Sunday 22 January 2012

ARTIST SPOTLIGHT - ROYKSOPP

[Royksopp]


Electronic music duo Royksopp has quite a large following in their native Country of Norway, but the reason they get the artist spotlight today is because they are fairly unknown in North America.

Royksopp started in 1998 and has had just the two same members, Svein Berge and Torbjørn Brundtland (a mouthful I know) since it's inception. The duo's music can be described as downbeat electronica with influences from house music and drum and bass (or more recently known as dubstep). they have many accomplishments, including a 2009 Grammy nomination for best remixed recording of the track "The Girl and The Robot". Their most succesfull album to date is Melody A.M. which happens to be their first album.



Of the 4 albums the duo has released, all of them reached #1 on the Norway charts, with Junior reaching 136th in the american charts (and reaching up to 4th in the american electronic charts). It's not hard to see that this small duo from Norway has been somewhat of a breakout hit.

One song i'd like to show you guys is the 2010 track, "The Alcoholic". It starts off with a can opening of all things (maybe in relation to the title?) and then is accompanied by a funky drum and bass line that transfers into an amazing guitar noise with birds in the background.. it really is one of my favorite songs from them. Don't take my word for it though, see for yourself.


Ill end with a link to royksopps own blog so you can check them out if you like what you hear.


22 comments:

  1. a little too electronic/house for my tastes, but it does have a nice beat

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  2. Always liked these guys. Royksopp use to be an unknown in my school few years back but some of us were listening to him. They are more popular now though idk why. Everyone here has then on their ipod.

    Good stuff

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  3. Not too big of a fan of them, but I really like The Girl and the Robot that they made with Robyn.

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  4. This band rules, thanks for sharing.
    +following

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  5. Royksopp are good i like them.. anyways

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  6. Good stuff, thanks for sharing!

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  7. Have never even heard of these guys and was not expecting to like them..But I actually love the track you posted..!

    I'm thinking it would sound even better, under the influence of the good stuff. Not that I would know :P

    GM x

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    1. Hah i'm glad you like them!

      I plan on doing a lot of "artist spotlights" in between album releases, so ill be posting more like this.

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  8. hey man i like the blog, thanks for following me and i am now following you!

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  9. Not a bad sound to the track at all, must deleve further now.

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  10. Oh man, I have been a huge fan of Röyksopp since Melody AM.

    The two new albums, I got to say, I was not impressed at first. Junior felt like an ok album, but after listening to it for a couple of times I consider it now one of the best albums I know! Also Senior, albeit having a slow start, is an awesome album and there are so many different sounds that you miss on the first playthroughs.

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    1. I've had senior on my hard drive for a really long time, and only started listening to it a few months ago..

      When I first heard it I wasn't really impressed either, until I decided to give the whole album a real good listen.

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  11. Bot bad music, pretty chill as well!

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  12. The only Royksopp song that I listened to (and loved) was Happy Up Here.

    I keep trying to remind myself to listen to more of their stuff, because their sound is very interesting, but somehow I keep forgetting O__O

    But this blog post reminded me again, so thanks!

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