Published
Wed, Jan 25, 2017, 19:21
- The Norwegian techno veteran's next full-length, built from "live techno jams," comes out on Ploink in March.
A new Mental Overdrive album, Hardware, is due out in March.
Mental Overdrive is the primary alias of Per Martinsen, an influential figure within Norway's techno scene who's been active as a producer and studio engineer for some three decades. He put out a handful of records through R&S in the early '90s, and would later release on Virgin and Music Man as well as Smalltown Supersound (that label has put out two of his LPs and a 2005 compilation) and Full Pupp. He also operates his own Love OD Communications imprint, through which he issued his last album, 2013's Cycls.
Hardware sees Martinsen connecting with Thomas Urv and Miss Mostly's Bergen-based label (and longtime event series) Ploink. The artist himself describes it as "a back-to-basics album with live techno jams recorded straight onto tape and then slightly edited and mastered." Its nine tracks will get a release on double-vinyl and digital formats.
Listen to samples of the album.
Tracklist
A1 Totem
A2 Descent
B1 It's All Good
B2 Dissolve
C1 In Flight
C2 After The Lights
D1 Gone Wrong
D2 Swagger
D3 Truce
Ploink will release Hardware on March 6th, 2017.