Röyksopp - In Space

Röyksopp is an electronic and chillout music duo based in Bergen, Norway, but the members were 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. The Norwegian word Røyksopp means puffball fungus (lit. (a) smoke mushroom).

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 PlaySo Easy became popular in the UK after it was used in a T-Mobile advert. In 2007 O2 used in their commercial song PlayWhat Else Is There? from the album The Understanding. O2 commercial aired in Czech Republic.

The song PlayEple 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. Eple is the Norwegian word for Apple.

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 albums second single, Play49 Percent was released September 26th same year, followed by their third single, PlayWhat 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.

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• röyksopp
• røyksopp
• royksopp
• in
• space
• acid
• jazz
• alternative
• ambient
• chill
• out
• chillout
• downtempo
• easy
• listening
• electronic
• lounge

[RockerDuk]

Is it Røyksopp or Röyksopp?

[Hexagonmaster]

It's Röyksopp ;)

[OddByDefault]

This song is like space...I just want it to go on and on and on...

[trashkayne]

I can listen to this over and over and I only love more every time I listen to it. It never gets old.

[YangBalanceYin]

@0922na I don't know if it was really sad although i can kind of see where you got that. It is a beautiful song.

[jgbenjam]

I'm in space!

[niiidar]

SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA­AAAAAAAAAACE

[koums94]

i think the astronauts would love to cruise with this song =)

[0922na]

ノルウェイのエレクトロ。メロディが哀しい程美しい。

[steveiouk]

I love this track. It reminds me of my year and a half travelling in New Zealand. Feels so free and light !

[sparklephish]

listened to this song under the influence of mushrooms, now i know what heaven looks like

[Staghausen]

ever and ever a good song

[vanvalldrey]

@SaturnineXTS: might aswell be a german letter; not as scandinavian as sweden, but it's still in europe.

[favorablydisposed]

@comerunwithmig BOARDS OF CANADA