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August 13, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Moby: Reprise

Moby Reprise Little Idiot, under exclusive license to Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin Let’s recap: Moby – not the most technically brilliant musician/producer – almost gives up music after a run of so-so techno albums. Then flukes paydirt by capturing if not the turn of millennium zeitgeist than at least the advertising dollar. Then he gets […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Classical, Covers, Guests, https://linktr.ee/Simonsweetman, Moby, Moby: Reprise, Reprise, Want more? Check out my Substack You can also support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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March 12, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Moby: Live Ambient Improvised Recordings, Vol. 1

Moby Live Ambient Improvised Recordings, Vol. 1 mobyambient Maybe Moby is the musician I’ve had the longest love/hate affair with – when Play was released I loved it. It was then ubiquitous, I still loved it for a while then decided it was not for me – but I really loved Play: The B-Sides. And […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Ambient, Brian Eno, Eno, Live Ambient Improvised Recordings, Live Ambient Improvised Recordings Vol. 1, Moby, Moby: Live Ambient Improvised Recordings Vol. 1, Play, Play: The B-Sides, The Shutov Assembly, Vol. 1, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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September 18, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Brutalist: Michael J. Fox (ep)

Brutalist Michael J. Fox (ep) Good Manners Brutalist is the moniker for Melbourne duo John Hassell (Seekae) and Lucian Blomkamp – they’ve both made music alone and in other collaborations and the seeds for this duo were sewn when they shared the bill and bonded backstage of “nerdy” music shares – Profofiev and Arvo Part. […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Brutalist, Brutalist: Michael J. Fox (ep), Daniel Lopatin, EP, Good Manners, John Hassell, Lucian Blomkamp, Max Richter, Michael J. Fox, Michael J. Fox (ep), Moby, Oneohtrix Point Never, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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July 20, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

John Carroll Kirby: My Garden

John Carroll Kirby My Garden Stones Throw John Carroll Kirby is a keyboardist. He’s always made solo records that hover between new age and lite-jazz, a bit of ambient-meets-elevator; some dinner accompaniment or a soundtrack to induce somnolence.
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Bob James, Frank Ocean, Harry Styles, John Carroll Kirby, John Carroll Kirby: My Garden, Moby, My Garden, Solange, Stones Throw, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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May 17, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Moby: All Visible Objects

Moby All Visible Objects MUTE / Little Idiot under exclusive license to Mute Artists Ltd for the USA, CA & MX Moby has – perhaps almost bizarrely – been making records for over a quarter of a century now – with close to 20 solo records; his breakthrough (Play) became the ubiquitous TV/film/ad-soundtrack music right […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, All Visible Objects, Moby, Moby: All Visible Objects, Mute, Play, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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May 27, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Moby: Long Ambients Two

Moby  Long Ambients Two  Little Idiot  Moby returns with a second volume of his long ambient pieces. Designed specifically to put you to sleep (hey! No jokes!) this nearly four-hour playlist/mixtape-of-an-album is, as with its earlier volume, in line with Max Richter’s Sleep.  In fact there’s not a lot to say about this – and this is recommendation rather than review. The stretched, flattened, gospel-waft of […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Ambient, Brian Eno, Calm, Download, Instrumental, Long Ambient, Long Ambients, Long Ambients TWo, Max Richter, Mixtape, Moby, Moby: Long Ambients Two, Mood, Playlist, Sleep, Sleep App, William Basinski, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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June 8, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 401

Moby, Play (1999) Look, I’m not sure when this album by Moby drove me mad, exactly – or as close as I got to it – but tripping balls, wearing a sarong, stirring a pot full of different leftover spirits and liqueurs with South Side blasting out as if a new religion…yeah, that was a […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1999, 2xLP, Ambient, Counting Crows, Dance, It Was The Worst: # 17 That Time I Nearly Took Counting Crows Seriously, LP, Moby, Movies, My Weakness, Play, Record, Soundtrack, South Side, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 401, The Worst, The Worst # 17, TV, Vinyl ·

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May 27, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Moby: Everything Was Beautiful, and Nothing Hurt

Moby Everything Was Beautiful, and Nothing Hurt Mute What a long, strange trip it’s been for Moby. Toiling away making everyman techno and then that massive ‘discovery’ and suddenly you couldn’t watch a TV show, film or ad of an evening without hearing a refrain from a song Moby had stitched together using old blues […]
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September 5, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Moby: Long Ambients 1 – Calm. Sleep.

Moby Long Ambients 1: Calm. Sleep. (Independent) Moby’s latest “album” is a four-hour playlist available as a free download (or on all the streaming platforms) that aims to encourage you toward sleep, or at least to enjoy calm and peaceful activities. Created as part of the soundtrack for Moby’s own yoga and relax-time, Long Ambients […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 4 Hours, Album Review, Ambient, Brian Eno, Calm, Download, Eno, Free, Independent, Long Ambients, Long Ambients 1, Long Ambients 1: Calm. Sleep., Max Richter, Moby, Playlist, Self-Released, Sleep, Soundtrack, Stream, Yoga ·

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August 13, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Short Story: South Side

This girl was crazy – right. Like fucking batshit party-girl. But after too much Moby and not enough acid or probably too much acid and not enough Moby she was convinced we needed to go to the hospital. She was dying. We had just enough money for a taxi there. It was pouring with rain. […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Moby, Play, Short Story, Short Story: South Side, South Side ·

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March 30, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

HÆLOS: Full Circle

HÆLOS Full Circle Matador Get ready to be told, elsewhere that HÆLOS sound like the xx, when, if they even do, it’s the xx of the awful and dreary lightning-does-strike-once second-album, not that lush debut. Actually, HÆLOS – awful  font and stylised lettering and all – sounds like a throwback to 90s trip-hop – there […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Arthur Delaney, Burial, Dom Goldsmith, Full Circle, HÆLOS, Lotti Bernardout, Matador, Moby, Moloko, Morcheeba, Play, Trip-Hop ·

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October 13, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Franz Kirmann: Meridians

Franz Kirmann Meridians Denovali Records London-based French composer Franz Kirmann, one half of Piano Interrupted, here returns to his electronic roots, weaving aspects of modern classical composition – samples and extracts – to create a post-ambient version of post-rock’s surges that border – always beautifully – on the emotionally overwhelming. They Drove All Night Only […]
Posted in Blog · Tagged Album Review, Cliff Martinez, Dev Hynes, Franz Kirmann, Matmos, Meridians, Moby, The Album Leaf ·
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