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RIF 015EP
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Part 1 of 2 EPs featuring remixes of Mental Overdrive´s Epilogue album. Remixes by Kowton and Subtil.
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RIF 016EP
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Part 2 of 2 EPs featuring remixes of Mental Overdrive´s Epilogue album. Remixes by Prins Thomas, Mono Junk, Frankenstein and Full Pupp's Øyvind Morken.
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RIF 014LP
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Per Martinsen, AKA Mental Overdrive, is one of Norwegian dance music's founding fathers. Alongside friends such as Bjorn Torske, Biosphere, Rune Lindbaek, and DJ Strangefruit, Martinsen was integral in laying the foundations of Norway's now blossoming dance music scene during the late 1980s and early '90s. As a producer, he cut his teeth making house, techno, and hardcore at the turn of the '90s. Since then, Per has continued to produce and release quality electronic music, both under his Mental Overdrive alias, and as part of outfits such as Frost and Illumination. Per Martinsen on his new album Epilogue on Prins Thomas's Rett I Fletta: "As for Epilogue it has been quite long in the making compared to some of my other albums. The main reason for this I think is that when I and Thomas started talking about me doing a new release for Rett I Fletta, we agreed that I would just keep sending him tracks over time that I thought would fit a new album, and then discuss how we both could see it coming together. I also let Thomas have stems of all the tracks so he could do adjustments where he saw the need, instead of us talking back and forth in lengthy conversations and then sending new versions. As well as being a great selector he is also a great arranger, so giving him the freedom to collaborate like this was a great opportunity and a nice break from having to do absolutely everything myself. On some tracks he also added some production elements, especially in 'Hellbent', where my original version had a much heavier almost industrial vibe to it. Other tracks like 'Shimr', which was the last track I submitted to the album, are left much more like I mixed and arranged them to begin with. As for the sequence of tracks it's also Thomas' suggestion, and I think they fit very well in couples like this because the tracks were made over a longer timespan than usual, so you would have different phases where I was into different sounds and ideas. All tracks were done in my studio here in Tromsø. Some in the dark period and some with the midnight sun shining through the windows. There's a lot of contrast in my surroundings here so maybe those contrasts will surface in the work I do also." Includes download code.
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RIF 008EP
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Plugged (RIF 007CD/LP), the 21 year old Norwegian techno classic by Mental Overdrive, gets full remix treatment by the main men involved in unfolding the expansion and remastering of this legendary recordings: Prins Thomas and Daniel "Blackbelt" Andersen. plus there´s an additional MO track here too: "Disto Disco Part 3". Presented on Full Pupp's "techno not techno"offshoot Rett I Fletta.
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RIF 007LP
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Triple LP version. Includes download code. 21 year old Norwegian techno classic Plugged by Per Martinsen aka Mental Overdrive gets the expanded and remastered treatment on Full Pupp's "techno not techno" offshoot Rett I Fletta. He first entered the world of music-making by playing drums in local post-punk outfits, but moved on to electronic instruments when he bought his own Roland TR-808 drum machine in 1983. He ended up in London in 1987, where he spent his days squatting in Hackney and working as an assistant programmer in This Heat's seminal Cold Storage studio in Brixton. Hit by the wave of Chicago house and Detroit techno invading London at the time, he soon found himself experimenting with making beats inspired by these new sounds merged with the '80s sounds he was accustomed to from his pre-London era, like industrial music and EBM. Here he met Renaat Vandepapeliere of R&S Records, and soon found himself doing sessions with David Morley and Joey Beltram at the R&S headquarters, resulting in the release of his first EP under the Mental Overdrive moniker in 1990. A series of EP's for R&S followed, and after relocating to Norway after some time, the debut album Plugged was released on his own label Love OD Communications in 1995. In 2014, Daniel Blackbelt Andersen brought his shabby copy of Plugged along to one of the regular Full Pupp shindigs and played Prins Thomas a couple of the slightly more "ambient" tracks off the album stating it would be a dream come true to remix all of these tracks and that he'd spoken to Per about getting hold of the stems, if any. A plan to re-issue the whole album with a couple of new remixes formed. Per also went through his archives and found the original Akai S 3000 formatted floppy disks, all the pre-masters, alternative takes and unreleased tracks that did not make it to the finished album. The sleeve has been lovingly redesigned to match this "expanded" edition by Eirik Seu Stokkmo at Metric Design so a good couple of reasons to grab this new version if you're the lucky owner of the original record.
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RIF 007CD
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21 year old Norwegian techno classic Plugged by Per Martinsen aka Mental Overdrive gets the expanded and remastered treatment on Full Pupp's "techno not techno" offshoot Rett I Fletta. He first entered the world of music-making by playing drums in local post-punk outfits, but moved on to electronic instruments when he bought his own Roland TR-808 drum machine in 1983. He ended up in London in 1987, where he spent his days squatting in Hackney and working as an assistant programmer in This Heat's seminal Cold Storage studio in Brixton. Hit by the wave of Chicago house and Detroit techno invading London at the time, he soon found himself experimenting with making beats inspired by these new sounds merged with the '80s sounds he was accustomed to from his pre-London era, like industrial music and EBM. Here he met Renaat Vandepapeliere of R&S Records, and soon found himself doing sessions with David Morley and Joey Beltram at the R&S headquarters, resulting in the release of his first EP under the Mental Overdrive moniker in 1990. A series of EP's for R&S followed, and after relocating to Norway after some time, the debut album Plugged was released on his own label Love OD Communications in 1995. In 2014, Daniel Blackbelt Andersen brought his shabby copy of Plugged along to one of the regular Full Pupp shindigs and played Prins Thomas a couple of the slightly more "ambient" tracks off the album stating it would be a dream come true to remix all of these tracks and that he'd spoken to Per about getting hold of the stems, if any. A plan to re-issue the whole album with a couple of new remixes formed. Per also went through his archives and found the original Akai S 3000 formatted floppy disks, all the pre-masters, alternative takes and unreleased tracks that did not make it to the finished album. The sleeve has been lovingly redesigned to match this "expanded" edition by Eirik Seu Stokkmo at Metric Design so a good couple of reasons to grab this new version if you're the lucky owner of the original record.
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FP 020EP
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"Per Martinsen aka Mental Overdrive shouldn't need any introduction, being the granddad of the Norwegian electronic music scene and all. Hidden away in a little snowcave near the polar circle, he's currently preparing the bits that eventually will become his debut album for Full Pupp. We've heard some bits and though we'd like to keep them all under the lid for a little while longer, here's a little sneak peek of what he's done and hopefully preparing you for his unique take on modern dance music, taking in elements of new wave, new beat, Detroit and dubstep on the way. Per unleashed this on us at one of the Full Pupp nights in Oslo and recently we saw how it took the roof off at Fabric. For the b-side, we paired Per up with the equally Detroit-loving Blackbelt Andersen which gives us a hi-speed samba techno work out with a unhealthy deep bass. Seriously, just because we can't write proper release sheets doesn't mean the music's not good."
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FP 014EP
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"The man, the legend, Norway's grand old man of hoover Per Martinsen is back on Full Pupp with two mentally challenged mammoth stompers! Let's party like it's... 1992."
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FP 008EP
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"Mental Overdrive is Norway's Per Martenson, famous since 1990 for his productions on Belgian superlabel R&S, Music Man, Discfunction, Smalltown Supersound, Virgin and his own Love OD Communications imprint out of Norway. Prins Thomas has long been a fan and snapped up the chance to release 'Spooks' and the tasty flipside track 'Original Material' in a flash." Here's what IDJ Magazine had to say: 'Mental Overdrive (former techno boffin Per Martinsen) back and in fine fettle. 'Spooks' is an equally jolly six minutes of lolloping funk which sees a fat, rounded bassline trundling along the fjords while some of Bjørn Torske's synth loops pass overhead. 'Original Material' is highly enjoyable too, coming on like some long-lost Scandinavian cousin of ESG's 'Moody'."
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