Preorder // Ships 03.10.2025
Motorpsycho's "Child Of The Future" (2025 Remaster) is a meticulously crafted repress limited to 500 vinyl and cd copies in 2025.
Back in 2008, Motorpsycho MK3 was beginning to gel and settle.
Kenneth Kapstad’s entry into the band a year earlier had not only started to inspire a new and different writing, as shown in their first album, Little Lucid Moments, but also given the musicianship a solid kick up the behind. By summer 2008 the engine room was back to firing on all cylinders, ushering in a new era of intense and ambitious work for the band.
In hindsight it’s hard to quite remember the sequence of events, but some time early in 2008, an invitation to play the Terrastock Festival in Louisville dovetailed with an opportunity to fulfill the long held ambition to record at Electrical Audio with Steve Albini (RIP). The band took full advantage of this trip and even managed to squeeze onto a short mid-west US tour opening for The Grails before a hectic three-day analogue recording session was undertaken at Electrical Audio in Chicago at the end of ‘The tour of the Indianas’, late in June 2008.
Since the recording session was added to the end of the tour and the whole excursion came relatively hot on the heels of the previous album, there wasn’t a whole lot of new material to choose from, but the songs that became Cornucopia, Mr. Victim and the title track, had all been more or less finished and arranged before recording commenced. Others were either written on the spot (Whole Lotta Diana), or written/edited into shape post recording (Riding The Tiger, The Ozzylot). There is at least one outtake left in the can too, but this was found to be too unfinished compositionally to finish at the time, and never taken further. The final tune on the album (The Waiting Game) was a home recording.
At the end of the session, theanalogue Chicago recordings were transfered to digital, and after some editing and overdubbing at home, taken to Larsville Studio in Stuggudal for finishing touches and mix. Lars Lien added some tasty piano to Cornucopia, and mixed the album assisted by Paul Brekkås.
Whereas Electrical Audio is a state of the art recording facility, Larsville at the time was more or less a glorified home studio. The work undertaken was solid, but the playback situation was nothing like optimal, and the mixes were upon closer inspection found to be relatively dark and somewhat muddy. Trusting mastering could help fix this issue, the mixes were OK’d, but in
hindsight it’s clear to all that further steps should have been taken to help these mixes sound as good as possible. It didn’t help that the cut of the initial pressing of the album, was not up to snuff, and the album therefore suffered from a bit too much sonic murk. The new cut made for the 2015 repress was better, but the sound still felt …off.
For years then, the need to remix, or at least remaster the record, has been obvious to the band, and now, with NFGS’ involvement, it finally has. Helge Sten’s new masters bring out the glorious quality of Albini’s recordings and has given the album a totally new lease on life: you can finally really hear what is going on the way it was intended to!
Originally a vinyl-only release (the irony of ironies!) with a luscious cover designed by Kim Hiorthøy to celebrate a format that had been left for dead by the industry (boy, were we ahead of the curve on this!), Child of the Future is now also released digitally for the first time (CD & digital), and you can finally hear this ‘conference of titans’ in whatever medium you prefer. With much upgraded sound.
Child of the future is the first of several ltd ed NFGS reissues from the Motorpsychodelic Archives that reuses parts from earlier pressings. These editions are by their nature small since the parts reused are few in number, but in an effort to keep supply up with demand and to not waste and pollute more than what is unavoidable in this process, this policy will continue alongside regular new releases and other, standard reissues. Digital media is not limited in any way.
Håvard Gjelseth’s newly reedited vinyl sleeve thus incorporates both parts left over from earlier pressings and newly printed parts as well as newly designed elements based on some of Kim Hiorthøy’s previously unused early designs for the cover, making this a limited ‘mutant edition’ never to be repeated.
Remastered by Helge Sten and pressed on 180g vinyl, NFGS is proud to present the ultimate vinyl version of Child of The Future, as well as the first ever digital release of this forgotten MP MK3 classic.
releases October 3, 2025
All songs arranged and played by Motorpsycho:
Kenneth Kapstad, Hans Magnus Ryan and Bent Sæther
Basic tracks recorded at Electrical Audio, Chicago by Steve Albini,
except B/3 recorded at home by the Bent
Mixes by Lars Lien; Larsville Studios, Stuggudal
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