JMJ eMusic Update #2

eMusic has just made "En Attendant Cousteau" (Waiting For Cousteau) available.
eMusic picked Alternative/Punk as the genre for some reason, and Electronic Ambient as the style, which is correct.
This album was released in 1990 and is a little bit different from Jarre's normal format.
There are only 4 tracks and the last one is over 45 minutes.
Track 4, "En Attendant Cousteau", is 47 minutes of floaty ethereal ambient constructed by JMJ's Atari ST computer.
He ran some sort of fractal composition program on it and loaded all his favorite sounds into all the soundbanks.
And these are the first 47 minutes, as the program could basically run forever.
I've used that track in the past to combat insomnia.

And then I found something longer that also worked.
Brian Eno's "Thursday Afternoon" album, which consists of one 61 minute-long floaty ethereal ambient composition.
As a matter of fact, they sound A LOT alike.
Which is pretty remarkable when you consider the fact that "Thursday Afternoon" was made using recorded music that
was then digitally edited, whereas "Cousteau" was generated on the fly by a computer running a fractal program.
Eno's CD was released in 1985. Jarre's CD came out in 1990.

And now, for a little game of Contrast And Compare!
First, 5 minutes of "Thursday Afternoon":

And now, 10 minutes of "En Attendant Cousteau":

What do you think, sirs?