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RIF 018EP
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Blackbelt Andersen returns to Rett I Fletta, dusting off four timeless techno tracks he found in an old cupboard. They're actually so old the label would rather not tell you abd they could already be filed under classics.
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RIF 017EP
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Christian Engh is a character left out of the Lords Of Chaos movie (2018). They were the kids hanging around the infamous record store of Euronymous. He wore black before it became techno...
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RIF 015EP
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Part 1 of 2 EPs featuring remixes of Mental Overdrive´s Epilogue album. Remixes by Kowton and Subtil.
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RIF 016EP
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Part 2 of 2 EPs featuring remixes of Mental Overdrive´s Epilogue album. Remixes by Prins Thomas, Mono Junk, Frankenstein and Full Pupp's Øyvind Morken.
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RIF 014LP
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Per Martinsen, AKA Mental Overdrive, is one of Norwegian dance music's founding fathers. Alongside friends such as Bjorn Torske, Biosphere, Rune Lindbaek, and DJ Strangefruit, Martinsen was integral in laying the foundations of Norway's now blossoming dance music scene during the late 1980s and early '90s. As a producer, he cut his teeth making house, techno, and hardcore at the turn of the '90s. Since then, Per has continued to produce and release quality electronic music, both under his Mental Overdrive alias, and as part of outfits such as Frost and Illumination. Per Martinsen on his new album Epilogue on Prins Thomas's Rett I Fletta: "As for Epilogue it has been quite long in the making compared to some of my other albums. The main reason for this I think is that when I and Thomas started talking about me doing a new release for Rett I Fletta, we agreed that I would just keep sending him tracks over time that I thought would fit a new album, and then discuss how we both could see it coming together. I also let Thomas have stems of all the tracks so he could do adjustments where he saw the need, instead of us talking back and forth in lengthy conversations and then sending new versions. As well as being a great selector he is also a great arranger, so giving him the freedom to collaborate like this was a great opportunity and a nice break from having to do absolutely everything myself. On some tracks he also added some production elements, especially in 'Hellbent', where my original version had a much heavier almost industrial vibe to it. Other tracks like 'Shimr', which was the last track I submitted to the album, are left much more like I mixed and arranged them to begin with. As for the sequence of tracks it's also Thomas' suggestion, and I think they fit very well in couples like this because the tracks were made over a longer timespan than usual, so you would have different phases where I was into different sounds and ideas. All tracks were done in my studio here in Tromsø. Some in the dark period and some with the midnight sun shining through the windows. There's a lot of contrast in my surroundings here so maybe those contrasts will surface in the work I do also." Includes download code.
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RIF 012EP
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Prins Thomas's Apokalypso marks his return to Rett I Fletta, almost exactly three years after he started it with Blusjketuta (RIF 001EP, 2014) and Åpne Slusa (RIF 002EP, 2014). And following a now famous Winston Churchill saying: "This is not the end, not even the beginning of the end. this ("Apokalypso") is ... the end of the beginning!" And the rest is history. Or simply great tekno not tekno. All available on Full Pupp's "techno not techno" offshoot Rett I Fletta. Includes a rework by Øyvind Morken.
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RIF 011EP
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Oslo Newcomer Christian Engh is no new kid on the block. After the pretty incredible "Kyllingsmak" on Full Pupp Splits (FPS 001EP, 2015) his new EP for Techno Sublabel Rett I Fletta is no less a stomper. Compact, dry techno with the unmistakable pull and build factor he's come to master. Same deep as "Kyllingsmak" but with yet more beat, bleep, quirk, and boom to it.
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RIF 010LP
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Double LP version. Keita Sano was born in 1989 in Okayama. He has released music on more labels than forests have trees (1080p, Rett I Fletta, Let's Play House, Mister Saturday Night, Crue-L etc.). He makes a technoid yet lo-fi version of music for discotheques that's uniquely his own. Rett I Fletta label head Prins Thomas on meeting Keita Sano: "A little over a year ago I spent a day off in the lovely seaside town Enoshima. There is a really nice club, cafe and concert venue there called Oppa-La which I had played the previous night. So my dear friend and Japanese promoter Hagi tells me we should go back there the following night as there will be local bands playing followed by a live-set from Keita Sano. I was only vaguely familiar with his music but had noticed his name crop up more and more frequently so off we went. A couple of beers later and around the third track in, he somehow manages to merge the playfulness of disco with the physical impact of techno, I'm sold there and then. Over a friendly chat and more beers, I clumsily present an offer to release his music and hopefully even all the things he played that night. A few days later the album as you hold in front of you and more or less a replica of that live-set arrives in my inbox."
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RIF 010CD
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Keita Sano was born in 1989 in Okayama. He has released music on more labels than forests have trees (1080p, Rett I Fletta, Let's Play House, Mister Saturday Night, Crue-L etc.). He makes a technoid yet lo-fi version of music for discotheques that's uniquely his own. Rett I Fletta label head Prins Thomas on meeting Keita Sano: "A little over a year ago I spent a day off in the lovely seaside town Enoshima. There is a really nice club, cafe and concert venue there called Oppa-La which I had played the previous night. So my dear friend and Japanese promoter Hagi tells me we should go back there the following night as there will be local bands playing followed by a live-set from Keita Sano. I was only vaguely familiar with his music but had noticed his name crop up more and more frequently so off we went. A couple of beers later and around the third track in, he somehow manages to merge the playfulness of disco with the physical impact of techno, I'm sold there and then. Over a friendly chat and more beers, I clumsily present an offer to release his music and hopefully even all the things he played that night. A few days later the album as you hold in front of you and more or less a replica of that live-set arrives in my inbox."
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RIF 009EP
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Japan's Keita Sano presents his four-track EP, Why Not EP. The Okayama resident has been weaving his way through house, techno and electronica releases displaying an affinity to old school processes and vintage gear. Raw, rugged and slightly alarming but dry and focused with a massive funk attitude - this is the actual "big room underground". However, this is modern analog techno at its most stringent.
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RIF 008EP
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Plugged (RIF 007CD/LP), the 21 year old Norwegian techno classic by Mental Overdrive, gets full remix treatment by the main men involved in unfolding the expansion and remastering of this legendary recordings: Prins Thomas and Daniel "Blackbelt" Andersen. plus there´s an additional MO track here too: "Disto Disco Part 3". Presented on Full Pupp's "techno not techno"offshoot Rett I Fletta.
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RIF 007LP
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Triple LP version. Includes download code. 21 year old Norwegian techno classic Plugged by Per Martinsen aka Mental Overdrive gets the expanded and remastered treatment on Full Pupp's "techno not techno" offshoot Rett I Fletta. He first entered the world of music-making by playing drums in local post-punk outfits, but moved on to electronic instruments when he bought his own Roland TR-808 drum machine in 1983. He ended up in London in 1987, where he spent his days squatting in Hackney and working as an assistant programmer in This Heat's seminal Cold Storage studio in Brixton. Hit by the wave of Chicago house and Detroit techno invading London at the time, he soon found himself experimenting with making beats inspired by these new sounds merged with the '80s sounds he was accustomed to from his pre-London era, like industrial music and EBM. Here he met Renaat Vandepapeliere of R&S Records, and soon found himself doing sessions with David Morley and Joey Beltram at the R&S headquarters, resulting in the release of his first EP under the Mental Overdrive moniker in 1990. A series of EP's for R&S followed, and after relocating to Norway after some time, the debut album Plugged was released on his own label Love OD Communications in 1995. In 2014, Daniel Blackbelt Andersen brought his shabby copy of Plugged along to one of the regular Full Pupp shindigs and played Prins Thomas a couple of the slightly more "ambient" tracks off the album stating it would be a dream come true to remix all of these tracks and that he'd spoken to Per about getting hold of the stems, if any. A plan to re-issue the whole album with a couple of new remixes formed. Per also went through his archives and found the original Akai S 3000 formatted floppy disks, all the pre-masters, alternative takes and unreleased tracks that did not make it to the finished album. The sleeve has been lovingly redesigned to match this "expanded" edition by Eirik Seu Stokkmo at Metric Design so a good couple of reasons to grab this new version if you're the lucky owner of the original record.
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RIF 007CD
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21 year old Norwegian techno classic Plugged by Per Martinsen aka Mental Overdrive gets the expanded and remastered treatment on Full Pupp's "techno not techno" offshoot Rett I Fletta. He first entered the world of music-making by playing drums in local post-punk outfits, but moved on to electronic instruments when he bought his own Roland TR-808 drum machine in 1983. He ended up in London in 1987, where he spent his days squatting in Hackney and working as an assistant programmer in This Heat's seminal Cold Storage studio in Brixton. Hit by the wave of Chicago house and Detroit techno invading London at the time, he soon found himself experimenting with making beats inspired by these new sounds merged with the '80s sounds he was accustomed to from his pre-London era, like industrial music and EBM. Here he met Renaat Vandepapeliere of R&S Records, and soon found himself doing sessions with David Morley and Joey Beltram at the R&S headquarters, resulting in the release of his first EP under the Mental Overdrive moniker in 1990. A series of EP's for R&S followed, and after relocating to Norway after some time, the debut album Plugged was released on his own label Love OD Communications in 1995. In 2014, Daniel Blackbelt Andersen brought his shabby copy of Plugged along to one of the regular Full Pupp shindigs and played Prins Thomas a couple of the slightly more "ambient" tracks off the album stating it would be a dream come true to remix all of these tracks and that he'd spoken to Per about getting hold of the stems, if any. A plan to re-issue the whole album with a couple of new remixes formed. Per also went through his archives and found the original Akai S 3000 formatted floppy disks, all the pre-masters, alternative takes and unreleased tracks that did not make it to the finished album. The sleeve has been lovingly redesigned to match this "expanded" edition by Eirik Seu Stokkmo at Metric Design so a good couple of reasons to grab this new version if you're the lucky owner of the original record.
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RIF 006EP
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Rett I Fletta welcomes back London-based Joseph Russell for another ruff, rugged, genre-defying release, following his 2015 Drums from Lagos EP (RIF 004EP). It pokes and scratches all the right places and features a lefthanded rework from Prins Thomas. Bleep, bloop, doink, doink. . . .
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RIF 003EP
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Number three in Prins Thomas's Rett i Fletta excursion (following 2014's Blusketuta (RIF 001EP) and Åpne Slusa (RIF 002EP)) welcomes the label's good friends from Full Pupp, Trulz & Robin. "Change" is a ten-minute deep techno buildup piece in a somewhat classic, almost Trentemølleresque soundscape+ tradition. Minimalistic but huge in a motoric wall-of-sound-style long-unheard. Large! "Dunjon" sets the counterpoint, with bass-ridden, sparse, bubbling, sturdy grooving techno. "Is Dub" comes back to the richer atmosphere of "Change" for another hallucinatory, deep, and dubby piece. Written and produced by Trulz & Robin (Truls Kvam and Robin Crafoord).
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RIF 004EP
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London's Joseph Russel delivers funk-driven quirky Chicago techno, opening with standout track "Drums of Lagos." What starts like a sturdy minimalist drum-and-snare-pattern monotrack turns into a discotech monster almost out of nowhere. With "Karma Shirr," "A Razz Comic 1," and "The Oink Master," this is an explosion of ultradynamic, unconventional, rhythmic techno, with a classic, Chicago-sounding, nice old skool vibe that in fact sounds really modern. Crackling dancefloor techno for finer floors and DJs to have and to hold. Written, produced, and performed by Joseph Russell, with "Karma Shirr" featuring guitar by Mark Harris and final mixdown by Prins Thomas.
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RIF 002EP
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"Second release on my brand-new label Rett I Fletta. 'Lang Versjon' of 'Åpne Slusa' found on my new album III (FP 011CD/LP) and a truly psychedelic remix by masters of such things Margot from Italy and two cool tools for DJ fools." --Prins Thomas
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RIF 001EP
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"First release on my brand-new label Rett I Fletta. All exclusive stuff, no tracks found on my new album III (FP 011CD/LP)." --Prins Thomas; "From previous conversations I know that Thomas mentioned this to be his 'tekno' label. Which is, listening to the first releases, not too far off the beaten track. Pretty cool and sturdy bass-lined boogie (rather than bluesy) techno with a fantastic Neanderthalistic ebb, flow and break scenery, chunky, wonkly, wombat-y, and oh-so-tasty." --Kai Fraeger
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