The debut of the French duo Air conquered the world seemingly from nowhere and served as background music in many hip establishments in the year of release (1998). With its lo-fi approach to electronics, Air blew a breath of fresh air into the genre that seemed to lose itself more and more in a race for increasingly fatter sounds. Moon Safari offers a typically French sense of eroticism and elegance,
… involving both , serve as inspiration as anonymous composers of soundtracks for soft porn films. The sound of old analog synths like the Moog is the basis for songs that alternate between instrumental and vocal. The traditional structure of songs like Sexy Boy, Kelly Watch The Stars and Remember gives the music its great crossover potential. Moon Safari was the culmination of a wave of hip French electronica ( , , ) and none of these acts (including Air itself) managed to match the success later on. (MS)more
