After a decade of laying relatively low Moby is back and it looks like he wants a taste of the sweet success he found when he introduced mainstream audiences and Madison Avenue ad execs to electronica with his mega platinum selling Play. Teaming up with the ubiquitous Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne for the soulfully stirring "The Perfect Life," Richard has gone for his vintage sound: gently textured electronics unobtrusively backing humanist neo gospel vocals that make you want to buy something or sit in a park. The video qualifies as vintage Wayne Coyne lunacy/boilerplate: our heroes decked out in Mariachi suits, walking the streets of your town USA, singing and bringing joy to the masses while encountering Burger King, dancing gimps, scantily clad women, and roller-skating ghosts. Watch, enjoy, but instead of buying something, hug somebody.

This weeks remix comes courtesy of Swedish electronic artist iamamiwhoami.  He gives a pulsating bass backbone to Moby's new single "After", from his latest album Destroyed.  I've been up and down on Moby's output throughout his career, but have been really enjoying what he's been doing these last few years. 2008's Last Night was a catchy throwback album that went largely ignored due to Moby's previous pop explorations (and undeterred motivation to sing... yeesh). Since Last Night, he seems to be creatively re-invigorated, and this new remix from iamamiwhoami is the rare animal that improves on the original. Check out both versions below and decide for yourself.


Moby - After by Posh Magazine

Moby - After (iamamiwhoami Remix) by Miscellaneous le blog