Jarre goes down the EDM dumper

The writing has been on the wall for Jean Michal Jarre for a while. I have written posts before about the French maestro's waning fortunes, but I fear his output has sunk to new levels. The "Welcome to the other side" VR concert was held on New Years Eve in Notre Dame Cathedral and streamed over the internet. It seemed to consist of Jarre standing in the cathedral 'playing' his gear with computer generated images augmenting the video feed. There was also a virtual (and considerable younger looking) performer following the movements of the real Jarre. It looked as rubbish as my description sounds.

However my quibble with the concert is more centered on the music. I'll declare immediately that I am not a big fan of EDM, trance, progressive house or any modern takes on dance music. Therefore this concert was always going to disappoint me. What Jarre seems to have tried to do is make an uplifting rave type atmosphere that will take us all out of our COVID blues and get us to the 'other side'. Well it didn't. 

To my ears Jarre basically butchered some of his back catalogue into EDM tunes, added some fake crowd effects and threw it on the web. As a Jarre fan of 35 years I was pretty disappointed. Why be so derivative of the people and genres you influenced? Why not present something representative of your body of work and not that of deadmau5?

Back in the 90's when I was into dance music and clubbing, Jarre's move into this field seemed perfect. "Chronlogie" is essentially a traditional Jarre album with a TR-909 over the top. "Welcome to the other side" was basically a Armin van Buuren DJ set dressed up with 5 seconds of Jarre tunes. Its just a vanity project that Jarre got UNESCO to pay for. Garbage; I'm off to listen to "Equinoxe".