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14th Dalai Lama
The 14th Dalai Lama (Religious name: Tenzin Gyatso, shortened from Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso, born Lhamo Dondrub, 6 July 1935) is the 14th and current Dalai Lama. Dalai Lamas are the most influential figure in the Gelugpa sect of Tibetan Buddhism, although the 14th has controversially consolidated control over the other sects in recent years. He is also well known for his political activities relating to the Tibetan independence movement, although he has recently moderated his stance. Tibetans traditionally believe him to be the reincarnation of his predecessors.
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Aphex Twin
Richard David James (born 18 August 1971), best known under the pseudonym Aphex Twin, is an electronic musician described by The Guardian newspaper in 2001 as "the most inventive and influential figure in contemporary electronic music." He founded the record label Rephlex Records in 1991 with associate, Grant Wilson-Claridge.
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Beck
Beck Hansen (born Bek David Campbell; July 8, 1970) is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist known by the stage name Beck. With a pop art collage of musical styles, oblique and ironic lyrics, and postmodern arrangements incorporating samples, drum machines, live instrumentation and sound effects, Beck has been hailed by critics and the public throughout his musical career as being amongst the most creative and idiosyncratic musicians of 1990s and 2000s alternative rock.
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Bono
Paul David Hewson (born 10 May 1960), most commonly known by his stage name Bono ( ), is an Irish singer and musician, best known for being the main vocalist of the Dublin-based rock band U2. Bono was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland, and attended Mount Temple Comprehensive School where he met his future wife, Ali Hewson, and the future members of U2. Bono writes almost all U2 lyrics, often using political, social, and religious themes. During their early years, Bono's lyrics contributed to U2's rebellious and spiritual tone. As the band matured, his lyrics became inspired more by personal experiences shared with members of U2.
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Britney Spears
Britney Jean Spears (born December 2, 1981) is an American recording artist and entertainer. Born in McComb, Mississippi and raised in Kentwood, Louisiana, Spears began performing as a child, landing acting roles in stage productions and television shows. She signed with Jive Records in 1997 and released her debut album in 1999. During her first decade within the music industry, she became a prominent figure in mainstream popular music and popular culture, followed by a much-publicized personal life. Her first two albums established her as a pop icon and broke sales records, while title tracks "...Baby One More Time" and "Oops!... I Did It Again" became international number-one hits. Spears was credited with influencing the revival of teen pop during the late 1990s.
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Busta Rhymes
Trevor Tahiem Smith, Jr., better known as Busta Rhymes (born May 20, 1972), is an American rapper, songwriter, and actor. Chuck D of Public Enemy gave him the name Busta Rhymes (from former NFL wide receiver George "Buster" Rhymes).
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Carl Cox
Carl Cox (born 29 July 1962, Barbados) is a British techno and house DJ.
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Dalai Lama
The Dalai Lama (; ) is a Buddhist leader of religious officials of the Gelug or "Yellow Hat" branch of Tibetan Buddhism. The name is a combination of the Mongolian word Далай "Dalai" meaning "Ocean" and the Tibetan word བླ་མ ་"Blama" (with a silent b) meaning "chief" or "high priest." "Lama" is a general term referring to Tibetan Buddhist teachers. In religious terms, the Dalai Lama is believed by his devotees to be the rebirth of a long line of tulkus who descend from the bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara. Traditionally, he is thought of as the latest reincarnation of a series of spiritual leaders who have chosen to be reborn in order to enlighten others. The Dalai Lama is often thought to be the director of the Gelug School, but this position belongs officially to the Ganden Tripa, which is a temporary position appointed by the Dalai Lama who, in practice, exerts much influence.
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Daron Murphy
Daron Murphy is a film composer and musician, based in Brooklyn, NY.
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David Bowie
David Bowie ( ; born David Robert Jones, 8 January 1947) is an English rock musician, who has also worked as an actor, record producer and arranger. A major figure for five decades in the world of popular music, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s, and is known for his distinctive voice and the intellectual depth of his work.
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David Lynch
David Keith Lynch (born January 20, 1946) is an American filmmaker and visual artist. Over a lengthy career, Lynch has employed a distinctive, unorthodox (and now known as "Lynchian") approach to narrative filmmaking that has become instantly recognizable to many audiences and critics worldwide. Lynch's films are known for nightmarish and dreamlike images and meticulous sound design. Lynch's work often depicts a seedy underside to small-town America (particularly Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks) or sprawling California metropolises (Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive, and his latest release, Inland Empire). Beginning with his experimental film-school feature Eraserhead (1977), he has maintained a strong cult following while experiencing inconsistent commercial success.
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Eli Pariser
Eli Pariser (born December 17, 1980 in Lincolnville, Maine) is the former Executive Director of MoveOn.org, and the organization's current Board President.
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Gary Gygax
Ernest Gary Gygax (July 27, 1938 – March 4, 2008; last name pronounced ) was an American writer and game designer, best known for co-creating the pioneering role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) with Dave Arneson. Gygax is generally acknowledged as the father of role-playing games.
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Herman Melville
Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet, whose work is often classified as part of the genre of dark romanticism. He is best known for his novel Moby-Dick and the posthumous novella Billy Budd.
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Illeana Douglas
Illeana Douglas (born July 25, 1965) is an American actress, director, screenwriter, and producer.
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John Acquaviva
John Acquaviva (born in 1963 in Orsara di Puglia) is an Italian-born Canadian second-wave techno artist and club DJ from London, Ontario. His friend Richie Hawtin co-founded the Plus 8 record label with him in 1990.
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John Kerry
John Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is the senior United States Senator from Massachusetts, and is chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
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Laura Dawn
Laura Dawn is an American political activist and singer/songwriter. She has been the Cultural Director for MoveOn.org since March 2004 and was named the organization's National Creative Director in 2007.
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Lou Reed
Lewis Allan "Lou" Reed (born March 2, 1942) is an American rock musician, songwriter, and photographer. He is best known as guitarist, vocalist, and principal songwriter of The Velvet Underground, and for his successful solo career, which spans several decades and crosses multiple genres. The Velvet Underground gained little mainstream attention during their career, but became one of the most influential bands of their era. As the Velvet Underground's main songwriter, Reed wrote about subjects of personal experience that rarely had been examined so openly in rock and roll, including a variety of sexual topics and drug culture. He is responsible for the popularization of ostrich tuning.
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Michael Jackson
Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American recording artist, entertainer, and philanthropist. Referred to as the King of Pop, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records. His contribution to music, dance and fashion, along with a much-publicized personal life, made him a global figure in popular culture for over four decades. The eighth child of the Jackson family, he debuted on the professional music scene along with his brothers as a member of The Jackson 5 in the mid-1960s, and began his solo career in 1971.
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Michael Stipe
John Michael Stipe (born January 4, 1960) is an American singer who is the lead vocalist for the alternative rock band R.E.M. Stipe has become well-known (and occasionally parodied) for the "mumbling" style of his early career and for his complex, surreal lyrics, as well as his social and political activism. Stipe is in charge of the band's visual image, often selecting album artwork and directing many of the band's music videos. Stipe's work extends outside of the music industry, and he runs his own film production companies, C-00 and Single Cell Pictures.
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Mylène Farmer
Mylène Farmer born Mylène Jeanne Gautier (born 12 September 1961) is a Canadian-born French singer, songwriter, occasional actress and author. She has sold more than 25 million records and is among the most successful recording artists of all time in France. She holds the record for the most number one hits in the French charts, with nine as of 2010.
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Nas
Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones (; born September 14, 1973), who performs under the name Nas (), formerly Nasty Nas, is an American rapper and actor. The son of jazz musician Olu Dara, he was born and raised in the Queensbridge housing projects in New York City. His debut album Illmatic, released in 1994 by Columbia Records, was critically acclaimed and would go on to be widely hailed a classic in the genre. Nas was part of hip-hop supergroup The Firm, which released one album.
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Nelly Furtado
Nelly Kim Furtado (born December 2, 1978) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress. She has sold 20 million albums worldwide. Furtado grew up in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
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Slash (musician)
Saul Hudson (born July 23, 1965), better known by his stage name Slash, is a British-American musician. He is the former lead guitarist of the American hard rock band Guns N' Roses, with whom he performed and recorded between 1985 and 1996. He later formed Slash's Snakepit and co-founded Velvet Revolver with his former bandmates Duff McKagan and Matt Sorum, and his debut solo album, Slash, was released in April 2010.
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Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Sophie Michelle Ellis-Bextor (born 10 April 1979) is an English singer, songwriter and model. She first came to prominence in the late 1990s, as the lead singer of the indie rock band theaudience. After the group disbanded, Ellis-Bextor went solo, achieving widespread success in the early 2000s. Her music is a mixture of mainstream pop, disco, nu-disco, and 1980s electronic influences.
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The Bongos
The Bongos were a rock band from Hoboken, New Jersey, primarily active in the 1980s.
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Vatican Commandos
Vatican Commandos were a hardcore punk band formed in Darien, Connecticut.
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Wendy Starland
Wendy Starland (b. February 9, 1981, New York City), is an American singer, songwriter, music producer and musician.
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Darien, Connecticut
Darien is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. A relatively small community on Connecticut's "Gold Coast", it is one of the most affluent towns in the United States. The population was 19,607 at the 2000 census.
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Glastonbury Festival
The Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, commonly abbreviated to Glastonbury or Glasto, is the largest green field open-air music and performing arts festival in the world. The festival is best known for its contemporary music, but also features dance, comedy, theatre, circus, cabaret and many other arts. For 2005, the enclosed area of the festival was over 900 acres (3.6 km²), had over 385 live performances and was attended by around 150,000 people. In 2007, over 700 acts played on over 80 stages and the capacity expanded by 20,000 to 177,000.
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Harlem
Harlem is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan, which since the 1920s has been a major African-American residential, cultural, and business center. Originally a Dutch village, formally organized in 1658, it is named after the city of Haarlem in the Netherlands. Harlem was annexed to New York City in 1873.
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Harlem, New York
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Manhattan
Manhattan is one of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on Manhattan Island at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York. It consists of Manhattan Island and several small adjacent islands: Roosevelt Island, Randall's Island, Wards Island, Governors Island, Liberty Island, part of Ellis Island, and U Thant Island; as well as Marble Hill, a small section on the mainland adjacent to the Bronx. The original city of New York began at the southern end of Manhattan, and expanded in 1898 to include surrounding counties. It is the smallest, yet most urbanized of the five boroughs.
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TeaNY
TeaNY is the name of a tea café, restaurant and beverage distributor in New York City founded by electronic musician Moby with ex-girlfriend, Kelly Tisdale. The Teany Café opened in 2002 in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York at 90 Rivington Street. And a line of bottled Teany beverage blends soon followed available in 16.9 fl oz (500 ml) bottles, which are distributed throughout the New York tri-state area.
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United States
The United States of America (also referred to as the United States, the U.S., the USA, or America) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Caribbean and Pacific.
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moby
<jargon> /moh'bee/ (From MIT, seems to have been in use among model railroad fans years ago. Derived from Melville's "Moby Dick", some say from "Moby Pickle") 1. Large, immense, complex, impressive. "A Saturn V rocket is a truly moby frob." "Some MIT undergrads pulled off a moby hack at the Harvard-Yale game."
2. (Obsolete) The maximum address space of a computer (see below). For a 680[234]0 or VAX or most modern 32-bit architectures, it is 4,294,967,296 8-bit bytes (four gigabytes).
3. A title of address (never of third-person reference), usually used to show admiration, respect, and/or friendliness to a competent hacker. "Greetings, moby Dave. How's that address-book thing for the Mac going?"
4. In backgammon, doubles on the dice, as in "moby sixes", "moby ones", etc. Compare this with bignum: double sixes are both bignums and moby sixes, but moby ones are not bignums (the use of "moby" to describe double ones is sarcastic).
5. The largest available unit of something which is available in discrete increments. Thus a "moby Coke" is not just large, it's the largest size on sale.
This term entered hackerdom with the Fabritek 256K memory added to the MIT AI PDP-6 machine, which was considered unimaginably huge when it was installed in the 1960s (at a time when a more typical memory size for a time-sharing system was 72 kilobytes). Thus, a moby is classically 256K 36-bit words, the size of a PDP-6 or PDP-10 moby. Back when address registers were narrow the term was more generally useful, because when a computer had virtual memory mapping, it might actually have more physical memory attached to it than any one program could access directly. One could then say "This computer has six mobies" meaning that the ratio of physical memory to address space is six, without having to say specifically how much memory there actually is. That in turn implied that the computer could timeshare six "full-sized" programs without having to swap programs between memory and disk.
Nowadays the low cost of processor logic means that address spaces are usually larger than the most physical memory you can cram onto a machine, so most systems have much *less* than one theoretical "native" moby of core. Also, more modern memory-management techniques (especially paging) make the "moby count" less significant. However, there is one series of widely-used chips for which the term could stand to be revived --- the Intel 8088 and 80286 with their incredibly brain-damaged segmented-memory designs. On these, a "moby" would be the 1-megabyte address span of a segment/offset pair (by coincidence, a PDP-10 moby was exactly one megabyte of nine-bit bytes).
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moby /moh'bee/
[MIT: seems to have been in use among model railroad fans years ago. Derived from Melville's Moby Dick (some say from `Moby Pickle'). Now common.]
1. adj. Large, immense, complex, impressive. "A Saturn V rocket is a truly moby frob." "Some MIT undergrads pulled off a moby hack at the Harvard-Yale game." (See Appendix A for discussion.)
2. n. obs. The maximum address space of a machine (see below). For a 680[234]0 or VAX or most modern 32-bit architectures, it is 4,294,967,296 8-bit bytes (4 gigabytes).
3. A title of address (never of third-person reference), usually used to show admiration, respect, and/or friendliness to a competent hacker. "Greetings, moby Dave. How's that address-book thing for the Mac going?"
4. adj. In backgammon, doubles on the dice, as in moby sixes, moby ones, etc. Compare this with bignum (sense 3): double sixes are both bignums and moby sixes, but moby ones are not bignums (the use of moby to describe double ones is sarcastic). Standard emphatic forms: Moby foo, moby win, moby loss. Foby moo: a spoonerism due to Richard Greenblatt.
5. The largest available unit of something which is available in discrete increments. Thus, ordering a "moby Coke" at the local fast-food joint is not just a request for a large Coke, it's an explicit request for the largest size they sell.
This term entered hackerdom with the Fabritek 256K memory added to the MIT AI PDP-6 machine, which was considered unimaginably huge when it was installed in the 1960s (at a time when a more typical memory size for a timesharing system was 72 kilobytes). Thus, a moby is classically 256K 36-bit words, the size of a PDP-6 or PDP-10 moby. Back when address registers were narrow the term was more generally useful, because when a computer had virtual memory mapping, it might actually have more physical memory attached to it than any one program could access directly. One could then say "This computer has 6 mobies" meaning that the ratio of physical memory to address space is 6, without having to say specifically how much memory there actually is. That in turn implied that the computer could timeshare six `full-sized' programs without having to swap programs between memory and disk.
Nowadays the low cost of processor logic means that address spaces are usually larger than the most physical memory you can cram onto a machine, so most systems have much less than one theoretical `native' moby of core. Also, more modern memory-management techniques (esp. paging) make the `moby count' less significant. However, there is one series of widely-used chips for which the term could stand to be revived -- the Intel 8088 and 80286 with their incredibly brain-damaged segmented-memory designs. On these, a moby would be the 1-megabyte address span of a segment/offset pair (by coincidence, a PDP-10 moby was exactly 1 megabyte of 9-bit bytes).
- 18 (album)
- 18 (Moby album)
- 18 B Sides + DVD
- 2000 BRIT Awards
- 2003 BRIT Awards
- 2003 MTV Asia Awards
- 42nd Grammy Awards
- 43rd Grammy Awards
- 44th Grammy Awards
- 45th Grammy Awards
- 51st Grammy Awards
- A Night in NYC
- Aaron A. Brooks
- Alan Lomax
- Alexandra Pelosi
- Alice (Moby song)
- AllMusic
- Alternative rock
- amazon.com
- Ambient (album)
- Ambient music
- Amend.org
- animal rights
- Aphex Twin
- Area Festival
- AWOL (band)
- Baby Monkey
- BAFTA
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- Be the One (EP)
- Beastie Boys
- Beck
- Bioshock
- bleach
- Bleu Noir
- Bleu Noir (song)
- blog
- Blue Man Group
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- Bono
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- Bush in 30 Seconds
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- caffeine
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- chill-out
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- Christ
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- Come on Baby
- Dalai Lama
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- Daron Murphy
- David Bowie
- David Lynch
- Disco Lies
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- Donnie Darko
- Dungeons & Dragons
- Echo (music award)
- Electronic rock
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- Elektra Records
- Eli Pariser
- EMI Records
- Erasure
- evangelicalism
- Everything Is Wrong
- Extreme Ways
- Falls Festival
- Gary Gygax
- Glastonbury Festival
- Go (Moby song)
- Gospels
- Grandmaster Caz
- Guns 'N' Roses
- Harlem
- Harlem, New York
- Heat (1995 film)
- Herman Melville
- HitQuarters
- Hole (band)
- Hotel (album)
- HSUS
- Humane Society
- I Like to Score
- idiomag
- Illeana Douglas
- In the Zone
- Incubus (band)
- Instinct Records
- James Bond Theme
- Jammie Thomas
- Jeff Goldblum
- John Acquaviva
- John Kerry
- Joy Division
- Kazaa
- Kris Kristofferson
- LaGuardia Airport
- Laura Dawn
- Libertarianism
- Lollapalooza
- Lou Reed
- LSD
- Lucy Walker
- Manhattan
- Metallica
- Michael Jackson
- Michael Stipe
- Mission of Burma
- Mobility (song)
- Moby (album)
- Moby Dick
- mobygratis.com
- Move (Moby song)
- MoveOn
- moveon.org
- Mute Records
- Mylène Farmer
- Nas
- Natural Blues
- Nelly Furtado
- network neutrality
- New Order
- New Order (band)
- NME Awards
- not-for-profit
- NRJ Music Awards
- Orbital (band)
- Oscar the Punk
- Outkast
- Pacha
- panic attack
- panic disorder
- Paul Oakenfold
- Pavement (band)
- Personal computer
- Pet Shop Boys
- Phonograph
- Play (Moby album)
- Porcelain (song)
- post-punk
- progressive house
- Psychology Today
- Public Enemy (band)
- punk rock
- Q Awards
- Rapper's Delight
- Red Hot Organization
- Rhythm King Records
- RIAA
- Richie Hawtin
- Salon.com
- Side-Line
- Sigur Rós
- sings
- Slash (musician)
- Smashing Pumpkins
- Sojourners
- Sojourners Magazine
- Songs for Tibet
- Sonic Youth
- Sophie Ellis-Bextor
- Soundgarden
- South Side (song)
- Southland Tales
- Spin (magazine)
- SuicideGirls
- tea shop
- TeaNY
- Ten City
- The B-52s
- The Bioshock EP
- The Bongos
- The Day (song)
- The Humane Society
- The Prodigy
- The Sunday Times
- Tibet
- Tomorrow Never Dies
- Top of the Pops
- Twin Peaks
- UGC
- Ultra Vivid Scene
- United States
- V2 Records
- Vatican Commandos
- vegan
- Virgin Records
- Wendy Starland
- Xbox 360
- XL Recordings
- Yahoo! Music
Moby Filmography
- Beyond the Noise: My Transcendental Meditation Journey (2011)
- Adventures in Plymptoons! (2011)
- Swerve (2010)
- The Message (2010)
- Pocho (2010)
- Rain (2010)
- In the Woods (2010)
- The Great Los Angeles River (2010)
- Ivy League Romance (2010)
- The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special: In 3-D! On Ice! (2010)
- Waste Land (2010)
- Amandine (2010)
- La razón de mi vida (2010)
- Something You Should Know: The Duran Duran Fan Documentary (2009)
- American Casino (2009)
- Africa Light: Gray Zone (2009)
- A Day for a Dark Sky (2009)
- The Forgotten Coast (2009)
- The 6 Month Rule (2009)
- Change Begins Within (2009)
- The Truth About Lying (2009)
- Ruby & Lilly Kick the Habit (2009)
- Pierre in Peril (2009)
- Form Function (2009)
- Five Days in June (2009)
- Dogs on the Run (2009)
- Suck (2009)
- Digital Love of a Robot Soul (2009)
- Contagious (2009)
- Penguin Blues (2008)
- Mourning After Mirabelle (2008)
- Martin (2008)
- Live with It (2008)
- Becoming Michael (2008)
- Strata (2008)
- Believe, Obey, Fight! (2008)
- Blood Moon (2008)
- Room X (2008)
- Orange Girl (2008)
- Taximan (2008)
- Three Quarters of Face Value (2008)
- mtvU Woodie Awards 2008 (2008)
- Entry of Buildings (2008)
- Abram (2008)
- The Way of Dance: Lin Lee-chen & Legend Lin Dance Theater (2007)
- IFP's Independent Filmmaker Conference (2007)
- Know, I Am You (2007)
- Manufacturing Dissent (2007)
- Your Mommy Kills Animals (2007)
- In Search of Puppy Love (2007)
- Moby Live: The Hotel Tour 2005 (2006)
- Amend.org (2006)
- American Hardcore (2006)
- Go: A Film About Moby (2006)
- Las cinco caras de David LaChapelle (2006)
- MTV Europe Music Awards 2006 (2006)
- Night of Too Many Stars: An Overbooked Event for Autism Education (2006)
- Pittsburgh (2006)
- Premios Principales 2006 (2006)
- Southland Tales (2006)
- Spit (2005)
- Spécial 'Fête de la musique' (2005)
- I'm Still Here: Real Diaries of Young People Who Lived During the Holocaust (2005)
- The Making of 'Heat' (2005)
- Earthlings (2005)
- Dancestar USA 2004 (2004)
- Late Night with Conan O'Brien: The Best of Triumph the Insult Comic Dog (2004)
- 101 Most Unforgettable SNL Moments (2004)
- Songwriters Hall of Fame (2004)
- Moby Presents: Alien Sex Party (2003)
- MTV Europe Music Awards 2003 (2003)
- Moby Presents: Alien Sex Party (2003)
- Moby Presents: Alien Sex Party (2003)
- Moby 18 (2003)
- Brit Awards 2003 (2003)
- Moby 18 (2003)
- Moby 18 (2003)
- Moby 18 (2003)
- Moby 18 (2003)
- Señor Moby's House of Music (2002)
- 2002 Top of the Pops Awards (2002)
- 2002 Top of the Pops Awards (2002)
- 24 Hour Party People: The Factory Records Saga (2002)
- MTV Video Music Awards 2002 (2002)
- MTV Europe Music Awards 2002 (2002)
- Señor Moby's House of Music (2002)
- Moby: Play - The DVD (2001)
- The 43rd Annual Grammy Awards (2001)
- MTV Video Music Awards 2001 (2001)
- Moby: Play - The DVD (2001)
- Moby: Play - The DVD (2001)
- 100 Greatest Number One Singles (2001)
- Come Together: A Night for John Lennon's Words and Music (2001)
- All Access: Front Row. Backstage. Live! (2001)
- Moby: Play - The DVD (2001)
- MTV Video Music Awards 2000 (2000)
- 100 Greatest Dance Songs of Rock & Roll (2000)
- Hyppääjä (2000)
- My Generation (2000)
- Rolling Rock Town Fair Featuring Red Hot Chili Peppers (2000)
- 2000 Much Music Video Music Awards (2000)
- MTV Backstage at the Grammys (2000)
- Better Living Through Circuitry (1999)
- VH1's Karaoke Cabaret (1999)
- Go (1999)
- Modulations (1998)
- Double Tap (1997)
- Joe's Apartment (1996)
Moby Filmography
Moby Filmography
RELEASE
ALBUMS
- The Broken Places
- Be the One
- Sevastopol
- The Low Hum
- Rockets
- The Day
- Lie Down in Darkness
- Victoria Lucas
- After
- Blue Moon
- The Right Thing
- Stella Maris
- The Violent Bear It Away
- Lacrimae
- When You Are Old
- Division
- Pale Horses
- Shot in the Back of the Head
- Study War
- Walk With Me
- Stock Radio
- Mistake
- Scream Pilots
- JLTF-1
- JLTF
- Wait for Me
- Hope Is Gone
- Ghost Return
- Slow Light
- Isolate
- A Seated Night
- Ooh Yeah
- I Love to Move in Here
- 257.Zero
- Everyday It's 1989
- Live for Tomorrow
- Hyenas
- I'm in Love
- Disco Lies
- The Stars
- Degenerates
- Sweet Apocalypse
- Mothers of the Night
- Last Night / Lucy Vida
- Alice
- Disco Lies
- Lift Me Up
- Porcelain
- In This World
- The Stars
- Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?
- Raining Again
- Flower
- Honey
- Slipping Away
- We Are All Made Of Stars
- James Bond Theme (Moby's Re-Version)
- Find My Baby
- Extreme Ways
- Everyday It's 1989
- Feeling So Real
- Run On
- Into The Blue
- Alice
- Natural Blues
- Ooh Yeah
- Honey
- In My Heart
- Disco Lies
- Go
- Everyday It's 1989
- Lift Me Up
- Extreme Ways
- Natural Blues
- Porcelain
- Last Night
- Rockets
- Alice
- Natural Blues (Katcha remix)
- Go (Vitalic remix)
- In My Heart (Sandy Rivera mix)
- Slipping Away (Crier la vie) (feat. Mylène Farmer) (Manhattan Clique club remix)
- New York, New York (feat. Debbie Harry) (Armand van Helden long version)
- Bodyrock (Olav Basoski's Da Hot Funk Da Freak Funk remix)
- Raining Again (Steve Angello's vocal mix)
- Porcelain (Murk remix)
- Lift Me Up (Mylo mix)
- In This World (Push vocal club mix)
- Honey (Rollo and Sister Bliss remix)
- Beautiful (Benny Benassi remix)
- In My Heart (Manhattan Clique remix)
- We Are All Made of Stars (Bob Sinclar main vocal mix)
- Go (Trentemøller remix)
- James Bond Theme (Moby's Re-version) (CJ Bolland mix)
- Feeling So Real (Old Skool mix)
- Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad (Ferry Corsten remix)
- Natural Blues
- Go 2006
- Porcelain
- We Are All Made of Stars
- Dream About Me
- New York, New York (feat. Debbie Harry)
- In This World
- South Side
- Beautiful
- Extreme Ways
- In My Heart (new mix)
- Honey
- Lift Me Up
- Feeling So Real (live in London)
- God Moving Over the Face of the Waters
- Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?
- Hotel Intro
- Raining Again
- Beautiful
- Lift Me Up
- Where You End
- Temptation
- Spiders
- Dream About Me
- Very
- I Like It
- Love Should
- Slipping Away
- Forever
- Homeward Angel
- 35 Minutes
- Flower
- Sunday
- Memory Gospel
- Whispering Wind
- Summer
- Spirit
- Flying Foxes
- Sunspot
- Flying Over the Dateline
- Running
- The Sun Never Stops Setting
- New York, New York
- Harpie
- Nightclubbing
- A Day in the Life (club mix)
- Come on, Baby
- Ma Foom Bey (Tony Humphries mix)
- Help Me to Believe
- Long as I Got You (Warehouse Rave remix)
- Can't Be Funky
- Strong Island
- Ghost Rider
- Sleep Alone
- Landing
- Love of Strings
- Nearer
- Afterlife
- String Electro
- Downhill
- Soul to Love
- Bed
- Piano & Strings
- Horse & Carrot
- Life's So Sweet
- ISS
- Stay
- We Are All Made of Stars
- In This World
- In My Heart
- Great Escape
- Signs of Love
- One of These Mornings
- Another Woman
- Fireworks
- Extreme Ways
- Jam for the Ladies
- Sunday (The Day Before My Birthday)
- 18
- Sleep Alone
- At Least We Tried
- Harbour
- Look Back In
- The Rafters
- I'm Not Worried at All
- Hymn
- Feeling So Real
- All That I Need Is to Be Loved
- Let's Go Free
- Everytime You Touch Me
- Bring Back My Happiness
- What Love
- First Cool Hive
- Into the Blue
- Anthem
- Everything Is Wrong
- God Moving Over the Face of the Waters
- When It's Cold I'd Like to Die
- Honey
- Find My Baby
- Porcelain
- Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?
- South Side
- Rushing
- Bodyrock
- Machete
- 7
- Run On
- Down Slow
- If Things Were Perfect
- Everloving
- Inside
- Guitar Flute & String
- The Sky Is Broken
- My Weakness
- Natural Blues
- First Cool Hit
- Porcelain
- Go
- Everloving
- Anthem
- Now I Let It Go
- God Moving Over the Face of the Waters
- Memory Gospel
- Besame
- Rock the House
- Move the Colors
- UHF3
- Party Time
- Protect Write
- Go (original)
- Permanent Green
- Voodoo Child
- Drug Fits the Face
- Time Signature
- Peacehead
- Barracuda
- Mobility
- M-Four
- First Cool Hive
- Go
- Into the Blue
- Now I Let It Go
- Move (You Make Me Feel So Good)
- I Like to Score
- Anthem
- Hymn
- Feeling So Real
- God Moving Over the Face of the Waters
- Alone
- Novio
- The Rain Falls and the Sky Shudders
- When It's Cold I'd Like to Die
- Living
- Grace
- Novio
- James Bond Theme (Moby's re-version)
- Go
- Ah Ah
- I Like to Score
- Oil 1
- New Dawn Fades
- God Moving Over the Face of the Waters
- First Cool Hive
- Nash
- Love Theme
- Grace
- Dead Sun
- Someone to Love
- Heavy Flow
- You
- Now I Let It Go
- Come on Baby
- Soft
- Anima
- Say It's All Mine
- That's When I Reach for My Revolver
- Alone
- Face It
- Old
- Living
- Love Song for My Mom
- A Season in Hell
- Voodoo Child (Poor in NY mix)
- Next Is the E (club mix)
- Drug Fits the Face (Drug Free mix)
- Have You Seen My Baby? (Baby mix)
- UHF 2
- Time's Up (Dust mix)
- Drop a Beat (Deep mix)
- Mobility (Aqua mix)
- I Feel It (Synthe mix)
- Thousand
- Ah Ah
- I Feel It (I Feel It mix)
- Everything
- Mercy
- Help Me to Believe
- Go (Woodtick mix)
- Yeah
- Drop a Beat (The New version)
- Thousand
- Slight Return
- Go (Subliminal mix unedited version)
- Stream
- Dog
- Lean on Me
- Bad Days
- My Beautiful Blue Sky
- Heaven
- Tongues
- J Breas
- Myopia
- House of Blue Leaves
- Piano & String
- Sound
- 80
- The Whispering Wind
- Honey (Rollo & Sister Blunt remix)
- Spirit
- Why Does My Heart... (Ferry Corsten remix)
- Sunspot
- Natural Blues (Mike D remix)
- Go
- Go (Delirium remix)
- Hymn
- Feeling So Real
- Mission Impossible (Techno remix)
- Paranoid (Pinkpop 1998 remix)
- James Bond Theme (Pinkpop 2000 remix)
- Natural Blues (Pinkpop 2000 remix)
- Bodyrock (Pinkpop 2000 remix)
- Fuck You Moby! (Pinkpop 2000 remix)
- Honey (Pinkpop 2000 remix)
- Feeling So Real (Pinkpop 2000 remix)
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Moby - Natural Blues
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- Duration: 4:23
- Published: 05 Mar 2009
- Updated: 28 Mar 2012
Music video by Moby performing Natural Blues.
http://wn.com/Moby__Natural_Blues
Moby - Porcelain
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- Duration: 3:10
- Published: 05 Mar 2009
- Updated: 28 Mar 2012
Music video by Moby performing Porcelain.
http://wn.com/Moby__Porcelain
Moby Video - "Why does my heart feel so bad?"
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- Duration: 4:24
- Published: 08 Jul 2006
- Updated: 29 Mar 2012
This is footage that I shot from 1999- 2000 in and around the San Francisco bay area. I wanted to experiment with putting images to music and I've always been moved by this Moby song. The locations are: The Ocean Beach near the Cliff House in San Francisco. The museum under the Cliff House. (no longer there) An abandoned Drive-In movie theater. The San Mateo County Fair. In 2002 I finally sat down and cut this little video together. It's a bit pretentious, I know, but it was fun to do.
http://wn.com/Moby_Video__Why_does_my_heart_feel_so_bad?
moby
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- Duration: 3:28
- Published: 28 May 2006
- Updated: 28 Mar 2012
the moby video
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Moby - Lift me up
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- Duration: 3:06
- Published: 03 Apr 2008
- Updated: 29 Mar 2012
Want to Play This Song On Guitar? Discover The Quickest, Simplest Way to Play All Your Favorite Songs Press On The Link --) bit.ly :)
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Moby - Porcelain - Directed by Robert Stoetzel
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- Duration: 3:26
- Published: 05 Dec 2006
- Updated: 29 Mar 2012
Long take video for the Moby song
http://wn.com/Moby__Porcelain__Directed_by_Robert_Stoetzel
Moby - Wait For Me
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- Duration: 4:14
- Published: 28 Apr 2010
- Updated: 28 Mar 2012
Buy on iTunes: itunes.apple.com The director of this animated Video is Maik Hempel from Australia! See also here: www.moby.com
http://wn.com/Moby__Wait_For_Me
Moby - Creep (Radiohead's cover)
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- Duration: 4:58
- Published: 07 Apr 2007
- Updated: 28 Mar 2012
cover
http://wn.com/Moby__Creep_Radiohead's_cover
Moby - Whispering Wind
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- Duration: 6:05
- Published: 22 Jun 2007
- Updated: 28 Mar 2012
Music video of Whispering Wind performed by Moby ps. i'm not the author, i found this clip over a year ago on YT and added it to my account cos i really liked it... i dont know the name of the author, if i did i would name him/her...
http://wn.com/Moby__Whispering_Wind
Moby - Lift Me Up
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- Duration: 4:30
- Published: 27 Feb 2009
- Updated: 28 Mar 2012
Music video by Moby performing Lift Me Up.
http://wn.com/Moby__Lift_Me_Up
Moby - Honey
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- Duration: 3:31
- Published: 05 Mar 2009
- Updated: 28 Mar 2012
Music video by Moby performing Honey.
http://wn.com/Moby__Honey
Moby - Extreme Ways
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- Duration: 3:36
- Published: 05 Mar 2009
- Updated: 28 Mar 2012
Music video by Moby performing Extreme Ways.
http://wn.com/Moby__Extreme_Ways
Moby - In This world
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- Duration: 4:03
- Published: 19 Apr 2008
- Updated: 28 Mar 2012
Alternative Video from the Song "In This World"
http://wn.com/Moby__In_This_world
Moby Beautiful
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- Duration: 3:14
- Published: 04 May 2006
- Updated: 27 Mar 2012
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http://wn.com/Moby_Beautiful
Moby - Alice
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- Duration: 3:35
- Published: 08 Jan 2008
- Updated: 28 Mar 2012
Music video by Moby performing Alice.
http://wn.com/Moby__Alice
Moby - Everloving
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- Duration: 3:25
- Published: 22 Jul 2007
- Updated: 29 Mar 2012
Moby Everloving with sunset
http://wn.com/Moby__Everloving
Moby - Disco Lies
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- Duration: 3:24
- Published: 04 Feb 2008
- Updated: 28 Mar 2012
A great song from Moby's album "Last Night"
http://wn.com/Moby__Disco_Lies
Moby - We Are All Made Of Stars
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- Duration: 3:42
- Published: 05 Mar 2009
- Updated: 28 Mar 2012
Music video by Moby performing We Are All Made Of Stars.
http://wn.com/Moby__We_Are_All_Made_Of_Stars
Moby - Bodyrock (The Official Video)
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- Duration: 3:57
- Published: 31 Oct 2006
- Updated: 28 Mar 2012
Moby's "Bodyrock" from Play on V2 Records Join our Bodyrock Audtions group: www.youtube.com Submit your own audition, the best clip wins an Epiphone G310 (The same model Moby uses) courtesy of Gibson & V2 Records
http://wn.com/Moby__Bodyrock_The_Official_Video
Moby "My weakness"
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- Duration: 3:20
- Published: 01 Dec 2008
- Updated: 28 Mar 2012
Moby My Weakness. Video is taken in northern east of Italy. Enjoy and if u want leave a comment. Satakieli FilmPro 2008
http://wn.com/Moby_My_weakness
Moby - Run On ( Official Video )
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- Duration: 3:16
- Published: 09 May 2010
- Updated: 26 Mar 2012
Moby - Run On Official Video
http://wn.com/Moby__Run_On__Official_Video_
Moby ❝ One of These Mornings ❞
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- Duration: 3:15
- Published: 05 Oct 2009
- Updated: 28 Mar 2012
music video for One of These Mornings by Moby from "18", directed by Jonathan Sterkenburg and produced by www.muziektelevisie.nl (official). ------------------------------ 16mm / 8mm look was created in Adobe Photoshop CS4, Adobe Premiere CS4 and some additional Magic Bullet Looks. For more details: www.muziektelevisie.nl ------------------------------ /// Bijke_//a_tribute_to on the piano they have this phrase /// it says /// better a good neighbour /// than a far-away friend /// --- as seen in miami vice without a trace
http://wn.com/Moby_❝_One_of_These_Mornings_❞
moby - god moving over the face of the waters
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- Duration: 5:45
- Published: 02 Nov 2010
- Updated: 28 Mar 2012
moby - god moving over the face of the waters
http://wn.com/moby__god_moving_over_the_face_of_the_waters
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| Name | Moby |
|---|---|
| Background | solo_singer |
| Born | September 11, 1965Harlem, New York, US |
| Birth name | Richard Melville Hall |
| Origin | Darien, Connecticut, US |
| Instrument | TurntablesKeyboardsGuitarBass guitarVocalsDrums |
| Genre | Electronic dance musicElectronicaElectronic rockAlternative rockAmbient |
| Occupation | DJSinger-songwriterMusician |
| Years active | 1982–present |
| Label | Mute Records (UK), V2 Records (US), XL Recordings (UK), Elektra (US), Instinct (US), Outer Rhythm (UK), Virgin Records/EMI Records (Brazil) |
| Associated acts | Vatican Commandos, UHF, Voodoo Child, Diamondsnake, Mylène Farmer |
| Website | }} |
Richard Melville Hall (born September 11, 1965), better known by his stage name Moby, is an American musician, DJ, and photographer.
Moby sings and plays keyboard, guitar, bass guitar, and drums. He became a successful artist on the ambient electronica scene, and achieved eight top 40 singles in the UK during the 1990s. In 1999, he released the album ''Play'', a mix of melancholic chill-out, ambient music, and upbeat electronica, that was critically acclaimed and produced an impressive eight hit singles (including his most popular songs "South Side," "Porcelain," "Natural Blues," and "Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?"). ''Play'' became a commercial success, selling over 10 million copies worldwide (the best-selling electronica album ever) and with its eighteen songs receiving an unprecedented licensing in films, television and commercial advertisements.
His follow-up album, ''18'' (2002) was also successful, selling over 5 million copies worldwide and receiving mostly positive reviews. His next offer, the mostly upbeat ''Hotel'' (2005) received mixed reviews and sold around 2 million copies worldwide. Moby released his most recent albums, ''Last Night'' (2008) and ''Wait for Me'' (2009), finding higher critical acclaim and moderate sales. AllMusic considers Moby "one of the most important dance music figures of the early '90s, helping bring the music to a mainstream audience both in the UK and in America." Moby's latest album, ''Destroyed'', was released on May 13, 2011. Worldwide, Moby has sold over 20 million albums.
Moby has also co-written, produced or remixed music for Smashing Pumpkins, Michael Jackson, David Bowie, Brian Eno, Pet Shop Boys, Britney Spears, New Order, Public Enemy, Guns 'N' Roses, Metallica and more.
Early life and name
Hall was born in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, and raised by his mother in Darien, Connecticut.According to Hall, his middle name and the nickname "Moby" were given to him by his parents because of an ancestral relationship to ''Moby Dick'' author Herman Melville: "The basis for Richard Melville Hall – and for Moby – is that supposedly Herman Melville was my great-great-great-granduncle."
He has released music under the names 'Voodoo Child', 'Schaumgummi', and as a member of the bands Vatican Commandos, AWOL, Caeli Seoul and Gin Train. He often performs at New York club events known as 'Degenerates'.
Music career
Moby started playing music when he was nine years old, originally learning classical guitar and music theory, then piano and drums.From 1982 to 1985 he played in a hardcore punk band called the Vatican Commandos, who released an EP called ''Hit Squad for God''. He also played in a Joy Division-inspired post-punk group called AWOL, who released an eponymous album in 1983. Circa 1988 Moby performed briefly with Ultra Vivid Scene. He can be seen playing guitar in UVS' video for "Mercy Seat," which appears on the band's 1988 self-titled record.
After years of pursuing a record deal he signed a recording contract with Instinct Records in 1989. During this time, Instinct Records "did not actually ''exist''," Moby stated in his 2005 iTunes Originals interviews. When he was signed, the company did not have a logo, name, or an office.
1991–1993: ''Go'' & Rise to Fame
Moby's first live solo performance was witnessed by future longtime manager Eric Härle who later described the occasion to HitQuarters by saying: "The music was amazing, but the show was riddled with technical mishaps. It left me very intrigued and impressed in a strange way."His first single for Instinct was "Mobility," but it was the second single, "Go," a progressive house track using the string line from "Laura Palmer's Theme" from the TV drama ''Twin Peaks'', which was his first breakthrough, reaching the UK top ten in October 1991 and earning him his first appearance on ''Top of the Pops''. Some of his other singles in 1992 and 1993 were "Next Is The E," "Thousand," and "Voodoo Child." When Moby started releasing records in the UK he paired up with local based manager Eric Härle.
In 1991 and 1992, he remixed The B-52s, The Prodigy, Orbital, Pet Shop Boys, Erasure, Michael Jackson, and Ten City.
In 1992 he toured with The Prodigy, Richie Hawtin, and John Acquaviva.
1993–1998: ''Everything Is Wrong'', ''Animal Rights'' & ''I Like to Score''
In 1993 Moby signed with Mute Records and released an EP entitled ''Move''. This became his second appearance on ''Top of the Pops''. During this time he also went on tour with Orbital and Aphex Twin in North America.He then released his first album, ''Everything Is Wrong'', on Mute Records in 1995. Early copies (in the UK and Germany at least) came with a special bonus CD called ''Underwater''. This was a 43-minute five-track instrumental ambient CD. ''Everything Is Wrong'' earned early critical praise (''Spin magazine'' named it Album of The Year) and some commercial success. He followed this up in early 1996 with the double album ''Everything Is Wrong—Mixed and Remixed''. In 1995 Moby also headlined the second stage at Lollapalooza, playing alongside Beck, Sonic Youth, Hole and Pavement.
Disillusioned by the lack of feedback he was receiving from the music media who struggled to comprehend the artist's new electronic music and refused to take it very seriously, Moby decided to release a punk rock album. Released in 1996 ''Animal Rights'' included a cover version of Mission of Burma's "That's When I Reach for My Revolver" and was followed by a tour of Europe with the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Soundgarden. The single "Come on Baby" from ''Animal Rights'' was Moby's third ''Top of the Pops'' performance. It was notable for its very aggressive look and sound. Ironically just as Moby decided to change direction, the electronic music he had moved away from started to gain recognition and popularity through artists like The Chemical Brothers and The Prodigy. Also in 1996, Moby contributed the song "Republican Party" to the AIDS benefit album Offbeat: A Red Hot Soundtrip produced by the Red Hot Organization.
According to manager Eric Härle the album almost killed his career because the new direction not only left audiences cold – with music media uninterested and his existing fan base largely alienated – but led to people being confused as to what kind of artist Moby really was. Having wiped out all his early good work in establishing himself, Moby was left struggling for any kind of recognition and quickly became seen as a "has-been" in the eyes of a lot of people in the industry.
In 1997, he released ''I Like to Score'', a collection of his music that had been used in movies. Among those tracks were an updated version of the "James Bond Theme" used for the James Bond film ''Tomorrow Never Dies'', and "New Dawn Fades" (a cover of Joy Division's original) which had appeared (without vocals) in Michael Mann's ''Heat''.
1999–2004: ''Play'', ''18'' and worldwide success
In 1999 Moby released the album ''Play''. The album had moderate sales after its release, but eventually went on to sell over ten million records worldwide a year later. Every song on the album was licensed internationally to various films, advertisements, and TV shows, as well as independent films and non-profit groups. Moby performed three times on ''Top of the Pops'' with singles from the album. ''Play'' mixes songs from Alan Lomax's 1993 Atlantic recording ''Sounds of the South: A Musical Journey From the Georgia Sea Islands to the Mississippi Delta''. For the song "Natural Blues," Moby mixes "Trouble So Hard" from the Alan Lomax, ''Sounds of the South'' compilation.In July 2001 ''Moby: PlaytheDVD'' was released. Produced by Moby and Jeff Rogers (Swell) the DVD was nominated for a 2002 Grammy award. The DVD included various sections: "Live on TV," most of the videos (excluding Southside w/Gwen Stefani), "Give An Idiot a Camcorder" (Moby was given a camcorder and the tape was later edited by Tara Bethune-Leaman) and an 88 minute Moby MegaMix of all the remixes created for the album ''Play''. The Mega Mix was accompanied by visuals created in Toronto at Crush led by director Kathi Prosser.
In 2002 Moby released the follow-up to ''Play'', ''18'', which earned gold and platinum awards in over 30 countries, and sold more than four million copies. Moby toured extensively for both ''Play'' and ''18'', playing well over 500 shows in the course of four years.
He founded the Area:One Festival in 2001, a popular touring festival that features an eclectic range of musical genres. The Area:One tour featured: Outkast, Moby, New Order, Incubus, Nelly Furtado, and Paul Oakenfold. Area2 tour (2002) featured David Bowie, Moby, Blue Man Group, Busta Rhymes, and Carl Cox.
In the next few years, Moby co-wrote "Is It Any Wonder" with Sophie Ellis-Bextor, remixed the Beastie Boys, David Bowie, Nas and Metallica, produced and co-wrote the track "Early Mornin'" for Britney Spears' fourth studio album ''In the Zone'', and collaborated with Public Enemy on "Make Love, Fuck War," which was released prior to the 2004 U.S. presidential election. Moby also had his song "Extreme Ways" used in the Jason Bourne movies. Although not a hit when it was released, "Extreme Ways" has gone on to become one of Moby's most downloaded songs.
In 2003 Moby headlined the Pyramid stage at Glastonbury. In 2004 Moby worked on the John Kerry presidential campaign, and also worked extensively with liberal group moveon.org.
2005–2008: ''Hotel'', ''Last Night'' and The Little Death
In 2005 Moby released ''Hotel'' under the label Pacha. Instead of his relying on samples for vocals, all of the vocals and instruments were performed live in the studio, by Moby and vocalist Laura Dawn.
''Hotel'' spawned two of Moby's biggest European hits, "Lift Me Up" and "Slipping Away," both of which were #1 European singles. ''Hotel'' went on to earn gold and platinum awards in over twenty countries, with global sales of over two million copies.
In the UK, ITV used a specially remixed version of "Lift Me Up" as its Formula 1 coverage theme music.
In 2006, Moby also starred in the movie ''Pittsburgh'', with Jeff Goldblum and Illeana Douglas.
In 2006, he accepted an offer to score the soundtrack for Richard Kelly's 2007 movie ''Southland Tales'' because he was a fan of Kelly's previous film, ''Donnie Darko''.
In 2007 he produced and performed on The Bongos' remake of "The Bulrushes," for the special edition re-issue of their debut album, ''Drums Along The Hudson'' (Cooking Vinyl Records), and appeared in the promo video of the song.
In 2007 Moby launched a website entitled mobygratis.com. mobygratis provides free music for film students and independent and non-profit filmmakers. It is a non-profit venture, with any/all revenue earned by mobygratis.com going to the Humane Society/HSUS.
In 2007 Moby also started a rock band, The Little Death, NYC, with his friends Laura Dawn, Daron Murphy, and Aaron A. Brooks In 2008 Moby released ''Last Night'', an eclectic album of electronic dance music inspired by a night out in his New York neighborhood (the Lower East Side). The singles from ''Last Night'' include "Alice," "Disco Lies," "I Love To Move In Here," and "Ooh Yeah." The album was recorded in Moby's home studio in Manhattan, New York and features a number of guest vocalists, including Wendy Starland, MC Grandmaster Caz, one of the writers of "Rapper's Delight" (on "I Love to Move in Here"), Sylvia from the band Kudu, British MC Aynzli and the Nigerian 419 Squad.
In collaboration with ''The Sunday Times'', Moby released an exclusive mix album titled ''A Night in NYC'' which appeared on the newspaper's cover. It was a compilation of Moby tracks spanning his career and included video from his new album ''Last Night''.
2009–2010: ''Wait for Me''
In a November 2008 interview Moby spoke about the follow-up album to ''Last Night''. "I want to make a really emotional, beautiful record. I don't know if I will succeed, but my goal is to make something very personal, very melodic, very beautiful." On 14 April Moby confirmed that the album would be released on the 30 June . "I recorded the album here in my studio on the lower east side (although 'studio' always seems like an overly grand word for a bunch of equipment set up in a small bedroom). In the past I've worked in large and small studios, but for this record I wanted to record everything at home by myself," said Moby on his journal. "I started working on the album about a year ago, and the creative impetus behind the record was hearing a David Lynch speech at BAFTA, in the UK. David was talking about creativity, and to paraphrase, about how creativity in and of itself, and without market pressures, is fine and good. It seems as if too often an artist's, musician's or writer's creative output is judged by how well it accommodates the marketplace, and how much market share it commands and how much money it generates. In making this record I wanted to focus on making something that I loved, without really being concerned about how it might be received by the marketplace. As a result it's a quieter and more melodic and more mournful and more personal record than some of the records I've made in the past." The album, titled ''Wait for Me'', was released in June 2009.Moby and David Lynch discussed the recording process of the album on Lynch's online channel, David Lynch Foundation Television Beta.
The first single off the album was "Shot in the Back of the Head," and the video for it was aptly directed by Moby's muse, David Lynch. The single was available for free download from Moby's website.
Ken Thomas, who had previously produced some Sigur Rós albums, mixed ''Wait for Me''. According to Moby, "mixing the record with him (Thomas) was really nice, as he's creatively open to trying anything (like recording an old broken bakelite radio and running it through some broken old effects pedals to see what it would sound like. It's on the record as a 45 second long track called "Stock Radio"). And as a geeky technical aside, we mixed the record using purely analog equipment in true stereo, akin to how records were mixed in the late '60s, some of the songs sound pretty amazing in headphones, if I do say so myself..."
Moby plans to tour for the new album with a full band again, something that occurred rarely during Moby's ''Last Night'' promotion, except for selected festival performances. Moby raised between $75,000 and $100,000 to help those affected by domestic violence after all funding for the state's domestic violence program was cut in July. To do this, he donated the profits from his upcoming shows in California (San Diego, San Francisco and Los Angeles). Moby headlined the Australian 2009 Falls Festival, as well as the other Sunset Sounds festivals.
On February 22, 2010, Moby announced a UGC competition with Genero.TV asking his fans to create a videoclip, that will be serviced worldwide as the official videoclip for his upcoming single "Wait for Me," the last single from his album ''Wait for Me''. On April 19, Moby chose the winning videoclip out of 500 entries, "based on its creativity, production value, concept, and humor." The chosen videoclip, written and directed by Nimrod Shapira from Israel, portrays the story of a girl who decides to invite Moby into her life. She attempts to do so by using the "How to Summon Moby Guide for Dummies," putting herself through 10 bizarre and comical steps (each is a tribute to a different Moby videoclip). The single was released on May 4, 2010.
In March 2010, Moby released a new single "Wait For Me," the title track from his original album. It was released on May 3, 2010.
2010–present: ''Destroyed''
In January 2010, Moby announced that he was to begin working on his next record. He said "the mood for this record will be more acoustic and less electronic than before."On February 15, 2011, Moby announced the release of his new album. It is titled ''Destroyed'' and was released on May 16, 2011. A photography book with the same name was also released around the time of the album. "Musically," he said, "it's very melodic and atmospheric and electronic, and if i had to sum it up i would describe it as: 'broken down melodic electronic music for empty cities at 2 a.m'." The album cover, which was released with the new information, was taken in LaGuardia Airport. It is a picture of a sign that reads 'destroyed', it's used in the airport to notify passengers when the unclaimed baggage has been disposed of. The album consists of 15 tracks, one of them previously featured on the compilation ''A Night in NYC'', titled "Rockets." Along with the album's announcement came the release of the EP ''Be the One'', which contains 3 of the tracks from ''Destroyed''. The EP was released for free for those who signed up for Moby's mailing list. "The Day" is an English cover of "Bleu Noir" by Mylène Farmer. For the next single, Moby has put a poll on his website for fans to choose which single should be released next, and it has been confirmed to be "Lie Down In Darkness." So far, it has proved to be the most successful single from the album, charting on various dance charts and in Belgium. On August 30, Moby posted another request for the third official single, this time asking fans to say which should be next, without a poll.
Collaborations
Moby has collaborated live with many of his heroes while on tour or at fundraisers. He has performed "Walk on the Wild Side" with Lou Reed, "Me and Bobby McGee" with Kris Kristofferson, "Heroes" and "Cactus" with David Bowie, "Helpless" with Bono and Michael Stipe, "New Dawn Fades" with New Order, "Make Love, Fuck War" with Public Enemy, "Whole Lotta Love" with Slash, and "That's When I Reach For My Revolver" with Mission Of Burma.He made two duets with the French singer Mylène Farmer (the one "Slipping Away (Crier La vie) in 2006 and the other "Looking For My Name" in 2008). He also produced 7 songs for her 8th album ''Bleu Noir'' published on December 6, 2010
In 2007, he became one of the few well-known commercial artists to produce work for a video game, collaborating with DJ Oscar the Punk on all three tracks of ''The Bioshock EP'', included with limited edition copies of the Xbox 360 and PC game ''Bioshock''.
RIAA criticism
On June 20, 2009, Moby posted on his blog in response to the RIAA's decision to sue Minnesota suburban mom Jammie Thomas-Rasset for $2,000,000 for illegally downloading music from Kazaa. He called this "utter nonsense" and stated "the RIAA needs to be disbanded."
Personal life and faith
Until around June 2009, Moby co-owned a small restaurant and tea shop called TeaNY, where he occasionally waited tables. He also organized the Little Idiot Collective, a group of artists. Moby lives a vegan lifestyle and supports animal rights.In an interview with ''Psychology Today'', Moby stated that when he was 19, he tried LSD and began suffering from panic attacks. He claims that he no longer experiences them as frequently as he used to, but occasionally he will "have too much caffeine, be stressed out about work and be in a relationship that's not going well, and it will happen again." He is very open about this in an attempt to help fans who suffer from similar panic disorders.
When asked about drugs, he responded: "I'm sort of a libertarian. People should be able to do what they want. I ultimately defer the wisdom to an adult to make their own choices. If someone wants to do drugs, I think it's their own business and not the business of the state."
In a 2003 BBC interview, Moby spoke about his encounter with the Gospels, "In about 1985 I read the teachings of Christ and was instantly struck by the idea that Christ was somehow divine. When I say I love Christ and love the teachings of Christ I mean that in the most simple and naïve and subjective way. I'm not saying I'm right, and I certainly wouldn't criticize anyone else's beliefs." In an interview with amazon.com, Moby said, "I can't really know anything. Having said that, though, on a very subjective level I love Christ. I perceive Christ to be God, but I predicate that with the knowledge that I'm small and not nearly as old as the universe that I live in. I take my beliefs seriously for myself, but I would be very uncomfortable trying to tell anyone that I was right."
In a September 20, 2006 audio interview with ''Sojourners'' magazine, he says, "I read the New Testament, specifically the gospels and I was struck at their divinity, feeling that humans could not have figured this out on their own. We're just not bright enough." He also discusses his faith on his own blog. On January 19, 2007, in his reaction to seeing Alexandra Pelosi's ''Friends of God'', a film about evangelicalism in the United States, Moby writes, "The movie reminded me just how utterly disconnected the agenda of the evangelical Christian right is from the teachings of Christ."
In March 2008, after Gary Gygax's death, Moby was one of several celebrities stating they had been ''Dungeons & Dragons'' players.
In March 2010, Moby made his debut as an author when ''Gristle: From Factory Farms to Food Safety (Thinking Twice About the Meat We Eat)'', a collection of essays from people in the food industry, was published.
Charity
Moby is an advocate for a variety of causes, working with MoveOn and The Humane Society, among others. His MobyGratis.com website, which licenses film music for free for non-profit and independent films, funnels proceeds from films which do go on to produce revenue to The Humane Society. He created MoveOn Voter Fund's Bush in 30 Seconds contest along with singer/ MoveOn Cultural Director Laura Dawn and MoveOn Executive Director Eli Pariser. The music video for the song "Disco Lies" from ''Last Night'' has heavy anti-meat industrial themes.He also actively engages in nonpartisan activism, and serves on the Board of Directors of Amend.org, a nonprofit that implements injury prevention programs in Africa.
Moby is a member of the Board of Directors of the Institute for Music and Neurologic Function (IMNF), a not-for-profit organization dedicated to advancing scientific inquiry on music and the brain and to developing clinical treatments to benefit people of all ages. He has also performed on various benefit concerts to help increase awareness for music therapy and raise funds for the Institute. In 2004, he was honored with the IMNF’s 'Music Has Power Award' for his advocacy of music therapy and for his dedication and support to its recording studio program.
He is an advocate of network neutrality and he testified before United States House of Representatives committee debating the issue in 2006.
In 2008 he participated in a Album (Music) called ''Songs for Tibet'', to support Tibet and the current Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso.
In 2009 after hearing about California cutting its funding to domestic violence programs, Moby decided to donate the fees from his tour shows in L.A. and San Francisco to the California Partnership to End Domestic Violence.
Essays
Many Moby albums include essays that he has written himself in the inlay card. ''Everything Is Wrong'' had essays on over-consumption ("We use toxic chlorine bleach to keep our underpants white") and U.S. religious leaders ("Why doesn't the Christian right go out and spread mercy, compassion and selflessness?"), and ''The End of Everything'' discussed being a vegan ("Could you look an animal in the eyes and say to it, 'My appetite is more important than your suffering'?").He was interviewed by Lucy Walker for a chapter in ''Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture'' (The MIT Press, 2008) edited by Paul D. Miller a.k.a. DJ Spooky.
Photography
In 2011, Moby released a book of photography entitled "Destroyed." The books features the artist's own images from his international tours.
Discography
Studio albums
Videography
Awards
{| class=wikitable |- ! Year !! Awards !! Category !! Work !! Result |- | rowspan=8 | 2000 | VH1/Vogue Fashion Awards | Visionary Video | | |- | MTV Video Music Awards | Best Male Video | | |- | rowspan=2 | Grammy Awards | Best Alternative Music Performance | Play | |- | Best Rock Instrumental Performance | Bodyrock | |- | rowspan=3 | MTV Europe Music | Best Video | Natural Blues | |- | Best Album | Play | |- | Best Dance | | |- | BRIT Awards | Best International Male | | |- | rowspan=8 | 2001 | MTV Video Music Awards | Best Male Video | | |- | Grammy Awards | Best Dance Recording | Natural Blues | |- | NRJ Music Awards | International Male Artist of the Year | | |- | IFPI Platinum Europe Awards | Album Title | Play | |- | NME Awards | Best Live | | |- | rowspan=3 | My VH1 Music Awards | Best male | | |- | Favorite Video |South Side | |- | Best Collaboration |South Side | |- | rowspan=10 | 2002 | Q Awards | Best Producer | | |- | MTV Video Music Awards | Best Cinematography | | |- | IFPI Platinum Europe Awards | Album Title | Play | |- | BMI Pop Songs Awards | Pop Songs | South Side | |- | BMI Film & TV Awards | Certificate of Achievement | | |- | Grammy Awards | Best Music Video, Long Form | Play | |- | rowspan=2 | MTV Europe Music | Web Awards | | |- | Best Dance | | |- | rowspan=2 | Billboard Music Awards | Electronic Artist of the Year | | |- | Electronic Album of the Year | 18 | |- | rowspan=6 | 2003 | Grammy Awards | Best Pop Instrumental Performance | 18 | |- | MTV Europe Music | Best Dance | | |- | MTV Video Music Japan Music | Best Dance Video | | |- | IFPI Platinum Europe Awards | Album Title | 18 | |- | BRIT Awards | Best International Male | | |- | MTV Asia Awards | Best Male | | |- | 2005 | MTV Europe Music | Best Male | | |- | 2006 | ECHO Awards | International Pop/Rock Male Artist of the Year | | |- | 2009 | Grammy Awards | Best Electronic/Dance Album | Last Night | |}
Biographies
References
External links
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Moby - Bodyrock (The Official Video)
Moby's "Bodyrock" from Play on V2 Records Join our Bodyrock Audtions group: www.youtube.com Submit your own audition, the best clip wins an Epiphone G310 (The same model Moby uses) courtesy of Gibson & V2 Records...
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