M – Artists
Biography
Per Martinsen and his Mental Overdrive project is a Norwegian
electronica legend. Since his early days at the seminal R&S Records
Martinsen has been one of the big innovators in electronic music. He is the
mentor and the godfather for the whole Norwegian electronic underground. His
first rel
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Per Martinsen and his Mental Overdrive project is a Norwegian
electronica legend. Since his early days at the seminal R&S Records
Martinsen has been one of the big innovators in electronic music. He is the
mentor and the godfather for the whole Norwegian electronic underground. His
first release “083” (out in January 2005) is his first album since “Ad
Absurdium” on Virgin Records in 1998. Martinsen has managed to get out of his
contract with Virgin, and has now signed a deal with
Smalltown
Supersound.
We will release his future releases in collaboration with his own Love OD
Communication label. Martinsen himself describes the background for the album
and the Mental Overdrive sound like this: ” With a background of growing up in
the early 80’s, the influences of British new-wave and sub-pop, the European
electronic underground and the odd American beatbox pattern, the material was
captured with a strong urge to re-evoke the rather vague memories of the
euphoria caused by hearing electronic music for the first time. In this sense,
“083” is truly a “roots” album – albeit an “electronic roots” album.” “083”
offers classic Mental Overdrive, where Martinsen goes back to his roots and
finds inspiration in Kraftwerk, New Order/Joy Division and the Factory Records
scene, the house and techno scenes in Detroit and Chicago in the 80`s, as well
as WARP`s bleep/headphone music from the early nineties. But first of all is
Mental Overdrive classic and timeless electronic music independent of both time
and trends.
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