LOVE OD COMMUNICATIONS

ARTISTS

Ambient / Experimental

WAVE∞FORM

A 50-year-old electrician somewhere in a Norway that isn't quite this one has a midlife crisis, buys a synthesiser, and accidentally opens a portal. That's one way to tell the story of WAVE∞FORM — the alias under which Per Martinsen explores the territories that lie beyond the edges of his own biography. The music is ambient, experimental, unhurried; it asks questions rather than answering them. WAVE∞FORM exists within the Pyramids on the Moon narrative as an artist who came to music late, by accident, and found something he didn't have a name for. The recordings carry that quality — they sound like transmissions from a self that didn't know it could make music until it did. Released on Love OD Communications as part of an interconnected body of work spanning three parallel lives.

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Techno / Electronic / IDM

MENTAL OVERDRIVE

Somewhere between Tromsø and a parallel timeline, Mental Overdrive has been transmitting techno into the void since the late eighties. One of the founding voices of Norwegian electronic music, he surfaced alongside Biosphere and Bjørn Torske at a moment when the country's arctic light seemed to be refracting through drum machines — and the world noticed. Releases followed on R&S Records and Smalltown Supersound; remixes, film scores, theatre and dance commissions accumulated around him like signal interference. But the version of Per Martinsen who goes by Mental Overdrive is a specific one — restless, forward-facing, drawn to the friction between organic impulse and machine logic. His music sits in that charged space: techno that remembers it came from somewhere human. All output is released through his own Love OD Communications, a label that functions less like a business and more like a long-running transmission.

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Darkwave / Synthpop / Electronic

NAEON TEARDROPS

In a London that runs on surveillance and disconnection, a figure called ∆EON moves through crowds without leaving digital traces — a member of the underground DisCon movement, rebelling against the hyper-connected world by disappearing inside it. The music they make as NAEON TEARDROPS is the sound of that contradiction: dark, melodic, emotionally direct. Synth-pop and darkwave with a voice at the centre, songs that carry both protest and longing in the same breath. NAEON TEARDROPS is the most outward-facing of the three artist-selves within the Pyramids on the Moon transmedia world — the one that reaches toward an audience rather than away from one. Released through Love OD Communications as part of a narrative system in which three versions of the same person make music in three separate universes, occasionally sensing the others across the static.

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