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Name
  
Mental Overdrive

Spouse
  
Aggie Peterson

Music group
  
Frost

Role
  
Musical Artist

Music director
  
Depth Solitude

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Albums
  
You Are Being Manipulated, CYCLS

Similar People
  
Aggie Peterson, Bjorn Torske, Anneli Drecker, Joey Beltram, Tore Kroknes

Profiles

Mental Overdrive - Invasion 2


Mental Overdrive is Per Martinsen (born 31 July 1966), an electronic music artist from Tromso, Norway. He is often mentioned as one of the most influential electronic musicians in Norway. From 1989-1993 he was signed to the famous Belgian record label R&S.

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His influence upon the Nordic music scene has been summarized by one collaborator as follows:

Here was a man who could claim, pokerfaced, to be the Godfather of Norwegian Techno, the Grand Uncle of Twisted Disco, the Second Cousin of Black Metal Darkcore, Sibling of Scandinavian progressive rock ('72-'75), Nephew of Nordic Folk and Husband of Scando Pop. New Wave was his teenage Mistress and Norwegian Cosmic Disco was his illegitimate Son. By means of various acts of wilful dissemination he donated audiosperm to the cloning projects that produced Bjorn Torske, Royksopp, Lindstrom and Prins Thomas. Diskjokke was the result of a quickie with the maid at the House that he built with his bare hands. Yes. All this he could say if he so desired. And say it with a pokerface that Lady Gaga would find completely inscrutable. And now, as he walks down the Boulevard of Broken Beats he continues to spread his genes: Norsebeat; Snowcore; Drum&Ice; Jambient Prog; Tree-step; Fishco ... all are his Children.

In recent times, Martinsen has been side-stepping music in various ways, organizing unexpectedly sonic tours and concerts in the Svalbard, looping through different realities, dining on imaginary veggie burgers, and otherwise rattling around in a virtual cage under various monikers, all the while upsetting the other apes in his chosen zoo. However, the music keeps happening, regardless.

Martinsen is also a member of the duos Illumination with Nicholas Sillitoe and Frost with his own wife Aggie Peterson.

Mental Overdrive

  • Plugged (Love OD Communications, 1995)
  • Unplugged (Love OD Communications, 1996)
  • Ad Absurdum (Virgin, 1999)
  • 083 (Smalltown Supersound, 2004)
  • The Phuture That Never Happened (Smalltown Supersound, 2005)
  • You Are Being Manipulated (Smalltown Supersound, 2008)
  • Songs

    Diskodans
    12000 AD
    Ar 2000
    Theme of St Baafs
    About Erot
    12000 AD
    Love OD
    Skanken
    Da Froot
    Mysterio
    Electric Sunrise
    In Love We Fall
    A Fireball - it is Red - the Sky Looks Black About It
    Chappo
    Trollhunter
    Tetris
    Dada Urka
    Kollaps
    Yeeh
    Time/Mind
    One Canada Square
    Shinjuku Station
    Spoing
    Blob Combo
    Motorcity
    Monster
    Recess
    Moves
    The Tower
    The Snake
    Beaches
    Summers

    References

    Mental Overdrive Wikipedia