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When rock meets techno
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Moby has the unique ability to blend the energy of rock with the ambience of techno music
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HEADY MIX Moby plays punk with the same lan as trance and techno PHOTO: AP
Moby is probably the only guy in the international music scene who is a DJ and plays punk rock at the same time. More a niche musician than a popular one, it's difficult to pin his brand of music to any one genre. He plays punk rock with the same expertise as ambient trance and techno. And of late, he is mixing the two genres of music together to create a masala mix of sounds and vocals.
Some of us may be familiar with Moby's unique brand of music with the track "Porcelain" which was featured in the Leonardo Di Caprio-starrer The Beach a few years back. The mellow, ambient tune shot up the charts a few weeks after the movie was released. This was Moby's second claim to fame, the first being his remix version for the Bond movie theme song.
After a brief hiatus, Moby is back with his new album Hotel (it comes as a pleasant surprise that he has been around since 1991 when he released his debut album Go). The first single from this album, "Lift Me Up" made listeners sit up and take notice of the unique brand of Moby's music. If you have heard the track or seen the video, it's highly unlikely that the tune hasn't stayed in your mind.
The track is a unique combination of rockish vocals and guitars blended with trancelike keyboard accomplishments. The popular music TV channel VH1's website describes the track as "a stadium anthem from a man who had the strangest careers in contemporary dance music".
The songs in Hotel have everything from fast numbers to slow ones. The album is a good bet if you want to get away from the so-called "popular" music. If you are open to newer, more experimental forms of music, Moby's album will surely not disappoint you.
A. VISHNU
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