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Jarre's Eclectic Electic Music

Jim Sullivan, Sweet Potato, March 1979

YOU HAVE TO credit Jean Michel Jarre for making the sometimes forboding world of electronic music accessible to the public. Me. I've lone been a sucker for this kind of twaddle; I'll spend entire evenings with headphones on, nodding rhythmically and smiling peaceably to the likes of Tangerine Dream, Michael Hoenig, or Brian Eno's more experimental side.

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