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We’re moving forward into 2010 and are wishing you all a very happy and exciting new decade at the same time.

We have a lot of new projects, releases and new stuff to be updated soon. To kick it all of, and especially if your mother tongue is Chinese Mandarin, go check the brand new posting of chapter one of the translation of “Earthbound – Surfing the Apocalypse” at Chinese FaceBook-equivalent douban.com. As with the English original story, the Chinese version will be posted in weekly chapters throughout the next year.

Stay connected for further updates soon.

Mental Overdrive has announced the release of the ’Anti-LBM’ on December 7th 2009.

The background for this release is that he has accumulated a new body of work in the shape of a bundle of dancefloor tracks of an electronic flavour, but that this time he feels that the abundance of digital and other recorded music available within the electronic dance genres calls for him not to further add to this musical confusion.

Instead, the tracks contained on ’Anti-LBM’ will only be played at live performances in darkened clubs around the globe, which started with a Norwegian mini-tour to support Detroit legend Derrick May on Friday Nov. 27th and Saturday Nov. 28 in the cities of Oslo and Bergen respectively.

According to fellow Norwegian name DJ Prins Thomas, the material on ’Anti-LBM’ is ’steaming hot stuff’, and at an initial preview of some of these tracks during a live gig at London’s Fabric in May 2009, was said to have ’torn the roof off’ by the Fabric promoters.

’Anti-LBM’ will be available on no label, and is part of the ”Exclusive Music” series that started with the single track eBay auction of ”Elephantastic!” in 2007 (EXCL001), and then got followed up with another eBay auction of the ’Hidden Backwards Message’ (EXCL002) – in conjunction with the 2008 Mental Overdrive album ”You are being Manipulated”.

”Anti-LBM” (EXCL003) will not be available from December 7th 2009.

There’ a sum-up of the live streaming ‘experiment’ utilizing BitTorrent technology to stream Saturday’s concert during the Insomnia Festival over at Far North Living Lab. We also want to announce that the DVD version of the project, with the full-quality newly restored version of the movie, plus the full soundtrack in both stereo and 5.1 surround sound mixes is now available via us. The price is 15 EURO + postage, and you can pay via PayPal or credit card. Place your order by dropping us an email.

We now have a Facebook page for followers of “Earthbound – Surfing the Apocalypse”. Go join in to get instant updates and special news as the project develops.

The live BitTorrent-powered streaming of the “Mother” film and concert from Aurora Cinema yesterday was a success. There’s an article about the whole project at p2ptalk.org. The gig is over, but if you want to check out the technology there’s a short loop of yesterday’s recording still streaming at Far North Living Lab.

Per Martinsen, Sergey Suokas and Aggie Peterson recently returned from Russia where they played 3 shows with their new soundtrack for Vsevolod Pudovkin’s “The Mother” (see preview at YouTube). On this following Saturday the 24th of October they will do yet another show, this time as part of the Insomnia Festival in Tromsø, but with a slight twist: The show will be performed at the local Aurora Fokus cinema complex in Tromsø, but the event will be streamed live to the NOTCH Festival in Beijing as part of their festival programme. The film and soundtrack will also be available on DVD as of early November. Details about mailorder will follow on these pages.

This year’s SEAS festival in Tromsø has now closed. To check out pictures of Per Martinsen’s “Elsewhere” installation, goto Flickr. A short videoclip can also be viewed here. It’s a pity neither the camera used to capture it nor YouTube can properly represent the 50hz sub that filled the room every time the lasers kicked in…

The international arts festival SEAS, where Per Martinsen will be showing his brand new piece, the laser-installation Elsewhere, coupled with the soundwork The North Synthesized, opens today in Tromsø. There will be exhibitions and happenings all over town for the next 10 days, and the full program can be found here.

Per Martinsen, Aggie Peterson and Sergey Suokas will team up for a couple of gigs this weekend, performing their recently composed soundtrack to Vsevolod Pudovkin’s 1926 classic silent movie The Mother.

The first concert is scheduled for Friday September 4th at Verdensteatret in Tromsø, and is part of the annual silent movie festival Stumfilmdagene. The second gig takes place in Kristiansand on Saturday the 5th of September, and is part of the excellent Punkt Festival.

Later on the same night Nicholas Sillitoe and Per Martinsen will team up for a rare Chilluminati DJ-set at Frk. Larsen (2200-Midnight), and Kick (Midnight-0300), while Aggie Peterson will spin records at Rederiet (2200-Midnight) and Frk. Larsen (Midnight-0300).