Kurz

Good job, Caz! South, if you bring your cousin to the Ginger meeting, I'll come.

Ludovico Einaudi is strikingly banal.

let's end it here

Do you know how many people died so you could freely write your dark bullshit?

Well, you say many right things, but I can't help thinking that that compositional perfection and the ability to perceive the entire sound spectrum can be found just as well, if not more so, at a classical music concert in a good auditorium—you wouldn’t even have the limitation of the speaker range needed to hear electronic music.
But if you don’t like classical...
It would be a good thing to overcome the limits of the CD (which is not impossible), but in an era where everyone settles for mp3s (...) to listen to half the time, without even caring about who played, what they played, where, and with whom, I find it hard to believe. _______(yes, ....weil)

sorry, it was me

Frantz, a friend of mine who has been there (and who knows what he’s talking about, I’d say) shared your very same impressions with me; he was really disappointed.

So I insist too, Fatboy Slim and the others you mentioned are much more electronic than Air. If you expect Air to represent the perfection of electronic music live, it means you haven't quite grasped them, in my opinion. Their sound is characterized by analog synths, the CP70 piano, the Wurlitzer piano, the Rhodes, the Mellotron, etc. Instruments that don’t even have MIDI connections and which often fascinate musicians precisely because of their many "analog" imperfections, far from perfection! In their records, there are many parts that aren’t even "sequenced"; there’s some electronic music (as there is in almost all records now), but not too much. Then, to say that in pop/rock music it sounds good to make you forget about the Pro Tools used in records seems to me a bit of an exaggerated generalization. Shall I get Tellier back? :)

I don't think Air are an electronic music group as you mean it, Frantz. They really know how to play; their sound is characterized by vintage electronic instruments, and you need to know how to play those (they also use a lot of acoustic and electric guitars). However, you saw the concert, and you haven't told us much about it...

It seems that you know a thing or two about electronics. I think of the Air more as magnificent prophets of vintage. You saw the concert—what do you think? What else did they have on stage (I think I recognize a CP70)? It looks like you’ll have to write the review of Sebastien Tellier; I’m stepping down.