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'Shot In The Back Of The Head' Video From Moby

Video created for moby's newest single by film director David Lynch. VERY COOL!

Wait For Me

moby's newest album, 'Wait For Me' will release June 30th. i CAN'T wait!

'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 artists or musicians or writers 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.

it's also, for better or worse, all homemade, in that i recorded it at home with my friends and drew the artwork with a black sharpie on copy paper.'

Read the rest at moby's redesigned site.

Moby, Obama & The Inauguration, Or Dance You Can Believe In

Ok, so i am REALLY bummed because Moby is going to be having an ALL NIGHT DJ set on Sunday, January 18th, at the 9.30 Club in D.C., which is Katryna's birthday, in order to celebrate Obama's inauguration. We will be out of town and the information JUST came today into my inbox. For those of you who don't know me well yet, MOBY is MY FAVORITE musician/DJ/artist. i have met him a couple of times and find his music to be so deeply spiritual and moving.

Another thing i am bummed about, or more pissed off about, is how ALL the hotels in D.C are unscrupulously price gouging for the inauguration! Most are REQUIRING a 4 NIGHT MINIMUM STAY starting at $300.00 per night! They think in this economy people can afford this? It was expected that nearly 4 million people would be in D.C. for this historic event but it looks to be a lot less coming. MAYBE these fucking prices have something to do with it! WE ARE IN A RECESSION PEOPLE! Corporate greed REALLY pisses me off to no end!

Here's the Moby info:

Dance You Can Believe In
What better way to kick off your inauguration festivities than by dancing until morning to one of Moby’s world-class DJ sets? Those who attended last year’s Virgin Mobile Festival know that when this New Yorker gets behind the turntables, mind-blowing hours upon hours of pulsing beats and lights are imminent. Start the party early and let Moby kick-off your inaugural week the right way.

Change? Let's Start with Dancing...
Inaugural Kick-Off Party
MOBY (dj set)
All Night
January 18
12 Midnight Doors
In association with Blisspop

There is a 4 ticket limit.

click here to purchase tickets

'No Line On The Horizon'

U2 will be releasing their 12th album in early March 2009 and have titled it 'No Line On The Horizon'.  Read the rest of the story here. This release will mark the first in nearly 5 years when 'How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb' was released in late 2004. i am REALLY excited about this as U2 are one of my all time favorite bands. i started listening to them i 1982 and feel like i have grown up with them. For me, U2 is like a fine wine because they get better with age!

Sank*tuary

One of my online friends who lives in England, Mark Berry, who blogs at Way Out West, talks about an idea that emerged while sitting around with a group of friends talking and dreaming This is an incredible story. It certainly shows me to dream big! UPDATE: sank*tuary's site is up and running.

"A while back the safespace crew sat around our table chatting as usual... as we talked an idea emerged... the idea was for a chill-out/safe haven for night clubbers - nothing that new but there is nothing like this in Telford/Wellington.  Wellington Methodist Church has an excellent building right in the heart of the Clubbing area of Wellington so we approached the minister Peter Clarke.  His response was fantastic, "I've wanted to do something like that for 2 years" he said "but never really had the people."  So we began to talk and dream... the project we came up with is to be called Sank·tuary, it will run from around 12.30 to 3 am on Fridays and offer a chilled place, real coffee, fresh smoothies, Brownies and bakes etc. and people willing to listen..."

Read the rest of this amazing story here.

Ooh Yeah, This Is Hot!

HT to moby for news on the release of his new single, "Ooh Yeah", and for this HOT VIDEO for the song.

"a few months ago we had a contest for aspiring video directors to make a video for 'ooh yeah'. most of the submissions were actually really good, and it was hard to pick a winner. but we picked a winner, and here's his winning video.
moby

p.s-if you're watching at work your boss might think it's porn."












Ooh Yeah from moby on Vimeo. Directed by: Matteo Bernardini
Cinematography by: Valerio Sacchetto
Costumes by: Micol Agricola
Organization: Daniele Manca

Special thanks to the "Fattore K" club, Marco Torti, Franco Corridoni, Paola Ronco, Rosabella Russo, Enrico Venditti, all the girls and Pizza Boy, Marta Musso, The Bernardini family and everyone else involved.

Disclaimer: no porn stars were harmed during the making of this video

Playing favourites: Moby

Playing favourites: Moby

"We sit down with The Bald One to spin some records from his past—and present—in this month's edition of Playing Favourites.

Love him or hate him, Moby has been a part of dance culture since techno began its ascent. After a number of years addicted to punk rock, the DJ/producer was bit by the electronic bug and started to make tracks, scoring his first major hit with the 1991 release "Go," which still stands as one of the rave era's most beloved anthems. Unlike many of his contemporaries who had similar successes and promptly disappeared, however, Moby shot into the public consciousness due in no small part to his outspoken views on Christianity (pro-), meat (anti-) and drugs (it's complicated).

After a string of schizophrenic full-lengths that were perhaps too much for the mainstream to process, the producer released his second and most enduring pop achievement with 1999's Play—an album that has sold more than 10 million copies worldwide. But like almost all of this work, even Moby's pop moves were grounded in the world of electronic music: It's a record that drowns in emotive synths, even as it tugs on the heartstrings with samples taken from Alan Lomax's famed field recordings of blues singers.

Moby's wide-ranging tastes have won him support from nearly every corner of the world, but in advance of his upcoming remix album , Last Night Remixed, RA sat down with the producer to play him some records and talk specifically about his DJing career, what he thinks about some current trends in dance music and why he rarely knows what he's playing out."

YOU CAN READ THE INTERVIEW HERE and more about moby HERE.

Moby goes dog walking

A GREAT interview to the Fix on Current TV  on Moby's new album, Last Night, and moby gratis:

Moby RE(Design)

Moby has re(designed) the look and feel of moby.com, added a comments feature to his journal, and added videos to the main page. It scrolls like Apple's cover flow but can be a bit of pain catching the video you want to view. The new look is FANTASTIC and easy on the eyes with the black and yellow background and white writing. Videos from his forthcoming album, 'last night', can be found as well as some older stuff like the following video:

Moby at Speak Up! Protest in NYC

The following is a video clip i took from the Speak Up! War protest and fundraiser on March 18, 2008 in Brooklyn, NY: