四年前，来自挪威第三大城市卑尔根（Bergen）的独立厂牌Telle Records受到英国的Wall Of Sound青睐，好让一众卑尔根音乐大军得以席卷英伦。当年的头马，固然是被纳入为New Acoustic Movement一分子的Kings Of Convenience；紧贴而上，则是Royksopp这队由Svein Berge和Torbjorn Brundtland所组成的Downtempo电子组合，也是当中唯一能直接过户到Wall Of Sound的音乐单位。
Royksopp的处男专辑Melody A.M.，不知不觉间原来已是四年前（2001年）的出品，毕竟这是一张慢热的唱片，声势足足横跨三个年头（最后一张单曲Sparks是03年出版），结果这张专辑足足累积了超过一百万唱片销量，而Royksopp亦足足为Melody AM举行了三年巡回演出。他们的「挪威Downtempo之王」姿态也不言而喻。
事隔四年，Royksopp终于发表了他们叫乐迷引颈以待的第二张专辑The Understanding，可以肯定这并不是Melody A.M..的续集。没有太多闲适雅致的Downtempo靓靓声音，而是要带来截然不同的取向，把头发留长了的二人（尤其是Svein），似乎有意跻身唱作人之列。
听罢The Understanding，笔者觉得Royksopp乃大有潜质跟法国的Air争一日之长短。
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royksopp是来自挪威的双人组合，是目前炙手可热且深获好评的电音团体之一。虽然来自冰冷的北国，但royksop p玩出的音乐，却是温暖舒服的，毫无刺骨的感觉，却让人体会到睡在丝绸棉被之中的松软、光滑和懒洋洋。 royksopp由挪威tromso地方的torbjorn brundtland和svein berge组成,他们早在上个世纪90年代就开始活动，其间间断过一些时候，1998年再度组合，此后他们签约big beat品牌wall of sounds，在发表了单曲“eple”后于2001年底出版了这张他们的第一张专辑。 从音乐上看，royksopp的音乐，融合了ambient、breakbeat和trip-hop，但他们的音乐并没有单纯三 者结合，所以你感受不到传统ambient的冗长、breakbeat的碎杂和trip-hop的诡异，却听到了一首首标准歌曲 长度、听觉上十分惬意具催眠效果的音乐。
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Biography by John Bush
Norwegian duo R?yksopp compensated for the cold climes of their native Troms? by making some of the warmest, most inviting downbeat electronica of the new millennium, exemplified by early singles like Eple and Poor Leno. The pair, Torbj?rn Brundtland and Svein Berge, both grew up in Troms? and began recording in the early '90s. Local-made-good Geir Jenssen (aka Biosphere) provided tutelage and almost convinced the duo to record for R&S sublabel Apollo. After a few years apart, Brundtland and Berge met up again in Bergen and re-formed R?yksopp in 1998.
The group released a few singles on Tellé, then signed up to the big beat label Wall of Sound. The R?yksopp debut was 2001's Eple single; both "Eple" and another track ("Poor Leno") earned slots on over a dozen chillout compilations that year or the next. Their first full-length, Melody A.M., appeared in late 2001. After spending a few years performing live and remixing artists including Beck and Annie, R?yksopp returned with new material in 2005: the single Only This Moment heralded the summer release of the duo's second album, The Understanding, which featured more traditionally structured songs than their earlier work. The live EP R?yksopp's Night Out appeared a year later.
