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From: owner-mobility-digest@lists.xmission.com (mobility-digest) To: mobility-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: mobility-digest V3 #394 Reply-To: mobility Sender: owner-mobility-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-mobility-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes mobility-digest Wednesday, November 15 2000 Volume 03 : Number 394 (mobility) moby biography (mobility) moby versus Jesus, Satan & God Re: (mobility) I'm Dumb RE: (mobility) Moby & ???? (mobility) Moby Re: (mobility) Moby & ???? (mobility) snip dammit, snip ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 11:47:33 +0000 From: Martin James <martin@martinjames.demon.co.uk> Subject: (mobility) moby biography Hello everyone in mobility land. I am currently writing a book about Moby.He is fully aware of the book and is also helping wit aspects of it, however it is not an official biog. Basically I need your help. But first, an introduction... * Name Martin James * Age Old enough to know better * What is in your Moby collection Too numerous to mention here, but everything commercially available in all formats. Many MP3s (not as many as Mark@mobilicious though. Live videos. Most promo videos. Interview discs. You know the sort of thing * Where you first heard Moby, and how much of a fan you are 'Mobility EP' on Pirate radio in the UK (Nottingham) about ten years ago. Not sure how big a fan that makes me. Enough to write 65,000 words for not a lot of money I suppose. * Other artists you like So many names, so little space. * Any other interesting information you wish to share I am a music journalist who has written for Melody Maker (was an editor for a while), Muzik, Mixmag, Select, The Independent, The Guardian among others in the UK, and Urb in the USA. I am currently managing editor of weekly dance music magazine 7 (sister mag in the US is Mixer). I've written two books - "Prodigy - Adventures With the Voodoo Crew" and "State of Bass - Jungle: The Story So Far". I first interviewed Moby about nine or ten years ago and have subsequently interviewed him ten times. I also did the official "Play" campaign biographies for Mute Records which are used on many of the Noby sites. Here's what I need from you! Your experiences. Things you've witnessed, or heard about that shouldn't be missed out. Reviews of gigs (with dates), feelings, thoughts. Any anecdotal stuff (have you met Moby? What was he like - what did he say etc). Anything really. And it doesn't all have to be positive - critical perspective is important here. Your expert knowledge will be invaluable. And tell your friends, or any old subscribers. No money I'm afraid, just thanks in the book. Oh, and mail me direct. Not worth clogging up things with this. Thanks Martin - ------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to majordomo@xmission.com with the line "unsubscribe mobility" in the body. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 08:02:53 -0800 (PST) From: DJ Paul Simpson <techno_gpig@yahoo.com> Subject: (mobility) moby versus Jesus, Satan & God Hey yoll, Someone on the Astralwerks message board (yo Pagan! thanx! ;) suggested a battle between God and Satan. You know, like, an MC battle. Well, how bout Moby's the DJ? No wait. "God Is A DJ". Oh well. Jesus can do the beatboxing ;) Whatever. I'm making no sense here. Sorry, but I think Bjork would never collab with Moby. She kinda doesnt like American white guys or something. My man Jon is (or was) a huge Bjork fan and he was complaining about how she's always dissing America, which kinda sucks. Anyway, my vote is for Moby and (duhhhh guess who???) Sifl & Olly. Seriously, Liam Lynch's genius songwriting plus Moby's genius music could be transcendent..... Hey, Moby and They Might Be Giants, could you imagine?????? .....Maybe not. Oh, Moby remaking Monty Python skits and songs. He would make a great pet store owner ;) Pining for the fjords, DJ PAUL ===== "What do we do? We do the voodoo. I send the energy to a enemy. They say I'm not normal-a, I'm the kid with the formula." Tricky, "Bombing Bastards" (best Tricky song EVER) ROCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DJ PAUL, host of Chester's Blanket Fort, 89.5 FM/wpkn.org __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Get organized for the holidays! http://calendar.yahoo.com/ - ------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to majordomo@xmission.com with the line "unsubscribe mobility" in the body. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 11:20:59 EST From: "ambient SlunK" <ambient_slunk@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: (mobility) I'm Dumb go to http://www.vh1.com _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. - ------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to majordomo@xmission.com with the line "unsubscribe mobility" in the body. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 09:20:01 -0800 (PST) From: Eric Lackey <agent_orange88@yahoo.com> Subject: RE: (mobility) Moby & ???? Yes, Angelo Badalamenti & Moby would be excellent (I'd especially like to hear a Moby remix of his "Questions in a World of Blue"). Also, I think Morrissey's voice could sound great in a Moby song. - --- Jason Lentz <akira57@hotmail.com> wrote: > Moby and Angelo Badalamenti....something other than > GO? > > > >From: Tim Ellorin <TEllorin@mediabrains.com> > >Reply-To: mobility@lists.xmission.com > >To: mobility@lists.xmission.com > >Subject: RE: (mobility) Moby & ???? > >Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 16:52:44 -0500 > > > >Moby and Siouxsie and the Banshees would be > interesting. Or Moby and the > >Motels. Moby and Danny Elfman, that would be > great. Moby and Annie > >Lennox. > >Just to name a few. > > > >tim > > > >------------- > >To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to > majordomo@xmission.com > >with the line "unsubscribe mobility" in the body. > > _________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at > http://www.hotmail.com. > > Share information about yourself, create your own > public profile at > http://profiles.msn.com. > > > ------------- > To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to > majordomo@xmission.com > with the line "unsubscribe mobility" in the body. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Get organized for the holidays! http://calendar.yahoo.com/ - ------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to majordomo@xmission.com with the line "unsubscribe mobility" in the body. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 08:50:28 -0800 (PST) From: Eric <stale8975@excite.com> Subject: (mobility) Moby Moby has always been a populist. From his beginnings as a punker to his current status as Calvin Klein poster boy, Richard Melville Hall has been interested in finding the strategies in a musical genre that connect most with people and magnifying them 1,000 times. Anthemic choruses, funky beats, big guitar chords - whatever it is, Moby finds the most "it" version of a thing and runs with it. Moby got his nickname as a child, in honor of his great-great granduncle Herman Melville, author of Moby Dick. As a teen in Darien, Connecticut, Moby played in a hardcore band, the Vatican Commandos, and briefly sang with San Francisco-bred hardcore legends Flipper when their singer Will Shatter was in jail. After a brief stint in college, Moby moved to New York City to DJ in dance clubs. The communal ecstasy of the dance floor vibrated nicely with his nascent Christianity and a match was made, perhaps in heaven. Setting up shop in a loft on Mott Street in Little Italy, Moby recorded a series of ambient tracks and techno-derived dance singles in the late 80s and early 90s, many released by New York independent label Instinct. In 1991, he set Angelo Badalamenti's theme from David Lynch's television series Twin Peaks to a house beat and the resulting single, "Go", became an underground hit in the US and a top 10 British hit single. After that, as they say, it was on. Moby became a staple at clubs and raves throughout 1991 and 1992, making his most infamous appearance at the 1992's DMC/Mixmag awards, where he destroyed his keyboards at the end of his set. In 1993, Moby demonstrated his flair for attention-getting yet again by releasing the double A-side single "I Feel It" / "Thousand." It became a minor UK hit but, more impressively, got into the Guinness Book of Records because "Thousand" climaxes at 1,015 beats per minute, making it the fastest single ever. In between all this headline mayhem, Moby was invited to remix acts, including Michael Jackson, Brian Eno, Pet Shop Boys, Erasure, and Orbital. He accepted. In 1993, Moby kicked it up a notch and signed overseas to esteemed indie label Mute Records, who still issue Moby in Europe. His first release was Ambient, which compiled unissued material recorded between 1988 and 1991. In 1994, he released a taste of things to come, "Hymn" a visionary fusion of gospel, techno and pop music. "Hymn" was the first single from his major label debut on Elektra, 1995's Everything Is Wrong. The liner notes of Everything described Moby's strong political views, from his refusal to travel anywhere by car because of the environmental considerations to his vegan diet and his altruistic Christianity. What a nut! Everything received many great reviews and Moby tore it up at Lollapalooza in 1995, but the sales still didn't reflect his artistic stature. In keeping with his career practice of throwing curveballs, Moby released Animal Rights, an album of loud guitar rock inspired by musicians like Black Flag's Greg Ginn in 1996 and did covers of Lynyrd Sknyrd's "Sweet Home Alabama" in his live set. As you might guess from the title, the album was even more political than its predecessor, but Moby's effort confused more than it converted. However, like the whale of the same name, Moby had no fear. He was on a quest for the perfect marriage of dance beats and uplifting, powerful American music and he was not to be deterred. In 1997, Moby amused himself with I Like To Score, an experiment in imaginary soundtrack work, which yielded a hit single in the UK, his cover of the "James Bond Theme." All of this was time-killing before the release in May, 1999 of his first album on V2, Play. Moby created his rhythmic foundation from the dance beats he knew, but skewed them toward hip-hop. Moby found his vocal identity when he stumbled serendipitously across a four-CD set, Sounds of the South, at his local record store. It contained a cappella gospel and blues recordings made in the first half of the century by legendary folklorist Alan Lomax that became the sample sources for a suite of six songs. Bessie Jones can be heard on the album's first track, "Honey" while Sunday school teacher Vera Ward Hall's voice is featured on the track "Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?" Lomax's daughter Anna Chairetakis has given her blessing to Moby's use of the recordings, citing that the artists' heirs will now receive royalties and licensing fees, something that Lomax always wanted. Chairetakis isn't the only one who approves of Play. The album earned Moby Grammy nominations for Best Alternative Music Performance and Best Rock Instrumental Performance. At the Grammy Awards, though Moby didn't win, he did get to present the best rap album Grammy and sing with Jewel. Play was also nominated by National Public Radio as one of "300 most important American musical works of the 20th century" and won first place in the prestigious Village Voice Pazz and Jop poll. Even David Letterman had the Mobester on his show back in October of 1999! Moby will stay busy in 2000 scoring John Waters's new film Cecil B. Demented, and touring in support of Play. Wherever he goes from here, he'll always be our techno prophet, the sprite with endless passion and a knack for the big moves that bring down big feelings. _______________________________________________________ Tired of slow Internet? Get @Home Broadband Internet http://www.home.com/xinbox/signup.html - ------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to majordomo@xmission.com with the line "unsubscribe mobility" in the body. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 18:05:21 +0100 From: "Bart van Eijck" <j.vaneyck@chello.nl> Subject: Re: (mobility) Moby & ???? >Yes, Angelo Badalamenti & Moby would be excellent (I'd >especially like to hear a Moby remix of his "Questions >in a World of Blue"). Questions in a world of blue needs no remixing (not even from Moby) it's already perfect the way it is! :) Moby could make a dance version of "In My Other World", that would be cool! Or Angelo making a cool jazz version of When It's Cold I'd Like To Die... Bart (a big Angelo Badalamenti/Julee Cruise fan!) - ------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to majordomo@xmission.com with the line "unsubscribe mobility" in the body. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 09:57:04 -0800 (PST) From: Elissa Brown <elissabird@yahoo.com> Subject: (mobility) snip dammit, snip Ok guys, I love you and all, but if you could just cut out the parts of the messages that you're not replying to, that would be peachy keen. I'm on the digest, and got about 4 deliveries overnight, and I swear a third of the bytes was this thread. Cheers. elissa > Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 15:14:52 -0800 > From: "Matt Olson" <matt@hollowgen.net> > Subject: Re: (mobility) MOBY POLL > > roger that! > > *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** > > On 11/14/2000 at 2:28 PM Eric wrote: > > >She's really annoying. > > > >On Tue, 14 Nov 2000 14:20:05 -0800, mobility@lists.xmission.com wrote: > > > >> hahaha! why don't you like sinead??????? :( > >> > >> ;-D > >> > >> -matt > >> > >> *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** > >> > >> On 11/14/2000 at 1:52 PM Eric wrote: > >> > >> >FREAKISH! She should have been shot for just THAT at least, but she > >> >made up for it with her award winning personality... LOL (ugh) > >> > > >> >Eric > >> > > >> > > >> >On Tue, 14 Nov 2000 13:41:50 -0800, mobility@lists.xmission.com wrote: > >> > > >> >> It's a possibility! However, I think I distinctly remember her > >having > >> >flowing hair in her armpits at least.... > >> >> > >> >> -matt > >> >> > >> >> *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** > >> >> > >> >> On 11/14/2000 at 1:28 PM Eric wrote: > >> >> > >> >> >Well do you think she shaved her whole body (wink wink) with her > >head > >> >> >too when she was bald? > >> >> > > >> >> >Eric > >> >> > > >> >> >On Tue, 14 Nov 2000 13:16:59 -0800, mobility@lists.xmission.com > >wrote: > >> >> > > >> >> >> ha! too bad sinead isn't still a baldy! now THAT would make= > for > >> >some > >> >> >interesting collaborative efforts! > >> >> >> > >> >> >> -matt > >> >> >> > >> >> >> *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** > >> >> >> > >> >> >> On 11/14/2000 at 3:48 PM Arcya@aol.com wrote: > >> >> >> > >> >> >> >I have to second Beth Gibbons, she is so gifted. > >> >> >> >But I wanted to add Sinead O'Connor. Aside from the voice, I > >wonder > >> >> >what > >> >> >> >kind of stories we'd hear from putting 2 very strong & > >opinionated > >> >> >> >individuals together to collaborate. I'm sure we'd end up= > with > >> >> >something > >> >> >> >very explosive - to say the least - no matter what the mood. > >> >> >> >Also Bernard Sumner, Aimee Mann and why not James Brown? Ha! > >> >> >> > > >> >> >> >malfunctiongirl > >> >> >> > > >> >> >> >------------- > >> >> >> >To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to > >majordomo@xmission.com > >> >> >> >with the line "unsubscribe mobility" in the body. > >> >> >> > >> >> >> > >> >> >> > >> >> >> > >> >> >> -Matt > >> >> >> > >> >> > >> > >>>-------------------------------------------------------------------------= > - --------- > >> >> >> matt@hollowgen.net > >> >> >> > >> >> >> "I think anybody who doesn't think I'm smart enough > >> >> >> to handle the job is underestimating." --George W. Bush > >> >> >> > >> >> >> http://www.hollowgen.net > >> >> >> > >> >> >> http://bootlegs.hollowgen.net - My Bootleg List > >> >> >> > >> >> > >> > >>>-------------------------------------------------------------------------= > - --------- > >> >> >> > >> >> >> > >> >> >> ------------- > >> >> >> To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to > >majordomo@xmission.com > >> >> >> with the line "unsubscribe mobility" in the body. > >> >> > > >> >> > > >> >> >"It's not easy being green" > >> >> > > >> >> > > >> >> > > >> >> > > >> >> > > >> >> >_______________________________________________________ > >> >> >Tired of slow Internet? 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