Edward Snowden made a techno song with French electronic music legend Jean-Michel Jarre. No, really. Just let that sink in for a second. You good? Okay. The song came about after Jarre asked The ...

In 2013, Edward Snowden leaked thousands of highly classified documents to journalists about the US government's mass surveillance programs. In 2016, he's releasing a dance track. The 32-year-old ...

HONG KONG - 2013: In this handout photo provided by The Guardian, Edward Snowden speaks during an interview in Hong Kong. Snowden, a 29-year-old former technical assistant for the CIA, revealed ...

French synth-lord Jean-Michel Jarre announced today that he will be releasing a new full-length titled Electronica 1: The Time Machine, which features a list of impressive collaborators. We’ve already ...

When the French electronic composer Jean-Michel Jarre gives his first Los Angeles performance at the Microsoft Theater on Saturday night, the Grammy-nominee will end an extended absence that has ...

After editors at The Guardian introduced them, Jarre and Snowden discussed the song’s concept over Skype. Then Jarre traveled to Moscow to meet Snowden in person and record the track. Snowden’s ...

When electronic-ambient-new age pioneer Jean-Michel Jarre was working on 1976’s Oxygene, in his makeshift home studio, he often had to tape down two preset buttons of his Korg drum machine to achieve ...

Jean-Michel Jarre has no problem rattling off countries and continents where he’s more famous than he is in North America: “Europe, China, South America, Japan, Australia …” he says, on the phone from ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about music and the business of music. Between them, French electronic music icon Jean-Michel Jarre and the Crystal Method ...

It’s a sunny afternoon in Paris, and I’m sitting in the famous circular Maison de la Radio, headquarters of Radio France, looking out over the Seine and across to the Eiffel Tower in the company of ...