AIR

AIR
10 000 HZ LEGEND (2001)
320 KBPS

Previously Air's Jean-Benoit Dunckel and Nicolas Godin made softcore collages of Pink Floyd-ish synth tones and droning French lounge pop. 10,000 Hz Legend goes further out, attaining new heights of cheesy, Space Odyssey-like computer music. Like Kraftwerk skinny-dipping with French nymphet Jane Birkin and Star Wars's R2D2, Legend swells with mad robo-love, following a computer romance amid droll tributes to vacant pop culture. Beck's appearance on "The Vagabond" proves the Loser only works well solo, making Air disappear on their own album. The absurd "Radio #1" and the sappy chorus in "How Does It Make You Feel?" could snuggle beside Celine Dion's latest yawner. But there is magic: "Radian" is a Cluster-like orb of cooing flutes, gentle rhythms, and a ghostly vocal. "Electric Performers" offers clunky electronic beats and the lines "We are the synchronizers / Machines give me some freedom." The catchy "People in the City" sounds like Mirwais producing Serge Gainsbourg, while "Don't Be Light" recalls electro Krautrockers Neu! Feeding us Moog merengue and Reese's Pieces rhythms, Air remain sweet computer boys to the core.

1. Electronic Performers
2. How Does It Make You Feel?
3. Radio 1
4. The Vagabond
5. Radian
6. Lucky And Unhappy
7. Sex Born Poison
8. People In The City
9. Wonder Milky Bitch
10. Don'T Be Light
11. Caramel Prisoner

BONUS

EVERYBODY HERTZ (2002)
320 KBPS
1. Don'T Be Light (Edit)
2. Don'T Be Light (Mr Oizo Remix)
3. How Does It Make You Feel? (Adrian Sherwood Version)
4. Don'T Be Light (Neptunes Rmeix)
5. People In The City (Modjo Version)
6. Don'T Be Light (The Hacker Remix)
7. How Does It Make You Feel? (Edit)
8. Don'T Be Light (Malibu Remix)
9. People In The City (Jack Lahana Remix)
10. The Way You Look Tonight