By Gabe Hargrove
Everything is wrong. Actually not quite everything, but Moby thinks so. One of the most talented composers, (Not just DJ) in the genre, he’s also the only one interested in the present day dilemma – animal testing, drugs, pollution and messed up people in general.
Moby is an ex-rich hard-core punk from Connecticut and New York hip-hop club DJ. After four years under the name Moby, he constructed the ultimate suburban disco album – Everything is Wrong. The music on this masterpiece mixes grind sounding distorted guitars with intense psychedelic keyboard patterns building adrenalin almost to the point of no return.
“God moving over the face of the waters”, an instrumental piece very pleasing to my ears, paints an intensely beautiful picture of a spiritually damaged face. Moby is a genius at combining house music rhythms and soaring piano lines with a sometimes harder, industrial sounding edge.
Being a libertarian Christian vegan, and anti-druggie, I think he has found a groove for his physical and spiritual cravings with this album.
If you like techno or to dance, “Everything is Wrong” is an intense and spectacular electro eargazm. At least as far as mainstream techno goes in that direction. For Moby, the music doesn’t work unless it reaches out and touches you. I give it a nine out of ten on my musical scale.