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For Mux Mool, known to the government as Brian Lindgren, all his music connects to a certain outlook on life—basically, that the pre-established trajectory for adult life is being completely reimagined. This is the backdrop for Planet High School , his recently announced forthcoming album, which now has an updated physical release date of March 6th, 2012 on Ghostly International. A couple promo videos have surfaced recently, both of which illustrate Lindgren's affinity for the video game world. The Planet High School promo video actually stars Lindgren himself, while Mux Mool's music soundtracks gameplay from Minecraft in the other video (which has already gotten close to 700k views). The newest single from the album, the assertive head-nodder "Raw Gore," recently hit via Stereogum, while the first single "Palace Chalice" has been floating around for some time as well. Last but certainly not least, Mux Mool will be back on the road in February with a handful of tour dates (listed below), followed by appearances in Austin for the SXSW festival.
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Click Here for Planet High School Promo Video Starring Mux Mool

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MUX MOOL - UPCOMING LIVE DATES
Feb 10 - Tri Cities, WA. n - Private Wharehouse
Feb 11 - Seattle, WA - Chop Suey
Feb 16 - Denver, CO - Cervantes
Feb 17 - San Francisco, CA - 1015 Folson w/ Shigeto
Feb 18 - Missoula, MT - The Palace Theatre w/ Shigeto
Mar 13-17 - Austin, TX - SXSW Festival
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Click Here for the Minecraft 'Endless Waterfall" video
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Despite being accused as anti-human, repetitive, soulless, whatever, electronic music attracts the more devoted of idealists--the vinyl purist, the underground hero, the anonymous producer, etc.  He explains the concept behind his new album this way: “Today, young Americans have very little to look forward to except endless war, endless debt, no Social Security, and [the fact that] none of us can live without the constant fear of poverty. We don't need to have big houses and cars and a nest egg to get along. There's nothing that says you can't rent an apartment your whole life and not be happy.”

Lindgren’s life in music began in Minnesota with a cheap toy sampling keyboard (“I remember being so fascinated by how much a sound changed when you dropped it down several octaves”). Flash forward a few years (and more than a few keyboards), and the teenage Lindgren began recreating his favorite sounds – Dilla’s stutter-step beats, classic video-game music, abstract electronic noise – using software and digital effects, glazing them with tape hiss and vinyl static. Mux Mool’s 2010 full-length debut, Skulltaste , is the culmination of years of toil and experimentation, gathering Lindgren’s myriad talents and obsessions into one gloriously sprawling document.

So, how does this newfound economic ambivalence translate to an album of what is best (if not entirely) described as fluid, subsuming instrumental hip-hop? Hard to say. Planet High School certainly sounds different than Skulltaste. It’s funkier, more confident. It sounds less like someone trying to prove a point by arguing and more like someone trying to prove a point by just being who they are. It’s leading by example, sonically speaking.   Songs like the delirious rumble of “The Butterfly Technique” and “Live At 7-11”—which, by the way, resembles golden-era G-funk as filtered through an abused video game console and old breakbeat records—see Mux Mool enjoying the perch from which he sits. He knows what he’s good at, and the confidence shows. And there’s still some of that familiar, manic, video game-esque stutter in the album’s second half, specifically on synapse-tingling beat binges like “Cash 4 Gold” and “Get Yer Alphabets (Guns).”

As for where he got the name Mux Mool? Lindgren offers up an oddly telling story: he 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.” A technologically complex breed of synthesis and a timeless piece of indigenous art. Sounds about right.
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Mux Mool - Planet High School
Out 3/6/12 on Ghostly International
Tracklist:
Brothers
Live at 7-11
Palace Chalice
I Ruin Everything
The Butterfly Technique
Hand On the Scantron
Raw Gore
Cash 4 Gold
Get Yer Alphabets (Guns)
Baba

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