Genres: Trip-Hop, Electronica, Ambient Pop Active: 90's, 2000's Formed: 1995 in Paris, France
Boards of Canada, Radiohead, Trinkwasser, Jimi Tenor, Kid Loco, Mono, Morcheeba, Komeda, Broadcast, Drum Island, Tim "Love" Lee, Towa Tei, Stereolab, Bent, Nightmares on Wax, Alpha, Etienne de Crecy, Massive Attack, Flowchart Arkestra One, Poni Hoax, Panurge, Magnet, Woven, Paul Duncan, Parsley Sound, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Testbild, Borko, The Phoenix Foundation, Paper Route, Sinoia Caves, Young Galaxy, tHe pEneLOpe[s], Loden, Jonna Lee, Helios, Alaska in Winter |  |
More apt to cite stately rock paragons Burt Bacharach and Brian Wilson as their inspirations than Derrick May or Aphex Twin, the French duo Air gained inclusion into the late-'90s electronica surge due chiefly to the labels their recordings appeared on, not the actual music they produced. Their sound, a variant of the classic disco sound coaxed into a relaxing Prozac vision of the late '70s, looked back to a variety of phenomena from the period -- synthesizer maestros Tomita, Jean-Michel Jarre, and Vangelis, new wave music of the nonspiky variety, and obscure Italian film soundtracks.
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Release: August 14, 2007
Label: EMI
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Release: March 6, 2007
Label: Astralwerks, Astralwerks/EMI, Car, Toshiba EMI, EMI/Virgin
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