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We kick off our new monthly club residency at Pust Café & Bar in Tromsø on the 26th of August with none other than the brilliant BJØRN TORSKE as our first guest. The event series will take place on the last Saturday of each month, and feature a string of guests joining Per Martinsen behind the decks. The evenings will start in the Pust sauna situated in the Tromsø harbour, then continue at the venue, staring off with soothing sounds and pizza from the kitchen, before the dancefloor becomes the attention until closing time. If in town you should not miss this!
Our Tokyo-based friend CATO CANARI has done a great remix of the N∆EON TE∆RDROPS single WATERS RISING, and we’re happy to give it away as a special treat in advance of the album TESTIMONY, to be released Sept. 8th. You can pre-order the album on vinyl and CD from the “merch” page on NT’s Bandcamp page.
TESTIMONY – the debut album from N∆EON TE∆RDROPS will be released Sept 8th. You can pre-order the vinyl LP, CD or digital version through Bandcamp now!
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PYRAMIDS ON THE MOON – the project in which Per Martinsen has split himself into three different semi-fictional personas, and through those is creating music under the guises WAVE∞FORM, MENTAL OVERDRIVE and N∆EON TE∆RDROPS, is now being rolled out as an NFT-story on objkt.com.
Snippets of each chapter in the “multi-dimensional autobiography” are minted as non-fungible tokens, along with music from the story and images based on a combination of AI-processed photography and artificially generated artworks.
The story can be read in full at the project’s own webpage, except the most recent chapters, which are exclusive to those supporting the project through Patreon.
Releases by the involved artists will subsequently be made available for release through all major digital music services, and some will also be available on vinyl through our Bandcamp page.
Listen to a conversation between Per Martinsen and Steve Blame in the podcast series “Pop – The History Makers”, touching in on topics such as multiple identities, Pyramids On The Moon, music-making and more. The podcast can also be heard on Spotify and other streaming services.
N∆EON TE∆RDROPS is a new artist alias from Norwegian techno and electronica veteran Per Martinsen, mostly known under his guise MENTAL OVERDRIVE.
Stepping out of his familiar instrumental electronic productions and into vocal-based songwriting, N∆EON TE∆RDROPS explore influences of the synthpop and darkwave of his formative years, while aiming to put these influences into a more contemporary context.
The music of N∆EON TE∆RDROPS was born out of his writing project PYRAMIDS ON THE MOON – a fictional autobiography in three parts where he explores three alternative timelines of his own life, and where each of his three imagined personalities create music under different artist aliases.
N∆EON TE∆RDROPS released the single AMNESIACS in 2021, reaching no 8 in the Deutsche Alternative Charts, followed by SHADOWSISTER in 2022, which reached no 12 in the same chart.
The new single WATERS RISING will be out on March 17th 2023, and takes us on a deep and melancholy melodic ride atop a slow beat suitable for the more soulful and mellow dancefloors.
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Watch and listen to Per Martinsen talk about his artistic research project “The Search for Resonance” which spawned the multi-dimensional autobiography “Pyramids On The Moon”, including music from MENTAL OVERDRIVE, N∆EON TE∆RDROPS and WAVE∞FORM.
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Listen to James Welburn talking with Per Martinsen about music, his Pyramids On The Moon project and his various selves. The interview was done in connection to WAVE∞FORM playing James’ brilliant event series Lillehammer Experimental earlier this year. Link here.
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