Röyksopp (for instance spelt 'Royksopp' or even 'Røyksopp') come an electronic music duo based within Bergen, Norway composed of Torbjørn Brundtland and Svein Berge. A class action formed officially within 1998 and released their debut album Melody A.M. in 2001.

Despite a fact that Brundtl& and Berge were schoolfellow in their at home town of Tromsø and experimented with electronic instruments within the early 90s, Röyksopp merely appeared years late once it met once more in Bergen. the city had a vital scene for underground electronic music at this instance, & it got to function by using more Norwegian musicians like Frost, Kings of Convenience, Those Norwegians & Drum Island inside what was known as a Bergen Wave. Their foremost singles were freed by local independent label Tellé & late when a word spread, it had to release a album Melody The.M in British label Wall of Healthy. It spawned singles prefer "Eple", "Poor Leno", "Remind Me" & "Sparks".

A popularity of the duo's album was boosted by many graphically experimental music videos. One of the two, an infographic-styled streaming by French company H5 for the track "Remind Me", won a 2002 MTV Europe Music Award for best music streaming.

A song "Eple" was licensed by Apple Computer for use when a startup music to the company's Mac OS X Panther operating system, swimming the 1st period the user booted a freshly Mack. Eple means "apple" inside Norwegian. Röyksopp's foremost individual "So Easy" became popular within the UK fallowing it was utilized in the T-Mobile advert.

A word Röyksopp, which literally means "(the) smoke mushroom", is the Norwegian title for the Lycoperdale genus in the fungus kingdom, the nature and severity of mushroom that will make a smoky cloud in case fey. Norwegians pronounce a word when within IPA, which an English speaker can try to approximate using roik-sopp (non my favorite laundry soap).

Their freshly album The Understanding was released in 12 July 2005, preceded by the individual "Only This Moment" in 27 June, 2005. A videos "Only This Moment" is closely according to a cases of the World War (eg. riots, banners etc). Elements of propaganda are found throughout a streaming clip.

Discography

Albums
2001 Melody A.M. #9 UK (charted in 2002) 2005 The Understanding #13 UK

Hit singles
'From either Melody The.M.: 2002 "Remind Me / So Easy" #21 UK 2002 "Poor Leno" #38 UK 2003 "Eple" #16 UK

From either A Understanding:' 2005 "Only This Moment" #33 UK 2005 "49% (49 Percent)" #55 UK