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win the brand new 12" by mental overdrive here!

mental overdrive has a hot new 12" coming out in a few weeks time. its called "diskodans remixes" and contains remixes from norwegian heroes bjørn torske and prins thomas as well as newcomer tufan demir/sensible sucker. we are giving away 20 copies for free and the only thing you have to do is sending us a mail at info@smalltownsupersound.com (please put mental overdrive as subject and put in your adress somewhere also). saying something nice might also help...

(jamie madrox - 9 Haziran 2005 01:13)

"per martinsen is an artist/producer who was born in the town of troms in the far north of norway.

since the late eighties he has released records under a long list of names, such as mental overdrive, illumination/chilluminati (with nick sillitoe), the gruesome twosome (with samy birnbach), syamese, confusion club and so on - as well as a wide range of remixes of other artists.

his most recent projects include collaborating with miss aggie peterson, recording as frost.

he also handles the management of the hex pistols in addition to running his label, love od communications.

after years of feeling pressure building up to stray from the path of ?faceless techno bollocks?, the new mental overdrive ep is outing per martinsen?s ?real? persona for once. according to f. david peat, author of the book ?blackfoot physics?, american native cultures often accept more flux when it comes to allowing people to change their personalities without further critisism from their surroundings.

but as this seems to cater for a rather serious problem for institutions in our western society, such as the music industry and the music media (or even the majority of the record-buyers) love od communications have now accepted the importance of determining personality in connection with musical output ? something that is symbolized in the use of per martinsen?s portrait on the sleeve, and by calling the record the ?me ep?.

this new direction is a gesture to show our willingness to adapt to the expectations of the public opinion. where we blindly believed music functioned as a carrier of it?s own strong content, we have learned that it is not so indeed.

if it is the public opinion that mental overdrive?s new direction should utilize known ?adaptation tricks? such as live shows in a ?rock stylee? (with a rather strong density of pyrotechnics), or other well-working clichees that would function as a catalyst to further expand the importance of mental overdrive?s musical content, we kindly ask you to send us an email or two.

after all this is said, it should be made clear that the correct way of addressing mr. martinsen in or out of the context of mental overdrive, changes with the country he is referred to within (see. table 1).

table 1)
norway: per martinsen
sweden: p?r martinsson
spain: pedro martinèz
holland: pieter martens
france: pierre martin
uk&us: peter martin
poland: pjotr martinski
italy: pietro martini
iceland: pedur martinns
finland: pekka martinius

the ?me ep? is released as a 12? vinyl ep (love od communications 12lod0302 - distributed by shellshock distribution in the uk). release date: february 9th 2004.

for further info, contact info{at}loveod.com or check http://www.loveod.com/ for updates."

kaynak:
http://www.loveod.com/…/files/meep_pressrelease.doc

http://www.mic.no/…/pub_e/bed2000082915314745167772
http://www.groove.no/html/band/51598972.html

(schizophrenia13 - 17 Kasım 2005 11:45)