FRENCH music may be all the rage anew with Christine And The Queens and M83, but until Air emerged out of thin air 20 years ago it had not been tres chic since the Sixties of Serge Gainsbourg, Francoise Hardy and even Brigitte Bardot's Bonnie And Clyde.

The fallow years were so low that Bill Wyman had a mocking hit with his Franglais spoof Je Suis Un Rock Star. Then along came Le Femme D'Argent, Kelly Watch The Stars, Sexy Boy and, best of all, Beth Hirsch's gorgeous breeze through All I Need, one sublime song after another from Air's divine union of electronica, Gallic kitsch and retro pop on Moon Safari.

They reign supreme on disc one of the first ever anthology from Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoît Dunckel, nothing surpassing those early highs that make you reach for the Moon Safari sleeve again, as too many later instrumentals drift by. At least the second disc of 14 rarities offers up Charlotte Gainsbourg and Jarvis Cocker's The Duelist, a dream duet coupling.