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Dreams are the expression, in sleep, of thoughts that consciousness tends to deny and not accept, those thoughts that act in the dark part contained within our self, the unconscious, and try to penetrate right into consciousness itself. But it can also happen that those thoughts can act within us in the form of BPM, beats capable of getting under your skin, angelic synthesizers, fairy-tale atmospheres, hypnotic voices, soft guitars, and all around something confusing that revolves around us. And perhaps this is how the concept of the word "dream" can resurface. This CD is proof of it.
Everyone knows that for the French duo Jean-Benoit Dunckel and Nicolas Godin, also known as Air, making another album like that gem called "Moon Safari" was certainly not an easy task, just as it was not easy to continue such a lunar journey, among silvery women, whether they are called Kelly, star worshipers, or Penelope, continuously waiting for their beloved's return, beyond the unknown.
But "10.000 Hz Legend," their fourth studio work, including "Premiers Symptomes" and the soundtrack of the film "The Virgin Suicides," can be considered as a true sequel to "Moon Safari." However, if in the latter there was a well-performed combination of electronic and psychedelia, here the latter prevails more.
Yes, psychedelia. And, along with it, eclecticism. The two key words that revolve around 11 songs. Between classy pop (the melancholic and "spelling" "People In The City", "How Does It Make You Feel?", the ethereal "Lucky And Unhappy" and the cheerful "The Vagabond" with the crazy Beck singing) and a bit of rock ("Don't Be Light", also sung by Beck, and "Radio #1") it also surprises with small nods to Jethro Tull and kraut-rock, among the duo's many passions ("Radian", "Caramel Prisoner"), schizophrenic electro-acoustic experiments ("Sex Born Poison", with voices by Buffalo Daughter) and even a hallucinated and dazed fake-blues fantasy from a western movie ("Wonder Milky Bitch").
An hour of music that transforms into a dreamlike desire for happiness, a bustling happiness. The desire to relax and at times also to move, bringing out our most electronic side, which cannot fail to reside in each of us ("Electronic Performers").
All this is "10.000 Hz Legend," a masterpiece on all fronts, one of the highest peaks reached not only by Air but also by modern electronic music in general.
Afterwards there will be albums perhaps a bit manneristic, but still containing tracks absolutely worthy of mention ("Cherry Blossom Girl", "Run", "Alpha Beta Gaga", "Once Upon A Time"...), but it will not be easy to reach the levels of the early works again. Lack of inventiveness? Or the excessive mannerism mentioned above?
This is unknown. Meanwhile, while waiting to find out sooner or later, let's close our eyes and travel...
Tracklist Lyrics Samples and Videos
01 Electronic Performers (05:35)
We are the syncronizers
Send messages through time code
Midi clock rings in my mind
Machines gave me some freedom
Synthesizers gave me some wings
They drop me through twelve bit samplers
We are electronic performers
We are electronics
We need to use envelope filters
To say how we feel
Riding on magnetic waves
We search new programs for your pleasure
I want to patch my soul on your brain
BPM controls your heartbeats
We are the syncronizers
We are electronic performers
02 How Does It Make You Feel? (04:37)
I am feeling very warm right now
Please don't disappear
I am spacing out with you
You are the most beautiful entity that I've ever dreamed of
At night I will protect you in your dreams
I will be your angel
You worry so much about not having enough time together
It makes no difference to me
I would be happy with just one minute in your arms
Let's have an extended play together
You're telling me that we live too far to love each other
But our love can stretch farther than the eye can see
So how does this make you feel?
How does it make you feel?
How does it make you feel?
How does it make you feel?
How does it make you feel?
Do you know that when you look at me, it is a salvation?
I've been waiting for you so long
I can drive on that road forever
I wish you could exist to live on my planet
Well it's very hard for me to say these things in your presence
So how does this make you feel?
How does it make you feel?
How does it make you feel?
How does it make you feel?
How does it make you feel?
So how does this make you feel?
Well, I really think you should quit smoking
03 Radio #1 (04:22)
If you need some fun
some good stereo gum
radio #1
Brand new ears at once
eject musical trash
radio #1
Radio #1
Radio #1
We love / Melancholy snipers
We'll become / Flower gun users
We request / Funeral of sadness
We play / The shade destroyers
If you need some fun
some good stereo gum
radio #1
Brand new ears at once
eject musical trash
radio #1
Radio #1
Radio #1
Radio #1
Radio #1
Radio #1 (mmmmmn)
Radio #1 (Radio number one)
Radio #1 (ohuhoh)
Radio #1 (ohuhoh mmmmn)
Radio #1 (radio #1)
(yeah)
04 The Vagabond (05:37)
Golden waves
In all directions
I could lose my soul right here
Colour lights
On the runway
Makes a stranger feel unchained
I'm running after time and I miss the sunshine
Summer days will come happiness will be mine
I'm lost in my words I don't know where I'm going
I do my best I can not to worry about things
I feel loose
I feel haggard
Don't know what I'm looking for
Something true
Something lovely
That will make me feel alive
I'm running after time and I miss the sunshine
Summer days are not so far everything's
Gonna be fine
06 Lucky and Unhappy (04:31)
Do I need?
Destiny
Do I need?
Schedule live
Do I need?
working trends
Do I need?
Recess lines
Lucky and unhappy
Vote for a freestyle life
Lucky and unhappy
Driving on the freeway flash line
Lucky and unhappy
Vote for a freestyle life
Lucky and unhappy
Driving on the freeway flash line
Do I feel?
Helium dreams
Do I feel?
Fresh impacts
Do I feel?
Hot joy nights
Do I feel?
venus joy
Lucky and unhappy
Vote for a freestyle life
Lucky and unhappy
Driving on the freeway flash line
Lucky and unhappy
Lucky and unhappy
Lucky and unhappy
Lucky and unhappy
07 Sex Born Poison (06:18)
Shoot, use your gun of life
I'm not afraid to die
In your arms
Shoot, use your gun of life
Keep on watching me
Poison me
MESAMESASU Prince from the biomass
AI YOKU NO NAMI NI OYOGU
KANA E YO HOLO BI NA KI AI
DEMO IMA WA JIKAN GA NAI
YOKUBO NO sensor KAWASU AI NO juice
DO KASEN NI HI WO TOMOSO
HASHILE HIJOGUSHI LEIKYAKU system on
TODOKAZALU NANABAN ME NO SOLA
Who dares to wake me?
Prince from the biomass
Swimming in the waves of your intimacy
I'm able to offer
My love for centuries
But I have no time right now
Meet my desire sensors
My atom juice of joy
You want to fuse my affective circuits
Run to the fire exit
Use your cooling system
You'll never reach the 7th sky today
09 Wonder Milky Bitch (05:50)
This is the story of a country girl
Back in town from her country house
She came to me with her muddy boots
She destroyed all my carpet
You know how to do it
Wonder milky bitch
You never wear cosmetic
You don't like arithmetic
You know how to do it
Wonder milky bitch
Tasting,touching,swallowing me
Drinking me like bloody mary
You know how to do it
Wonder milky bitch
You don't wear cosmetic
You don't like arithmetic
You know how to do it
Wonder milky bitch
Tasting,touching,swallowing me
Drinking me like bloody mary
Wonder milky bitch
Wonder milky bitch
Wonder milky bitch
Wonder milky bitch
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