No Filler Music Podcast - Röyksopp: Melody A.M. - Dreamy Downtempo For the Masses

Episode Date: August 2, 2021

Something was in the water in Norway in the early 2000s. Two of our favorite duos dropped their first records: Kings of Convenience and Röyksopp. We chat about the latter's debut record, Melody A.M., it's impact on pop culture, and how it's blend of ambient, dreamy downtempo with a dance-floor drive made it a truly stand out record in the downtempo landscape at that time. Tracklist: So Easy Remind Me In Space A Higher Place The Tyrrel Corporation - Freedom She's So Poor Leno Go With The Flow (Queens of the Stone Age cover) This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast network. Pantheon is a proud partner of AKG by Harman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I've got my brother Travis with me as always. And we're shifting gears now, dude. It's about time to play some dance tunes, dude. Some down tempo, some house music. Yeah, this, you know, I think we talked about last time how we've sort of sprinkled these kind of episodes in like here and there. I mean, we had that batch of episodes where we did electronic music, but it was more, you know, stuff like calm truths. And it was, who did we? It was a architect.

It was more like vapor, not vapor, it was more like synth wave type stuff, right? Totally different sound. Yeah, we've done Tosca and we've done, I mean, I feel like that's really all all we've done so far in this realm.

Yeah. But this is like one of our favorite genres of music for a long, long time. So like this is a long time coming. And I think we're going to, we've already got, you know, the next few episodes planned out. And I think we're going to, to finally do it justice. I think we're going to cover some really good wide range of artists

in this, you know, under this umbrella. But it's going to be good times, man. Yeah, dude. I'm excited. So today we're going to kick things off with Rorik-Sop, the Norwegian duo, much like our boys, Kings of Convenience, from Norway and their album from 2001 Melody AM. I don't know. when I first, like how I found out about this album, if maybe it was a Pandora thing, and you know, back when Pandora radio was all the rage, maybe I found out about it because Ireland from Kings of Convenience

shows up on a couple of their tracks. Could have been that Geico commercial, dude. That'd be funny if it was, but if you, I mean, it must have been like the 2000s, right? It was 2006, actually. You looked at it. You looked up the commercial? Yeah.

So, yeah, if you remember the caveman series of commercials by Geico, right? They had this episode, episode. They had this commercial where the caveman character is on a moving sidewalk and an airport kind of thing. And, you know, in the background is a worksup song. Well, remember, they started off. The tagline was so easy a caveman could do it. And then from that point out, all the commercials were these like sophisticated, sophisticated, you know, evolved cavemen that, you know, had jobs and was just doing everything that us

normal humans was doing. And they would see these advertisements with like a generic like stereotype of a caveman. And he was walking on that on that moving sidewalk in the airport and he saw the advertisement and he got all like upset. He got all upset about it. But yeah, in the background, let's play the song, dude. Let's kick things off. All right. Let's do it. Yeah, this is a single, but we're going to play it. So if you remember, if you remember, put yourself back in the 2000s and you're watching TV and then you see a Geico commercial. There was just as many Geico commercials back then as there are now. Right.

So here is Erland Oya, which is one half of Kings of Convenience, and he shows up on this track, Remind Me, from Roikzop. It's only bitter weeping, home and rapid fading. Filling to it called. What I was missing all that I sent me aimlessly. What a great help of transportation To knock on windows where A friend no longer live I had forgotten

What a great song I think this song is a good representation Of this style of electronic music Right? So the genres that are put on these guys Ambient down tempo, chill out and house Along with synth pop. I think it's that it's that chill out genre

that I think is this specific flavor of like house dance music. Yeah, I mean, you know, as we continue to play artists under this umbrella for the next few weeks, nobody sounds like works up. You know what I mean? Nobody else sounds like them. But I think that might be, yeah, there's elements that they bring to it that make it a little bit different. Because, you know, things like the drum beats or maybe the baseline might sound kind of like other down tempo artists. But I think the ambient part, you know, because I think they're labeled as like ambient chill, ambient down tempo is what makes them sound like this.

And the choice to use Ireland oria, I think, is brilliant because his voice just pairs perfectly with what they do. Well, here's how that came about, dude. So let's name off the two dudes. So as we mentioned, right, we did mention this earlier. Ireland oria is one half of Kings of Convenience. I think we made that pretty clear. We talked about that. Yeah.

Yeah. So we, you know. We're big fans of them, as you know. Yeah. We covered their new record a few weeks back. And I think we talked about doing this work.

So, yeah, that's his voice, if you can't tell. But yeah, go ahead, Q. So these guys have known each other since they were like 12,

man. They've known each other for a long time. They are out of, Dude, that's just like Ireland and Eric. I know. Crazy. I know, dude. I know.

So they're from Norway. They are, I'm not doing last names, dude, okay? That's right. But I have listened to enough interviews. I'm going to nail these first names, dude. We've got Svain and Torbjorn. Ireland is really good friends with a guy by the name of McCall, Tela. and he happens to run a tiny little record label.

I believe it's defunct as of now, but it was called Tella Records. And the first three, seven inches of Kings of Convenience were released on Tela. Actually, a parent label, or I'm sorry, like a sister label, which is just the word Tela backwards. So like, Alet, Allet Records, sister label. Okay. So he was good friends with Ayrland.

And so, Erland also listened to a couple of their Rorke'sop seven inches that were released on Tella way back in the days. So they were label mates. In a way, yeah. Yeah, yeah. And that's how, that's how Arlund came to know the guys in Rorxop. And that's more than likely how he ended up getting into that recording studio with him for Melody A.M. The other song that he shows up on is another single called Porlino, which I absolutely love, dude. I love that song.

And yeah, a lot of people credit Rourke'sop for bringing dance music to the mainstream. I think they would go alongside like daft punk and maybe air, you know, for like popularizing this style of music, of dance music at least. Yeah, I mean, obviously daft punk crossed over into like Western pop culture and stuff like that in a way that maybe Roriksopp didn't. are you saying that maybe Workstop did that over in the UK? Melody A.M. was certified platinum in Norway. Sold over a million copies worldwide. I doubt their name is as well known in America. I mean, it's hard to compare to Deaf Punk because they're probably arguably the most,

like, name-recognized electronic act of the last few decades, right? Dude, I didn't hear anything that you just said because I'm reading this on Wikipedia, and this is going to be our outro now, without a doubt. In 2006, Rorschop released a nine-track live album called Rourkepsop's Night Out. Notably, the album contains a reinterpretation of the song Go With the Flow by Queens of the Stone Age. Wow. I got to hear how that sounds, dude.

Is that on Spotify? I don't know. That's crazy, man. Well, yeah, you want to... That's like a must play for... For no filler because got stuck the marriage of two of our favorite, uh, right, favorite artists, huh? Wow. There it is, man.

I listen to it. That's going to be our outro. That's awesome. So as you can tell, we don't have that many notes for this episode. I was just saying that, like, if they are credited as bringing this style of music to the masses, I was trying to make the case of like, well, I bet you're not too many people know about Rorik's up compared to daft punk, which I think is kind of like an unfair like bar. you know, because daupunk is huge, right? Right.

But the fact that they show up on a Geico commercial kind of proves the point that, yeah, they were actually pretty well known. And they were also, Epley, which is track two on this record, was also licensed by Apple and used as the introduction music for the Mac OSX version 10.3 setup assistant. So anytime you use the setup assistant for MacOS back then, you would hear Epley. That's crazy.

That is nuts, right? Do you think they did it because they're like, that kind of sounds like Apple. Epley? Epley, maybe. But no, that's, you want to talk about a artist that is a part of your everyday life. Well,

well, not too many people probably use the assistant every day. But that's, that's crazy. Because I think that's the first thing you see when you set up your Mac for the very first time. Yeah, that's installing the operating system. Yeah.

Yeah, dude. That's amazing. Anyways, I feel like we need to just, jump into a track. Yeah. Let me quote this article here real quick. I think it sums it up nicely. Kind of what was brewing in Norway and what was coming out of Tele Records at the time.

So it says here, while experimentation was a large part of music everywhere, the common denominator for nearly all acts associated with Tele was a melancholic stillness, a low-key Nordic sound, which would have gone seamlessly with the vast, cold, landscape and opaque skies. Amid this artistic cluster, which also spawned Kings of Convenience and Ireland Oia, Melody A. M. was born. I love it, dude. Melancholic stillness. Yeah, I think that's good. I think that's a good description of it.

So we're going to jump to track 4, I believe. Got a lot of singles on this one that we've got to skip over, but some of my favorites on here that aren't singles or more in that. like jazz pocket, which we're going to be getting into a lot of music like that in the next few weeks, but jazzy side of down tempo. All right, so we're going to jump to track four. This is again off of Workshops 2001 album Melody A.m. This song is called In Space.

Yeah, so I think I know what makes them so different. It's like, it's pretty, right? I mean, that's like a harp almost in the background, isn't it? It almost sounds like a harp. There's so much texture that they add and so much. much like organic. Yeah. I don't know if that's the right word.

But yeah. Right, but it doesn't feel like your typical, like, dance song. Yeah, it doesn't feel like a synth or anything like that, you know what I mean? Right. So, and that's why Takiwaki will always be my favorite air album. It's that same feel where it's very, you know, there's like acoustic guitar samples. You know, there's stringed instruments. It's very lush and spacious, you know?

Yeah, totally. Yeah, that's what I love about this style of music. And it is, you know, I think chill out is a good genre. It's a good way to describe this kind of music. You know, maybe it's something you put on in the background during a house party or something. I think that's something we mentioned during our Toska episode where you can put it on in the background. Actually, I think we were quoting someone on that. You know, you can put it on in the background at a cocktail party.

but if you, you know, sit down with it and intently listen to the album, you know, you're going to pick up on these really small little details that you're going to miss out on if you don't really pay attention. Which is, you know, that's what down tempo is all about, dude. It can be repetitive, you know, but again, there's all these layers and movements throughout the song. And I think like that quote was trying to say, unlike really heavy club dance electronic music, this type of music, this type of music. music is just as well suited for background, hanging out relaxing. It's very chill, passive almost. Yeah. But then if you do pay attention to it, you're going to hear a lot of depth and layers,

you know what I mean, and textures and stuff like that. Yeah, there's a quote here from the San Francisco Chronicle. This person describes the album as an across-the-board mix. of bleepy synths, crunch beats, and ambient dreamy vocals with even a bit of disco mixed in at times. I feel like that disco mix is on par with what you're going to hear with Air or Daftmunk, you know, it's that French pop, I guess in this case, Norwegian pop. It's that style that they bring to the mix to these down tempo tracks that really make them stand out. Yeah, that's a great, I think that's a really good representation of kind of what they do. They really combine those like string

type instruments with a more traditional sounding bass line and like drumbeat, electronic drumbeat. And it just sounds really, just sounds really cool, you know, sounds pretty. It's, yeah, that's that ambient part of like the ambient down tempo, chill out music, you know. Well, yeah, And also, like, as varied as each song is on this album, this is one of those you got to listen to it all the way through. It flows really well from track to track. All right, dude, this might be my favorite one, man. We're going to jump to track six. This one is called A Higher Place.

It's just so cool what they did with that. It sounds like an air bubble or something like that. Yeah. It sounds like a bubble type of sound, but the way that they... Sounds like you're Sonic, dude, trying to swim back up. Yeah, dude. Totally. If you caught that reference, then you're...

Your H group, yeah. But like you were saying while the song was playing, like the way that they hold the echo of that bubble sound is really cool. Yeah, and it just keeps expanding and it just keeps going. It just... This is an album for a good pair of headphones for sure. But the vocal track in the background, really cool, especially. how they made it almost

sound like it was kind of played in reverse a little bit. Yeah, dude, so I've got a special treat for you, man. Here we go. We haven't done this in a while. Here we go. Let's find out where that vocal is sampled from, dude. I love it.

So this is a really awesome website called who sampled.com. It will take you exactly to the timestamp of tracks sampled in music. They have a lot of stuff on here. This is a band called the Tyrell Corporation. an album from 92 called Northeast of Eden. Not to be confused with Thievery Corporation, who we will be covering in a couple of weeks.

Hey, spoilers. Now, I always like to do this, man. We did this with our Tosca episode as well. I think it was a, was it Pat Mathini? Yes, yeah. That was our sidetrack, actually. I think we played the Pat Mothini song as a sidetrack episode to the Tosca episode. It's back when we were still doing sidetracks.

It's always cool to see what an electronic artist can do with even just the smallest bit of a sample, you know, and just take one lyric from a song and just turn it into a completely different feeling kind of song, you know, even just with one line. All right, so this is a band called the Tyrol Corporation. It's an album from 92 called Northeast of Eden. Let's see if we can pick up on that sample that works up used. in a higher place. This song is called Freedom. You free me from the tyrants, and take me to a higher place.

I thought I'd never find. You're the best of June adventure. I mean, that's all we really need to hear, dude. That one line. And I think we had the same conversation on that Tosca sidetrack episode. It's amazing to me when you hear the isolated sampled track, right? Because it's always incredible to me that they thought we could use this. And what they did with it with Higher Place to reimagine it and to like utilize it in a way.

Because isolated, that doesn't sound. It's very soft. Yeah. ballad kind of song almost. I don't know. I don't know what the rest of the song sounds like, but I always wondered, did they, did they hear this song and, and, and, and, and, and, make higher place around it? Or did they have that melody and stuff already? And then they just wanted a vocal track added to it. It's just, I always want to know, like, how, how did they get the, how do the, how do the two things combine? Is this just, was Tyrell Corporation in one of their record

collections? How, how did it happen? I want to believe that that's the case, dude, that, the, the, these are songs that they're pulling from because they're fans of the music, you know? Yeah. I'm sure this is a song that they're fans of and that they went back to, you know, and we're just trying to find, like, a really interesting bit that they could use. That's my guest. Yeah, and I know with Toska, I read an interview where when they're in the process of making a record together, they have this like studio space where they have all their old vinyl record like their vinyl collection

with them and that's what they'll do they'll listen to records to try to find songs that are in the same key of a song that they're playing around with or the same the same tempo and stuff like that and then they can bring it in so you know maybe it was that maybe maybe that was what it was you know we'll never know that's the thing unless you can find some interview where they explain how they how the two came together, you may never know, but it's always interesting to think about those types of things. And that's what's cool about music like this, where you get samples, right? Because it's always fun to go find that track, that isolated track, right? Yeah. And that was actually, this was the kind of music, dance music, electronic music that they

were into that influenced them greatly. Craftwork, Depeche Mode, Art of Noise. The really, like the pioneers of electronic music that were, you know, heavily sampled kind of music. That's what I've always appreciated about downtempo and this style of music. Like we've been saying, you know, it's just really cool to see what what these artists can do with sampled instruments and sampled vocals. Let's take a quick break. Maryland sports fans, there's only one sports book in the great state of Maryland with over 50 years experience booking bats and supporting customers, Bedfred Sportsbook at Long Shots is now open

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So we're halfway through the track, dude. I wanted to play a little bit more of a higher place, something really cool happens, it kind of changes, I feel like it changes its mood a little bit towards the end. So here's the second half of A Higher Place. I always like it when a song, I mean, just has a full, full on stop like that, right? Yeah. Where it's like, is it over, you know, and then they bring it back. Yeah, and then they change it up a little bit to add another keyboard melody or piano melody.

Yeah, I always always appreciate that. Always the standout track for me on this album. Actually, it's a toss-up between this one and the next one we're going to play, dude. I just love it, man. Yeah, I mean, again, I think it's, if you don't listen to a lot of this kind of music, you might not be able to pinpoint what makes this so different. But it really is a standout record in this umbrella, you know? Absolutely.

There's a reason that we continue to go back to the. record, I think. There's just something about it. It just feels so natural, you know. Yeah, dude. And then you sprinkle in good old Air Lanoia with his buttery smooth voice. That was just a really, a genius move on their part. And it sounds like he approached them. Now, maybe he's fluffing the story a little bit, but I saw an interview where he kind of approached them. He heard them, you know, because it sounds like they were sharing studio spaces and like, or at least the same record label. So he heard. heard the music that they were working on and approached them and suggested that his vocals

would lend itself nicely to their sound, and he was right. He had that in, you know, being friends with McCall, who ran the record label. That's a cool story, dude. I like that kind of stuff. Just a bunch of dance crazy musicians from Norway. All right, dude, it's a toss-up, like I said, for favorite song on the record. This is our last track for the episode. We're jumping down to the second to last track, dude. Man, the jazzy, like the saxophone on this song just gets me every time, dude. All right, so this is track nine. This song is called She's So.

Man, that song just begs to be played while, like, driving into the city with the sunset, dude. It's also a guy kind of like a, you know, let's dim the lights down and have a good time kind of vibe to it. Oh, yeah, dude. You know what I mean? For sure. But, um... Dude, I feel... I thought you were about to go into an Adam and Eve promo.

Which we haven't done in a while. That would have been a great segue for an anime-eve commercial for sure. But, um... Dude, those days, we're not pedaling that kind of stuff anymore, dude. But, um... What you were saying about the saxophone, though, um... Yeah, dude. It's all about that sax, man.

And what I... And when it all hits, right? Um, and that's, that's what you live for with every down-tempo track that you listen to. If it's a good one, and if they know what they're doing, the artist, they're going to give you that moment where it all just clicks, you know what I mean? And it all just makes sense.

Yeah, it just makes you go like, whoa. Yeah. It makes you go like well. And that's when, you know, because the saxophone is just sort of your, it could almost be lifted straight from a song, right? In the beginning. I believe it is, dude.

Just a straight sax. But I guess the point I'm trying to make is it like, in the beginning of the track, it's just a sax sample. But when everything comes in, they sort of subvert your expectations and sort of like do something a little bit different with it and add that really cool. That swelling, like. Synth, swelling, syncing thing in the background. Yeah, dude. That's my favorite part.

That really adds almost like a, almost a wave of crescendos. Yeah. But it kind of has like a fun house kind of vibe to it. I don't want to say haunting because it's not really haunting and we hate to use that word. It's a love-hate, but it's a weble-wobbley kind of, you know, like that's paired with the saxophone, I think, has just kind of like almost an uneasy feeling to it. Yeah. Which doesn't really, compared to all the other really light, soft, pretty kind of textures and stuff in this record, that kind of stands out to me, that part. Yeah, man.

And I like how, you know, I faded it out as if you notice, there's just a really pretty, piano playing towards the end. It just kind of calms down at the end, and then you're just left with this really pretty piano. Really cool, man. Their compositions are something else, dude. And this is their first album, man. It's their debut album.

They have changed a lot in sound over the decades, but I mean, who doesn't, right? Yeah, this will always be one of my favorite down-tempo, you know, house music records. from that era. Well, that's it, man. That is all I got. You want to play some Porolino, dude?

We're sitting light on time. Let's play some Porolino, man. Totally, yeah. If you don't know this about us, I think maybe our favorite band. Could be my favorite band, dude, of all time. Kings of Convenience. They've got Stang Power for sure.

Yeah, dude. As far as in our hearts. And, you know, I think we gushed over them plenty in our in our episode, um, just a few weeks back where we covered their newest record. But, um, yeah, there's just something about them. And also, if you don't know, you know, if you haven't been listening to us enough to get all the deets with Erland Oy.

I mean, you might not know that he is also the lead singer of Why to Spoil Live, which we need to figure out a way to cover them one of these days, man. For real. We'll wait until their, their new album comes out. That's, yeah, that's, it's crazy that we haven't talked about. them yet. Yeah. All right, so Erland Oya shows up on, we played Remind Me earlier. Let's play another single that features him on it. This dude. This is a killer track, man. That's one of my favorite songs of the 2000s, dude. This is, I think, one of the few tracks on the record that

really has a dancey kind of moment to it. Yeah. Big time, where it really opens up and has a dance quality to it. So you'll hear what I'm talking about here in a second. All right, so this is track. five, it's called Porlino. Now that's a more classic like house music. It's got like those calypso kind of percussion. That's that that's kind of what maybe that calypso thing is what makes, yeah, it makes you think of that house kind of style. But yeah, that that could totally be played in a club. Like that song could be sprinkled. I bet there's some killer remixes of that, too. Oh, totally. But yeah, that song could get sprinkled into a really good set list, DJ set. Oh, yeah, man.

But not so much the rest of the tracks, right? Because like we said, with down tempo, it can fit in well at a really laid back chill kind of club. But it's not going to be, it's not going to bring people to the dance floor necessarily. That song will, though. Yeah, for sure. Like, I feel like down tempo is what you're going to hear in like a wine bar or something like that, you know, sophistication.

Oh, yeah, man. That's what down tempo is all about, dude. And I think we should mention, too, that I feel like we got to. to give credit to Rourke'sup for getting Erland Oya into dance music, dude, because he has that whole, what is it called DJ Kicks album that he released. Yeah. I think it's just a compilation record that he put together. And then he had that album Unrest that came out in 2003 that is very dancey.

That was just a couple of years after working with Rorkeksop. Yeah, I mean, Ireland is such a versatile musician, really. I mean, if you listen to Kings of Convenience compared to the stuff he does for White Expoil Live, but the stuff he did here, he really is one of those types of, I don't want to call him like a Renaissance man or whatever, but I mean, there's a reason that he collaborates with a lot of different musicians, you know. He's all over the place, man. And I think he produces. He does all sorts of stuff.

Yeah. He's had quite the career. But yeah, what more do you need to know, man? That's a great, great track to wrap it all up. And this is a great album to kickstart our downtempo stint, dude. We're going to do it justice this time. We're going to listen to some great albums from our past, dude. These are all albums that we listened to in the early 2000s, dude, or maybe not early 2000s because we were still in high school.

I feel like that didn't really, for us at least, we didn't really get into this stuff until post high school. Yeah, I mean, I think we'll talk about this on the next episode. but sort of like the origin story of us and this style of music, I can safely point to, I think, Pandora for really sort of exposing us to a wide range of artists in this category, because, you know, if you listen to Pandora, like a lot of people did when Pandora first hit, because there was this really cool concept, right, before every music app had a related, artist radio type shuffle thing you know Spotify has it now too but Pandora used to be the shit man

it probably still is it still exists it was literally like a radio station you wouldn't know it was coming next and so I'm curious to know what artist station we were listening to like what because that's the original whoever we were into that exposed us through Pandora to all of the other or maybe it was Tosca but I think that that's a good way to to get a lot of exposure to a lot of similar artists back then that's kind of what Pandora was all about the whole guy what do they call it man the human genome project or something like that is what they based it off of right I think is what it was right the whole idea of of you know this is related to that you know and this has similar qualities to that and like you know they boasted it as being like

the best relational database of music or whatever. Yeah, a really complicated algorithm. Yeah. So who are we covering next, Jeff? So we're going to talk about another down tempo artist that goes by the name Quantic. Because I think both of us kind of agreed that this particular record called the Fifth Exotic is one of the first down tempo, one of the early downtempo records that both you and I were really, really into from start to finish. and you were telling me that you haven't listened to this record in years. Long time, dude.

I can't wait, dude. Do not listen to it until our episode so we can get your hot take on it. But there's some killer tracks on this record, man. I can't wait. I've already got the tracks picked out. Well, and we're going to be heading into even heavier, like, jazz territory in this style of down tempo, too, with Quantic. Yes. And that's the thing.

Apologies. geez, if you, if you're not into this kind of stuff and you like it when we cover rock, because that's what we typically cover, you may be bored a little bit for the next few weeks, or hopefully we'll make some fans out of you, you know? Yeah, I hope we turn your on to some stuff that you don't usually listen to. And you know what? If you can't stand it, just know that in a few more weeks we'll have another what you heard episode where we're going to, we'll mix it up again.

Yeah. Yeah. But, you know, if you hate this type of music, we got 185 episodes, I think. So plenty of stuff in the back catalog for you to listen to. If you want to wait it out, you know, just check back with us in a few weeks. We'll be talking about, well, not to spoil, but we're going to circle back to some 80s alt rock for a while is what we're planning on doing once we get out of this stint. But we're going to devote at least four or five weeks on this style of music. because it's been a long time coming.

It's always been a plan to talk about this kind of music, and we want to actually devote some time to it. So that is what we're going to do. And this, yeah, down tempo is, like, part of the foundation of, like, what defines the kind of music that I listen to, that I have been listening to from, you know, early 2000s to now. Same, you know, spoiler alert, but Q and I are twins. So we like a lot of the same music.

That's how we can have 185 episodes where we essentially agree with each other on every album that we play. In case you didn't know, yeah, we're twins. That's kind of the whole deal. But yeah, we have a very, very similar musical journey. You know, I think we have a few offshoots where we sort of diverged. But shit, when you're a twin, you kind of listen to the same. music because, or at least for us, we shared a car. Quentin slept on my floor for a few, for a couple months in our early 20s, and we listened to a lot of down-to-bo together.

We'll probably talk about that maybe next week. But anyway. Well, you know, you know, dude, there was a blow-up mattress, okay? Yeah. I mean, it was a studio apartment, so it was literally one giant room. Yeah, I was picking, picking myself up after a nasty breakup. Yeah, dude. And you left the fine city of Austin, Texas. It's a shame. To move back to Carrollton. Maybe it was Addison. I don't know.

Anyway, that's all right, dude. But yeah, worth it. Worth it, dude, because that's when we discovered down tempo and we discovered it together, dude. And those were good times. Yes, they were. And this band that we're talking about next week, Quantic, I think, is probably one of those bands

that we listened to back then. So, anyway, hopefully we can play some tunes for you. that you'll dig if you're not a fan of this. If you are a fan of this kind of music, you know, strap in. Strap in, because it's going to be at least five weeks of this kind of stuff. And we got, I think we have a wide range of artists under the umbrella.

So I'm excited, dude. I really am excited. So yeah, that's it. What a great record, man. Rorik's Up, Melody AM, it stands out. It's a classic, dude. It is a classic. It's great driving music.

Yeah, really. Getting your car. push play and then put a smile on your face. Just gun it to 80. Yeah. All right, Q, well, that's it. I think we've pretty much laid out the roadmap here. So next week we'll talk about Quantic.

And yeah, in the meantime, you can find us on Twitter at No Failure podcast. Hey, you know what? Maybe someday soon you'll be able to find us on Instagram. We're thinking about it. We're thinking about it. Thinking about it. You know, it's just how do you keep up with all this stuff? you know. I thought Instagram is old news, dude.

I thought we were going to have to at least make a TikTok. Dude, don't even. Or we got to start learning some dance moves or something. No, no, no, no. But I don't, yeah, that'll be, we'll hold out for that as long as we can. But Instagram may be a thing that we do. But yeah, check us out on Twitter at least. At No Filler podcast.

If you like this style of music, now it would be a good time to reach out to us and be like, hey, I like these guys. Or, hey, this is my favorite down-tempo track. And we'll sprinkle it in. But we'll play it. we'll play it on the next episode if it's a if it's an artist um that we like and we and we think it's a it's a good track yeah we've got an episode coming up i won't spill beans but to round out our down tempo stint uh that we could definitely use some help with with some more tunes if you got any recommendations for us send them our way that's a good point so again twitter at no

Fielder podcast. You can find us on the Pantheon Podcast Network. That is the podcast network for music lovers. So check out Pantheonpodcast.com to find plenty of other great music-centric podcasts. It's nothing but music-related content. If you like this podcast, chances are you'll find another one or two or three on that network that you can also add to your rotation. And yeah, that's it. We're going to close out, like we said earlier, and I've never heard this before. So I'm- Me neither, dude. I'm stoked right now.

I am so stoked, man. This is Roiksock. The anticipation. This is crazy. It's killing me, dude. This is Roiksopp doing a cover of Queens of the Stone Age, Go with the Flow, live. So I don't know what to expect, but I'm fucking stoked right now. Yeah, this is from a live album there is called Worksop's Night Out.

It came out in 2006. So that's going to close us out, dude. I can't wait, man. Yeah. All right. Thank you, as always, for listening. My name's Quentin. My name is Travis.

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