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Profound Mysteries II is a direct continuation of the first instalment. Reoccurring themes such as love & loss, despair & reconciliation, is wrapped up in an esoteric nod to those artists and genres that shaped us in our formative years. – Svein Berge & Torbjrn Brundtland. Electronic pop trailblazers, Ryksopp, announce the second part to their expansive Profound Mysteries project, Profound Mysteries II, which will be available on 19th August. Berge and Brundtland describe Profound Mysteries as the biggest undertaking of Ryksopps career. It both encapsulates the unique sound theyve spent decades honing, and expands on it. Its a bold look to the future, and an homage to the artists, genres, and musical movements that first inspired them. Its a project theyve spent their whole lives making (the oldest ideas date back to the early days of Ryksopp, literally using MIDI data first composed by the band when they were teenagers in the 1990s), and its brand new. Back in those early days, pioneers Berge and Brundtland immersed themselves in the Troms techno scene, a pivotal era in Norways electronic music history, and later formed Ryksopp during another fertile creative period known as the Bergen Wave; many of the artists who emerged in both scenes became vital creative partners throughout Ryksopps career. Their debut album Melody A.M. (released in 2001) would become a breakout success from the scene and led to an influential career that has taken in five studio albums, dozens of international hit singles, and numerous Grammy, BRIT nominations and Spellemannprisen awards. This is all without mentioning a raft of acclaimed remixes for artists including Depeche Mode, Beck, Lady Gaga and Coldplay, and their production and songwriting work, or their timeless collaborations with the likes of Robyn, Lykke Li, and The Knife/Fever Rays Karin Dreijer Andersson. Profound Mysteries is characterised by its wealth of collaborations. As always, Berge and Brundtland wrote, performed, and engineered the majority of the record together in Norway, though their collaborations span the world. On Profound Mysteries Ryksopp recorded strings and woodwind in New York, Berlin, and Paris, while guest vocals come from both familiar artists in the Ryksopp universe (Susanne Sundfr) as well as new additions (Allison Goldfrapp, Beki Mari, Astrid S, Karen Harding, Pixx and Jamie Irrepressible).