On Last Night, Moby is as blissfully out of touch with modern club music as he is current. As he explains (of course) in the album's liner notes, he has been in the thick of New York City club culture since the early '80s, and he takes the opportunity here to pay tribute to a number of dance music strains that have fallen in and out of fashion -- in a couple cases, they've recently fallen back into fashion -- including some angles he hasn't taken in well over a decade. The sturdiest, most appealing tracks tend to be where Moby breaks out with some highly energized combination of rollicking pianos, stabbing keyboards, and random divas, mixing and matching rave, Hi-NRG, and disco: "Everyday It's 1989," "Stars," and "Disco Lies" (featuring a vocalist who is nearly a dead ringer for a young Taylor Dayne) would've had no place on any of the last five Moby albums. What is long maligned and what is trendy sometimes occurs simultaneously, as on "I Love to Move in Here" (featuring Grandmaster Caz), a mid-tempo house track that can be sub-categorized as both hip-house (inciting wicked flashbacks for most haters of either component) and Balearic (as it causes that loosey-goosey, anesthetized-but-still-beaming sensation, prevalent in several of the hippest dance tracks released during 2007 and 2008). The poorly timed, not-so-appealing moments -- "257.zero," "Alice" -- with their distant transmission spoken bits and droning raps, might sound in step whenever the Soul Jazz label gets around to releasing rarity compilations with contents resembling Astralwerks' late-'90s compilations for MTV's Amp program. The disc's latter 20 minutes, containing contemplative, string-laden tracks, would be as suited for the Pure Moods series (i.e., beside Yanni, Dave Koz) as past tracks "Porcelain" and "God Moving Over the Face of the Waters." A good number of Moby fans who began to follow the producer's moves well before Play will be inclined to think of Last Night as the best Moby album since Everything Is Wrong. That the album involves several unself-conscious, rush-inducing tracks (rather than the once-expected token track or two) is enough for that opinion to have validity. Ditto the sensible and drastic reduction of Moby's own vocals.
It makes sense for Moby to be the one to introduce the era of licensing repentance. Nearly 10 years ago, he was the poster boy for the industry's newest revenue stream. In addition to selling 2.7 million copies of his 1999 album "Play" (V2), according to Nielsen SoundScan, all 18 tracks landed in movies, TV shows and advertising spots for everything from American Express to Bailey's Irish Cream...
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Moby's latest album comes out March 31st (his 9th studio album) It's called Last Night.Moby says:"Last Night is basically a love letter to dance music in New York City. What I love about the New York approach to dance music is the eclecticism and the open minded-ness on the part of the musicians, the DJ's, and the people in the bars and clubs. In making Last Night, I essentially tried to take a...
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Moby's got a new video for "I Love To Move In Here," a track from Last Night his album released about a month ago. The setting looks like some Lower East Side cabaret/dance floor that's complete with midget clowns, trannys, octopus and some break dancing...the normal stuf you'd see on any given Friday night. Gotta give it to the MOb-ster...the song is a mellow lounge track...that you'll want to...
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Moby just uploaded his brand new video for "Disco Lies" from his upcoming new album Last Night and here it is:
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Moby may bug some people with his vegan vibe, but the DJ as of late has been working on some notable initiatives. There’s his newly launched music resource MobyGratis.com, which lets non-profit & student filmmakers license his music for free in non-commercial films.But my favorite has to be his work with the Institute for Music and Neurologic Function, where he is part of the Board of Directors.
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Moby announced the first single off his upcoming new album will be "Alice." The song will be released on January 14th whereas the album, Last Night, will be out March 10th. Of course, no one has to wait until March to listen to new music from Moby. Two songs off of Last Night are playing now via his my$pace player: "The Stars" and "Sweet Apocalypse." NME reported the news of "Alice" statin...
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Moby fans are probably aware that he is releasing a new album soon, Last Night on Mute. You may have also seen the recently released video for "Alice" which features Nigerian rappers Smokey and S.O. Simple from 419 Squad plus Aynzil. Today Moby revealed more details about how this collaboration came about. According to a report on NME, Moby describes it thus:"The song 'Alice' started with a ...
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Yesterday we found out about some fresh Matthew Dear that will be available at RCRD LBL soon. Today we find out that Moby also has new material on RCRD LBL. As of today, you can download a free mix of tunes off of Moby's upcoming new album, Last Night.According to a press release:Music guru and veteran DJ, Moby, is offering a free album mix MP3 through RCRD LBL, a web-based record label rele...
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Moby has a brand new video for his song "Alice" out this week. "Alice" is the lead single from Moby's upcoming album Last Night which drops April 1st on Mute Records. The video was directed by Andreas Nilsson (The Knife, Jose Gonzalez) and features MCs Aynzil and the 419 Squad on vocals."Alice":I can't help notice how some of the cinematic themes in this video are similar to the ones in the n...
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MOG news reported last month that Moby is working on his new album, which he describes as more dance-oriented and rave-a-licious than his last few releases. It's titled Last Night and will be released in March 2008. Today I discovered that it will feature a handful of MCs including Nigerian 419 Crew, MC Grandmaster Caz, Sylvia from Kodu, and MC Aynlzi. Just about everything else about the al...
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Official music video for "Ooh Yeah" from Moby's new album Last Night (out now on Mute). Directed by Matteo Bernardini. & for take out, this remix by french dude Kris Menace . "Ooh Yeah (Kris Menace Remix)" | download Experience Moby:Oct 22 Degenerates CMJ Party New York, NY Oct 25 Meltdown [DJ Set] Dallas, TX Oct 31 Freaknight 08 [DJ Set] Seattle, WA Nov 01 The Plaza Club [DJ Set] Van...
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You know what, I haven't ever been much of a Moby fan, but he's been making some rather marvelous videos lately. Following up his "little chicken gets revenge on KFC" video for "Disco Lies", Moby follows it up with a pornolicous video to "Ooh Yeah". Interestingly enough, the video was created via a fan contest in which the winner was Matteo Bernardini . Seems Matteo won $10,000 bucks for r...
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Moby's new album will be called Last Night and is due on Mute this spring. Moby hopes to include a bonus disc with a 75-minute composition he has yet to write with the release."It's much more electronic and dance-oriented than my last three records," Moby wrote of Last Night on his online journal. "I guess it's best described as an eclectic dance record."A couple tracks focus on keyboards and w...
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27 October, 2008 Moby , a familiar name and fellow New Yorker, is releasing a remix album on November third and hired some amazing remixers to give his track the lift they've been begging for. Thanks to Ohh Crap I can share with you Kris Menace 's remix of Ooh Yeah. Here is the full release line-up: 1. I Love To Move In Here (Holy Ghost! Remix) 2. Ooh Yeah (Kris Menace Remix) 3. Live For To...
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I LOVE this tune... I'm not normally in to dance music, but i like Moby, and i like what FM have done with this song.One to watch me thinks! I hope this gets radio love.
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Moby still has it!! His new album Last Night is MDMA without the MDMA...and I wish I had some. *smirk*
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| 1 Ooh Yeah |
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| 2 I Love to Move in Here |
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| 3 257. Zero |
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| 4 Everyday It's 1989 |
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| 5 Live for Tomorrow |
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| 6 Alice |
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| 7 Hyenas |
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| 8 I'm in Love |
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| 9 Disco Lies |
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| 10 The Stars |
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| 11 Degenerates |
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| 12 Sweet Apocalypse |
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| 13 Mothers of the Night |
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| 14 Last Night |
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