Oxygene (Part II)

"Oxygene (Part II)" is the second track on Oxygene, running 7:49, and the first piece Jarre wrote for the album. It came out of the makeshift studio in his Paris apartment, where the album was recorded between August and November 1976 and then mixed by Jean-Pierre Janiaud, with Patrick Foulon assisting, at the Gang studio. The Mellotron on it was an old machine recovered from the Ferber studio with only a few working keys, the rhythm is the single "swing" preset of a Korg Mini-Pops 7, and the wave sound comes from an EMS Synthi AKS. Michel Geiss helped with the purchase, recording and programming of the equipment. Like the rest of the record it is an instrumental; Jarre told The Guardian he wanted the album to link everything to nature and environmental issues.

The album appeared on Disques Motors in France in December 1976 and on Polydor elsewhere in 1977, and Part II was issued as the French single that year in an edit of about three minutes, while Part IV was the single in Britain. The upload in the hypersongs web is the studio recording, labeled by the uploader as a remaster.