Air Liquide (band)

Not to be confused with Air Liquide or Liquid air.

Air Liquide is a German electronic band composed of Ingmar Koch (a.k.a. "Dr Walker") and Cem Oral (a.k.a. "Jammin' Unit")^[1] that was formed in Frankfurt in 1991. Koch and Oral continued to record together under the pseudonyms Madonna 303^[2] and Jammin' Unit & Walker.^[3]

Air Liquide
Cem Oral (left) and Ingmar Koch
Background information
Origin	Cologne, Germany
Genres	Acid house Ambient techno Trance Experimental
Years active	1991–present
Labels	Structure Rising High Sm:)e Communications Blue Harvest
Members	Ingmar Koch Cem Oral
Past members	Mary Applegate

History

Oral and Koch in 1991 met at a recording studio in Frankfurt.^[4] After a variety of jam sessions in Koch Studio, the duo released Neue Frankfurter Elektronik Schule. Lyrics and vocals for some songs was contributed by Koch's former girlfriend Mary Susan Applegate.^[1] Air Liquide was in the mid-1990s especially known for their live performances. The band broke up in 2005 after the previous year's album Let Your Ears Be the Receiver. The duo has continued to reunite and perform at various festivals since 2012.

Discography

• Neue Frankfurter Elektronik Schule (1991)
• Liquid Air EP (1992)
• Air Liquide (1993)
• Mandragora (1993)
• Robot Wars (1994)
• Nephology (1994)
• If There Was No Gravity (1994)
• Space Brothers (1994)
• The Mercury EP
• The Increased Difficulty of Concentration (1994)
• Abuse Your Illusions (1995)
• Live in New York City 1994 (1995)
• Red (1995)
• Black (1995)
• Stroboplastics (1995)
• Sonic Weather Machine (1995)
• Homicidal Diary (1997)
• Uludag (1998)
• Reissued: Mandragora & Liquid Air (1998)
• Anybody Home? (1999)
• Lo Rider (1999)
• X (2001)
• Music is a Virus (2002)
• Let Your Ears Be the Receiver (2004)
• This Is a Mind Trip (2019)