I just read that Jean-Michel Jarre composed and recorded Oxygène over a period of around four months during 1976, using limited equipment, in a make-shift studio set up in his kitchen.
In some ways I think this inspired and enabled so many of us bedroom / garage electronic musicians. Even a modest laptop and sound card today is probably more powerful than what J-M had available at the time. But I was interested with what the album notes said he used:
- ARP 2600 synthesizer
- EMS Synthi AKS synthesizer
- EMS VCS 3
- RMI Harmonic Synthesizer
- Farfisa Professional Organ
- Eminent 310U
- Mellotron
- Korg Mini Pops