DJ and musician Per Martinsen alias Mental Overdrive gives us a live remix of the concert ”Meantime Lifetime” by festival profile artist Benjamin Mørk, who will scarcely have left the stage himself in Nordic Hall.
The electronica artist and producer is a high profile figure in Tromsø´s music milieu and is an authority remix! Per Martinsen has over 30 years of experience behind him in the music world and is forever striving to catch that ultimate beat. He has collaborated with various artists and remixed a good deal more.
Martinsen is known under the artist name of Mental Overdrive and has amongst other things released eight albums with that name (nine if you include ”Unplugged”). He was awarded Spellemann prize 2014 for the album ”Everything is Connected” in the class of electronica/dance-music.
It all started when Martinsen bought his first drum kit in 1983. After short stays in London and Brussels and a single which hit the Billboard list in the USA he decided to settle down in Norway. Martinsen has throughout his career taken up a musical residence in the electronica universe, from club- and house in the 1980´s , 90´s raving, right up to today´s digital underground scene.
Martinsen is presently part of the duo Frost with Aggi Petersson who released the albums ”Melodica” (2002) and ”Radiomagnetic” (2012).