut, I guess).

I've been listening to his stuff since Oxygene.

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