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└────────┘ 26.07.2008
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artist: Mental Overdrive
album: The Rage / Wotta
label: Full Pupp
cat: FP014
year: 2008
genre: Electronic
sub-genre: Disco/Re-Edits, House, Techno
source: Vinyl
grabber: Eac
encoder: LAME 3.97 V2 --Vbr-New -V 2
quality: VBRkbps / 44,1kHz / Joint-Stereo
size: 33,4 MB
link: http://www.myspace.com/fullpupp
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│tracklist.
no. time track title
A 12:14 The Rage
B 09:53 Wotta
total time: 22:07 min
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│release notes.
Norway's grand old man of hoover Per Martinsen is back on Full Pupp
with 2 mentally challenged mammoth stompers! Crazy disco rave like
it's 1992.
"Lunacy, knowledge and skill make for lethal combination."
UPDATE MAGAZINE, UK
"A taster for Per Martinsen's excellent new album...'The Rage' is
something special."
DJ MAGAZINE, UK
"Cracking two-tracker of discotechdubwhatever from Per Martinsen."
IDJ MAGAZINE, UK
"And for the love of God, do not miss Mental Overdrive's new 12"
featuring "The Rage" on the top side."
XLR8R, USA
"Intense psychedelic electro with both bark and bite."
CLASH MAGAZINE, UK
"Thank goodness someone is mining Norway for its gold."
HOT PRESS, IRELAND
"Bit like Lil' Louis meets Lindstrom for a bit of bum love."
TRAFFIC, UK
"As exotic and entrancing as it is a few sarnies short of a picnic,
and will be equally well received by alternative house and Balearic
types."
IDJ MAGAZINE, UK
About Mental Overdrive:
Norwegian artist/producer Per Martinsen's project Mental Overdrive
first released a series of vinyl 12" on now legendary Belgian
techno label R&S Records in the early nineties. This early material
ranged from nosebleed industrial euro-ebm-techno to romantic
electro ballads, and caused a lot of praise as well as raised
eyebrows from Berlin to Detroit at the time.
In 1995 the label Love OD Communications was set up in Norway to
release the first Mental Overdrive album - "Plugged", followed by
the seminal limited run of it's bastard brother "Unplugged" in
1996. A couple of singles then surfaced on Virgin records in the
late nineties, before the album "Ad Absurdum" was released in 1999.
Mental Overdrive then went kind of quiet in the early noughties,
except for a string of remixes showing up between Martinsen's
engagements with Frost and Illumination/Chilluminati - of which the
most hard to get now is the remix of IsolΘe's "Beau mot plage", a
12" that was released in 90 (!) copies on Music Man Records before
the license was pulled by Playhouse under mysterious circumstances.
In 2003 the "Me EP" suddenly surfaced on Love OD Communications,
and a year later the "electronic roots" album "083" saw the light
of night in conjunction with Norwegian noise-jazz-electro-rock
label Smalltown Supersound. The compilation "The Phuture that never
happened" was released in 2005, consisting of all the tracks from
the R&S 12" series. A more or less complete list of Mental
Overdrive's releases can be found on Discogs, and most albums are
available on iTunes, Beatport and other digital outlets. The
excellent Musicstack or Juno usually keep vinyl and cd releases in
stock.
Mental Overdrive will keep on operating in the shades, so watch
for sudden updates...
Mental Overdrive at myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/mentaloverdrive
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