Who is Mux Mool?

Mux Mool is Brian Lindgren, a Minnesota-native who released his debut single on Moodgadget‘s compilation The Rorschach Suite in 2006 with his track Lost & Found, which eventually found it’s way onto iTunes’ Best-of list that year.  Since then, he contributed the track Night Court to Ghostly International and Adult Swim‘s wildly popular Ghostly Swim compilation, which found itself topping the charts last month when it went to official retail release, having been free for almost a year from Adult Swim’s website.  He also released the Drum EP and Death 9000, both of which…you guessed it, made iTunes’ 2008 list as well.

This March, he releases his next one, Just Saying Is All, which comes out a month from today on the 17th.  I’ve heard it, I can say, you will all be very pleased.  I got a chance to tell him of this new release that I found it very refreshing that as an artist, he is never complacent, he takes a bold step forward with each release, and this one sees him stepping very boldly into new, dancier territory, while not necessarily maintainting, but rather advancing his signature styles to this next level.  His use of a wide range of dirty synths is rare to hear, but listening to the different things he’s done with them on each track is even more rare.

The above press photo was taken by yours truly in a trip to NYC to shoot a number of Moodgadget artists.  While the other shoots were piece-meal and largely unscripted, Mux and I spent the morning trying to plan out how to get the most out of the shoot in terms of locations, compositions, etc.  I shot 6 rolls that weekend on my Holga, a bunch of which didn’t turn out.  From the ones that did, which I post-processed and cut even more out of, the above photo almost didn’t make it.  I was most hyped about a roll we shot in the subway station at the Bowery stop in Manhattan, clearly the filthiest in all New York, it was perfect.  However, much to my dismay, the folks that do my scanning said that nothing came out on that roll…save for 2 that they might be able to re-scan.  I didn’t come back to the shop until 2 weeks later, only to find what turned out to be the best shot of the entire trip.  Shooting with a Holga can be, as I’m sure you well know if you own one or have seen one, incredibly unpredictable.  We go through entire weekends of shooting for one exposure like this.

Below, Mux is giving way some free tunes to get people hyped up about the new album, Just Saying Is All.  Today, Nausican came out on Big Shot Mag, and last week XLR8R featured a radio edit of End Guy.  I can tell you guys right now, that if you like this or not, the best is truly yet to come.  These tracks, while a hearty helping of Mooliciousness, are but the tip of the iceberg.  You’ll get to hear it in a month, when you find yourself doing cartwheels to 2muxLUV, you’ll know you heard it here first.

Mux Mool – Nausican

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Mux Mool – End Guy (Radio Edit)

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Posted in Music and Photography Posted by Alex on Feb 17 2009 05:00 pm

Tags: End Guy, Holga, Lomography, Moodgadget, Mux Mool, Nausican, XLR8R