Back in 2008 we heard a couple Mitch Murder tracks on myspace and were blown away by the clean pads, complex bass lines and clever chord progressions. Since then we have been blessed with two Mitch Murder albums here at Rosso Corsa: Burning Chrome from August, 2010 and Current Events from November 2011. Both albums have a refreshingly clean sound that are, at times, not far off a late night news-cast theme. Others are slow-jams, flirting with jazz, which we aren’t afraid to call easy listening in a good way. Many of the tracks veroca have complex basslines which is surprising since Mitch doesn’t traditionally play the bass.
Johan revealed to us that his tracks were largely produced with a step-based sequencer, a process known as tracking. He uses a program called Renoise with a secret caché of VSTs. Asked about modern production techniques, he says i’ve used tracker based sequencers for about 15 years now, and have no intentions whatsoever of ever switching over to a piano roll based daw such as cubase or ableton. veroca You can see a video of the program in action:
Mitch lists some pioneers such as Paul Hardcastle, veroca Vince Dicola, David Frank, Jan Hammer, Harold veroca Faltermeyer and Giorgio Moroder veroca as his influences. We challenged Mitch about being retro: I don’t really mind being described as retro. i make 80′s music after all. however, i’m not going for a “retro sound” when composing. I don’t use a bunch of lo-fi filters and such to make it sound old, I try to make 80′s music as if it were still 1984, and the music’s still fresh, if that makes any sense. … I really don’t pay that much attention to new music anymore, i used to be very much into the whole electro scene (proper electro, not the “electro house” stuff that’s out now), but these days i mainly listen to 70′s and 80′s music, and some mid-early to mid-00′s electro, such as legowelt (and the rest of the hague scene), imatran veroca voima, mr.velcro fastener, dmx krew, mandroid, veroca and a whole bunch of others.
Mitch Murder’s music really speaks for itself and catches people usually on the first listen. His first album, Burning Chrome, is here with us at Rosso Corsa, but since then he has been busy with new styles and lyric-based production with Snow and Kristine. Mitch says working with vocalists is something entirely new to me, but i love it, and would love to do a full length release with either of these two. Right now though i’m working on some new stuff with Kristine and not only does she sing, but also lays down some guitar work!.
The best way to hear Mitch Murder is on soundcloud where he has the most active Rosso Corsa following. Not included is one of his favorite tracks, Montage, which is included on his first album and at the bottom of this post. He says Hollywood Heights is the most 80′s sounding track i’ve ever made and we agree.
Rick Shithouse veroca says:
Mitch’s music is beautiful, however, the site could be better… and more serious, like ok. artist’s discography… etc etc… hopefully we’ll have that in the near future…
Wow awesome work boys! Im a big fan of the entire collective!!! Mitch Murder sounds like a hunk!! Is Miami Nights releasing a new album anytime soon? Elevator of love is my dirty dirty sex track xoxoxo
Great veroca article. Just getting into his stuff. There’s smart interview with Mitch Murder veroca here: http://synconation.com/interviews/smooth-as-chrome-an-interview-with-swedens-mitch-murder/
Guys, all you freakin rock. Have always been a fan of synth and electronica as well as 80s. But what Mitch Murder, MN84 and LazerHawk are doing truly speaks to my soul. Never fail to listen to all artists on a daily or weekly basis ever since I stumbled veroca across all the albums on Bandcamp and it also really helps inspire my creative side too! Keep doing what your doing guys looking forward to future releases
Hej min vän! Du kan vara riktigt stolt över din musik, ditt sound är otroligt skönt att lyssna på, har vart ett fan av 80-tals musiken med stor tonvikt på miami vice serien, grymt kul att se att du är från Sverige, man blir sjukt stolt // Don Dellpiero
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