"..starts off with a Psychedelic-kaleidoscopic arpeggiated sound that could easily be mistaken for all future soundtrack rides into outer space. From there it goes into Hip Hop, Electro, video game sounds, and even Disco-ish dance music. This music will apply to anyone who has ever liked anything Dance, Hip Hop, or video game oriented.."
Mux Mool
Sleazy Hip-Tronica
Mux Mool Bio:
Mux Mool is an IDM producer associated with the Moodgadget label who made his commercial recording debut in 2006. Born Brian Lindgren, he grew up in rural Minnesota and later relocated to Brooklyn, NY, where he befriended Jakub Marek Alexander of the electronic music label Moodgadget. Mool made his recording debut in 2006 with the track "Lost and Found" on the Moodgadget various-artists compilation The Rorschach Suite. A couple years later he released a couple EPs on Moodgadget, Drum EP (2008) and Death 9000 (2008), and was featured on the label compilations No New Enemies, Vol. 1 (2008) and The Synchronicity Suite (2008). Also in 2008 he was featured on the Adult Swim-sponsored Ghostly Swim compilation released by Ghostly International. His inclusion on the free-download compilation, "Night Court," increased his exposure considerably, and he began garnering positive write-ups in mainstream electronic music publications such as XLR8R and Urb, not to mention the blogosphere, where MP3s of his music circulated freely. In 2009 Mool released another EP on Moodgadget, "Just Saying Is All", as well as "Viking Funeral EP" and "Skulltaste" LP for Ghostly.
Hello, how are you?
I feel amazing, how bout you?
What are you currently listening to?
Right now at this very moment I'm listening to Xaver Naudasche - Motor City. But other than that, some Wu-Tang, The Cars, Slayer, Big Business, Danzig, Michael Hedges, Jay Electronica, Warren Zevon, Qwerty Musique, Mechwarrior 2 soundtrack, and even a little bit of Peter Gabriel. That and a million other things in my downloads folder that I'm not really sure what they are.
For the people that don't know, can you please explain your band name?
I think I can explain it. Mux is short for mutliplexer which is a device that selects one of many analog or digital input signals and forwards the selected input into a single line. Mool, is half of Chac-Mool which is the name given to a pre-Colombian, Mesoamerican stone statue. The Chac-Mool depicts a human figure in a position of reclining with the head up and turned to one side, holding a tray over the stomach. The meaning of the position or the statue itself remains unknown.
That's the definition of the words themselves, choosing the name itself was almost arbitrary. I asked for suggestions for a new name via myspace in 2006. Someone recommended this name. At the time I thought the words were meaningless and sounded cool together, but when I looked the words up, weeks later, I discovered that they seemed to have a power, or at least interesting meanings, and the combination of definitions seemed to fit. I thought it was a good fit also because picking your superhero, or DJ name is a tricky thing. I think we'd all be Mr. Awesome Guy if we could, so letting someone else pick was cool for me.
I love the "Viking Funeral EP", I especially love the track "Goblin Town", can you explain the story behind that that track?
The Hobbit is a Rankin Bass classic. I watched the shit out of that when I was a kid because I could rent it for free from the public library. I had the vinyl for a while, sampled the goblin song, as well as a few others, but chopping it never seemed to work. When I looped it and added some John Bonham drums, it was pretty magical. Just loud on top of loud.
Is there one main electronic artist that influenced you the most when it comes to creating your music?
Well there have been many along the way, Kid Koala, Chemical Brothers, Fatboy Slim, Dilla, and Daft Punk were all in very heavy rotation when I first discovered each one, but I feel my mind drifts towards Mark Isham a lot. My dad had one of his albums "Vapour Drawings". I listened to that so much as a kid. It's just very simple arpeggios mostly. Ambient or new agey in terms of style, but I just loved the sounds. Also, Mark Isham is someone who has done diverse things within electronic music, scoring movies and such. I just appreciate electronic artists who want to do more than just make whatever they want and put it out. I just think there's so much more that could be done.
You just released "Skull Taste", is there a theme behind the album?
SKULLTASTE is sort of a culmination of experiences and inspirational bits and pieces that have been locked in my brain for a long long time. It is a combination of the enormity of space, the quality of VHS, 80's horror movie boxes, and pornography. It is more or less just a sampling of what's going on in my head, and what has always been going on in my head, the term SKULLTASTE seemed to match all those things as closely as possible without getting TOO obvious.
Who's your absolute favorite Ghostly artist of all time and why?
It's definitely a toss up between Dabrye and Osborne for me. Dabrye was the first Ghostly artist I ever heard, but that Osborne album really blew me away when I heard it.
If you didn't write electronic music, what other genre would you have considered?
Well, I do visual arts as well, I've actually been an avid illustrator since I was about 4 years old. I did visual arts for a long long time before I ever picked up music. I probably would have stuck with that. In terms of other music, my mom and 2 of my brothers are guitar players, so I probably would have gone the folk route. Actually, some days, I still consider going the folk route.
You can only keep/listen to ONE album for the rest of your life ..which album would it be?
Probably Beck - Odelay. I seem to have a lot of good memories associated with that album.
Are you living your dream?
Hell yes, like you don't even know...
Thanx Brian!
Mux Mool just released "Skulltaste", make sure to check that out NOW...
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