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Mitch Murder is the alter ego of Swedish producer Johan Bengtsson, who creates retro futuristic 80's synth-music. As the story goes, Mitch is an overworked Wall Street I.T. guy from the 80's who dreams at night other realities for himself. His music is the soundtrack to those dreams.

Currently releasing on (among others) the Los Angeles based label Mad Decent/Jeffrees, the man behind the name brings you the sounds of a golden decade, Heavily influenced by legends like Paul Hardcastle, Harold Faltermeyer (Beverly Hills Cop), Vince Dicola (Rocky) and Jan Hammer (Miami Vice) to mention a few.

Biography
Born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1980, Johan grew up marveling at the popular movies, computer games and tv-shows of the 80's, some of which would eventually serve as a seemingly never ending source of inspiration for his music later on. In 1995 he started experimenting with a step-based sequencer, a process known as tracking. In an interview about production techniques, he says: "I've been using tracker based sequencers for about 18 years now, and have no intention whatsoever of switching over to a piano roll based DAW such as Logic or Ableton."

With the birth of Mitch Murder in 2008, Johan made it his goal to keep a true representation of 80's music and culture. The following year his very first EP named "After Hours" was brought to light, largely as an experiment to see if there were any interest in 80's style music. Having received a lot of positive feedback, he started working on his first full length album. "Burning Chrome" was released in 2010 through Rosso Corsa Records, as a sort of homage to 80's movies. After receiving overwhelming feedback and also having gained a small fan base, his journey continued onto his second album; "Current Events". The album was released on Rosso Corsa in late 2011 and is still the most popular Mitch Murder release to date.

2012 was largely spent remixing other artists but also saw the release of the "Mars", an EP dedicated to the late Jean Giraud Moebius, as well as the "Glass Cities" EP through DhARMA. Having spent a large part of 2012 covering and remixing a number of 80's tracks and putting out a lot of free downloads, "Selection One" was put out as a compilation album containing a lot of said material from the past year.

At this point, Mitch Murder has gained some significant recognition within the ever growing "Dreamwave" and 80's throwback scene and has had a steady growing fan base for the last couple of years. In 2013 he has thus far remixed, among others, acclaimed producer Johan Agebjörn of Sally Shapiro fame, and was recently picked up by Diplo's Los Angeles based label Mad Decent for his new single "The Touch".