Mord Fustang
Making 8-bit obsession
a music profession
Merging the retro aesthetic of vintage video games with an eclectic mix of musical influences, Mord Fustang creates an exciting, hybrid genre that is difficult to describe, but easy to enjoy.
We spoke to him about his inspiration, his techniques, and how he uses the Arturia MatrixBrute analog synthesizer to create the complextro sound.
Keeping with the computer game theme, like many other contemporary electronic music producers, Mord Fustang got his first taste of music production with the popular PlayStation title “Music 2000” by Jester Interactive.
"Fast-forward to 2007 when 16-year-old me heard Deadmau5’s “Faxing Berlin” on BBC Radio 1, and thought it sounded like the absolute future of music; a future of which I absolutely wanted to be a part of."
He then progressed to Propellerhead’s Reason, then to Ableton Live, and started building a collection of virtual instruments to create the sound he wanted. One of the first was Mini V which created exciting new ways of personalizing his sound. His life-long passion for music, his childhood piano lessons, and teenaged love of Rammstein, Nine Inch Nails, Aphex Twin and The Prodigy converged in the first steps of the artist that would become Mord Fustang.