Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Moby: "After" [iamamiwhoami remix]

Ah, Moby.  Is there anyone in the electronic music community who it's easier to hate?  After doing his part to put techno on the mainstream radar with 1999's classic Play, Mr. Richard Melville Hall went on a decade long tear, destroying all that goodwill by releasing album after album of cookie cutter, water treading pablum (to be fair, contemporaries Chemical Brothers and Crystal Method hardly fared any better in the 'aughts).

I'd love to be able to call 2011's Destroyed an artistic comeback, but it's mostly just more of that nothing-embarrassing-but-nothing-great-either succession of beige electronic pop tracks.  I suppose if you cared enough you could probably find a couple of songs that grow on you with repeat listens, but it doesn't take repeat listens to dig the fuck out of iamamiwhoami's stellar remix of "After".  For a summer-friendly, laid back jam it's unseasonably fantastic.



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