“Pale Horses (Apparat remix)” | download

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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.”

“Shot In The Back Of The Head” | download

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Moby’s new album Wait For Me, will be out on June 30th. Here are his thoughts on it & toward the end he talks about the video above:

“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.

i have some friends/guests singing on the record. they’re great singers, but unless you live in fort greene or washington heights you might not know about them, as they’re relatively unknown(because i’ve found that working with friends is almost always nicer than working with rockstars).

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.

the first single(if you can call an instrumental with no vocals that we’re giving away for free a ‘single’)is called ‘shot in the back of the head’, and i’m happy to announce that david lynch has done the video for it. i sent him the music and said, ‘please do whatever you want’. so he sat down and drew some animation that is very dark and beautiful. david lynch is my favorite film director, and i’m really happy to have him as the first video director on ‘wait for me’.”

“DJ mix” | download (135mb)

Tracklist:

01 DJ Sender – Operator (Dabruck & Klein remix)
02 Moby – Live for Tomorrow (Tocadisco remix)
03 Mar-T – Gentlemen (Dahlback remix)
04 Klaus Hill – Dirt Diver
05 Hoxton Whores – In the Bag (Tocadisco remix)
06 Moby – Alice (General Midi mix)
07 Kidda – Under the Sun (Herve remix)
08 Machines Don’t Care – Afro Jacker
09 Stupid Fresh – Stretch the Canvas
10 Jude Sebastian – Rubber Man (Miles Dyson remix)
11 Moby – The Stars (AC Slater remix)
12 Sami Sari – The Punch
13 Math Head – Turn the Music Up (AC Slater remix)

Moby is taking his degenerates night to CMJ tomorrow with guests which include Princess Superstar and Holy Ghost!!

Le Royale: 21 7th ave South at LeRoy
$10 & RSVP here
Doors open at 10
21+