Mux Mool (born Brian Lindgren) is an American
electronic music
Electronic music is a genre of music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments, or circuitry-based music technology in its creation. It includes both music made using electronic and electromechanical means ( electroa ...
ian,
producer, and visual artist affiliated with the labels
Moodgadget
Moodgadget is an independent electronic music label with the mission of exposing the diversity in electronically made music. Founded in 2004 in Ann Arbor, Michigan by Jakub Alexander and Adam E. Hunt, the label began as an effort to popularize ...
,
Ghostly International
Ghostly International is an American independent record label founded in 1999 by Samuel Valenti IV and currently headquartered in Brooklyn, New York City. Chief artists include Matthew Dear, Dabrye (a.k.a. Tadd Mullinix), Com Truise, Tycho, Go ...
, and Super Best Records. He has been featured on
Cartoon Network's
Adult Swim
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, and is a member of Club Scouts, a musical partnership with
Michal Menert
Michal Menert (born June 10, 1982) is a Polish-born American electronic music producer and the founder of Super Best Records. He was also the first artist on the Pretty Lights Music label and was an integral part of Pretty Lights, producing Pret ...
. He currently resides in
Denver
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,
Colorado
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.
Biography
Mux Mool was born in
Minnesota
Minnesota () is a state in the upper midwestern region of the United States. It is the 12th largest U.S. state in area and the 22nd most populous, with over 5.75 million residents. Minnesota is home to western prairies, now given over to ...
, and made his first electronic track in 1998. He attended The Perpich Center for Arts Education (Golden Valley, MN) from 2000-2001, where he studied visual arts. He made his commercial debut with the track "Lost and Found" in 2006. Released by
Moodgadget
Moodgadget is an independent electronic music label with the mission of exposing the diversity in electronically made music. Founded in 2004 in Ann Arbor, Michigan by Jakub Alexander and Adam E. Hunt, the label began as an effort to popularize ...
on their Rorschach Suite compilation. Lindgren moved to
Brooklyn
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in 2008 and released the ''Drum EP '' and ''Death 9000''. He played his first show with
Black Moth Super Rainbow
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BMSR is a solo music ...
that year at the 7th St. Entry at
First Avenue in
Minneapolis
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. One of his tracks, "Night Court", was placed on the ''
Ghostly Swim
''Ghostly Swim'' is a free digital download album released in 2008 by Adult Swim and Ghostly International (through Williams Street Records). The track listing contains songs arranged and recorded in an unusual avant-garde style of pop, rock and ...
'' compilation assembled for
Adult Swim
Adult Swim (AS; stylized as dult swim'' and often abbreviated as s'') is an American adult-oriented night-time cable television channel that shares channel space with the basic cable network Cartoon Network and is programmed by its in-house ...
by
Ghostly International
Ghostly International is an American independent record label founded in 1999 by Samuel Valenti IV and currently headquartered in Brooklyn, New York City. Chief artists include Matthew Dear, Dabrye (a.k.a. Tadd Mullinix), Com Truise, Tycho, Go ...
. Two other tracks, ''10'' and ''Death 9000'' were placed on
Moodgadget
Moodgadget is an independent electronic music label with the mission of exposing the diversity in electronically made music. Founded in 2004 in Ann Arbor, Michigan by Jakub Alexander and Adam E. Hunt, the label began as an effort to popularize ...
's ''Synchonicity Suite'' and ''No New Enemies Volume 1,'' respectively.
In 2009, Mux Mool embarked on his first national tour alongside
Eliot Lipp
Eliot Lipp is an American electronic music artist and DJ based in Brooklyn, New York. His work was picked up by Scott Herren of Prefuse 73 (Warp Records) after Herren heard him working the club circuit. In 2004, Lipp released his first studio al ...
. That year he also released the EP ''Just Saying is All'' on
Moodgadget
Moodgadget is an independent electronic music label with the mission of exposing the diversity in electronically made music. Founded in 2004 in Ann Arbor, Michigan by Jakub Alexander and Adam E. Hunt, the label began as an effort to popularize ...
. In 2010 he debuted his first full-length album, ''Skulltaste'' on
Ghostly International
Ghostly International is an American independent record label founded in 1999 by Samuel Valenti IV and currently headquartered in Brooklyn, New York City. Chief artists include Matthew Dear, Dabrye (a.k.a. Tadd Mullinix), Com Truise, Tycho, Go ...
. In 2010 Mux Mool released 2 more EP's, ''Viking Funeral'' and the remix collection ''Wax Rose Sunday'' shortly after, also on
Ghostly International
Ghostly International is an American independent record label founded in 1999 by Samuel Valenti IV and currently headquartered in Brooklyn, New York City. Chief artists include Matthew Dear, Dabrye (a.k.a. Tadd Mullinix), Com Truise, Tycho, Go ...
. He was also a part of a six-month tour alongside the
livetronica
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band
Lotus that year.
In 2011, he released ''Drum EP 2'' with
Ghostly International
Ghostly International is an American independent record label founded in 1999 by Samuel Valenti IV and currently headquartered in Brooklyn, New York City. Chief artists include Matthew Dear, Dabrye (a.k.a. Tadd Mullinix), Com Truise, Tycho, Go ...
. He also opened for
Bassnectar
Lorin Gabriel Ashton, better known under his stage name Bassnectar (born February 16, 1978), is an American DJ and record producer.
Biography
Ashton grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and attended Bellarmine College Preparatory. He initiall ...
's New Year's Eve show in
Nashville's
Bridgestone Arena
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alongside
Chali 2na and Break Science.
''Planet High School'', Mux Mool's second full-length album, was released in 2012 under
Ghostly International
Ghostly International is an American independent record label founded in 1999 by Samuel Valenti IV and currently headquartered in Brooklyn, New York City. Chief artists include Matthew Dear, Dabrye (a.k.a. Tadd Mullinix), Com Truise, Tycho, Go ...
. That year he also headlined the
Heineken
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History
On 15 Feb ...
Green Room Tour in
India
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and a short tour in
Australia. Shortly after, he moved to
Denver
Denver () is a consolidated city and county, the capital, and most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado. Its population was 715,522 at the 2020 census, a 19.22% increase since 2010. It is the 19th-most populous city in the Unit ...
,
Colorado
Colorado (, other variants) is a state in the Mountain states, Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It encompasses most of the Southern Rocky Mountains, as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the wes ...
.
While Mux Mool has always been a visual artist, he made his public debut in
Denver
Denver () is a consolidated city and county, the capital, and most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado. Its population was 715,522 at the 2020 census, a 19.22% increase since 2010. It is the 19th-most populous city in the Unit ...
in 2013 with an art show at Jiberish LoHi. Additionally, he played a smattering of shows at the end of
Michal Menert
Michal Menert (born June 10, 1982) is a Polish-born American electronic music producer and the founder of Super Best Records. He was also the first artist on the Pretty Lights Music label and was an integral part of Pretty Lights, producing Pret ...
's ''Space Jazz Tour 2013''. Alongside Michal Menert, he co-founded Super Best Records in early 2014. His first release under that label was the EP ''Appetite for Production''. He and Menert teamed up once again in 2014 to create the duo Club Scouts, making their debut at the 1-Up Colfax in
Denver
Denver () is a consolidated city and county, the capital, and most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado. Its population was 715,522 at the 2020 census, a 19.22% increase since 2010. It is the 19th-most populous city in the Unit ...
.
In addition to official tours, Mux Mool has opened for musicians such as
Daedelus, Low End Theory,
Gaslamp Killer
William Benjamin Bensussen (born November 7, 1982), better known by his stage name The Gaslamp Killer, is an American alternative hip hop producer and DJ based in Los Angeles, California.
Career
He grew up in San Diego, California, where he beca ...
, Blackbird Blackbird,
Africa Hitech and many more. He has also been featured on festivals such as
Wakarusa,
South by Southwest, Starscape, and Camp Bisco.
Name etymology
Lindgren was dubbed Mux Mool by a band he admired after he posted a blog on MySpace soliciting fans to submit names for his project. “Mux is short for ‘multiplexing,’ which is the streaming of many types of information through one channel,” he explains, “and
Chac-Mool is an ancient Meso-American statue of a reclining man.”
Discography
Albums
*''Skulltaste'' (
Ghostly International
Ghostly International is an American independent record label founded in 1999 by Samuel Valenti IV and currently headquartered in Brooklyn, New York City. Chief artists include Matthew Dear, Dabrye (a.k.a. Tadd Mullinix), Com Truise, Tycho, Go ...
, 2010)
*''Planet High School'' (
Ghostly International
Ghostly International is an American independent record label founded in 1999 by Samuel Valenti IV and currently headquartered in Brooklyn, New York City. Chief artists include Matthew Dear, Dabrye (a.k.a. Tadd Mullinix), Com Truise, Tycho, Go ...
, 2012)
*''Implied Lines'' (2016)
*''Skulltaste II''
EPs
*''Drum EP'' (
Moodgadget
Moodgadget is an independent electronic music label with the mission of exposing the diversity in electronically made music. Founded in 2004 in Ann Arbor, Michigan by Jakub Alexander and Adam E. Hunt, the label began as an effort to popularize ...
, 2008)
*''Death 9000'' (Moodgadget, 2008)
*''Just Saying Is All'' (Moodgadget, 2009)
*''Viking Funeral'' (Ghostly International, 2010)
*''Wax Rose Saturday'' (Ghostly International, 2010)
*''Drum EP 2'' (Ghostly International, 2011)
*''Appetite for Production'' (Super Best Records, 2014)
References
External links
Mux Mool at Ghostly InternationalMux Mool at RCRD LBLMux Mool on TwitterMux Mool chats with the mixtape
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American electronic musicians
Musicians from Minnesota
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
Musicians from New York City