Moby used his set at On The Beach in Brighton this weekend to deliver a Moby UK rave culture tribute. He took the mic mid,performance and walked the crowd through his personal history with British music.
Moby’s Moby UK rave culture speech: from Sex Pistols to Frankie Knuckles
“I was such an anglophile,” Moby told the beachfront crowd. “From the time I was probably six years old… I discovered the Sex Pistols and then Public Image and The Clash. Then I discovered Joy Division and I discovered New Order and Echo and The Bunnymen. I just fell in love with music from the UK.”
From there he moved into the rave lineage. He traced house music’s origins back to Frankie Knuckles in Chicago. Then he credited the UK with turning it into something else entirely. “This is where house music exploded, this is where techno exploded, and thanks to some of the originators like Paul Oakenfold, Danny Rampling, Pete Tong and Carl Cox, I don’t think it’s hyperbole: you invented rave culture.”
Rain Dance 1991 and the moment that sealed it
Moby recalled his own first UK rave in 1991. He called the event Rain Dance. “It was warm, it was beautiful, in the middle of nowhere, a field somewhere, and there were 10,000 people just celebrating. The DJ played ‘Everybody’s Free’ by Rozalla, which had just come out. Everyone threw their hands in the air. It just felt like perfection.”
Moby closed the set by dedicating the final song to what he called “the spirit of rave culture that you invented and have kept alive.” The On The Beach socials captured the moment. It quickly spread across dance,music communities online.
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