The single was released in the iTunes Store and several other music stores on 25 March 2009. This performance was recorded and scheduled to be aired on national TV, but it was eventually cut from the programming for reasons unknown. To promote the new single, the band performed the new version of the song at Cafeteateret in Oslo. Shortly after information about the album came to light, the first single, "Die Polizei", was announced. They recorded the album in more or less one take, recording it as a band and then editing in orchestrated strings, banjo, brass and guest musicians afterwards. The remainder of the album's tracks were never heard by the public.
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Several songs from the album had already been heard by fans, such as "Die Polizei", "Medisin og psykiatri" and "Den sjette sansen", which they have played live on several occasions, as well as "Våre demoner" and "Stormfull vals", of which some early demos were leaked.
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The band stressed that although all of the songs were recorded on demos, this would not be a collection of B-sides, but rather new recordings of old material. Three of the songs originated during the writing sessions for Ompa til du dør ("Gruvene på 16", "Prosessen", "Stormfull vals"), three during the Evig pint period ("Kavalér", "Die Polizei", "Sonny"), four from Maestro ("Medisin og psykiatri", "Våre demoner", "Señor Torpedo", "Fanden hakk i hel"), and two from Maskineri ("Den sjette sansen", "Under månen"). Janove Ottesen has stated that the songs are diverse in origin, with differing styles depending on which era they were from.
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After speculation on the part of the band's fans, information about the album was released on February 14, with a complete track list being released. The rumours intensified when, at the beginning of 2009, the band had been spotted in a recording studio in Jæren, Stavanger, Norway. During this period, rumours began circulating that the band were going to record some of their unrecorded material. After the release of Maskineri in 2008, the band toured throughout Europe during fall of that year, playing songs that they had either dropped from their usual set lists a long time prior or had never been played much at all.