Air - 10,000 Hz Legend (LP)

Label: Parlophone – 724381033210
Format: 2 x LP
Country: Europe
Released: Jun 2015
Genre: Electronic
Style: Downtempo, Electro, Trip Hop

10,000 Hz Legend is the third studio album by French music duo Air, released in the United States on May 29, 2001 by Astralwerks. On this album, tracks are longer and more electronic-oriented than on their previous records. These experimentations find the duo expanding their capacities and working with other artists including Beck and suGar Yoshinaga of Buffalo Daughter. The album artwork was produced by Ito Morabito and features Monument Valley on its cover image.

This French duo gained inclusion into the late-'90s electronica surge due chiefly to the labels their recordings appeared on, not the actual music they produced. Their sound, a variant of the classic disco sound coaxed into a relaxing Prozac vision of the late '70s, looked back to a variety of phenomena from the period -- synthesizer maestros Tomita, Jean-Michel Jarre, and Vangelis, new wave music of the non-spiky variety, and obscure Italian film soundtracks.