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"The primordial instinct of every human being is to assure himself of a shelter"
- Le Corbusier
'Vers Une Architecture', 1923
Translucent as hydrogen, effervescent as carbon dioxide, energizing as oxygen.
Air make music that you want to breathe into every cell of your being. From the moment they exhaled the magic of "Modulor Mix" into the world, back in early 1996, Air (aka Nicolas Godin and Jean Benoit Dunckel) have constructed their own distinctive audio realm within the universe of sound as we know it.
A diffuse, poetic, post-club ambience which takes from the soundtracks of Ennio Morricone and John Barry, French kitsch, the classical sublime, the looped structures of electronica and the poignancy of pop. A truly contemporary pastoral with a sense of space and tranquility and elemental calm that's out on it's own. And a simple, exquisite, articulate emotionalism that's rare in a fucked-up, chaotic and callous world.
"We don't like this world;
we want to escape from it"
- Nicolas Godin