Röyksopp

Surge Tracks

• What Else Is There? (Thin White Duke remix)
• What Else Is There?
• Only This Moment
• So Easy
• Eple
• Poor Leno

Artist Biography

Röyksopp (sometimes misspelled as 'Royksopp' or 'Røyksopp' even "Royskopp") 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).

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 while their first single "So Easy" became popular in the UK after it was used in an T-Mobile advert.

The song "Eple" was licensed by Apple for use as the welcome music to Mac OS X Panther operating system, playing the first time a user booted a new Mac.

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Artist Discography

Albums

Melody A.M. (2002-08-12)
The Understanding (2005-07-04)

EPs

What Else Is There? (2005-10-18)

Singles

49 Percent (2005-09-26)
Beautiful Day Without You (2006-06-26)
Eple (2001-07-23)
Only This Moment (2005-06-27)
Poor Leno (2002-11-18)
Remind Me / So Easy (2002-08-05)
Sparks (2003-06-16)
What Else Is There? (2005)

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