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MCR 131.0 - Air Liquide feat. Khan
So Much Love - Theme From Bar Butterfly

 

DJ Magazine 04/04 – 5 stars *****

SUREPLAYER:
Air Liquide have been around so long that their first single came on wax cylinder. This first shoot from their 12th album is splitt almost exactly between really good bits (electro beats, philly strings9 and absolute rubbish (preacher vocal, italo piano), and such is a lot better that we remember their old techy stuff. But with the incomparableTiefschwarz on the mix it becomes one of the most appealing prospects of the issue – deep phased, tripped outbleepy that’s as beautifull as it is wraoped. It’s a neo house take on old school that sounds like the sort of music the tough guys in Rollerball would go and dance to. ()

 

Update 03/04 – 4 Stars ****

German band Air Liquide has never received much attention in the UK but has had a respectable career in its home country. Indeed Cem Oral and Ingmar Koch are about to put out their eleventh album in a bit more than a decade, this single being the first extract. The original promisingly starts off 80s Electro, but a piano line turns it into an old-school House bore bringing back memories of dodgy House nights in Ritzy clubs. Christopher Just, still kicking after all these years, opts for a kind of psychedelic Electro- Pop take but unfortunately the piano line makes an unnecessary return half-way through the mix. So it’s down to Tiefschwarz to save the day with another of their popular bleepy excursions. ()

 

DJ Magazine 04/04

Air Liquide have released some off-the-wall records in their time, but „So much Love“ marks a return to their roots, albeit with an experimental twist. Starting off in old skool electro mode, „Love“ features a preacher man sample and a rolling bassline before unexpectedly veering into hands-in-the-air piano house. The remixes from Christopher Just and Cem & Ingmar are bog standard electroclash and funky house respectively, but the Tiefschwarz re-work is a squelchy bassline and cheesy synth driven electro-house affair that’s nearly as much fun as „Gorsttrack“. ()