Royksopp, 'The Understanding' (Astralwerks)
Club bangers for the chill-out room.
By Michaelangelo Matos 07.27.05 3:00 AM
At the beginning of the decade, dance music got downsized. You can, in part, thank Royksopp for this. The Bergen, Norway duo's late 2001 debut, Melody A.M.., hit at a point when bruisers like Paul Oakenfold were beginning to feel like relics of the dot-com-bubble era, and simpler styles, from mash-ups to electroclash to microhouse, were staging an aesthetic takeover.




