| Product Summary | | Label: Astralwerks | | UPC: 00724381033227 | | Release Date: 5/29/2001 | | Buy.com Sku: 60480624 | | Item#: MF4Y6H | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 24555 | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Electronic Performers ~ Air (Pop) |  | | 2. How Does It Make You Feel? ~ Air (Pop) | | | 3. Radio #1 ~ Air (Pop) | | | 4. Vagabond, The - (featuring Beck) ~ Air (Pop) | | | 5. Radian ~ Air (Pop) | | | 6. Lucky & Unhappy ~ Air (Pop) | | | 7. Sex Born Poison - (featuring Buffalo Daughter) ~ Air (Pop) | | | 8. People In The City ~ Air (Pop) | | | 9. Wonder Milky Bitch ~ Air (Pop) | | | 10. Don't Be Light - (featuring Beck) ~ Air (Pop) | | | 11. Caramel Prisoner ~ Air (Pop) | |
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| | Album Notes and Credits |
Notes & Personnel Info |  | Air: Nicolas Godin, JB Dunckel. | | Additional personnel includes: Beck (vocals, harmonica, keyboards); Justin Meldal-Johnsen (vocals, bass); Sugar, Yumiko, Lisa Papineau, Jean Croc, Corky Hale, Jason Falkner, Ken Andrews, Barbara Cohen (vocals); Julia Sarr, Olyza (harp); Elin Carlson (whistle); Brian Reitzell (drums, programming); Roger Joseph Manning Jr (programming). | | Recorded in Paris, France and Los Angeles, California. | | Before this album, the last full-length offering from French duo Air was the soundtrack to the Virgin Suicides. That effort marked so much expansion on and progression from its predecessor (Air's debut MOON SAFARI) that a further push up the mountain seemed a logical expectation for 10,000 HZ. Instead, Air chose to jump off the mountain into a strange, forbidding ravine. You'll find neither the pure electro-pop hooks of MOON SAFARI nor the elegant, surreal majesty of VIRGIN SUICIDES here. Instead, the Air boys offer an insular record thick with ironic self-regard and tongue-in-cheek humor. | | Beck is a guest here, and his voice and pomo-slacker sensibility blend right in, but for the most part, Air lets the synthesizers and vocoders take center stage. Listening to 10,000 HZ LEGEND is somewhat akin to sitting in a bar and getting hit on by an android; in fact there's actually some Barry White-style bedroom talk filtered through electronic processing early on in the album. How far you're willing to go with these Gallic pop-bots probably depends on how far they've taken you in the past. |
Producer: Air |
Engineer: Air |
Musical Guests | | Beck | | Jason Falkner | | Buffalo Daughter |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 05/29/2001 | | Original Release Date : 2001 | | Catalog ID : 10332 | | Label : Source Records | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00724381033227 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Spin (7/01, pp.126-7)
- 7 out of 10 - "...Their very own KID A....offering heavier arrangements, starker contrasts between soft folky orchestrations and hard prog-rock noise, more guest stars, fewer pretty tunes, and several gigabytes of robo-speak....absurd, uncanny and touching..."Q (7/01, p.106)
- 3 stars out of 5 - "...A bold, chaotic departure from MOON SAFARI's smooth lines, packed with experiments and sonic jokes..." Alternative Press (2/02, p.64)
- Ranked #8 in AP's "25 Best Albums of 2001". Alternative Press (7/01, pp.58-9)
- 8 out of 10 - "...Funny and ingenious..." Magnet (12-1/02, p.56)
- Included in Magnet's "20 Best Albums of 2001". CMJ (5/28/01, p.5)
- "...Made of the strict artisan molecules as previous releases....LEGENDS lives for shadows...the depth and variety of the darkness beautifies the album... Mojo (Publisher)
(1/02, p.71)
- Ranked #26 in Mojo's "Best [40] Albums of 2001". Mojo (Publisher)
(6/01, p.94)
- "...This is rich, deep-pile music reliant on texture rather than pop smarts..." NME (Magazine)
(12/29/01, p.59)
- Ranked #14 in NME's 50 "Albums Of the Year 2001". |
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