I love to move in here

I love to move in here 

by Moby

The head and glasses of the classy electro-dance

This entry on this blog is very special because I am going to write about one of my favourite music artists; Richard Melville Hall, best known as Moby.

The selection done by Richard of being artistically recognized as Moby was supposedly because Herman Melville (writer of the novel Moby Dick) was his great-great-great granduncle.

Wherever his name comes from, Moby is just one of the most important figures of the electronic music. It is impressive how deep some Moby songs are inside of me, being able to touch my soul and shake my heart. One of the factors I love the most on his songs is his melody, the way he can harmonize the musical instruments and create a constant flow of feelings. By far is a gift only belonging to this man. Trying to bring some examples into the discussion, Porcelain and Why Does my hear Feel so bad from the album of 1999 Play are two songs that makes you listen to your soul.

But wait, Moby is not only an emotional carrousel of feelings. Of course not. Moby is also the energy of the electronic music in his pure state. I have been eye witness of his power on the stage, firing up a crowd of frozen people in a Bogota night, round about the year 2010 (thanks to my sister, who invited me).

One of this sort of effervescent songs (which was not played in Bogota) is I love to move in here, from the album Last Night, released in 2008. Is a song that softly, makes you get up, start to shake your hands and move your feet, sing a bit perhaps, and enjoy for sure for about 5 minutes of song length.

J'aime Moby

The song starts with a basic soft electro-tempo, to then add a melodic girl voice that repeats: “I love to move in here”. Some kind of soft yells are introduced at the background producing like a disco atmosphere or something like that. All this is suddenly cut off by half when the rapper Grandmaster Caz comes into play with a solo voice of around 40 seconds, adding some extra force to the song. The rest of the song is Moby’s magic in action: mixing these two different styles in one single musical line till the end of the song is reached.

The music video is, as it can be expected, played in a disco. The surprise is the main actor, a fluorescent blue octopus, which goes into the disco and from nothing becomes the star of the night, with its “unique” movements on the disco floor. In some parts of the video, Moby is showed sitting in a red couch, spending a good time in a disco. Grandmaster is there when singing his solo, and supporting some of the octopus dance moves. Definitely, this is one more reason why Moby is Moby, why that bold head and square shape glasses are so famous around the world, why he is one of the artist I want to be played when I die.

I specially love this song, because it was the soundtrack of one of the best times in my life. I was new in those lands, I was by myself; waiting just to be happy. And I was happy, extremely happy. I just remember myself shouting in my bike: “I LOVE TO MOVE IN HERE”.

Thanks.

T'estimo Barça

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