Ep364: The Profound Mysteries of Röyksopp
The Vinyl Guide - Artist Interviews for Record Collectors and Music Nerds
Nate Goyer
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
8 years since the last album, Röyksopp has a massively ambitious project "Profound Mysteries" which is broken into III volumes, comes as a 6LP boxset and has visuals and even videos for each track. Röyksopp cofounder Svein Berge discusses the long journey of "Profound Mysteries", the early and collectible records of Röyksopp, the Banksy record and more!
Topics include:
- 8 Years since "The Inevitable End"
- The band set out to create a double album
- The lack of constraints for "Profound Mysteries"
- The variations between Profound Mysteries vol I, II & III
- Growing up, getting records in Tromsø
- Realizing he was a musician
- The first time on vinyl record
- The limited community of musicians in Northern Norway
- The 1st Röyksopp single "So Easy" on Telle Records
- The Banksy cover version of "Melody A.M."
- The story of Melody A.M.
- Working with Banksy
- How the Banksy records were distributed
- Checking out Svein's Banksy records
- Banksy's trip to Norway
- The rights to Röyksopp music
- Reissuing Röyksopp music on records
- Challenges with pressing records
- The "Profound Mysteries" 6LP boxset
- The artwork of Jonathan Zawada
- Developing a video for each track
- What was left out of the Profound Mysteries concept?
- Interview wrap up
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is brought to you by Groove Washer, the best record cleaners and protective sleeves |
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| 0:09.7 | Discount code, Vinyl Guide 10. And now, on with the show. |
| 0:16.3 | Hello, everyone. It's Nate. Welcome to episode 364 of the Vinyl Guide, the podcast for record collectors and music nerds, and today we've got an incredible conversation with Sven Berg of the electronic music duo, Roikzop. And this one is super fascinating because not only his Roikzop had several decades of producing some incredibly innovative electronic music, |
| 0:40.5 | they've been nominated for Grammys, Brit Awards, and have built a tremendous fan base. |
| 0:45.4 | But Royksop have also attracted the support of other musicians and artists, one of which we discuss at length today, Banksy. |
| 0:57.3 | Banksy himself, hand-stensled a limited release for Roikzop in 2001, and this record is now one of the most desirable records in the |
| 1:04.2 | world. Only 100 exist, and each one made by Banksy himself. Now, Savan and I talk at length |
| 1:10.5 | about that record today, as well as |
| 1:12.8 | profound mysteries. Royksop recently announced a hugely ambitious new album, Profound Mysteries. |
| 1:20.0 | It's a three-part set, complete with a six-lp box set, artwork and video for each track, and you can dial up Profound Mysteries |
| 1:29.8 | volumes 1 and 2 right now on streaming services, and the third and final volume will be out |
| 1:35.0 | November 18th, so set up your streaming services to get that on the day. You could also order |
| 1:40.5 | vinyl copies, including the 6LP box set at Profound Mysteries.roixop.com. |
| 1:47.6 | And hey, guess what? There's an extended version of this interview available only to our show patrons |
| 1:53.6 | at patreon.com slash vinyl guide. I love giving a whole bunch of extras to the folks at patreon.com |
| 2:00.6 | slash vinyl guide, including |
| 2:02.1 | extended interviews, high resolution audio files, and all episodes are commercial free, only at |
| 2:09.3 | patreon.com slash vinyl guide. Head up there now, five or ten bucks a month, or whatever you can |
| 2:14.8 | afford is appreciated, and enjoy ad-free interviews, extended |
| 2:18.8 | interviews just like today, another 10 or 15 minutes with Sven, I believe, as well as listen |
| 2:23.5 | to it in high resolution. Your ears will love you for it, and so will I. Help support the show |
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