Mux Mool

Hailing from the United States, Mux Mool crafts glitch-hop productions marked by funky grooves, prominent bass weight, and an irreverent streak. He surfaced in the closing years of the 2000s, issuing multiple EPs and albums first through Moodgadget and Ghostly International; these works paired forward-looking hip-hop instrumentals with brisker pieces shaped by boogie and synth-funk, among them the widely praised 2010 full-length Skulltaste. Later projects on Super Best Records and Young Heavy Souls further refined his approach, culminating in Skulltaste II, whose 2020 contents ranked among his most dancefloor-oriented output.

Born Brian Lindgren, he spent his early years in rural Minnesota before settling in Brooklyn, New York, where he connected with Jakub Marek Alexander, founder of the Moodgadget label. His first appearance came in 2006 via the track “Lost and Found,” included on Moodgadget’s various-artists collection The Rorschach Suite. Two EPs followed on the same imprint in 2008—Drum EP and Death 9000—alongside contributions to the compilations No New Enemies, Vol. 1 and The Synchronicity Suite. That same year, Ghostly International placed his piece “Night Court” on the Adult Swim-backed free-download anthology Ghostly Swim, an exposure that prompted favorable notices in outlets such as XLR8R and URB as well as widespread MP3 circulation across music blogs.

The Moodgadget EP Just Saying Is All arrived in 2009. The next year brought a cluster of Ghostly releases: the digital single “Lady Linda” in January, the digital EP Viking Funeral in February, the album Skulltaste in March, and the remix anthology Wax Rose Saturday in August. Drum EP 2 surfaced in 2011, succeeded by the 2012 full-length Planet High School. After that album, Lindgren relocated to Denver and launched Super Best Records alongside Michal Menert, formerly of Pretty Lights; the pair also performed together as Club Scouts. Appetite for Production, an EP, appeared on Super Best in 2014. Two years afterward he issued his third album, Implied Lines, as a digital release; Detroit’s Young Heavy Souls later put out an expanded edition in 2017. Skulltaste received its first vinyl pressing, augmented by bonus tracks, in 2019, while Skulltaste II followed in 2020.