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Richard Melville Hall, known professionally as Moby, is an American musician, songwriter and animal rights activist. He has sold 20 million records worldwide. AllMusic considers him to be "among the most important dance music figures of the early 1990s, helping bring dance music to a mainstream audience both in the United States and the United Kingdom".
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business · American musician (born 1965) · singer · record producer · composer · entrepreneur · disc jockey · guitarist · pianist · photographer · songwriter · film producer · also Moby, Richard Melville Hall, Voodoo Child, Barracuda, Brainstorm, Schaumgummi
Born 11 September 1965 · Q14045
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2026· 14 entries
Published video “i never thought i’d play music to an audience, let alone a 2500 yr old roman amphitheater in croatia”.
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Published video “Warsaw at dusk, a woman playing ‘hallelujah’ on solo violin. Makes the world seem sane and kind.”.
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Published video “How the UK helped shape rave culture”.
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Published video “This is the farthest i've ever been from home”.
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Published video “Lift Me Up: Backstage vs Onstage”.
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Published video “The Story Behind 'God Moving Over the Face of the Waters' & 'HEAT'”.
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Published video “Finally making my own Porcelain at the Beach video...”.
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Published video “True story of my trip to the wizards’ forest in the mountains of Bulgaria”.
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Published video “Please vow to never be the reason an animal experiences fear, pain, and confusion.”.
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Published video “touring is both remarkable and deeply strange. ps that's water, i'm still sober...haha.”.
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The Guardian: Kinks guitarist Dave Davies hits back at Moby for calling 1970 single Lola ‘gross and transphobic’
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Released album “Future Quiet”.
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Released album “When It's Cold I'd Like to Die (Remixes)”.
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2025· 3 entries
Released album “Moby House Remixed”.
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In 2025, Moby relaunched mobygratis with 500 new, free songs for creators.
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Including a new version of “Natural Blues” with BLOND:ISH and Kiko Franco, “Stereo” with Goddard and Lovelle, “Lagrange Point” with Øneheart, “E After Next” with Avalon Emerson and “Lift Me Up” with Silver Panda
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2024· 5 entries
Released album “always centered at night - remixes”.
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Released album “Always Centered At Night (Quiet Home: Remixes DJ Mix)”.
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Released album “always centered at night (3rd Street DJ Mix)”.
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Moby released Always Centered At Night, which charted in several countries across Europe
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Released album “Always Centered at Night”.
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2023· 3 entries
Released album “Resound NYC”.
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Moby released a two-and-a-half-hour ambient album Ambient 23
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Released album “Ambient 23”.
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2022· 6 entries
Released ep “ache for”.
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Released ep “fall back”.
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Released ep “Rescue Me”.
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Released ep “Medusa”.
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Moby launched his new record label, Always Centered at Night
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Released album “Reprise - Remixes”.
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2021· 1 entry
Released album “Reprise”.
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2020· 5 entries
Released album “Live Ambient Improvised Recordings Vol. 1”.
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Released album “All Visible Objects (Remixed: DJ Set)”.
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Released album “All Visible Objects (Quarantine DJ Set)”.
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Released album “All Visible Objects”.
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Founded Little Walnut Productions to support creative activism across film, TV, and theater projects
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2019· 3 entries
Released album “Long Ambients Two”.
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“but my life is geared towards God [...] I have no idea who or what God might be.”
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Moby had "Vegan for life" tattooed on his neck by his friend, tattoo artist Kat Von D
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2018· 8 entries
Released album “Everything Was Beautiful, and Nothing Hurt (Remixes)”.
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Released ep “A Dark Cloud Is Coming”.
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Released album “Everything Was Beautiful, and Nothing Hurt (the EastWest sessions)”.
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Released album “Everything Was Beautiful, and Nothing Hurt”.
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The Guardian: Musician, activist, soothsayer: the many talents of Moby
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Gave a TedX Talk titled "Why I am a vegan"
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Moby was approached by a representative from Deutsche Grammophon and was offered the chance to record an orchestral album for the label
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Moby was a guest performer on "A$AP Forever" by American rapper A$AP Rocky which samples "Porcelain"
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2017· 7 entries
Released album “Go (Atlaxsys Remix)”.
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Released album “More Fast Songs About the Apocalypse”.
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Released ep “Brohug X Moby Natural Blues”.
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Released ep “Drum & Bass Remixes”.
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Released album “Suara Remixes”.
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Released ep “Black Lacquer”.
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Released ep “More Fast Remixes About the Apocalypse”.
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2016· 10 entries
Released ep “Remixes”.
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Released ep “Don't Leave Me (MetaPop Remixes)”.
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Released album “The Remixes”.
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Released album “These Systems Are Failing”.
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Moby announced the release of an album titled These Systems Are Failing, released under the name Moby & Void Pacific Choir
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Moby announced the inaugural Circle V Festival along with the official video for "Don't Leave Me", by Moby & the Void Pacific Choir
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Released ep “The Remixes (Go, Porcelain, Natural Blues)”.
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Released album “los ambient”.
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Released album “Music From Porcelain”.
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Released album “Long Ambients 1: Calm. Sleep.”.
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2015· 4 entries
Released ep “The Void Pacific Choir E.P.”.
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Jean Michel Jarre released his compilation album Electronica 1: The Time Machine, which included the track "Suns have gone" co-produced by Jarre and Moby
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Released album “The Ever After”.
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"Almost Loved" & "The Light Is Clear In My Eyes"
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2014· 4 entries
Released album “Hotel : Ambient”.
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Released album “Almost Home (Beatport Remixes)”.
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Released album “Almost Home: Live at the Fonda, LA”.
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Moby sold the castle and downsized to a smaller home in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles
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2013· 3 entries
Released album “Innocents”.
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Moby released a 7-inch record, The Lonely Night, featuring Screaming Trees vocalist Mark Lanegan
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Moby looked back on the album as his least favourite of his career, pointing out that it was the only one not recorded at his home studio
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2012· 3 entries
Released album “Destroyed. Remixed”.
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Released album “18 & 18 B‐Sides”.
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As Destroyed Remixed and includes new remixes by David Lynch, Holy Ghost
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2011· 3 entries
Released album “iTunes Festival: London 2011”.
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Released album “Destroyed”.
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Released ep “Be the One”.
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2010· 5 entries
Released album “Wait for Me. Remixes!”.
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Released ep “Wait for Me”.
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Released album “iTunes Live From Montreal”.
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“Broken down melodic electronic music for empty cities at 2 a.m.”
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Moby enlisted vocalist Phil Costello as a songwriting partner for a new heavy metal band, Diamondsnake
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2009· 1 entry
Released album “Wait for Me”.
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2008· 4 entries
Released album “Last Night Remixed”.
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Released album “Last Night”.
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Moby released Last Night, an electronic dance album inspired by a night out in his New York City neighborhood
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Released album “Greatest Hits”.
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2007· 7 entries
Released ep “The BioShock EP”.
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The new relaunch will feature an additional 500 new tracks, with more tracks to be added in the future
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Moby also started a rock band, The Little Death with his friends Laura Dawn, Daron Murphy, and Aaron A
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Moby produced and performed on a remake of "The Bulrushes" by The Bongos that appeared on the special anniversary edition of the group's debut album Drums Along the Hudson, on Cooking Vinyl Records
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In 2007, Moby launched mobygratis.com, a website of unlicensed music for filmmakers and film students to use in any independent, non-commercial, or non-profit film, video, or short.
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Moby signed a new deal with Mute Records to handle his American distribution
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The Washington Post published an article about a mathematical equation dubbed the "Moby quotient" that determined to what degree had a musical artist sold out
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2006· 9 entries
Released album “Go: The Very Best of Moby Remixed”.
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Released album “Go: The Very Best of Moby”.
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Released album “Live: Hotel Tour 2005”.
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Released album “Live 24th May 2005 Hamburg cch3, Germany”.
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Accepted an offer to score the soundtrack for Richard Kelly's 2007 movie Southland Tales, because he was a fan of Kelly's previous film, Donnie Darko
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Moby said he had removed himself from any previous business projects
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In 2006, Moby said he had removed himself from any previous business projects.
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And "Looking for My Name" in 2008) and produced seven songs on her eighth album, Bleu Noir, released on December 6, 2010 and two songs on her twelfth album L'Emprise, released on November 25, 2022
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Released album “Remixed”.
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2005· 8 entries
Released album “iTunes Originals”.
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Released album “Live Moby - Splendour 2005”.
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Released album “Hotel: The Remixes”.
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Released album “Hotel”.
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Released album “Live 19th May 2005 Carling Academy, Brixton, London”.
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Released album “Live 25th May 2005 Offenbach Stadthalle, Germany”.
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“For example, you can go on all the pro-life chat rooms and say you're an outraged right-wing voter and that you know that George Bush drove an ex-girlfriend to an abortion clinic and paid for her to get an abortion.Then you go to an anti-immigration website chat room and ask, "What's all this about George Bush proposing amnesty for illegal aliens?”
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“Call me a nerd if you like, but I do find it hard to leave home without my laptop and a good book.”
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2003· 3 entries
Released album “Mixmag Presents: New York Heroes”.
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Released album “Evening Rain (B-Sides & Remixes)”.
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Moby headlined the Glastonbury Festival on the final day
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2002· 5 entries
Released album “18”.
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Rapper Eminem mocked Moby in his song "Without Me" and its music video, dressing up like him and calling him a "thirty-six-year-old baldheaded fag" and his techno music outdated
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Released album “18 B‐Sides”.
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Released album “Play / 18”.
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Released album “Ultimate Collection”.
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2001· 4 entries
Released album “Play the DVD”.
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Awarded NRJ Music Award for International Male Artist of the Year (2001).
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Features the music videos produced for the album, live performances, and other bonus features
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Moby founded the Area:One Festival which toured the US and Canada across 17 shows that summer with a range of artists
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2000· 11 entries
Released album “Play & Play: The B Sides”.
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Released album “Mobysongs (1993–1998)”.
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Released album “The Best of Moby”.
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Released album “Princess From Future”.
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Released album “Extra Play”.
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Released album “His Greatest Moments”.
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Released album “Glastonbury 2000”.
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Moby contributed "Flower" to Gone in 60 Seconds
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Released album “Nine Toez Mix”.
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Released album “Greatest Hits 2000”.
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Released album “Play: The Outtakes”.
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1999· 2 entries
Released album “Play”.
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Released album “Play: The B Sides”.
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1998· 1 entry
Elektra granted Moby's request to be released from his deal on the condition that he paid to leave, which amounted to "quite a lot"
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1997· 3 entries
Released album “I Like to Score”.
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Had "an epiphany" and began to experiment with alcohol, drugs, and sex
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Moby learned from her that he has a half brother
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1996· 6 entries
Released album “Rare: The Collected B‐Sides: 1989–1993”.
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Released album “Animal Rights”.
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Released album “Mixmag Live! Volume 2: Sven Väth & Moby”.
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Released album “Everything Is Wrong: Mixed & Remixed”.
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Released album “Mixmag Live! Volume 7”.
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Moby contributed "Republican Party" to the AIDS benefit album Offbeat: A Red Hot Soundtrip produced by the Red Hot Organization and released his second Voodoo Child album, The End of Everything
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1995· 3 entries
Released album “Everything Is Wrong”.
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Moby was approached by Courtney Love to produce the next Hole album, but he declined
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And 1996, Moby put out a number of "self-indulgent dance" singles under the pseudonyms Lopez and DJ Cake on Trophy Records, his own Mute imprint, so he could release material that he was interested in without concern for
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1994· 1 entry
Moby put out Demons/Horses, an electronic album of two 20-minute tracks under the name Voodoo Child
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1993· 5 entries
Released ep “Move”.
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Released album “Ambient”.
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Released album “Early Underground”.
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Moby signed with Elektra Records, which lasted for five years
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Moby toured as the headlining act with Orbital and Aphex Twin
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1992· 3 entries
Released album “Moby”.
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Moby completed his first US tour as the opening act for the Shamen
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Contributed vocals to song "Curse" on Recoil's "Bloodline" (Alan Wilder's solo project, he was a Depeche Mode member at time of that recording)
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1990· 2 entries
Released ep “Mobility”.
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Moby joined industrial noise group Shopwell and played on their album Peanuts
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1989· 2 entries
Moved to New York City and became a prolific figure as a DJ, producer, and remixer
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Moby relocated to New York City with his close friend, artist Damian Loeb
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1987· 1 entry
Started to send demos of his music to record labels in New York City; he failed to receive an offer, which led to a two-year period of "very fruitless labor"
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1984· 1 entry
Moby was inspired to become a vegetarian by a cat named Tucker that he had found at a dump in Darien, Connecticut
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1983· 2 entries
Became the guitarist in a hardcore punk band, the Vatican Commandos, playing on their debut EP Hit Squad for God
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Moby graduated from Darien High School and started a philosophy degree at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, Connecticut
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1965· 1 entry
Born 1965-09-11.
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