Biography
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Years Active
1998 – present (26 years)
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Founded In
Tromsø, Troms, Norway
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Members
- Svein Berge
- Torbjørn Brundtland
Röyksopp (sometimes misspelled as 'Royksopp' or 'Røyksopp') is an electronic and chill-out music duo based in Bergen, Norway, but the members are originally from Tromsø, Norway. The band consists of Torbjørn Brundtland and Svein Berge. The group formed officially in 1998 and released their debut album Melody A.M. in 2001. In Norwegian, "The word "Röyksopp", which literally means "(a) smoke mushroom", refers to a type of mushroom that will make a smoky cloud when touched. (The English term is fuzz ball or puffball). Norwegians pronounce the word as in IPA, which an English speaker can try to approximate with roik-sopp" (source). The letter Ö is written as Ø in Norwegian (aswell as in danish), and represents the vowel sound (oe). Ö is a letter which occurs in the Swedish, Finnish, Estonian, German, Hungarian, Turkish, and Icelandic alphabets. It is not an official character within these languages, with the exception of Estonian, Finnish, German Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian,Swedish and Turkish. This character also occurs in Afrikaans (South Africa), but it is regarded as a punctuated "O". They decided to use the Icelandic letter because they thought it looked better.
Röyksopp have won many prizes for their music, one of them in MTV Europe Music Awards 2002 for the best music video (Remind Me). Remind Me was also used in the popular Geico insurance "Caveman" TV commercials.
July 12th, 2005 the band released their second album The Understanding, which was preceded by the hit single "Only This Moment" on June 27th. The album's second single, "49 Percent" was released September 26th same year, followed by their third single, "What Else Is There?", December 5th, 2005, which is a collaboration with Karin Dreijer from the Swedish electronic band, The Knife. The fourth single, "Beautiful Day Without You", was released on June 26, 2006.
weblinks:
- http://www.royksopp.com (official site)
- http://www.royksopp.de
- http://www.royksopp.net
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