Royksopp pronunciation
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Röyksopp
Röyksopp is an electronicamusical group from Tromsø, Norway that formed in 1998. They are currently based in Bergen. The members are Svein Berge and Torbjørn Brundtland. They won an award for best music video in 2002 by MTV Europe for their song, "Remind Me". They have released four studio albums and one EP.
Berge and Brundtland formed a band with Kolbjørn Lyslo and Gaute Barlindhaug called Aedena Cycle. They released a vinyl EP called Traveler's Dreams under Apollo Records in 1994. After this they left to form Röyksopp. Their first single "So Easy" was released by Tellé. It was used in a T-mobile advert in the UK.
Brundtland was a member of Those Norwegians in 1997.
They have worked with many other musicians. They released a single called "Running to the Sea" and a cover version of "Ice Machine" by Depeche Mode from their album Late Night Tales: Röyksopp in 2013.Both songs have vocals from Susanne Sundfør.
Their first album Melody A.M. has two songs with Erlend Øye, "Poor Leno" and "Remind Me".
Røyksopp is a Norwegian word that means puffball f
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Royksopp
Royksopp is a Norwegian duo (Svein Berge and Torbjorn Brundtland) whose Melody A.M. (Wall Of Sound, 2001 - Astralwerks, 2002) basically offered a less challenging version of Boards Of Canada spiced with Air's post-modernist Sixties revival. On the easy-listening covers, they come through as a poor man's Flying Lizards: So Easy, for example, is propelled by dance beats and neoclassical staccatos and it is not exactly stunning when a choir intones Bacharach's ethereal melody on such a trivial foundation. (It gets worse on the other covers). The originals are slightly more creative. Eple concocts a futuristic ballet out of a fibrillating Talking Heads-ian funk rhythm and a distorted, wavering, electronic melody. A Higher Place blends jazz, house and minimalism, but even better is the way She's So turns the jazz theme into an aquatic texture. Night Out (seven minutes) is probably the stand-out, if nothing else because it merges orchestral adagios, disco-music and funk-jazz in a captivating retro` manner. But the do
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The Profound Mysteries Of Röyksopp
“I guess it’s time to remove the prefix electronic from the discussion of our music. It’s just music, isn’t it”?
Svein Berge, one half of Norwegian duo Röyksopp, who’ve experienced massive international success with their very own genre of electronic pop music since the release of their first vinyl single “So Easy” in 1999, looks at his creative partner, Torbjørn Brundtland, like he has done so many times before. Ever since childhood, in fact, and as always surrounded by a wild forest of analog synths, wires and modern music equipment. The duality of their music; a little sad and a little happy, dark and humorous, epic and naïve, is reflected in their personalities. They are quite different types, but their personalities are also manifested into one organic unity, with the ability to complete each other’s sentences and jokes, and not at least to complement the aesthetic whole of which their musical universe consists.
Their often somewhat quirky, but always rather sweet, songs have made them into one of
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