Nicolas Godin studied architecture at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Versailles, and Jean Benoît Dunckel studied mathematics, before forming a band in 1995.[3] Before founding Air (erroneously considered as an acronym of Amour, Imagination, Rêve, which translates to Love, Imagination, Dream),[4] Dunckel and Godin played together in the band Orange[2] with others such as Alex Gopher, Xavier Jamaux and Jean de Reydellet. The former two subsequently contributed to remixes of tracks recorded by Air.Initially, Godin worked alone, recording a demo with members of Funkadelic as his backing band before releasing his first entirely solo effort, “Modular Mix”, which featured production by Étienne de Crécy.