Rendez-Vous is the eighth studio album by electronic musician and composer Jean-Michel Jarre released on Disques Dreyfus, licensed to Polydor, in 1986.
It features heavy use of the Elka Synthex, notably so on "Second Rendez-Vous", a track Jarre often performs using a laser harp.
[5][6] Some of the other musical themes on Rendez-Vous were recycled from various singles Jarre wrote and produced for Gérard Lenorman in the 1970s.
[7] Jarre also developed "Fourth Rendez-Vous" from a discarded demo at collaborator Michel Geiss' urging, noting that its success as both a single and live staple did little to dissuade his contempt for the song.
[7] "Second Rendez-Vous" was inspired by American musician Wendy Carlos' soundtrack to the film A Clockwork Orange, specifically its fusion of "this mad symphonic energy and music with electronics.