Air

Air's sensual, atmospheric sound may have made them outliers in the late-'90s electronica boom, but they became one of the most influential electronic acts of the 2000s and beyond. Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoît Dunckel's influences -- Burt Bacharach, Brian Wilson, disco, synthesizer maestros like Tomita and Vangelis, new wave, and obscure Italian film soundtracks -- distinguished them from their dancefloor-oriented contemporaries and helped make their 1998 debut album Moon Safari an instant classic. The duo continued to go against the grain with 2000's 10,000 Hz Legend, which ...