royksopp – the girl and the robot

im pretty excited about todays tune. i figured that lots of people might be reading today because many of us had a long weekend, and now we are back at work and searching for any distraction we can find. and i think this site, if not anything credible or entertaining, can at the very least be considered a distraction, no? so i figured this song might be a great distraction, and you might actually like it. the funny thing about this track is that i actually got the album a few months ago, listened to it once, really enjoyed it, and then completely forgot about it until about 2 weeks ago when i heard this song at grahams house as part of a j alexander mix and rediscovered it and boy am i glad i did.

the tune is “the girl and the robot” by norwegian dj duo royksopp. you may remember them from those geico caveman commercials a few years back. you know, the campaign where you enjoyed the first few commercials, then with each new commercial you hated it more and more. and then you heard that they were going to do a caveman tv show based on the commercials and really hated them. and then the show flopped, much to your chagrin. well, their song “remind me” was featured in one of those commercials, the one where the caveman is walking through an airport. while that is a great song, its very elevator music-y (in a good way though), and if thats your only exposure to this group, you will be very pleasantly surprised by their latest album “junior”. not only does it have block rockin beats, but it features some great scandinavian female vocalists such as my girl lykke li, karen dreijer andersson (aka fever ray and lead singer of the knife), and anneli drecker, another norwegian songstress who often tours with royksopp as their vocalist.

todays track features swedish sensation robyn on vocals and its kind of an awesome performance. damn gina, this girl has a great voice, especially for this genre. while you may remember her from pop hits such as “show me love” back in the day, she seems to have become pretty popular among the indie crowd after releasing some new material over the past few years as well in an interesting turn of events. this might be my favorite dance song of the year thus far. its especially enjoyable to enjoy the contrast when listening to the album between this song and the song that precedes it, the uber-fun opener “happy up here”.

royksopp – the girl and the robot

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1. I love Royksopp. Not because I’m Norwegian either.

   They make me wanna go to Luna and dance all night. HA!

   Hockboi

   6 Jul 09 at 9:29 am

    

2. Thanks for sharing a little sugar on a post-holiday Monday!

   sfc

   6 Jul 09 at 10:12 am

    

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