Moby’s first self-released single, “Pale Horses”, is out today on his own label Little Idiot. The 2nd track from Moby’s upcoming new album Wait For Me (out June 29th), Pales Horses’ single package offers alternative mixes by Moby, plus remixes & interpretations by Gui Boratto, Apparat, Ben Hoo, Davide Rossi, & Jason Bentley. The single is available digitally, on 12” vinyl and on limited edition 7” white vinyl.

“Pale Horses (Apparat remix)” | download

Moby on “Pale Horses”:

“I know that no one apart from studio geeks want to hear about studio tricks, but one of my goals with this record was to make a lot of it sound older than it was.

Not retro sounding or nostalgic sounding, but in a lot of newer recordings i find that everything’s really bright and I just wanted the vocals on this song to sound like conversational vocals. With ‘Pale Horses’, it’s my friend Amelia singing.

More often than not, when I work with a singer, they come over, I play them the song once, I put a mic in their hand and have them do a rough version of it. Then they come back later and do a more polished version. 90% of the time I never even consider using the polished versions. So this is her holding a $70 microphone, no headphones, just singing it with me holding the lyrics in front of her pointing to the worlds. She didn’t know the song, so her performance had a vulnerable, naïve quality. When she knew the song better and I recorded it with a better mic, it sounded too slick. But this version still sounded too polished for me, so I took her vocals and put them on a weird old 1/8” tape machine and re-recorded that back into the song.

So if they sound old-timey, that’s great because I wanted them to sound as if they were recorded 40 years ago instead of a year and a half ago.”

Now I’m sure you’ve heard about the ridiculous case between RIAA & Minnesota mom, Jammie Thomas-Rasset. 2 days ago Moby took his live journal to express his feelings:

“the riaa have sued Jammie Thomas-Rasset of minnesota for $2,000,000 for illegally downloading music.

argh. what utter nonsense. this is how the record companies want to protect themselves? suing suburban moms for listening to music? charging $80,000 per song?

punishing people for listening to music is exactly the wrong way to protect the music business. maybe the record companies have adopted the ‘it’s better to be feared than respected’ approach to dealing with music fans. i don’t know, but ‘it’s better to be feared than respected’ doesn’t seem like such a sustainable business model when it comes to consumer choice. how about a new model of ‘it’s better to be loved for helping artists make good records and giving consumers great records at reasonable prices’?

i’m so sorry that any music fan anywhere is ever made to feel bad for making the effort to listen to music.

the riaa needs to be disbanded.”

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