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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Photo credit Stian Andersen

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