Martin Molin

Martin Molin (, ; born January 24, 1983) is a Swedish composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist, inventor and constructor. He is a member of the folktronica and post-rock band Wintergatan, and previously a member of Detektivbyrån. He grew up at Kronoparken in Karlstad, Sweden. From 2017 he lived and worked in southern France, where he built a custom music studio and workshop, but in April 2022 he moved back to Sweden.

Education and early career Molin studied music at the Musikmakarna (Songwriters Academy) in Örnsköldsvik. The group disbanded in 2010.

Wintergatan In 2011 Molin, Evelina Hägglund, Marcus Sjöberg and David Zandén created the band Wintergatan. After working on the machine for over 14 months, he released a music video featuring the Marble Machine in 2016, which has over 270 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.

Molin documented the construction process of the "MMX" on the band's YouTube channel. This at one point was called "Wintergatan Wednesdays" but lost the title when Molin experimented with new formats and release schedules. In January 2021, Molin started a new YouTube channel called "Wintergatan 2" with videos in the style of daily vlogs (as opposed to the intermittent videos on "Wintergatan") documenting the ongoing Marble Machine X build project in greater detail. A month later, Molin largely rolled the "Wintergatan 2" content back into the main Wintergatan channel.

In 2017, he presented a series Music Machine Mondays about the exhibits in the Dutch Speelklok Museum. In 2020 he planned to present a similar series about the collection of Siegfrieds Mechanisches Musikkabinett (Siegfried's Mechanical Music Cabinet) in Germany. This was, however, halted due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As of May 2021, the series still has not recommenced.

Molin eventually abandoned the MMX project, and on March 2, 2022, started a new designing process of a new Marble Machine 3, livestreaming whole CAD process on his Youtube channel.

In April 23, 2022, he announced that he is moving back from Lorgues (France) to Sweden for personal reasons.