Moby is the artist who wasn’t there—but only because he’s always in motion. From hardcore punk to techno to film scores to mainstream rock to the sampladelic commercial phenomenon that was 1999’s Play, Moby’s career can appear as a blur of forever-changing sounds, vocalists and moods. His palette has shifted to twilight blue on the home-recorded Wait For Me (out this week on Little Idiot/Mute), with noir, shapeshifting pocket symphonies such as “Shot In The Back Of The Head” and its David Lynch-created video. Moby will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com this week. Read our Q&A with him.
Moby: Early Roxy Music, when Brian Eno was the noisemaker. Their first three records are three of the best, most interesting records ever made. I always listen to them in airports, and they make me feel like even LaGuardia is somehow odd and glamorous. Video for 1972’s “Virginia Plain” after the jump.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDULlMa8Hxc
One reply on “Moby Picks: Roxy Music”
their first album is incredible, it’s hard to describe the sound of it, space jazz maybe