Merry Christmas from Röyksopp

Here’s a surprise.

The guys in Röyksopp put out one piece of unreleased material for free download every month. Sometimes pretty crazy stuff. But this christmas they chose to publish a cover of  ”O Holy Night” (Cantique de Noël).

I cannot decide whether this is beautiful or just totally wrong. It’s a thin line between the two.

Listen and judge for yourself.

Le Cantique de Noël by Röyksopp

To be fair – it is after all a new year and we just celebrated Christmas – I’ve also included one of their superb freebies.

“I Wanna Know” was up for grabs at SoundCloud before, but unfortunately not anymore.

I Wanna Know by Röyksopp

9 must hear electronic music albums of 2009

Are we even listening to albums nowadays? A lot of you guys are probably just downloading the tracks you like, who doesn’t? But I still find satisfaction in putting on a good full-lengther which is both well composed and has good individual tracks.

I asked Innotune companion Håkon Lofthus if he had any good suggestions for this album sum up. He answered:

R.I.P. albums. When buying online – why would I want to buy an whole album, when I could only grab the tracks I like? (I can listen to them first as well) So, this year has been almost an album-free year for me, and iTunes better start pushing out those iTunes LP features to get me back on buying complete albums.

You have to agree. But I’m giving this list a shot anyway. I realise I haven’t heard enough releases this year to create the complete “top edm albums of 2009 bible”, but here’s nine I would like you to check out.

Maybe you’ll start buying albums again, or at least listen to complete releases on Spotify.

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Ever wanted to remix Röyksopp?

Check out two great Röyksopp fan remixes, download the original and have a go at “Tricky Tricky” yourself!

Norwegian duo Röksopp released the brilliant album “Junior” in March, and it’s instrumental follow up “Senior” is out later this fall. In the meantime, Torbjørn and Svein decided to give away the parts of the single “Tricky Tricky” to creative fans. And what a remix package!

The material has been out there for a couple of months, and remixers from all over the world have had a go.

I have listened through most of the submissions so far, and I’ve found two really nice tracks. I think you will enjoy them too, if you can stand the fact that they both use auto tune to get away with their own melody.

First up: The original. This is actually up for free download as well:

Tricky Tricky (Original) by Royksopp

When entering you’re uploading your track to a geographic category. Marcus Longfoot and Craig Williams submitted this excellent feelgood tune to the Australian folder at SoundCloud:

Tricky Tricky Marcus Longfoot Craig Williams Club Mix by Marcus Longfoot

Then back to Norway again. Vendurain’s Return To V-Dur Remix is a beautiful slow electro stomper:

Röyksopp – Tricky Tricky (Vendurain’s Return To V-Dur Remix) by Vendurain