10,000 Hz Legend
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. --Ken Micallef more
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Recent Reviews
- 5/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: May-04-2008
- A must
When people get over moon safari they may get to appreciate this great set of songs.Why anyone would want another moon safari bewilders me.Buy this record and enjoy it for what it is,a fantastic journey someplace new.I love it. Lets hope...
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- 5/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Mar-17-2008
- Enjoyable avantgarde
I don't think I've ever heard anything quite like this album. It's a strange blend of spaced out dreamy sequences and egging, throbbing rhythms, electronic blips and old and proven run of the mill studio instruments.If I were a musician...
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- 2/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Feb-12-2008
- Air hissing out
Despite songs like "Sexy Boy" and "Remember," "Moon Safari"'s greatest strength seemed to be its commitment to the retro-futrism of doing an electronic album that sounded dated by a good twenty years. Aside from those songs, it all...
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- 2/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Oct-02-2007
- Overindulgent artists stuck in-between
2 1/2Make no mistake, there are a couple beautiful songs on here (or at least several which have beautiful parts inside the experimental electronic confusion), but for the most part people who slap the ol' sophomore slump label upon...
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Selected Reviews
- 5/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: May-04-2008
- A must
When people get over moon safari they may get to appreciate this great set of songs.Why anyone would want another moon safari bewilders me.Buy this record and enjoy it for what it is,a fantastic journey someplace new.I love it. Lets hope...
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- 3/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: May-22-2002
- machines give me some freedom
I had high hopes for this album. Air's first full-length album, Moon Safari, produced some of the sweetest electronic sounds of the year, along with some really great singing and space-y loungescapes, not to mention that the album has a...
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- 2/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Feb-12-2008
- Air hissing out
Despite songs like "Sexy Boy" and "Remember," "Moon Safari"'s greatest strength seemed to be its commitment to the retro-futrism of doing an electronic album that sounded dated by a good twenty years. Aside from those songs, it all...
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