Original name: Richard Melville Hall Birthday: 1965 September 1 1 (now 37 years old, unmarried) Birthplace: Harlem, New York (swept the tail of hippie culture at birth) Occupation: multiple identities, producer, creator, DJ, once a punk boy.
Nickname: Moby (because his family is related to herman melville, the author of Moby Dick) Childhood: At the age of two, his father, who taught chemistry at the university, died in a car accident. Moby was brought up by his mother and grandfather and lived in the suburbs of Connecticut. Influenced by his mother and friends, he is used to an anti-bohemian life. Youth Chronicle * 1979. Moby formed the first orchestra in his life and began to pay attention to punk bands The Clash, Happy Division, Gang of Four and public image.
In the first half of 1980s, Moby walked and sang with a group of dark and bellicose punk groups and the New Wave Orchestra, the most famous of which was vandith mandos. His first album was released on 1983 as this group's EP 「Hit Squad For God ".
1984, Moby dropped out of the University of Connecticut and began to work as a resident DJ in local bars and nightclubs. When he was still adapting to life in Connecticut (the era of garbage factories), he began to take his audition band to new york. After a series of rejections, in 1989, Instinct Music signed a record contract with Moby.
* Instinct's early single didn't have much impact (* he found that the first single "Times Up" released in the name of the Brotherhood only sold eight copies), but the single with its own name gradually accumulated popularity.
At 199 1, say "Go!" It was sampled from the TV series "Twin Peaks". After selling millions of copies, Moby was pushed into the popular track, and the title of "a technopunk wizard who believes in Christianity and strictly abides by vegetarianism" gradually spread.
* 1993, Moby switched to Mute (outside the United States)/Electra (inside the United States) music label, and finally won the British gold medal list with his debut EP "Move" and entered Mute's debut album "Everything is Wrong", which was a great victory in openly challenging genre music! Injecting house, jungle, punk, blues, classics and soul music into his religious beliefs, Spin magazine was named "album of the year"! In a blink of an eye, Moby became Andhadhun invited by all parties. He has played new tricks for artists in different fields, such as Michael Jackson, Metalware Choir and so on, and even invited the album production of Empty Choir and Guns and Roses Choir.
1996 released a controversial but exciting album "Animal Rights", which is the earliest nu-metal album in the music industry. It is considered almost blasphemous and the market response is extremely poor. His dark days are coming soon; 1997, my mother died of cancer. Although the third album "The End of Everything" was released in the name of a voodoo child, and a selected TV music work "I like score" was also released (including the single "James Bond Theme" before the British Gold List 10), it was his low tide.
1997, he knocked down the first note of the album "Play" in his studio. Since then, Moby's music has moved the world step by step with the vision of sales, the encouragement of "awards", the invitation of movie advertisements and the spread of global music believers! Just count the ins and outs of Moby Moby If you want to know his brilliant achievements, you must basically have a good ability to count them one by one by statistical methods.
His last album, Play begin Play, sold more than 65,438+00000000000 worldwide, completely exceeding expectations. Dazzling statistics have rewritten his life, making him change from a techno/ soul music alien who always loves to have fun, never gives in and is always in a state of self-challenge, to a "golden boy Moby Megamob"-a person who shines with creativity and advocates populism.
"『Play』" has achieved platinum sales in 26 countries around the world, winning 5 platinum records in the UK alone and selling 3 million singles worldwide. It has been nominated for Grammy Awards for three consecutive years (Best Alternative Music Album, Best Rock Performance, Best Dance Music "Nature Blues"), as well as "Awards" from MTV MTV and VHI Music Channel Awards. Matt Groening, the creator of the Simpsons, the most popular cartoon album in the United States, personally painted the album Homer Hinzenson (Dad) on Moby's cloak to pay tribute to the musicians.
After the release of "『Play』", advertisements and movies scrambled to inquire about the song authorization in the album. However, as Moby pointed out, when the album was first released, these were the only channels to get in touch with music. He said, "No one knows what will happen.
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"『Play』" was very popular, which inspired him to try the blues. The songs recorded by soul musicians and Alan Lomax performed by black American singers in the early 20th century, "Dear", "Natural Blues" and "Why is my heart so sad" became the focus of attention.
"The success of" 『Play』 "has rekindled people's enthusiasm for the field of blues/soul music.
Moby's overwhelming popularity is obvious. With these achievements, he became a musical giant of "Uber culture generation". In the past two years, the "play tour" has gradually changed from a small club to a large venue for 15000 people. Moby's gesture attracted the concern and attention of record company president, Hollywood superstar, rock legend singer, underground artist and fashion tycoon! In the past two years, he has been invited to play guitar in live concerts of his childhood heroes David Bowie, Michael stapp, michael stipe (R, E, M lead singer), Myanmar Mission and New Order Choir/Happy Division, etc. His views on the Internet (about animal rights, strict vegetarianism, religious extremism and environmental issues) even caused global debates.
Seemingly thin, a bald boy with an ordinary face, where can he repair the awesome skills that are popular in the world? Practicing Shaolin Kung Fu in Songshan? Let the first ray of sunlight enter the Antarctic ice sheet? It turns out that he still drives people all over the world crazy with his best "music"! Moby's success is entirely composed of naked human emotions.
How did he do it? Moby evokes people's unconscious memories, and the excitement that flashed after a tragic situation was accurately, boldly and forcefully aroused by him.
He makes you dance to his sad melody, and he is even crazy about the emotional nature of Americans again. A series of piano notes captured the sexual state, and the magnificent and scanned digital landscape turned into tears. He dares to climb to the top and is not afraid of being treated as a fool.
Compared with those statistics, these achievements are enough to prove that he is the greatest contemporary composer in the sincere pop band, which makes his name on par with influential filmmakers and modern painters.
It is very important to cut and paste some of Moby's stories first, because he wants to set off a wave of dragging libraries-mixing many dazzling, amazing but inexplicable achievements with the latest album 18! Moby has been earning 18 since the moment he traveled around the world with "Play".
When there is no performance during the day, he will sit in the hotel room and play the guitar. At the end of his world tour (February 5438+0, 2006), he returned to his home in new york with 40 songs. In the next six months, he spent hundreds of songs in his own recording studio.
Moby said: "I should feel a lot of pressure;" But honestly, no! Just go ahead and make another album, because, to some extent, I regard the success of "playing" as a vision.
When "Play" was released, we didn't expect much. Every day after the release of the album is a surprise to me.
At that time, the whole music market seemed very sure that "playing" could not succeed; However, in fact, it did. That's really weird.
Moby's love for soul music and rhythm and blues in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s became deeper and deeper, and he began to draft 18 as "a very romantic lyric sketch of slow-paced blues". When I return to new york, I will go out with my friends, go to bars and listen to some radio stations, which remind me of my love for House, hip hop, heavy metal rock and jazz. 18' s musical inspiration has a new sketch in Moby's tour: he wants to play an album that combines the strong impact of Al Green and Bill Wheeler (such soul singers who rose in the 1960s) on Massive Attack.
18 is bound to erupt again.
We have all heard the new tricks of electronic blues. Voodoo rhythm, live creation, folk songs, Shi Hao, hip-hop and doo-wop symphony in Chishan District of Apara have all changed their rhythms, which is simply a genius of 18.
At the end of the world, he exerted extraordinary magic and tried his best to integrate science and technology, soul, history and pharmacology, leaving the so-called creative focus of music theory and physics.
Exciting funk rhythm, redemptive hymn sketches, love songs in spacious rooms, elegy music, and conscious and sharp piano+voice, 18 skillfully transferred from the new generation and new wave music to the sampling of gospel/blues music.
The album named 18 is confusing and confusing, including secrets buried in Jewish linguistics and conspiracy theories between planets.
It was named 18 because there happened to be 18 songs in the album, and 18 was considered to be related to Moby 1996' s Animal Rights.
Moby arranged the whole production &; Sinatra O 'Connor and Angie Si Tong performed instrumental music and sang four songs. Don't treat 18 as an "electronic music work". Zhang Shen's album, which is full of cohesion and emotion, contains precious warmth and music, but it does not break away from its urchin nature. Moby sang four songs in the album ("We are all stars", "A sign of love", "Extreme ways" and "Sleeping alone"). At the same time, Sinatra O 'Connor (Harbor), Angel Si Tong+rapper Macleat (Jam for Ladies) and Azure (The Great Escape) were invited to have knives.
The performance of the same name "18" is an extended version of the closing song of the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics.
Although 9 1 1 didn't write any songs after the American national disaster, 9 1 1 left a deep memory for Moby, a Christian who once advocated a hard line in lower Manhattan: "The world changed completely in September 1 1! The way people accept in life has changed. All of a sudden, the music I liked before, after 9 1 1, may no longer be liked! Thankfully, I wrote many songs before 9 1 1, and I can still feel the warmth and attraction of the songs afterwards.
This makes me feel gratified, indicating that this album can still make a * * * sound after facing the national disaster of 9 1 1.
The warmth in 18 convinced him that he was doing the right thing.
All the instruments in the album are played by Moby himself, and the sample melodies come from a wide range of fields. This recording concept does not emphasize the spirit of live recording, but focuses on the emotional texture of the work, and is not only fascinated by science and technology.
Moby said, "I hope you can get something from my music besides hugging them."
I used to like to sing a different tune occasionally and make some challenging records. Now I think, if you want to make things difficult, you can use your time. Now I prefer to make a record that is "of certain importance to people at the human level".
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Moby, it's red.