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Röyksopp, if you haven’t heard, is a stylized version of the Norwegian word for the puffball mushroom, “røyksopp”. According to the fount of all knowledge, the band has stated that the word could also evoke the mushroom cloud resulting from an atomic blast.
Also, one member of the duo is named Torbjørn. HOW CAN YOU BEAT THAT!?!?!
Röyksopp - Shores Of Easy by Miscellaneousleblog
POLLY SAYS
I just love how this starts a bit ominously and then dissolves into a puddle of Röyksopp chillwave or whatever we’re supposed to call it these days.
This track totally sneaks up on you and it’s the best thing. I was walking around campus with HypeMachine playing and this chillwavey goodness starts growing around me and i have no idea that I’m about to be swallowed up by THE RÖYKSOPP ZONE. I annotated the SoundCloud with where exactly the track goes from your everyday electrochillwave to Röyksopp ‘R Us.
“The Röyksopp Zone” is also going to be the tagline I use to inspire all of my interior design decisions in my next room. It will be really minimalist and involve a lot of beanbag chairs or something, and a dancefloor.
Only Röyksopp can get away with naming this Shores of Easy and not sounding ridiculous. Because it really does have this kind of ocean vibe and the mellow bass will go a long way towards convincing you that you’re floating on your back in a sea hopefully devoid of sharks, instead of just passed out on your couch.
I am currently passed out on my couch.
Kind of like this:
It just goes on and ON……….
Readers, your guess is as good as mine for what on earth Polly is getting at here.
Lol. Does anyone actually read this? IF YOU’RE OUT THERE READING THIS, TELL US.
Well. Just try it, you’ll see what I mean.
Royksopp - The Girl and The Robot (Chateau Marmont Remix) by Stayloose
Chateau Marmont’s remix of The Girl and The Robot isn’t new but it can’t be ignored while we’re on the subject of Röyksopp. This version is rather more robotic sounding and less Robyn-centric than the original, but nearly equally omg amazing. And that’s all I have to say about that.
I totally agree. The only thing better than Röyksopp is Röyksopp and Robyn. And the only thing better than Röyksopp and Robyn is really really good remixes of Röyksopp and Robyn.
No Röyksopp education could come close to being complete without some Happy Up Here:
As much as this song might WANT to be about drugs, or about being about a digital robo-invasion, I always was pretty sure it was about my own wanderlust and living in Sweden. Cuz I was happy up there.
Also, Röyksopp is a really good example of a Scandinavian band with really simple lyrics that are really good and just get stuck in your head:
I’m in love with a robot. (happens to me like, daily.)
You know I really like it / I know I’ll always be here
It’s what I want that’s easy / it’s getting it that’s complicated
Yay, and with Robyn!!
I know, we’ve been gone for a while and that sucks. Especially for us because then we feel guilty. At least I do. While Mo was busy finishing up her top secret mission at Facebook, I was readjusting to the American Way of Life by taking a break from anything moderately productive. But guess what, I’m based in San Francisco now and that means it’s time for our Official YACHT Shrine Appreciation Post, or The Different Types of Triangles There Are. Don’t panic: we haven’t fallen out of love/obsession/infatuation with Sweden. It just means I’ll be experiencing far more fog than rain during the next few months, and possibly just as much good music.
And since I’ll probably be moving out to the bay in the next say, six months, I’mma leave it to you to find all the best beard-toting-electrosynth-dance hangouts, which were like, a dime a dozen back in Lund, but all I managed to find in San Francisco were people sitting in parks smoking pot and playing guitars to their dyed-pink poodles. Which is fine, but enough with the guitars already. #whereisyourdrummachine
What is YACHT? We’ve been scratching our proverbial heads for a while trying to answer that question. Just kidding, they actually break it down with a helpful diagram, Exploded View of YACHT Semiotics (pictured above), to sort of clarify themselves metaphysically. Because YACHT is more than a band or a badass androgynous duo from Portland*.
I too noticed that their website was rather in-depth. Man does YACHT make me excited about my trip to Portland in November.
YACHT is a philosophy, which is so fucking appropriate I can’t even. The YACHT Mission includes but is not limited to the following tenets:
▲YACHT believes art and spirituality are inseparable; both are concerned with the creation of something from nothing, with form without antecedent. The feeling or moment of creation is a kind of spiritual high that can be achieved by anyone with the willingness to transmute an idea into form. When we create something, we relive the first spark into consciousness of both the microcosm (ourselves) and the macrocosm (our universe). Art is ontological birth. No religious culture is without an image-making culture. In more ancient religions, the making of images is the spiritual act itself.
▲YACHT seeks to explore frontiers and to expand awareness of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (ETI). There is nothing marginal about acknowledging the greater possibility of life in the cosmos; it is chauvinistic, beyond the pale, to imagine otherwise.
▲YACHT believes that in the province of the mind, there are no limits. Every person is the master of their own neurological experience. Our minds contain the universe, by the act of comprehending it.
▲YACHT encourages online dissemination of all things.
▲YACHT believes “Free Wi Fi” is not an advertisement of services, but a political statement.
THAT WAS MY FAVORITE ONE!!! Though, I can’t decide if they mean political statement in the sense that, “Everyone is entitled to the internet” or that the wi-fi is trapped and it NEEDS TO BE FREE.
Slutever, the point is they’re super awesome and what are you waiting for? This shit is dope. It’s definitely what I would listen to while walking around Christiania. If the trippy visuals don’t do it for you, just listen to what they’re saying. I mean, Psychic City, fun stuff there. Whatever these two are on, it’s working.
I used to live in a voodoo city,
Where every little thing had its own secret life.
I might be washing up the dishes,
And the kitchen might say:
“Hang around baby, baby, hang around baby, baby,
Hang around baby, we’ll be baking a cake for you.”
PSYCHIC CITY (VOODOO CITY)
YACHT - Psychic City (Voodoo City) from Jona Bechtolt on Vimeo.
omg the lick at the end there #icanteven <3
The Earth, the Earth is on fire!
We don’t have no daughter,
Let the motherfucker burn!
DYSTOPIA (THE EARTH IS ON FIRE)
YACHT Utopia / Dystopia (The Earth Is On Fire) (Explicit) from DFA Records on Vimeo.
The baby in the toy car creeps me out, but I love how Claire is running on a treadmill… in SPACE #dystopiaforsure
She is also so androgynous and prettyyyyyyy!!!
Also, fun fact, Jona used to be in The Blow. Yeah, remember that guy??
If my friends were a drug, not one of them could afford it, but it’s already in their blood.
And if your enemies caused you cancer, we’d find a cure for you, then bring it to the club.
I WALKED ALONE
Protect your eyes! Protect your eyes!
Be careful with the downloading, and protect your eyes!
Read the comments! Read the comments!
And protect your eyes. Protect your eyes!
Don’t get error, 100 percent!
WE HAVE ALL WE’VE EVER WANTED
“Hello my children, hello my sons, hello my daughters, hello my brothers and sisters. I’m here to tell you that the world’s last unpleasant experience will be a precisely dateable event. Yes! It will happen in our lifetimes, if we commit all of our energy today to the task of Paradise engineering. Up, up, out, eyes closed, we’ll move at the speed of light, expanding, expanding, faster and faster, until we become so large and so blissful that we’ll no longer actually exist. Our speed will be so great that everything will come to a stop. We willl gaze upon the entire Universe. The future exists first in our imagination, then in our will, then in reality.”
If there was a Hell, that’s where I belong,
For breaking all the rules and singing all these songs.
PARADISE ENGINEERING
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My favorite YACHT lyrics are probably from One Step. Probably because they involve counting, and lines (which we all know I love):
http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/3530822107858872992/
YACHT has released a very shiny new LP, Shangri-la, which you can watch them unwrap (unbox?), literally, right here. And you should go listen to it here or buy their stuff here.
Trust YACHT • Tumblr • Facebook • Twitter • Soundcloud • Youtube • Vimeo
*#thedreamofthe90sisaliveinportland #jsyk
![polly says
Pollyn is a name to watch, not only because they’re Californian like me and share most of their name with mine thanks to quirky spelling habits. Aside from these fascinating and highly irrelevant details, their track Gave it Up is the perfect moody antidote for Sweden’s current addiction: wet summer afternoons. Give this melancholy electropop a listen - it won’t disappoint.Pollyn has just released a new single, How Small We Are, from their forthcoming album. Taggad!
Pollyn “How Small We Are” from Pollyn on Vimeo.
How Small We Are (Single Version) by Pollyn
Gave it Up by Pollyn
Shake It Off (Them Jeans Remix) by Pollyn
mo says
After minor amounts of analysis I’ve concluded that Pollyn is a fusion of Feist, YACHT, and xkcd. WHY?
Okay FIRST OF ALL Pollyn is such an appropriate band name here. That’d be like a band being called Mon…oh wait, I just checked spotify and there IS a band called Mon. Whatever.
The music here TOTALLY reminds me of YACHT, particularly Utopia. Even thematically “How Small We Are” seems to be pseudo-philosophical in the same way Shangri-La is. (Hmmm I sense another post coming on…)
[WHOA, sidenote, Mon has a very disturbing cover of “What I Like about You” called “Lo que me gusta de ti”… I am not even going to link to it, as that would be a disgrace to our blossoming little blog.]
This Pollyn video, however, totally reminds me xkcd with all the little stick figures. Here you go, appropriate-in-so-many-ways xckd comic. Now put on Pollyn as your soundtrack and enjoy feeling really really small:
Actually this one is even more appropriate:](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_los9bhU7sA1r02z6io1_r1_500.jpg)
Pollyn is a name to watch, not only because they’re Californian like me and share most of their name with mine thanks to quirky spelling habits. Aside from these fascinating and highly irrelevant details, their track Gave it Up is the perfect moody antidote for Sweden’s current addiction: wet summer afternoons. Give this melancholy electropop a listen - it won’t disappoint.
Pollyn has just released a new single, How Small We Are, from their forthcoming album. Taggad!
Pollyn “How Small We Are” from Pollyn on Vimeo.
How Small We Are (Single Version) by Pollyn
Gave it Up by Pollyn
Shake It Off (Them Jeans Remix) by Pollyn
After minor amounts of analysis I’ve concluded that Pollyn is a fusion of Feist, YACHT, and xkcd. WHY?
Okay FIRST OF ALL Pollyn is such an appropriate band name here. That’d be like a band being called Mon…oh wait, I just checked spotify and there IS a band called Mon. Whatever.
The music here TOTALLY reminds me of YACHT, particularly Utopia. Even thematically “How Small We Are” seems to be pseudo-philosophical in the same way Shangri-La is. (Hmmm I sense another post coming on…)
[WHOA, sidenote, Mon has a very disturbing cover of “What I Like about You” called “Lo que me gusta de ti”… I am not even going to link to it, as that would be a disgrace to our blossoming little blog.]
This Pollyn video, however, totally reminds me xkcd with all the little stick figures. Here you go, appropriate-in-so-many-ways xckd comic. Now put on Pollyn as your soundtrack and enjoy feeling really really small:
Actually this one is even more appropriate:
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