Electronic pop trailblazers, R\u00c3\u00b6yksopp, release the second part to their expansive Profound Mysteries project, Profound Mysteries II. Berge and Brundtland describe Profound Mysteries as the biggest undertaking of R\u00c3\u00b6yksopp\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s career. It both encapsulates the unique sound they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve spent decades honing, and expands on it. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a bold look to the future, and an homage to the artists, genres, and musical movements that first inspired them. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a project they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve spent their whole lives making (the oldest ideas date back to the early days of R\u00c3\u00b6yksopp, literally using MIDI data first composed by the band when they were teenagers in the 1990s), and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s brand new. Back in those early days, pioneers Berge and Brundtland immersed themselves in the Troms\u00c3\u00b8 techno scene, a pivotal era in Norway\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s electronic music history, and later formed R\u00c3\u00b6yksopp during another fertile creative period known as the Bergen Wave; many of the artists who emerged in both scenes became vital creative partners throughout R\u00c3\u00b6yksopp\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s career. Their debut album Melody A.M. (released in 2001) would become a breakout success from the scene and led to an influential career that has taken in five studio albums, dozens of international hit singles, and numerous Grammy, BRIT nominations and Spellemannprisen awards. This is all without mentioning a raft of acclaimed remixes for artists including Depeche Mode, Beck, Lady Gaga and Coldplay, and their production and songwriting work, or their timeless collaborations with the likes of Robyn, Lykke Li, and The Knife\/Fever Ray\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Karin Dreijer Andersson. Profound Mysteries is characterised by its wealth of collaborations. As always, Berge and Brundtland wrote, performed, and engineered the majority of the record together in Norway, though their collaborations span the world. On Profound Mysteries R\u00c3\u00b6yksopp recorded strings and woodwind in New York, Berlin, and Paris, while guest vocals come from both familiar artists in the R\u00c3\u00b6yksopp universe (Susanne Sundf\u00c3\u00b8r) as well as new additions (Allison Goldfrapp, Beki Mari, Astrid S, Karen Harding, Pixx and Jamie Irrepressible).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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