Musique pour supermarché
Musique pour Supermarché is the sixth studio album by electronic musician and composer Jean-Michel Jarre. Only a single vinyl copy was ever pressed. It was sold at an auction, where its master plates were deliberately destroyed. However, later Jarre albums such as Zoolook or Rendez-Vous sample/reuse several parts of the album.
Composition and recording
In 1983, Jarre was approached to create background music for a supermarket-themed art show Orrimbe, to be held in Paris during June 1983. Jarre recorded the album between February and May. Comparing the album to a painting, "not just a worthless commercial product", he chose to auction it along with other art pieces. The auction was held on July 6, 1983, at the Hôtel Drouot auction house in Paris, and raised about 69,000 francs for charity. Jarre explained this was his protest at the "silly industrialisation of music".In the inside cover, 11 polaroid photos show the step-by-step creation of the disc, leaving one slot so that the final owner could add their photo with the album. The album owner was kept anonymous at first, but later revealed to be real estate dealer M. Gérard. Shortly after the auction, Jarre allowed Radio Luxembourg to broadcast the album once, in its entirety, and encouraged listeners to record the broadcast with the words "Piratez-moi!". Various parts of this album would be reworked for later Jarre projects such as Zoolook or Rendez-Vous. A demo version of "Musique pour Supermarché " was included on the 2018 compilation Planet Jarre: 50 Years of Music.