“Eple” by Royksopp

"Eple" takes its title from the Norwegian word for apple. Svein Berge and Torbjørn Brundtland wrote it, and it landed on Röyksopp's 2002 debut album, Melody A.M. The Norwegian electronica duo put it out as their second single, on Wall of Sound, and brought it back in 2003 as the album's third.

It has had a busy career away from the record, too. Apple, fittingly, licensed it as the welcome music for the Mac OS X Panther setup assistant. In Britain it played behind a TV test card in 2001 and turned up on Sky One's Gamezville and The Kevin Bishop Show, Volvo put it under a video of future truck designs, and American public TV station KLRU uses a slice of it as a station ID and on the tail of shows like Austin City Limits.

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