A Chat With Moby About His New Ambient Project, ‘Hotel: Ambient’

Always evolving and never fading away, Moby has championed electronic music for over two decades. Nobody has a more eclectic legacy in the American electronic music scene than the outspoken boy from Harlem. There is a certain felling you get every time a Moby song comes on—you feel the passion and constant need for perfection oozing out of every one of his tracks. It is this ability to create a lasting relationship with the listener, genre be dammed, that has truly made Richard Melville Hall one of the most interesting and successful producers of his generation.

Whether it is his now legendary progressive house anthem “Go,” or any track off of last year’s amazing emotional ode to growing up, “Innocents,” it is apparent that Moby knows something more than we do. He understands how to create lasting connections and unlock emotions that we all look for in music.

Setting music to places and spaces is also something distinctly Moby, painting a picture for us in our mind with every track he creates. Sometimes letting the mind decide, and sometimes giving it to us via film scores, Moby has been able to encapsulate a range of experiences over the years. Would we view “Twin Peaks” the same way without that hunting Laura Palmer theme song? Could you really watch Jason Bourne jump out of skyscrapers the same way without “Extreme Ways”?

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