REVIEW ENGLISH

MCR 133.2 AIR LIQUIDE
LET YOUR EARS BE THE RECEIVER

 

UK

Klub Knowledge 05/04

...“Let Your Ears Be The Receiver“ manages to combine all manner of leftfield sounds into one harmonious whole and describe exacly where the band are at 2004. ()

 

DJ Magazine 05/04

This is not the first, nor the fifth, nor even the tenth – but the twelfth (!) studio album that cem Oral (Jammin Unit, Berlin) and Ingmar Koch (Dr. Walker, Cologne) have cooked up in the last decade. That’s alongside several zillion twelves, remixes galore, film scores, and even their own club and DJ hotel. The music isn´‘t half as bad as it should/ could be for such a lively and over-stretched pair, and is surprisingly eclectic for a supposed techno record. Ranging from techno throbbers to fey chuggers, introspective ambience and folkish moments, it’s quite the variegated electronic journey. ()

 

Canada

Tandem newspaper, Toronto May 9th 2004

Air Liquide were an important group in the German techno scene of the 1990’s. Billing themselves and their collaborators as the "New Frankfurt Electronic School" they rode a wave of DJ and press reaction that helped convince EMI Germany to revive the Harvest imprint exclusively for the new electronica. Now they are back with a "megaparty" attitude on their 12th album featuring their most accessible tracks to date. Surprisingly they’ve team up with vocalists like Boney M lyricist Mary S Applegate and r&b singer Marcea, for funk-meets-house-meets-disco tracks that will challenge the dancefloor supremacy of producers like Armand Van Helden. Their homeboy Khan (brother to group member Cem Oral aka Jammin’ Unit) also joins in the fun with a soul-style falsetto vocal on the bouncing, Balearic first single "So Much Love" (that is turned into an italo pumper by Christopher "I’m A Disco Dancer" Just). ()