You need Airpushers. From the name alone you know this group is pushing something so elemental, you can’t live without it.

Airpushers are Printz Board and Tim Izo Orindgreff, multi-instrumentalists and musicians from the Black Eyed Peas’ band, and producers and guest musicians for Dr. Dre, Nikka Costa, John Legend, Sleepy Brown, India Arie, Macy Gray, James Brown and others.

Airpushers’ debut album, “Themes for the Ordinarily Strange”, puts Printz and Tim into the spotlight with hard-hitting genre-defying instrumentals as well as select songs featuring the vocals from legendary Motown songwriter/singer Lamont Dozier, and up-and-comers MoZella, Sy Smith, Golden, and Diane Gordon.

This landmark album invites every genre to the party: hip-hop, jazz, swing, dub and funk. Grouped up, they grind and slow dance, two-step and bounce. Their sound is shockingly new but still familiar.

Up-and-comer MoZella’s hauntingly angelic voice tussles between spoken word and song on “Music Fight.” “Hold the Onions” bridges the classic stylings of legendary Motown machine songwriter Lamont Dozier with an impulsive Steely Dan beatscape. “Superfriends” pairs one of Printz’s “favorite artists of all time,” soul singer Sy Smith, over heroic horns. The rousing “Push That Air” is all balls and bounce.

On the instrumentals, Tim and Printz let the music speak for itself. On “Pollo Masala Disco Express” the opening flurry of clarinets and horns are as tasty as the track itself; go ahead…take a bite. “Who Goes to Hooters on Easter” is as naughty and sanctified as it sounds. On “Birds of Terror,” a breathy, but adhesive voice warns you to “be extra careful,” but the eerie, ethereal soundscape subversively pulls you deeper into its laidback layers.

In a time when people wonder where is the love in today’s music, for Airpushers, Themes for the Ordinarily Strange is a project of pure passion. Love takes time, so this opus is the result of over two years caressing sounds and romancing rhythms. Printz says, “Most of these songs were pieced together in hotel rooms or home studios or the first hours of a major session when everyone was late, you name it.” “We have become masters of guerilla commando recording,” Tim laughs.

Airpushers are indeed the best of both worlds: they have freshness of a new group with the grind of veterans. And on their grind, Airpushers are to the Black Eyed Peas what Parliament was to George Clinton; what the Bar-Kays were to Isaac Hayes; what Stuart Matthewman and Sweetback are to Sade. “When we do stuff, when we do our records, when we perform, when we do everything, it’s as one unit,” Printz clarifies. With the Black Eyed Peas, Tim and Printz have been touring and recording non-stop for the past nine years. Soon, Airpushers will flow off your tongue as easily as the Black Eyed Peas.

“If we end up creating some sort of musical revolution that would be amazing. I wouldn’t put it past us,” Printz confidently predicts. And you won’t put it pass them either.