Perhaps the most famous Bergen band today is Röyksopp. The duo group was part of the "Bergen wave" together with other famous artistis like Sondre Lerche.
Their debut single "So Easy" was released in 1999 and their popularity increased rapidly the following years by several graphically innovative music videos. One of them, "Remind Me", won the 2002 MTV Europe Music Award for best music video. In this same event Röyksopp was nominated in 3 more categories: "Best Nordic Act", "Best New Artist" and "Best Dance Act", but only won the award for best video. The Norwegian electronic music duo consists of Torbjørn Brundtland and Svein Berge.
Many Röyksopp songs have been used in ads or as background music in TV shows. The song "Eple" was licensed by Apple for use as the welcome music to the company’s Mac OS X Panther operating system, playing the first time a user started a new Mac. It was also used as the music for the title sequence for BBC World’s Click Online (now Click) and as background music during DJ talk on Virgin Radio. A small snippet of the song also is used for the station ID for American public television station KLRU, as well as for their identical production logo featured at the end of their productions such as Austin City Limits. "Eple", pronunciation per IPA: ['ɛplə], means "apple" in Norwegian.
In 2007, Röyksopp aggregated their favourite music by other artists for the Back to Mine series. The album was released in the US on March 5th 2007 and in the UK on April 27th 2007. The album also includes their own track "Meatball", released under the pseudonym "Emmanuel Splice", which is actually a remix version of Mike Oldfield's "North Star/Platinum Finale" off of the album "Platinum".
