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Martin Molin (, ; born 24 January 1983) is a Swedish composer, inventor, multi-instrumentalist, and YouTuber.

Early life
Molin was born on 24 January 1983 in.... After seeing a video of Jimi Hendrix aged 13, Molin decided to start playing the guitar and started his first band at 14, taking inspiration from skate punk groups. Molin spent three years applying to schools to study music before he was accepted to a course in songwriting at Musikmakarna in Örnsköldsvik. Spending two years there,

Detektivbyrån - disbanded in 2010

From 2011, member of four-person band Wintergatan

After three years of recording, the band had only performed once.

Wintergatan released their first single and music video in the autumn of 2012. Six months later, they released their debut album, Wintergatan, and spent a period touring after that.

Education and early career
Molin studied music at the Musikmakarna (Songwriters Academy) in Örnsköldsvik. In 2005, he and his brother Anders Molin were inspired to start Detektivbyrån, after he heard La Valse d'Amélie by Yann Tiersen. The group disbanded in 2010.

Wintergatan
In 2011 Molin, Evelina Hägglund, Marcus Sjöberg and David Zandén created the band Wintergatan. The group gained attention when, inspired by a visit to the Speelklok Museum, Molin built his "Marble Machine", a music box made of 3000 components that played using 2000 metal balls. After working on the machine for over 14 months, he released a music video featuring the Marble Machine in 2016, which has over 218 million views on YouTube. He then started work on the "Marble Machine X", or "MMX", a more robust redesign of the machine with the aim of recording an album with it and taking it on a world tour.