2x12" 20th Year Abnniversary Copy Downbeat Electronica / House Includes Eple,Poor Leno & So Easy. Ltd & Numbered
Fantastic debut LP from this ace Norwegian duo finally gets re-released!. It brings together lush downbeat, electronica, house, future funk and soulful breaks. Hard to classify, easy to like, it's one of those must-have LPs for your collection. Special.
Chilled-out or downbeat acts swept through the electronic scene during 2001 and 2002, prompting dozens of identikit compilations, all conjuring up images of exhausted clubbers returning home early in the morning and enjoying a cup of tea or a smoke after a hectic night out. And although downtempo electronica had always been largely album-based, most of these trackmasters didn't do much on the full-length front. The Norwegian duo Röyksopp, however, displayed a careful hand with the boards on their 2001 debut Melody A.M.. Röyksopp balances the haunted atmospheres of Boards of Canada with the more traditional "songwriting" sensibility of downbeat specialists like Groove Armada or Koop. The opener is proof enough, with a chunky bassline undergirding the spooky, ethereal refrain from Bobby Vinton's "Blue on Blue" recorded by some long-forgotten vocal chorus. There's much of beauty on Melody A.M., very textured and imaginatively produced to sound like few o
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So Easy
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Poor LEno
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Eple
b2
In Space
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A Higher Place
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Röyksopp's Night Out
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Remind Me
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She's So
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Sparks
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