quoted 3 lines Last weekend while shopping, I happened upon a 7" single by Moby.> Last weekend while shopping, I happened upon a 7" single by Moby.
>The song on the A side was New Dawn Fades, by Ian Curtis (lead singer of
>Joy Division).
The song is actually a Joy Division song, as they all were. (No separate
credits)
quoted 2 lines Has anybody heard this and can you review it for me? And, do you know> Has anybody heard this and can you review it for me? And, do you know
>if this appears on CD somewhere?
Well, fellow IDM denizens Jonathan and Andy had it down at KUCI in Irvine CA,
and we gave it a test spin. The other side is a Moby-returns-to-his-Punk-roots
riff-a-rama Punk workout; the "New Dawn Fades" cover was even slower than the
original - Joy Division on Mandrax. I wasn't terribly impressed, but then
again I'm in the owned-everything-JD-ever-did JD-covers-are-sacriledge camp (-:
(I will grant some begrudging respect to Michael Gira's attempt at LWTUA, but
that's partly because I was a big Swans fan ... )
On the one hand I'm glad to see that Moby doesn't feel shackled to the Techno
pigeonhole, but I'm not sure what to make of it. Is it merely a Tribute to His
Roots kinda thing, or an effort on his part (or Elektra's) to "branch out"? If
the latter, I'm not sure how far it's going to get him, and doing Punk songs
and Joy Division covers isn't exactly stretching musical boundaries these days,
hmmn?
- Greg