This was always one of my fantasy interviews when I started here at Gotta Dance Dirty. Moby… the legend, the visionary, the oft underrated virtuoso who as it happens is one of the friendliest, humblest, easiest to get along with people you’ll ever encounter. Despite that fact, I was incredibly nervous to interview him, so me and my friend Jack Daniel sat down to interview Moby together, and as we sat Benny Benassi had only recently started his set on the main stage, which was just a stones throw away from where we were doing this interview…
Moby: Damn I’m playing this record later… Oh well… What time is it do you know?
GDD: 6:09 P.M.
Moby: Oh well, people are probably on drugs now, they’ll forget by the time I play it.
GDD: See that’s funny I was actually going to ask you a little about that, you’re rocking a Minor Threat t-shirt, how do you feel about the festival environment, the rave scene, it has shifted so much from about the music, to a ton of kids just coming to get fucked up on drugs…
Moby: Yeah, I mean I had to stop drinking and doing drugs a few years ago, but I’ve certainly spent more than my fair share of time being completely fucked up at one of these festivals, so um, I don’t know I think… I remember when I was growing up playing in punk rock bands, playing in new wave bands, some people would go to shows because they liked the clothes, even in the early rave scene like the early nineties people would go because they liked the drugs, they liked the pacifiers, they liked the glowsticks and then over time really get into the music, or vice versa, some really nerdy electronic music people would go for the electronic music, take ecstasy, and suddenly they’re dancing for eight hours, you know the sun is coming up.
I mean talking about the relationship between drugs and electronic music has always been tricky for a variety of reasons, because at times so many people have such polarized opinions about drugs, but I find it really hard to generalize. You know for some people, some people can do drugs without any consequences and other people do drugs once and their life is ruined. It’s impossible for me to generalize. I assume a lot of people are here for the clothes, to be around other people, to take some drugs and dance and have fun. If they have a great time and they’re safe, far be it from me to criticize it.
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