― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 4 December 2003 20:13 (twenty years ago) link
but I liked play in my college years because it was something I could listen to with my friends who mostly were into frat rock and other kinds of bullshit.
― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Thursday, 4 December 2003 20:15 (twenty years ago) link
OTM.
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 4 December 2003 21:10 (twenty years ago) link
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― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Friday, 5 December 2003 04:06 (twenty years ago) link
Anyone those "spirit of the Native American/African tribe/Aborigines/etc" type albums from the mid-90s?!?! You, know, the ones where you have some bored studio engineer knocking out a new-agey "ambient" type tune with shuffling beat and "exotic" sounding synths, and then plonking on top some badly edited out-of-context samples of the aforementioned Native American/African tribe/Aborigines/etc singing about something, just to make it bit more "spiritual"!!!!! Back then it was generally dismissed as a bit bollox, but along comes Moby with a blues-themed Bontempi versh of it in various parts of "Play", and suddenly people are going on about how great it is!!!!!!!!!!!
I remember flicking around the tellybox channels one day, and came across Moby on tha South Bank Show (!!!!) actually demonstrating how he did it!!!! (ie taking a recording, sampling it, and- this is the clever bit- playing it on tha keyboard in time with the music!!!!) And he was saying that you have to be careful in how you do the tune, because otherwise the sample might be out of tune or in the wrong rhythm!!!!!!!!!! I mean, for flips sake, even Playschool introducing a synthesiser as "a kind of special electronic piano" would be less patronising, but this is one of the UK's most premier art TV shows treating him like he's flipping Wagner because he can sample something and play it back in time over a tune that's so obvious it makes The Stereophonics sound like free-jazz improv!!!!!
Moby wrote some of the best rave tracks of the early nineties.
― Old Fart!!! (oldfart_sd), Friday, 5 December 2003 17:28 (twenty years ago) link
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― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 5 December 2003 17:34 (twenty years ago) link
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― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 5 December 2003 18:54 (twenty years ago) link
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― dyson (dyson), Friday, 5 December 2003 20:19 (twenty years ago) link
There was an intensity of emotion that was really impressive at that stage in Moby's career. I think he still tries to bring that emotionalism to his current work but the choices he makes in how to express it are much less interesting than before. Just as he began to believe that rockish attitudes had to be expressed via proper rock, he evidently began to think that emotional music could only be made under strictly circumscribed conditions and stylistic rules. Everything Is Wrong was very much the turning point in that sense - I really liked the relative seriousness of stuff like "When It's Cold I'd Like To Die" but if I'd known what it would lead to perhaps my opinion would have been different.
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 6 December 2003 08:25 (twenty years ago) link
the Grooverider remix of James Bond Themethe Push remix of In This Worldthe T&F vs Moltosugo remix of Sundaythe Hybrid remix of South Sidethe Jam & Spoon remix of Go
― Siegbran (eofor), Sunday, 7 December 2003 00:10 (twenty years ago) link
― dyson (dyson), Sunday, 7 December 2003 00:20 (twenty years ago) link
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&uid=UIDCASS80311061506482218&samples=1&writer=1&sql=A7pz1z84a8yvn
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"Mercy" is particularly great. And you can even tell from the 30-second sample that "Drop a Beat" is THE cheesiest rave track ever.
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 7 December 2003 00:24 (twenty years ago) link
I think Moby has gained a permanent spot in my heart for "Go", to be honest.
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 24 January 2005 22:33 (nineteen years ago) link
Pleasantly surprised by his new one - retro influences all over (think 1989 piano house) and built for the charts, but I'm 10 tracks in and I haven't skipped any yet (I should find this way too commercial for my tastes, really, but it's pleasant)
― StanM, Thursday, 27 March 2008 10:50 (sixteen years ago) link
hey 'UHF 2' is great
― blueski, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 22:25 (fifteen years ago) link
UHF 3 is better: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRu0okDESrM
― Curt1s Stephens, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 22:52 (fifteen years ago) link
When is the critical re-assessment due?
― Bob Six, Monday, 16 February 2009 08:02 (fifteen years ago) link
attempted in 2005, abandoned because nobody cared.
― Gukbe, Monday, 16 February 2009 08:22 (fifteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1T-MqG8-Pnw
― still driving steen, banning deez, gettin my dick xhuxked (Curt1s Stephens), Wednesday, 7 April 2010 01:19 (fourteen years ago) link
discovering that moby is awesome was one of the better "musical surprises from the past" for me this year.
Mobility, TIme Signature, Go, Permanent Green.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W89ZMdVsock
but daaaamn mobility especially, really luscious, viscous, deep grooves. hypnotic and ethereal but dense and smokey, it sounds like a warm club on a cold night. That is, for something so dreamy its nicely earthbound. I play it on my lunch break and time slows down.
― r (ico), Monday, 19 July 2010 17:39 (thirteen years ago) link
yes yes yes yes yes yes yes.
I still listen to Early Underground regularly. The original mix of "Go" is brilliant.
also a fan of the crazy fucked up hyper stuff he did as UHF:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh-sNWba-Kg(terrible sound quality but u get the idea)
I feel like mr. hall used to have the hookup on some great club drugs and that was when he made his best music.
― goth (crüt), Monday, 19 July 2010 17:48 (thirteen years ago) link
peace head is demented
― r (ico), Monday, 19 July 2010 17:52 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah no good youtubes for besame either but its pretty fucking awesome when the keys and pads come in together. the whole thing POPs
― r (ico), Monday, 19 July 2010 18:03 (thirteen years ago) link
http://vyou.com/moby
― markers, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 21:13 (thirteen years ago) link
no thanks
― hey ilxor, thanks for contributing, glad you stopped by (ilxor), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 21:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Moby may have become a bona fide pop star when his landmark album 'Play' sold over 10 million copies back in 2000, but when it comes to the music of current chart-toppers like Ke$ha, Rihanna, Britney Spears and the Black Eyed Peas, he just can't relate. In fact, he thinks "music" is the wrong word for what they're putting out.
"It's fun, but I don't think of it as music," he says. "It's manufactured. I appreciate it as pop culture phenomenon and some of the songs I like if I hear them in a shopping mall or something, but it doesn't function as music for me."
Long before 'Play' became an international blockbuster, Moby cut his teeth making progressive house and techno-flavoured dance music in the '90s, with club hits like 'Go' and 'Everytime You Touch Me.' Yet he doesn't feel that the current crop of dancey Billboard bangers contain the emotional resonance of real music.
"Music is something that communicates emotion and integrity in a really interesting, direct way," he says. "And when I listen to the pop music you're describing, it's hyper-produced corporate product. That isn't really even a criticism, but I just think calling it music is a misnomer.
"It's advertising for ringtones."
― buzza, Sunday, 29 May 2011 15:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Says the original ringtone artist! LOL at woeful self misperception
― Tom Skerritt Mustache Ride (DJP), Sunday, 29 May 2011 15:20 (thirteen years ago) link
how very 2005
― corpse pose (missingNO), Sunday, 29 May 2011 15:27 (thirteen years ago) link
I generally have a fairly low opinion of Moby but he's found a collaborator in Mylene Farmer who really works well with him. He has writing credits on half her last album and the quality, if not quite up there with her best work, is still extremely high.
I'll always love the uncredited theft of Everloving in Oskar's Mezhdu Mnoi I Toboi too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MY-TlWZF58
― I LOVE BELARUS (ShariVari), Sunday, 29 May 2011 15:30 (thirteen years ago) link
I like Moby a lot, especially his rave period, but lol at the idea of his music being any more substantial than Ke$ha
― Tom Skerritt Mustache Ride (DJP), Sunday, 29 May 2011 17:54 (thirteen years ago) link
at least some of it blatantly is tho
― blueski, Sunday, 29 May 2011 18:33 (thirteen years ago) link
basically Ke$ha needs to make some instrumental ambient shit
― blueski, Sunday, 29 May 2011 18:34 (thirteen years ago) link
dear god NO
― Darin, Friday, 16 September 2011 16:07 (twelve years ago) link
in case you missed that hyperlink, he's making a porno:
http://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/62674063.html#ixzz1Y2cWxst0
― Darin, Friday, 16 September 2011 20:26 (twelve years ago) link
Oh MobyPaws:
Maybe I'm romanticizing failure, but when it's shared, it can be emancipating and even create solidarity. Young artists in LA can really experiment, and if their efforts fall short, it's not that bad because their rent is relatively cheap and almost everyone else they know is trying new things and failing, too. There's also the exciting, and not unprecedented, prospect of succeeding at a global level. You can make something out of nothing here. Take Katy Perry. She's a perfectly fine singer who one minute was literally couch surfing and the next was a household name selling out 50,000-capacity stadiums. Or Quentin Tarantino, one minute a video clerk, the next minute one of the most successful writer/directors in history. Los Angeles captures that strange, exciting and at times delusional American notion of magical self-invention.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 18:30 (ten years ago) link
ha, i can't argue w/ him about the weather though. the only reason i live in the northeast is because family is here, fuck this cold, dreary, bleak region otherwise. i'd move to l.a. in a heartbeat if family was there.
is he completely wrong though about l.a. being cheap? afaik basically all of california is absurdly expensive, not much different from NYC
― marcos, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 18:48 (ten years ago) link
also i find moby somehow endearing, i don't listen of his music except "everything is wrong" but he doesn't bother me in any way
― marcos, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 18:49 (ten years ago) link
When friends from New York ask me why I moved here, I say, somewhat elusively, “David Lynch lives here..."
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 18:50 (ten years ago) link
BREAKING: David Lynch to move back to Missoula ASAP
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 18:51 (ten years ago) link
This 4-hour free ambient album is nice.
http://www.openculture.com/2016/06/moby-lets-you-download-4-hours-of-ambient-music-to-help-you-sleep.html
― ... (Eazy), Thursday, 28 December 2017 15:46 (six years ago) link
i have put that on lots of times since he dropped it on the wire.its really nice stuff.
― mark e, Thursday, 28 December 2017 16:14 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl9rKRS6LjI
yeah
― kolakube (Ross), Thursday, 8 February 2018 05:20 (six years ago) link
not bad!
― vicious almond beliefs (crüt), Thursday, 8 February 2018 05:35 (six years ago) link
episode 8 of the return vibes
― kolakube (Ross), Thursday, 8 February 2018 05:46 (six years ago) link
Pretty bland tbh. Trentemoller does this much better but I'm still glad that he's still trying out new things
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Thursday, 8 February 2018 20:42 (six years ago) link
i have a lot of time for modern era moby, but this did little for me tbh.actually i prefer those "choir" albums
― mark e, Thursday, 8 February 2018 21:03 (six years ago) link
I think Moby's early stuff, like his songs on the Cool World soundtrack, are the most quintesssentially "Ravey" records I can think of. They might not epitomize the spirit of the actual rave scene, but they definitely elitomize the sprit of day-glo, warped smiley face rave compilations at Sam Goody. And I mean that in a good way.
Nothing he did after 1995 means anything to me, though, and now he epitomizes the American bug man, which I do not mean in a good way.
― 3×5, Friday, 9 February 2018 02:43 (six years ago) link
i think this is one of the most beautiful ambient songs i've ever heard tbh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWzlWvjv6LQ
― kolakube (Ross), Friday, 9 February 2018 02:46 (six years ago) link
gorgeous song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSY5HaXxTgI
― raspberry swirl (Ross), Friday, 29 June 2018 20:04 (five years ago) link
In today's mail:
MOBY TO DJ FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE THE PANDEMIC
As Bruce Levenstein put it, this sounds like a threat.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 4 October 2023 20:48 (eight months ago) link