The “Integratron EP” is now available on 4-track 12″ vinyl through the Love OD Bandcamp store with sleeve design by Lasse Marhaug. Also the store has been updated with new T-shirts and books from the “Pyramids On The Moon” project.
My remixes of N∆EON TE∆RDROPS’ “AMNESIACS” are out now via Love OD Communications. Includes a vocal remix, an extended dub and an instrumental mix. Check them out in the player above.
My remix of the very talented Niilas’ tune “Slenders 3” is now available through this Bandcamp page and all streaming services. The remix is part of a follow up album to his Norwegian Grammy-winning debut “Also this will change” from 2020, and has been dubbed “Also this has changed”. Go check it out!
Five new remixes of selected tracks from the “Integratron EP” will be released Friday November 20th. The mixes are done by Benjamin Mørk, Aggie Frost, Rudow, Θ and Mogens Henckel. Listen and pre-order in the player above.
A new 4-track EP will be released on November 6th, including material ranging from industrial synth-inspired beats to downtempo moods. Check it out in the player above, and click to pre-order through my Bandcamp page.
It is now 30 years (!) since the first Mental Overdrive release saw the light of day in shape of the “12000AD EP”, released by R&S Records in the spring of 1990 (the picture above is from the original studio session at the R&S HQ in Gent at the time).
Since then there has been many releases, remixes and collaborations, spanning across a pretty wide range of musical directions, and even though 2020 is a very strange year to have an anniversary, it is nevertheless a fact that it’s now been three decades in the service of electric beats.
To celebrate the occasion, there will be a steady stream of posts appearing on Instagram, Twitter and my other personal channels, sharing some music and memories from throughout the journey.
A bunch of rarities has also been dug up from the archives and will be put up for sale on the Bandcamp page (test-pressings, promo items, old posters etc.).
If you want to keep yourself updated, just follow the tag #MENTALOD30 at the above accounts, or the Bandcamp page.
By coincidence, the Love OD Communications label also has its 25th anniversary this year, so some of the activities will intertwine. To follow this separately, use the tag #LOVEOD25
Mental Overdrive · Spring Cleaning Mix
Spring cleaning the archives. And dropping some new material. Tracks by Coil, Brenda Ray, Atom, Dungen and yours truly.
New track available through Bandcamp now. The video was shot in Tromsø on the 25th and 26th of March 2020, and features the closed-down city.
The Pyramid is shaking at its foundations. Its woven dreamflesh of broken hearts, tears, pain and blood is about to rip into a million pieces of rotting debris. As this happens, the souls of its makers are screaming with agony, as the Master of Darkness is barging in to collect his rightful property: their dreams, their hopes, and the chilly numbness that’s left of the soul they once were given. The soul they chose to exchange for their mortal power and short-lived pleasures. I know their fear, I know their loss, for I gave them everything: my unconditional love, and life itself.
I wrote the above back in 2009 as part of my rather dystopian sci-fi-transmedia-art-meets-music-project “Earthbound – Surfing the Apocalypse”. Now, that the Pyramid is actually shaking big time, with markets crashing all over the world, my outlook is rather less dark than in 2009, and I actually feel full of optimism for the future.
Yes, the House of Cards is falling, and yes, there will be hard times for a lot of people who have had their livelihood based on the old value system, but at the same time this is probably the opportunity our species need in order to change our destructive behaviour, an opportunity the environmental threat has never been able to trigger, strangely enough.
It’s hard not to be able to gather socially in person, and I love travelling as much as anyone, but hey, we have all the tools to connect across the globe and share ideas.If you want to support artists in the field of music, do it through services like Bandcamp or Patreon rather than through streaming services, if you can afford it. If not, stream and share as before.
In the wake of the rapid changes I have also decided to start publishing material from my ongoing project “Pyramids on the Moon”, which is part of my artistic research project “The Search for Resonance” that I’m currently working on through the Artctic University of Tromsø.
The project resembles “Earthbound – Surfing the Apocalypse” in that it connects text, music and odd bits of related media, but this time what started as an “exploration of relations between frequencies and geometry” has now transformed itself into a “multi-dimensional autobiography”.
The text will be posted on my project’s website www.pyramidsonthemoon.com as it develops, with music links to the project’s Bandcamp page.
All music from the project will also be available to subscribers of my Mental Overdrive Bandcamp page.
Follow me on my SoMe accounts for updates, and don’t hesitate to drop me a line or two with your thoughts on the project as it unfolds.
Instagram: @mentaloverdrive
Twitter: @mentaloverdrive
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