--- - |- On the cusp of summer and my full-time employment, I impart to you, my faithful readers this creation of mine, the dance mix antidote. But wait? Don't I largely support dance music? Yes, but dance music is largely loud energetic and entices you to move. Which are all great things that I will continue to revel in at almost every opportunity, but you know what? Sometimes I get tired. I ...
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Grab your popcorn, hot dogs, cold beer and get ready for the newest episode of The Best Cuts of Music! Hosts Robe Flax and Sam Houser are treating the Best Cuts office staff to a team building office baseball game. They face off against the All-Stars of NPR but tragedy strikes the stadium. What happens? Wind up your music player and pitch this episode on there to find out!http://www.thebestcuts...
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With the release of Air's fifth full-length album, J.B. Dunckel discusses his experience working with Nigel Godrich, his desire to score the next Bond film, and his fear that in the future, anyone can sound like Elvis."I will do the best I can to sound clever." The above sentence is a strange thing for a rock star to promise at the start of an interview, but then again, J.B. Dunckel's group, th...
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We posted THIS last week about French duo Air and their newest upcoming LP Love 2 and though it's track-listing was available, it's artwork eluded us at the time. Now, the front-cover has been confirmed and if you just so happen to look at the bottom of this very article, you will indeed see said artwork.
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Album name: Love 2Artist name: AIRGenre: Electronica/Pop/ExperimentalReleased: October 5th 2009Label: Astralwerks (US) / Virgin (ROW)ZME Rating: 10/10Website: http://en.aircheology.com ;We all know this band, we all appreciate its uniqueness and most incredible talent. And they've done it again. they will release tomorrow what in my opinion is they're best...
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Veteran French pop duo Air will be releasing their fifth studio album Love 2 on October 6th via Astralwerks. First track to be released will be “Do the Joy” on July 7th, and “Sing Sang Sung” will be the real first single on August 25th. Air handled all vocals on this album themselves, unlike Pocket [...]
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The building blocks of perennial Stereogum favorites Air's followup to Pocket Symphony are slowly coming together. This next set of chilled and gauzy earphone candy is due this fall under the title Love 2. That's Nicolas and JB looking fittingly mellowed and pensive on the cover. Also, the duo's...
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Frequency Following Response (FFR) or brain entrainment is a phenomena where the brain locks on to an external signal and begins to mirror it, or follow it, which produces a change in the brain's chemistry, which translates into altered behavior. ( "Jose Delgado":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/José_Manuel_Rodriguez_Delgado was studying this in the 60s, at Yale, where he found that a modulated ra..
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Frenchies Air have released the single for "Mer Du Japon" a track off their latest and fifth studio album Pocket Symphony on iTunes. The song has been remixed not once, but thrice! The first remix has new vocals from the duo (Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoît Dunckel), while the remaining two remixes come from Kris Menace and The Teenagers.Mer du Japon:1. Mer du Japon (Radio mix)2. Mer du Japon (Kr..
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After the visuals, you’ll be asked to provide your info. As a thank you, you’ll get a link for Air’s new single “Do The Joy” from the upcoming full-length Love 2 (out in...**Summary** Go to website for downloads, videos & more.
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Though their sixth album Love 2 hasn't hit stores yet, French electronica duo Air are heading back to the studio next month, reprising their roles as film composers. They'll be working on the music for Sam Garbaski's "Quartier lointain," a French adaptation of Jiro Taniguchi's 1998 manga, "Haruka na Machi e." This will be Air's second time working with a film score, following 2000's soundtrack...
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Jean-Benoit Dunckel and Nicolas Godin, will release their fifth studio album Love 2 on October 5th. Nestled in the leafy backstreets of northern Paris, Atlas provided a creative haven for the band to produce these twelve new songs, which they wrote, performed, recorded and produced by themselves. These recording sessions again saw the band handling [...]
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New Air record leaked yesterday. I have been listening to it for the last 24hrs and must say its pretty good. Better then the last one which I could never get into for some reason. It is a good mix... Music,Media,NYC Events, Gear, Gadgets and other Randomness from Brooklyn
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“Do the Joy” was virally released July 7 and now AIR (French acronym translated Love, Imagination, Dream) releases their new album’s official single. “Sing, Sang, Sung” is the latest from the French electronic pop duo consisting of Nicolas Fodin and Jean-Benoit Duckel. In their proper single, they master a Euro-esque electronica ambience with a few [...]
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Make room on your next “I love sunny days” mix because we’ve got a new contender. Air, the effortlessly cool French group and masters of daydream provocation have just given us another reason to float away with Sing Sang Sung. This is grass field, starring up at the sky music and if that’s what you were looking for on a late summer day, then giddy up.New album is Love 2 (out Oct. 6)
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