Mental Overdrive

Mental Overdrive may be the main single moniker of Per Martinsen, among Norway’s many prolific and important techno musicians. His paths have got ranged from hardcore rave techno to radiant space-disco, and he’s often maintained a wholesome balance of laughter and braininess. Dynamic since 1990, he started his career launching many 12″ EPs of intense, rave-ready hardcore techno on revered Belgian label R&S, including 12000 Advertisement (1990), THE NEXT Arriving (1991), Move! (simply because Confusion Membership, 1991), as well as the Like EP (1992). In 1994, Martinsen started launching atmospheric techno singles within Lighting, his duo with Nicholas Sillitoe. Another season, Mental Overdrive released the one “Disto Disco,” which highlighted a B-side (“Beliefs”) co-written by R&S musician Outlander, most widely known for the 1991 traditional “Vamp.” The A-side made an appearance on Mental Overdrive’s full-length debut Connected, released on Martinsen’s very own Love OD Marketing communications. The record showed a significant development in his music, preserving its tough, distorted hardcore techno sound while adding even more cerebral elements, putting it nearer to Warp’s Artificial Cleverness series. Martinsen shown his love of life with 1996’s Unplugged, a restricted conceptual release including silent “variations” from the paths on Connected. In 1997, Mental Overdrive agreed upon to Virgin and released Approximately Jazz, a a lot more home/disco-influenced EP than his prior work. This is accompanied by full-length Advertisement Absurdum, which continuing in a far more light-hearted and cool path than his prior releases. He got a couple of years off from launching Mental Overdrive recordings, rather devoting time for you to Frost (his even more pop-focused digital duo along with his wife Aggie Peterson) and Lighting, which released two albums on RCA. Following a 2003 launch of Mental Overdrive’s Me EP on Like OD, he authorized to Norwegian label Smalltown Supersound and released full-length 083, which presented the solitary “Diskodans.” In 2005, the label put together his early R&S materials on Compact disc as The Phuture That By no means Happened. 2 yrs later on, Mental Overdrive’s solitary “Spooks” made an appearance on Prins Thomas’ Total Pupp label. The track made an appearance on his following Smalltown full-length, You Are Becoming Manipulated, that was released in 2008. The recording was perfectly aware of the label’s additional left-field dance performers like Bjørn Torske and Kim Hiorthøy, while keeping the initial Mental Overdrive sound. Martinsen continuing liberating Mental Overdrive singles on Total Pupp and Like OD, and added to Rune Lindbæk’s Meanderthals task. In 2012, he released Guy with a Film Video camera, an EP offering music he’d made up for any 1996 screening from the Russian silent film from the same name, which also presented items by Biosphere which would later on show up on the 2001 remaster of his traditional recording Substrata. Mental Overdrive came back to his Like OD label for 2013 full-length Cycls, aswell as 2014’s Everything Is usually Connected, which put together several previously released EPs. In 2016, Total Pupp sublabel Rett I Fletta released a fresh version of Connected consisting of alternative will take sourced from the initial DAT tapes.