Real name: Per Martinsen

Effective period / Period of releases: 2023

NAEON TEARDROPS is a new artist alias from Norwegian techno and electronica veteran Per Martinsen, mostly known under his techno and elecronic 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 debut album TESTIMONY was released in September 2023, and contained 10 tracks flirting with alternative electropop, echoes of eighties darkwave, breakbeat-fuelled nineties power-ballads and noughties electronica – all brought to life with a 2023 twist.

The music of NAEON TEARDROPS was born out of the storytelling 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.

PYRAMIDS ON THE MOON is still an ongoing project, where the most recent texts are exclusive to those supporting the project on Patreon.