Well, I put Moby Disk into my drive at home last night to see what all the hubbub was about. First of all, it ran almost without a hitch! When I ran moby.exe, the intro screen came up and my mouse cursor disappeared.(it
still worked, I just couldn't see the cursor) I fixed that in my control panel by running a test. There were a few miniscule sound/visual delays during the ETYTM video, but otherwise everything ran very smoothly! It was cool to see all those floating, spinning, bouncing Moby heads in a multitude of colors. I liked the interview portions, I liked the songs and clips. I thought Moby looked ridiculous dancing shirtless during Move (YMMFSG). I liked the stop-motion photography in the Hymn (TIMD) video, when Moby had a city street as the backdrop. Very nice. The remix engine was silly but fun, visually it was loads of fun, but you can't really remix the song, you can only hop back and forth between song segments and add the occasional sound effect on delay, out of proper time. I recommend it to anybody who still uses Windows 3.11 like I do. By the way, this was created with Macromedia, which is still used currently. Marilyn Manson has a video or something on his Mechanical Animals!
CD that's made with Macromedia. It's not listed on the CD or in the liner notes, but my buddy John stumbled accross it. Fiona Apple's last album came with Internet software and an ISP signup thingamajiggy. What's next, I wonder? Moby signature series sound software, fun for the whole family, not tested on animals?
Thanks for all the great information, Paul Simpson! What's with the gpig, anyways?
AJ, the question was this: When a text is translated from English to Japanese, does the amount of space the text occupies increase when it is translated? Somebody thought an import they bought had extra stuff in it becuase the Japanese writing took up lots more space then the English.
Damian, I'm envious of you. Here in Chicago I need to be 21 to even hope to hear Moby in a mixset. Our raves are full of house and jungle, and trance get a little attention, too. But our rave scene sucks, and so does the music, (IMHO), so I'll have to settle for home listening. Maybe when I can hit the club circuit I'll have a positive outlook. I swear, all the small-times who bitch about money-grubbing corporate influence spoiling the scene just want to be that corp. Sorry, had to use that op to rail against local promoters.
Geoffrey, sounds like you have some fun ideas. Are you converting them to a digital format in order to reverse them? Are you making a remix for Thanks II? You should, even if it's just a bizarro reversal lacking flourishes.
Off-topic, but worthy of mention: If you see a comp in your techno/dance section called Freedom: The Sounds Of Zen, and it has a 3D rendering of the Statue Of Liberty and the US flag on the cover, pick it up. It's a 2CD set that I got at Borders for 15.99, and it has Crystal Method, Fatboy Slim, Josh Wink, BT/Sasha, Keoki, Gearwhore, AK1200, Rabbit in the Moon, DJ Icey, and plenty of no-names, many of which whose tracks are far better than the aforementioned big name tracks! (namely Ease Drop, Mariner, Duke Mushroom) Also, offtopic, I ordered Brian Eno's Music For Airports out of curiosity. Anybody out there wanna mail me privately and offer some info on the territory I'm walking blindly into?
Does anybody out there have the Honey double vinyl pack? I haven't seen this listed anywhere. I remember being informed that it would be released, but Mute's Honey page doesn't show it, and neither do many inventory pages at stores I expect would carry it. What's the scoop?
Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 17:09:56 -0700
From: Daniel Cerman <dcerman@verinet.com>
Subject: (mobility) Run On
Paul Simpson wrote:
> according to moby.org, the next single is to be called "run on"? whats
> up with this? anyone know anything? or did someone just mention this
> in the last 5 seconds and i have the digest so i didnt know?
I just found out about it yesterday, and hadn't posted anything to
Mobility yet because I'm awaiting further details, which should be
forthcoming. The scoop is that Moby's next release will be a single
called "Run On", which is expected to come out on 29 March. It will
be followed by the full album, "Play", on 26 April. Whether these
hoped-for dates are met remains to be seen.
What does "Run On" sound like? I don't know. But expect to hear
about it before the actual release, as some of us are anticipating
advance promos. Though not yet confirmed, there is a chance that a
B-side will be "Running", which is a really great track that was
formerly called "Running Black Woman". I am looking forward to the
new single and album more than any other Moby release in the past
few years.
Daniel Cerman
http://www.moby.org/
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Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 05:46:13 +0000
From: clay <clayev2k@ixpres.com>
Subject: Re: (mobility) thanks 2 query
> in fact every few weeks I find these lost
> messages in the depths of my inbox from you with dates like 1956 and 1969...
it's funny that my clock goes to those 2 years as i was born in the
one and my dad died in the other
> I would bet Y2K will wipe clay out altogether....
it can't touch me cause my mac will be in 1956 or 1969 just in case
macs were designed as poorly
as bill gate's masterpiece......the dos os......
my studio will be running power mac by then
and really......i'm not a bank so who cares.
clay nevermind 2000....... were going to kansas
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Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 05:19:29 -0500
From: AJ Brustein <miyagi@tke.att.ne.jp>
Subject: Re: (mobility) =-Disk Forward-=
> AJ, the question was this: When a text is translated from English to Japanese, does the amount of space the text occupies increase when it is translated? Somebody thought an import they bought had extra stuff in it becuase the Japanese writing took up lots more space then the English.
Ok, here is your answer. When text is translated from English to Japanese in
the insert, it is usually printed on a piece of white paper that they just
stick in with the english notes. It says the same stuff, I guess, but wether
it takes up more room is totlly dependant on the size font they use, just as
in english. But, usually, because of kanji, it usually takes a little less
room to write in Japanese than english.
And, by the way, am I the only person who has to scroll for miles horizontally
when reading your messages, (from steve)? Anyway, Later.
AJ
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Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 10:22:51 +0000
From: <FRIE1_98@WORC.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: (mobility) =-Disk Forward-=
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 10:19:29 +0000
From: AJ Brustein <miyagi@tke.att.ne.jp>
To: mobility@lists.xmission.com
Subject: Re: (mobility) =-Disk Forward-=
Reply-to: mobility@lists.xmission.com
And, by the way, am I the only person who has to scroll for miles horizontally
when reading your messages, (from steve)?
No!
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Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 10:31:52 +0000
From: <FRIE1_98@WORC.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: (mobility) lyrics
Can anyone reccomend a good
website for Moby lyrics? It's just that
I'll ocassionally find myself singing along
phonetically rather than using actual words.
The words I do know tend to be quite soulful and
heartfelt and I would like to know the rest
especially on EIW and AR but also some of
the singles and other albums.
Ta much
Ed. B. Friday
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Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 04:47:53 -0800 (PST)
From: Paul Simpson <techno_gpig@yahoo.com>
Subject: (mobility) revolver
you might all know this already but.......
i was cruising around cdnow and i found another cover of "twirfmr" aka
"revolver". its by a band called pegboy, from their cd earwig. it came
out in 94 on quarterstick. theres an ra file. its more like mobys
version thatn the original. its better than the original i think. but
not as good as mobys of course. i guess theyre a big black-related
band, i found it linked through the big black cdnow page.
anyway.........bye!
np:radio nothing #1223...the slice of ice with a snow topping edition
(oh btw, im not at school due to a SNOW DAY!!!!!!!!! WOOHOO!!!!!!!!)
some weird philip glass-like opera/minimalism type stuff. before he
was playing talvin singh and hive and black cowboy and tetsu inoue and
a bunch of jazz stuff and some tabla stuff. not in that order.
==
"it is now time for the penguin on top of your television
