Previously Air´s Jean-Benoit Dunckel and Nicolas Godin made softcore collages of Pink Floyd-ish synth tones and droning French lounge pop. 10,000 Hz Legend goes further out, attaining new heights of cheesy, Space Odyssey-like computer music. Like Kraftwerk skinny-dipping with French nymphet Jane Birkin and Star Wars´s R2D2, Legend swells with mad robo-love, following a computer romance amid droll tributes to vacant pop culture. Beck´s appearance on The Vagabond proves the Loser only works well solo, making Air disappear on their own album. The absurd Radio #1 and the sappy chorus in How Does It Make You Feel? could snuggle beside Celine Dion´s latest yawner. But there is magic: Radian is a Cluster-like orb of cooing flutes, gentle rhythms, and a ghostly vocal. Electric Performers offers clunky electronic beats and the lines We are the synchronizers \u002F Machines give me some freedom. The catchy People in the City sounds like Mirwais producing Serge Gainsbourg, while Don´t Be Light recalls electro Krautrockers Neu! Feeding us Moog merengue and Reese´s Pieces rhythms, Air remain sweet computer boys to the core.