This came out in 1999 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
Fashion, definitely. At least on the surface.
Phunky Data’s Kiko and Olivier Raymond are that most trendy of musical entities — a French disco duo. But their debut album suggests they are cut from a more subdued cloth than contemporaries like Daft Punk and Air. Fashion Or Not’s minimalist funk flows gently by on aquatic, assembly-line grooves, gently chirping synthesizes and melodic mantras that seep slowly into your mind, gradually warming you from the inside out like a favourite sweater. Fashion or not, it’s a pretty perfect fit.
