Recipe for atomic compound
 
Ingredients:
-take a small town in the Arctic Circle
-a rustic wooden house
-a synthesizer
-some old keyboards
-a handful of African rhytms
-a hint of Trip-hop
-a pinch of Jazz
-two good guys with two clean faces (in a manner of speaking:”Two is company, three is a crowd.”)
 
And now mix everything
and enjoy your mushroom cloud.
 
From 21 May to 23 July Tromsø never sleeps. At this time of the year the phenomenon of the midnight sun occurs. It happens when the summer solstice is upon us. Perhaps these sleepless nights make Tromsø (Norway) the cradle of synthetic pop. Here was born Geir Jenssen, aka Biosphere – Bel Canto, and in 1998 the electronic duo Röyksopp.
In the Norwegian language the name “röyksopp” means puff-ball, a kind of mushrooms whose round fruiting body discharges a cloud of spores when mature. Alike this band explodes with “What else is there?”, the third single from their second album “The Understanding”, that was released on 4 July 2005. The music video was directed by Martin de Thurah and it features Marianne Schröder, a Norwegian model with blue eyes, freckles, diaphanous complexion and blonde long hair. She is shown lip-syncing Karin Dreijer’s voice, the singer of the Swedish band The Knife (she makes an appearance in the video as an Elizabethan lady). In the video model is a floating nymph traveling across forsaken houses and dark gothic landscapes. De Thurah creates a dimension suspended between dream and nightmare, a world where pulsions are anesthetized.