Did You Know...

Moby was raised in Darien, Connecticut where he began playing guitar at the age of ten. He later mastered bass, drums and keyboard while playing as a member of a couple of hardcore punk bands. His interest shifted to dance music in the mid 1980's. He began collecting cheap, used recording equipment and set himself up in an old factory in New York's Little Italy district.

Moby originally worked for a New York dance label called Instinct. His early work is comprised of mostly un-issued cuts produced between 1988 and 1991. In 1993 Moby signed to a major independent label and released 'Hymn' on Mute Records the following year. He made his major label debut later with the album, 'Everything Is Wrong', and continued building his remix collection, which at this point included the B-52's, LFO, the PetShop Boys, Depeche Mode, David Bowie and even Michael Jackson.

In 1991 Moby released in the U.K. the theme from Twin Peaks remixed and named 'Go.' It reached the Top 10 and became an instant club hit. In 1993 he set a Guinness World Record when he released 'I Feel It/Thousand'. 'Thousand' was classified as the fastest single ever, reaching at one point, a speed of 1,015 beats per minute. In 1995 Moby went back to his hard-core punk roots and made an appearance at Lollapallooza. Around the same time, Moby released "The End Of Everything", under the monicker Voodoo Child. It was a mesh of synthetic orchestration and underground dance that was hailed as one of the best dance albums ever made. Then, in 1997, Moby released "I Like to Score", a compilation of songs he produced that had been used in movies. Among these was the breakbeat-driven version of the "James Bond Theme," which debuted at number eight on the U.K. charts.