Meme Review of the Year 2010
For us, this was the year of broken beats, disco re-edits and, of course, the cloud. We also managed a major design revamp which seems to have gone down well as our visitor numbers nearly quadrupled over the year. But we would be nothing without the music and the artists that made it… A whole [...]
Röyksopp – The Drug
I know we’re banging on a bit about the new Röyksopp LP ‘Senior’, but we do love it and want you to love it too. The latest offering we have is the rather sinister video for ‘The Drug’: turns the lights down low, close all the doors and click Play…
Röyksopp – Adventures In Barbieland
‘Bloody weird’, is the best way to describe this video that accompanies the forthcoming LP from Röyksopp. It features a selection of music from the album (which we recently awarded four stars in our review) plus Svein Berge and Torbjørn Brundtland playing an old man and a hobo staying in a home inhabitated by a Barbie-obsessed [...]
Röyksopp – Senior (Wall of Sound)
After the poppy optimism of the Norwegian duo‘s previous LP, ‘Junior’, the opening of the sister album, ‘Senior’ is a decidedly down-beat affair. As the music moves uptempo in Track 2, ‘Tricky Two’, the listener can start to see (or hear) a story unfolding; a story, apparently, of a bit of a drugs journey for [...]
