Röyksopp, the legendary Norwegian electronic music duo from Tromsø, tours North America from March 18-29.
Norwegian duo Röyksopp compensated for the cold climes of their native Tromsø by making some of the warmest, most inviting downbeat electronica of the new millennium, exemplified by early tracks like Eple and Poor Leno. The pair, Torbjørn Brundtland and Svein Berge, both grew up in Tromsø 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 Röyksopp in 1998.
The group released a few singles on Tellé, then signed up to the big beat label Wall of Sound. The Röyksopp debut was the 2001 single Eple, which along with 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, Röyksopp 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 Röyksopp's Night Out appeared a year later, and the third album -- Junior, their most upbeat set -- came in March 2009. The past year it was followed, appropriately, by Senior, and a string of collabrotaive projects including Robyn and Karin Dreijer Andresson of The Knife/Fever Ray.
Concert dates:
Toronto: The Guvernment
18 March 2011
Montreal: Club Soda
19 March 2011
New York: Music Hall Of Williamsburg
20 March 2011
New York: Webster Hall
21 March 2011
Washington DC: 9:30 Club
23 March 2011
Atlanta: Masquerade
24 March 2011
Mexico: Hipodromo de las americas
26 March 2011
San Francisco: The Grand Ballroom @ Regency »
28 March 2011
Los Angeles: The Wiltern
29 March 2011
Go to royksopp.com for more information.
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