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Tonight marks the third night of Decibel Festival and there are a crap ton of some of the best electronic artists hitting the clubs of Seattle that you need to know about. If you are unsure of who to see tonight, you have come to the right place my friends, as I will point you in the right direction. Unless you really want to go the left direction. Either is cool.

The Warm Oscillations Showcase at The Crocodile is a major hit what with , , Beat Connection and oOoOO. I’m completely stoked for both Mux Mool and Star Slinger. If you’re not familiar, check some tunes below.

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Also! I had the chance to chat with Mux Mool via the e-mail (my first e-mail interview) and I asked him some questions about his new record Planet Highschool, if he can play any instruments and whether or not he has plans to play live on future records, and if he has any fond memories of making mixtapes for past girlfriends.

If you want to listen to a chat I had with Mux Mool a few months ago, go here.

the mixtape: Regarding the sound of your new record Planet Highschool, how will it differ from your earlier work, Skull Taste? And, even Drum EP 2?

Mux Mool: I think the operative difference in sound is that for SKULLTASTE I was encouraged to to sort of “cram” a whole lot of songs into an album. I think a 20 track album is a lot of songs for a first release, but we wanted to see what would catch on. I didn’t really have an identity before so I wanted to show my production skills in a lot of different ways. I think that’s why it came across as schizophrenic. But this album may have the same range of downtempo-frantic party music, but it’s in more concise ways, it’s half the songs and probably twice the amount of work paid to detail and feeling.

tm: What inspired the cover art for Planet Highschool? It looks very Norman Rockwell.

MM: The cover art is the vision of a good friend of mine, Michael Gaughan. It stems from just feeling that, not only are my talents sometimes divided between visual artist and musician, but also plays with the roles I have to play in my day to day life. Being a musician these days takes a smart ass business brain, a brain and mode of thinking I really do no naturally have. I’ve had to fill a lot of those roles for myself even to get along in the small ways I do. I just wanted a way to show that in a really honest way, so I literally just showed photos of myself doing the different things I have to do to get Mux Mool out to the people.

tm: What does Planet Highschool mean?

MM: Planet High School really means a lot of things to me. I think first off, it’s funny. Secondly, it was an actual place that my friends used to live. Like a half scummy apartment where young artists lived and probably drank and smoked right AFTER high school. It also has to do with what I’ve experienced growing up, realizing that many people don’t truly develop social skills after high school, and that the school system, up and through high school is more of a social training grounds than an education system really. It forces you to get used to waking up entirely too early for your body, and going somewhere to spend time with people you don’t like, and follow orders from people you may not respect. And if you follow that path, that can be your whole life. Not so say that I advocate any sort of lashing out, or that I think the whole system needs to be broken down. I’d think most people are comfortable with that, but that awareness of this needs to be spread. Furthermore, as our socio-economic climate in America continues to degrade, young people today almost literally have NOTHING to look forward to after high school except endless work and minimum wages, no health care system at all, and no kind of social security, and nothing but endless debt and stress. I think a lot of people are adopting a different attitude about the american way now. I think we’ll see a lot of people not choosing careers OR families, but instead choosing simple stable jobs and living a life more leisurely, just pursuing their own interests because the older paths are just not worth going down anymore. And I full support this and I think people will find themselves believing in whatever they do more strongly because we have so many fewer dreams to pursue.

tm: How do you remedy writers block?

MM: No I cannot. And considering I’m terribly attention defecit, this is a constant problem and has been since I was maybe 11 years old. The best plan I have for this is, I tend to work on songs in 5-10 blocks. That’s usually how long I can stay focused before I hate the song again and I need to work on something else. Then I flip back and forth between watching Star Trek or playing Minecraft or whatever, just basically rotating through stimulus all day. I think watching how I work would probably be completely intolerable to most people.

tm: Can you play any instruments? Do you plan on adding live instrumentation to your future records?

MM: Well, I sort of play keys, but I have no real training, I just kinda hammer away until it sounds right. Even if I were to record live instruments, my process is such, and my strength is such that I would likely heavily edit whatever audio is there. Also, I make electronic songs, and I make no illusions about that. I make computer noise, and I like it. I think an acoustic style set is maybe something for when I start doing career retrospectives. Mux Mool unplugged would just be me doing my stand up routine, and you don’t want to hear that.

tm: Have you ever considered using vocals in your music?

MM: Definitely. When I started making beats I never imagined I’d be playing shows and being in the front like I am. That’s something that came about from just changes in the industry. DJ’s really are rock stars right now, kinda cool like that. But I do plan, as I have always planned, to produce albums for rappers and singers and even video games. But in terms of my own productions that I put out as songs, I don’t know if I’d ever hire singers. I don’t thinking in “singing” terms if that makes sense. I know how to do all the other parts but not that part.

tm: Is this your first time playing Decibel Festival?

MM: This is NOT my first time. Last year 2010 was my first time, and I played the first set on the first night of the festival and that was pretty wild. I love Decibel though, very stoked to be back.

tm: Will you be able to explore Decibel? If so, who are you really excited to see?

MM: I won’t have much time to explore since I’ll be in Portland the next day, and I think I’m playing on the last night. I do hope to see some of my music buds and see what I can, maybe go to a wild after party, and of course go to the Jimmy John’s near the hotel because I love JJ and we don’t have JJ in NYC.

tm: If you weren’t making music, what do you think you would be doing?

MM: If I wasn’t doing music, I’d be doing my visual art. I was drawing long before I was doing music. I’ve always loved it. I think I’d be way into the adult comics world by now if this music stuff hadn’t picked up the way it did. Actually, I might still try and do both. There’s also a good chance I would just be working at a coffee shop and chilling and collecting old VHS movies. I mean, I only ever do things that interest me, and if music got boring, I’d ramble so fast, it’s just been continuously interesting for a long time now, and it’s still challenging and fun and that’s why I keep up with it.

tm: Besides the future release of Planet Highschool, what’s on the horizon for Mux Mool?

MM: Got some tours coming together, got some videos in the works, got some crazy live shit for everyone, got some drawings, uh…I think that’s just about it. I think I’m gonna start doing webshows and like, online gaming with fans every week. I’m also working on some production work for some rappers that I’m excited about, some major remixes to be announced, oh and of course you can expect a non stop laugh fest coming from my FB and Twitter feeds. That’s always good right?

tm: Tell me about a mixtape that you made for a girlfriend or one that you received from a girlfriend. What songs? How was it designed?

MM: Haha, so I met my current girlfriend maybe 5 years ago? I was drinking at the time (sober now and have been for years) and so we had sort of a month long fling when we first met, I made a song and named it for her and put it on a mix CD along with some other beats I had made at the time. Well, we stopped talking for a while after I went to rehab, but years later we reconnected and started dating again. One day on a road trip to southern Minnesota she pulled the CD out. She had kept it that whole time. I said “let me see that” and she handed it to me, and I rolled down my window and threw it out on the highway going 70mph. Songs lost forever. Ha, she was so mad at met after that. Like, she was crushed, and I don’t think I was helping the situation by laughing about how cruel I am. Ha, oh it’s still making me laugh. I don’t know why I did that to her, I think it’s because I don’t want there to be any written or recorded evidence of me being sweet or romantic.

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sean.