Röyksopp

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Röyksopp
Röyksopp in Berlin (2009)
Röyksopp in Berlin (2009)
General information
origin Bergen , Norway
Genre (s) Downtempo , trip-hop , synth pop , electronica
founding 1998
Website royksopp.com
Current occupation
Svein mountains
Torbjørn Brundtland

Röyksopp (also spelled Røyksopp ; Norwegian for the Boviste mushroom ; in this case more like atomic mushroom ) is a Norwegian music group consisting of Svein Berge and Torbjørn Brundtland. You are a representative of electronica .

Band history

Berge and Brundtland met as children in their hometown of Tromsø . After school, both initially lost sight of each other, but got back together two years later and founded the Röyksopp group. In 1995 they released their first album .

They released their first singles on the independent label Tellé. After the success of the singles, the group was signed by the British label Wall of Sound . The album Melody AM , published there in 2001, received extremely positive reviews in many magazines and sold over 750,000 copies in a short time. In June 2005, the follow -up album The Understanding was released , followed by the live album Röyksopp's Night Out a year later . The third studio album Junior was only released in March 2009.

The group gained additional international fame because the instrumental piece Eple (norwegian = apple) was played as a sound after the successful installation of the Apple operating system Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther) and served as an advertising soundtrack for a well-known cosmetics company. What Else Is There was used as background music for an O 2 commercial. At the end of September 2014, Röyksopp announced that after The Inevitable End no further albums would be released. However, they will continue to produce music.

reception

The style of the debut Melody AM was compared to Goldfrapp and Air . It has been named one of the most intriguing downbeat albums of the year. The combination of beeping synthesizers from the 1980s, creaking backbeats and a dreamy voice was praised . The following album, The Understanding , received mixed reviews. On the one hand, a certain lack of orientation between airy sound and poppy pieces was criticized, while New Musical Express characterized the band as the Pink Floyd of melancholy techno, which is suitable for filling huge stadiums. The band's maturation process was also highlighted positively.

The album Junior was released digitally on March 16 and on CD on March 23, 2009; the single Happy Up Here was released at the beginning . This song was previously heard on BBC Radio 1 on January 9, 2009. The music video for Happy Up Here uses graphics from the arcade game Space Invaders . On Junior there are many more disco-heavy pieces that have displaced the melancholy character from the two previous albums with a few exceptions. Only Röyksopp Forever , You Don't Have a Clue and partly Miss It So Much are reminiscent of tones from Melody AM and The Understanding . With artists like Robyn , Fever Ray or Lykke Li , numerous well-known guests are also represented on the album.

Discography

Studio albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US NO NO
2001 Melody AM - - - UK9
platinum
platinum

(53 weeks)UK 		- NO1
platinum
platinum

(62 weeks)NO
First published: September 3, 2001
2005 The understanding DE41 (5 weeks)
DE 		AT60 (3 weeks)
AT 		CH18 (8 weeks)
CH 		UK13
gold
gold

(8 weeks)UK 		- NO1 (35 weeks)
NO
First published: June 22, 2005
2009 Junior DE35 (2 weeks)
DE 		AT65 (1 week)
AT 		CH18 (6 weeks)
CH 		UK21 (4 weeks)
UK 		US126 (1 week)
US 		NO1 (29 weeks)
NO
First published: March 18, 2009
2010 Senior DE52 (1 week)
DE 		- CH28 (3 weeks)
CH 		UK33 (2 weeks)
UK 		- NO1 (6 weeks)
NO
First published: September 8, 2010
2014 The Inevitable End DE54 (1 week)
DE 		- CH21 (2 weeks)
CH 		UK38 (1 week)
UK 		US103 (1 week)
US 		NO2 (19 weeks)
NO
First published: November 7, 2014

EPs

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US NO NO
2006 Röyksopp's Night Out - - - - - NO8 (3 weeks)
NO
First published: January 27, 2006
2007 Back to mine - - - - - NO24 (2 weeks)
NO
First published: March 5, 2007
2014 Do it again DE70 (1 week)
DE 		AT49 (1 week)
AT 		CH18 (2 weeks)
CH 		UK20 (2 weeks)
UK 		US14 (1 week)
US 		NO3 (5 weeks)
NO
First published: May 23, 2014
with Robyn

More albums

  • 1995: The Travelers' Dream
  • 2013: Late Night Tales: Röyksopp

Singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US NO NO
2001 Eple
Melody AM 		- - - UK16 (3 weeks)
UK 		- -
First published: July 23, 2001
Poor Leno
Melody AM 		- - - UK38 (5 weeks)
UK 		- -
First release: December 3rd, 2001
feat. Erlend Øye
2002 Remind Me
Melody AM 		- - - UK21 (3 weeks)
UK 		- -
First release: August 5th, 2002
feat. Erlend Øye
2003 Sparks
Melody AM 		- - - UK41 (2 weeks)
UK 		- -
First release: June 23, 2003
feat. Anneli Drecker
2005 Only This Moment
The Understanding 		- - - UK33 (3 weeks)
UK 		- -
First published: June 27, 2005
feat. Kate Havnevik
49 Percent
The Understanding 		- - - UK55 (2 weeks)
UK 		- -
First release: September 26, 2005
feat. Chelonis R. Jones
What Else Is There?
The understanding 		DE76 (9 weeks)
DE 		- - UK32 (8 weeks)
UK 		- NO4 (8 weeks)
NO
First release: November 21, 2005
feat. Karin Dreijer Andersson
2009 Happy Up Here
Junior 		- - - UK44 (3 weeks)
UK 		- NO3 (4 weeks)
NO
First published: January 19, 2009
The Girl and the Robot
Junior 		- - - - - NO2 (11 weeks)
NO
First published: June 15, 2009
feat. Robyn
2012 Running to the Sea
The Inevitable End 		- - - - - NO14 (10 weeks)
NO
First release: December 2012
with Susanne Sundfør feat. Jamie McDermott
2014 Do It Again
Do It Again 		- - - UK75 (1 week)
UK 		- NO-
platinum
platinum
NO
First published: April 28, 2014
with Robyn
2016 never ever - - - - - NO22 (7 weeks)
NO
First published: September 9, 2016
with Susanne Sundfør
2019 To minutter - - - - - NO31 (1 week)
NO
First published: August 23, 2019
with Lars Vaular

Awards

2001

  • Best music video for Eple - Spellemannprisen (the Norwegian equivalent of the Grammy Awards )
  • Best electronic album for Melody AM - Spellemannprisen

2002

2005

  • Best pop band - Spellemannprisen

2013

  • Song of the year for Running to the Sea - P3 Gull

2016

  • P3 prizes - P3 Gull

swell

  1. ↑ Audio sample Eple
  2. ↑ Audio sample What Else Is There
  3. ↑ Goodbye to the traditional album format. In: Homepage of Röyksopp. September 29, 2014, accessed October 3, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Review of Melody AM on allmusic.com
  5. ↑ Review of Melody AM on NME.com
  6. ^ Review of The Understanding on laut.de.
  7. ↑ Review of The Understanding on NME.com
  8. ^ Review of The Understanding on allmusic.com
  9. ^ "Real" Space Invaders Appear In Music Video . Kotaku. Retrieved August 14, 2010.
  10. ↑ Review by Junior on laut.de.
  11. ↑ a b Review by Junior on musicone.de
  12. ↑ a b c Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US NO
  13. ↑ Music Sales Awards: NO NO2 UK
  14. ↑ P3 Gull 2013 . In: NRK P3 . October 20, 2015 ( p3.no [accessed November 27, 2017]).
  15. ↑ P3 Gull 2016 . In: NRK P3 . September 28, 2017 ( p3.no [accessed November 27, 2017]).

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