Another Green World

Sides 1 and 2 of a Moby mixtape, compiled 11th April 1999.

Apologies to those of you who may have read the title and been expecting a lovely Brian Eno ambient compilation to ease in your Sunday. Yer man Eno does appear on side 2, track 3 albeit remixed by the great great great grandson of Herman Melville.

I appreciate for quite a few people out there, Meville's descendant may be considered more Dick than Moby but I was obsessed with Moby's music throughout the 1990s, after hearing the Twin Peaks-sampling monster that is Go. 

Much as I loved his all-pervading album Play, it was wrung out to such an extent that I stopped listening to it for many years, whilst 18 and the albums that followed have been patchy listens that, aside from a few diamonds on each, often felt like they were mining to same seam, with diminishing returns.

This selection was one of three cassettes that I recorded in 1999, on the back of Play but completely ignoring it, mainly for my own pleasure. I also lent them to my mate Paul, as a sampler of Moby's work, pre-Play. I've only got two of the three mixtapes now, so it's possible the other is either still with Paul (we lost touch over the years) or buried in a landfill somewhere.

This selection focuses on the period 1991 to 1997, covering Moby's first four albums, singles and remixes of his own and other people's music. I've also thrown in a couple of his aliases from 1991, Brainstorm and Voodoo Child, the latter periodically revisited by Moby through to the early 2000s. 

Depending on your view of Moby, you're either in for just over an hour and a half of musical delight, or a split second on the 'skip' button. No surprise, I'm firmly in the former camp.

Side One

1) Now I Let It Go: Moby (1996)

2) Everytime You Touch Me (Album Version): Moby ft. Rozz Morehead & Kochie Banton (1995)

3) I Feel It (Synthe Mix): Moby ft. Nicole Zaray (1992)

4) That's When I Reach For My Revolver (Moby's Mix) (Cover of Mission Of Burma): Moby (1997)

5) James Bond Theme (Moby's Re-Version) (Cover of John Barry & Orchestra): Moby (1997)

6) Move The Colors (Edit By Moby): Brainstorm (1991)

7) Heaven: Moby (1993)

8) Yeah: Moby (1992)

9) My Beautiful Blue Sky: Moby (1993)

 

Side Two

1) Hymn (This Is My Dream) (Single Version): Moby (1994)

2) Go (Arpathoski Mix): Moby (1992)

3) Fractal Zoom (Naive Mix II): Brian Eno (1992)

4) All That I Need Is To Be Loved (Moby Dub): Moby (1993)

5) Bring Back My Happiness! (Extended Mix): Moby ft. Rozz Morehead & Saundra Williams (1995)

6) Move (You Make Me Feel So Good) (Single Version): Moby ft. Rozz Morehead & Carole Sylvan (1993)

7) Permanent Green: Voodoo Child (1991)

8) Help Me To Believe: Brainstorm (1991)

9) Love Song For My Mom ('Little Idiot' Version): Moby (1996) 

 

1991: Instinct Dance: A6 

1991: Rock The House EP: B8

1991: Voodoo Child EP: B7

1992: Fractal Zoom EP: B3

1992: I Feel It / Thousand EP: A3 

1992: Moby: A8 

1992: The Ultimate Go (The '92 Mixes) EP: B2

1993: All That I Need Is To Be Loved EP: B4

1993: Ambient: A7, A9

1993: Move EP: B6

1994: Hymn EP: B1

1995: Bring Back My Happiness! EP: B5

1995: Everything Is Wrong: A2

1996: Animal Rights: A1 

1996: Animal Rights / Little Idiot (ltd 2x CD): B9

1997: I Like To Score: A5

1997: That's When I Reach For My Revolver EP: A4

 

Side One (46:22) (Box) (Mega)

Side Two (46:34) (Box) (Mega)