Moby
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Interview by Gavin Martin, Rock's Backpages Audio, March 2005
On sexuality, celibacy, girlfriends, therapy, fundamentalism, politics, his then-current Hotel album and a whole lot more: Moby reveals all.
File format: mp3; file size: 54.5mb, interview length: 56' 44" sound quality: ****
ARTICLES IN LIBRARY
Interview by Dele Fadele, New Musical Express, 26 October 1991
He once sang with Flipper, but now MOBY — aka straight-edge Techno DJ RICHARD MELVILLE HALL — is having a whale of a time out ...
Interview by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, 11 September 1993
By now, you must all know about Moby, the techno nutter who's a Christian vegan, doesn't drink, smoke or do drugs. And you'll have heard ...
Review by Eric Weisbard, Spin, November 1993
A LITTLE MORE than 30 minutes after it begins, Moby's new EP, his major-label debut, turns over in my tape deck. Gone is the last ...
Report and Interview by Stephen Dalton, Vox, March 1995
Intelligent Techno god or the world's next fascist dictator? Moby likes to piss people off, and he's very good at it... ...
Interview by Ian Gittins, Melody Maker, 25 March 1995
MOBY's epically eclectic new album, Everything Is Wrong, is more than just a dance album — it's a dance album which wants to Change The ...
Interview by Pat Blashill, Details, April 1995
First a DJ saved his life. Then he found Christ. Now, after years of raving, Moby is ready to become techno's first pop star. ...
Live Review by Dele Fadele, New Musical Express, 15 April 1995
WHEN COURTNEY LOVE tries it on, people think she's the defiant survivor shrugging the weight of the world off her shoulders. Yet, when Moby decides ...
Report by Andrew Smith, The Guardian, 8 May 1995
The Criminal Justice Act put the rave under House arrest. But it's out and it's phat in Oxfordshire ...
Live Review by Stephen Dalton, New Musical Express, 27 July 1996
THE POCKET-SIZED Henry Rollins must be insane. He's clearly gone stark raving crucifix-tattoo-on-the- back-of-his-neck bonkers. ...
Moby: Animal Rights (Mute 12 tks/54 mins)
Review by David Stubbs, Melody Maker, 21 September 1996
MOBY WAS responsible for 'Go', not just one of the few techno/pop crossover hits to endure in the affections of non-dance aficionados but also one ...
Interview by Eric Weisbard, Spin, March 1997
One-time electronic-music evangelist Moby has converted to alternative rock. Talk about bad timing. ...
Interview by Carl Loben, Melody Maker, 22 May 1999
Rave/punk crossover genius MOBY is known as the most clean-living and politically correct pop star an the planet. The Maker met him in a karaoke ...
Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 1999
HAVE PITY on Moby. Five years ago, he was techno's poster boy, the artist who was largely responsible for pushing electronic music up from the ...
Moby: The Story So Far/Ambient/Early Underground/ Rare: The Collected B-Sides 1989 — 1993
Review by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, July 2000
Feted techno munchkin's prolific past catches up with him ...
Interview by Paul Lester, Uncut, July 2000
This year, MOBY's Play has dominated the UK LP charts. So who is this bald man singing the techno-blues? Paul Lester met the enigmatic American ...
Profile and Interview by Andrew Smith, Observer Music Monthly, 15 October 2000
"I was a rigid punk rock Marxist. Then I was a rigid vegan dance music Christian." Today, he's loosened up and become one of the ...
Profile and Interview by David Bennun, Hot Air, Summer 2000
THEY CALLED him Moby from the moment he was born. A tiny homunculus, small for his age even then – too small, they thought, for ...
Live Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, February 2001
IT'S A CASE of premature elevation. Of shock promotion to the Premiership with a make-shift squad. Moby shouldn't be playing this soulless aircraft hangar. ...
Report and Interview by Ian Watson, Sunday Herald, May 2002
FROM THE OUTSIDE, Moby Mansions looks like any other whitewashed townhouse in upmarket west London. Walk a little too quickly and you'd pass it without ...
Comment by Michael Goldberg, Neumu, 24 May 2002
Is Herman Melville's great-great-great-great-great-grandson a new kind of artist, or just a technician assembling easy-listening hits? ...
Interview by Chris Roberts, Bang, September 2003
IN FRONT OF US, a giant woman, a sort of Earth Goddess, made out of grass. We're told it's a woman; looks like King Kong. ...
Review by Todd L. Burns, Stylus, 1 September 2003
CRITICAL DEAD ENDS for an album full of musical dead ends: Perhaps what Moby does best is construct songs. And when I say construct, I mean ...
Review by Todd L. Burns, Stylus, 1 September 2003
NOW, I DON'T HATE MOBY because he uses the same synth string sound in each song, a sound that feels like it needs something. I ...
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, March 2005
ONCE TAGGED the "Iggy Pop Of Techno", New York electronica geek Moby's come a long way. ...
Live Review by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 17 March 2005
AMONG MOBY’s many hats are producer, remixer, club DJ, techno-nerd and ambient maestro. For this one-off gig to mark the arrival of his new album, ...
Report by Stephen Dalton, The Times, May 2005
YOU DO not need to travel too far from the Hard Rock Hotel to find the tacky glamour that earned Las Vegas its reputation as ...
Profile and Interview by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2005
The electronic music poster boy picks up a guitar and uncages his rock 'n' roll animal. ...
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, 21 May 2008
FOR A MINUTE there, it looked like it had all gone horribly wrong for Moby. The underground techno geek who shot from basement club obscurity ...
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