Mux Mool (born Brian Lindgren) is an American

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ian, producer, and visual artist affiliated with the labels Moodgadget,

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, and Super Best Records. He has been featured on

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, and is a member of Club Scouts, a musical partnership with Michal Menert. He currently resides in

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Biography

Mux Mool was born in

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, and made his first electronic track in 1998. He attended The Perpich Center for Arts Education (Golden Valley, MN) from 2000 to 2001, where he studied visual arts. He made his commercial debut with the track "Lost and Found" in 2006. Released by Moodgadget on their Rorschach Suite compilation. Lindgren moved to

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in 2008 and released the ''Drum EP '' and ''Death 9000''. He played his first show with

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that year at the 7th St. Entry at First Avenue in

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. One of his tracks, "Night Court", was placed on the '' Ghostly Swim'' compilation assembled for

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. Two other tracks, ''10'' and ''Death 9000'' were placed on Moodgadget's ''Synchonicity Suite'' and ''No New Enemies Volume 1,'' respectively. In 2009, Mux Mool embarked on his first national tour alongside Eliot Lipp. That year he also released the EP ''Just Saying is All'' on Moodgadget. In 2010 he debuted his first full-length album, ''Skulltaste'' on

. In 2010 Mux Mool released 2 more EP's, ''Viking Funeral'' and the remix collection ''Wax Rose Sunday'' shortly after, also on

. He was also a part of a six-month tour alongside the

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band Lotus that year. In 2011, he released ''Drum EP 2'' with

. He also opened for

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's New Year's Eve show in

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alongside

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and Break Science. ''Planet High School'', Mux Mool's second full-length album, was released in 2012 under

. That year he also headlined the

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Green Room Tour in

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and a short tour in

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. Shortly after, he moved to

. While Mux Mool has always been a visual artist, he made his public debut in

in 2013 with an art show at Jiberish LoHi. Additionally, he played a smattering of shows at the end of Michal Menert'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

. In addition to official tours, Mux Mool has opened for musicians such as Daedelus, Low End Theory, Gaslamp Killer, Blackbird Blackbird, Africa Hitech and many more. He has also been featured on festivals such as Wakarusa,

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, 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'' (

, 2010) *''Planet High School'' (

, 2012) *''Implied Lines'' (2016) *''Skulltaste II'' (2020)

EPs

*''Drum EP'' ( Moodgadget, 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
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mool, Mux 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