Listen :: Eik

Oslo-based electronica duo Eik’s music has already created a buzz with their first album being inspired by artists such as Goldfrapp, Röyksopp, Groove Armada, Jamie Woon, Jean Michel Jarre and William Orbit. Critics described their first album as “the best from two worlds, it grooves like disco and is catchy like pop.” Mixmag featured their first album ’Undetected’ as Album of the Month in July 2012 describing it as ”an upbeat blend of European electronic ditties, sing-along electro-pop and blossoming ambient pieces”.

Eik’s music has already created a buzz with their first album being inspired by artists such as Goldfrapp, Röyksopp, Groove Armada, Jamie Woon, Jean Michel Jarre and William Orbit. Critics described their first album as “the best from two worlds, it grooves like disco and is catchy like pop.” Mixmag featured their first album ’Undetected’ as Album of the Month in July 2012 describing it as ”an upbeat blend of European electronic ditties, sing-along electro-pop and blossoming ambient pieces”.

Eik keyboardist and composer Per Kåre Limmesand has a Master of Science degree in ‘Acoustics and Electronics’. Besides making music, he works as an acoustic consultant in the firm Brekke & Strand Acoustics, and has been involved in work with the acoustics of the New Opera House in Oslo. Drummer Kristoffer Carlsen has a Master in Music on the topic ‘Groove Events and the Experience of Pulse in Contemporary African-American Popular Music’. Kristoffer has been an active musician on the Oslo scene for years.

With their debut album a sucess, ‘Beam Me Up’ is the lead up to an even greater second album.