Jean-Michel Jarre - Oxygene (1976)

Leo and Elvin weren't as crazy about space music as I was, and they never could share my enthusiasm for Tangerine Dream's Ricochet and Jean Michel Jarre's 'Oxygene', the French synthesist's 1976 debut and arguably his best album.

Jarre stood out from the krautrock crowd with a spacier sound, picking up from where Wendy (Walter) Carlos left off on the Moog-generated soundtrack to Stanley Kubrick's 'Clockwork Orange'. Lots of enveloping synth swooshes here.