Royksopp first came to the public’s attention in England when their music was used for a number of adverts at the time. I remembering the buzz created at the time, everybody wanted to know who created this music and it was by no means an easy feat to find the source. I pretty much came across this album by accident and bought it on a whim having no expectations from this album at all apart from knowing it was in the same vain as Air. What I got from Royksopp’s debut, Melody A.M, was incredible and is without doubt one of the best downbeat chill out albums of the decade. Even further, it is by no means just a chill out album; it takes 70 analogue sounds, samples, film scores, and modern beats and fuses them together into an amazing melting pot of richly-textured bliss. What we have here is something not only to chill to but also to dance to as well.
So Easy samples Burt Bacharach and brings it right into the 21st century transforming it into an excellent downbeat house song. Eple toils with hip hop beats and produces a great uplifting dance number. Sparks is truly mesmerizing and pounds out the bass to a downbeat vocal which is spine-chilling to listen to. In Space literally catapults you into the abyss sending you hurling around space on this jazz induced number. Then comes Poor Leno, which is probably one of the best on the album, an all out dance track. A Higher Place is richly layered and builds slowly around vocal samples. The we get down to some funk with Royksopp’s Night Out before we mellow out again to Remind Me and She’s So. Finally we end with 40 Years Back/Come a two piece effort of old school bass and synths followed by guitars fading into nothing. An awesome end to an awesome album. Here at number 19 is Royksopp's debut, Melody A.M.
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