Air
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Review by Emma Warren, Jockey Slut, December 1997
PARIS' PREMIER sound sculptors have long advocated the beauty of sound over dancefloor considerations, and with Moon Safari they've nailed their flag to a vocodered ...
Interview by Emma Warren, Jockey Slut, December 1997
AIR ARE THE MOST SOPHISTICATED DUO TO EMERGE FROM THE PARISIAN SCENE. EMMA WARREN FINDS THEY HAVE MORE IN COMMON WITH DEBUSSY THAN DAFT PUNK ...
Review by Andy Gill, The Independent, 16 January 1998
IF, AS SOME believe, 1998 is to be the year that France finally produces pop music of international appeal, then synth duo Air are the ...
Air: Moon Safari (Source/Virgin CDV 2848 £13.99)
Review by David Sinclair, The Times, 16 January 1998
NICOLAS GODIN and Jean- Benoit Dunckel, the youthful duo better known as Air, come from Versailles and have mysteriously acquired a fashionable cachet not normally ...
Interview by Andy Crysell, New Musical Express, 17 January 1998
Qu'est-ce que c'est? Music that sounds like ELO jamming over a porn flick soundtrack — on the moon!? Oh yes indeedy, prepare to enter the ...
Interview by Steven Daly, Rolling Stone, 19 March 1998
ON THEIR DEBUT, MOON SAFARI, THE FRENCH DUO AIR MAKE LOUNGE MUSIC FOR THE ELECTRONIC SET ...
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Request, Spring 1998
MODULAR FRENCHMEN Nicolas Godin and Jean Benoit Dunckel need no reminding that French pop has always been a bit of a joke. With the brilliant ...
Air/Sean Lennon: Ritz, Manchester
Live Review by Rob Chapman, MOJO, January 1999
SOMEONE ONCE said of Dylan's Renaldo & Clara that, while it didn't convince you that he was a great film-maker, it did confirm that he ...
Air: 'If We Don't Surprise People Any More, Then We Will Die'
Interview by Chris Roberts, Uncut, June 2000
"THE FIRST time I was in LA," says Nicolas Godin, "I was in a very cool hotel. And in front of that hotel was a ...
Book Excerpt by Phil Hardy, Dave Laing, Faber Companion to 20th Century Popular Music, 2001
Jean-Benoit Dunckel, b. Versailles, France; Nicolas Godin, b. Versailles, France ...
En Garde! Le Pop Nouveau Français, c’est Arrivé!
Profile by Etienne Petit, Rock's Backpages, March 2001
The late ’90s saw the flowering of a nouveau French techno-pop. Now Air, Daft Punk and friends are conquering the world. RBP’s Paris correspondent explains ...
Air: 10,000 Hz Legend (Source/Virgin)
Review and Interview by Jim Irvin, MOJO, April 2001
Self-proclaimed "grown-up" album from French duo who created 1998’s million-selling retro-pop classic, Moon Safari, and inspired many imitators. ...
Review and Interview by Jim Irvin, MOJO, June 2001
Self-proclaimed "grown-up" album from French duo who created 1998's million-selling retro-pop classic Moon Safari and inspired many imitators. ...
Mild is the wind…:Air: 10,000 Hz Legend (Virgin) **½
Review by Paul Morley, Uncut, June 2001
Follow-up proper to Moon Safari features Beck on two tracks ...
Profile and Interview by David Stubbs, Uncut, July 2001
DAFT PUNK AND AIR ARE THE BEATLES AND STONES OF THE INTERNATIONAL DANCE SCENE. SO WHY IS THE FRENCH ESTABLISHMENT – SO PROUD OF ITS ...
Report and Interview by James Medd, Esquire, January 2004
"IN FRANCE, the more you have girlfriends,the more you are a seductive man, and the more you are healthy," says Jean-Benoit "JB" Dunckel. "In France, ...
Live Review by Simon Price, The Independent, 15 February 2004
A TRIP TO the sea air, to see Air. And Air, like air itself, are great to have around you, but nothing much to look ...
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, June 2007
SO HIP THEY'RE passé, sexy geekboys Air continue to mine the seam of elegiac futurism wowed ten thousand ad executives back in '98. After the ...
Review by David Stubbs, bbc.co.uk, 5 October 2009
They sound reinvigorated, differently coloured, and full of fresh intentions. ...
Interview by Lois Wilson, MOJO, November 2009
France's Melancholic Melodists, In Their Own Words ...
Live Review by Ian Gittins, The Guardian, 28 February 2010
WHEN Air first appeared with their 1998 debut album, Moon Safari, the French duo seemed to define the musical zeitgeist. ...
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