The original version appears on his latest album
Acclaimed electronic musician, producer and activist Moby shares a cassette remix of “Precious Mind,” featuring India Carney, with a self-directed video. He will release the “Quiet Home DJ Mix” on September 12th, featuring new and unreleased versions of music from the Always Centered at Night album, out now via his own label.
Moby hands in a new cassette remix of his India Carney collaboration “Precious Mind,” which was featured on his widely acclaimed 2024 album Always Centered at Night, deftly transforming the jazzy haze of the original into a widescreen trip-hop epic. A procession of swooping strings, resplendent synth lines and swooning pads underpins India’s emotive delivery.
Moby also returns with a second DJ mix called Quiet Home DJ Mix, featuring new and unreleased versions of music from Always Centered at Night. As the title suggests, this mix leans into playlisting themes of relaxation, and study time and offers some dreamy alternate takes on the album from Moby himself at a similar laidback tempo.
Even by Moby’s standards, always centered at night is a bit special. The album features 13 collaborations in all, from names you might recognize to others you undoubtedly will come to recognize. The lead single “Dark Days” was recorded with acclaimed soul-jazz singer-songwriter Lady Blackbird, a defiant, rhythmic work propelled by her alluring, deep vocals and earnest soul. Other collaborators include Serpentwithfeet on the achingly beautiful “On Air,” and Benjamin Zephaniah on the propulsive, break-beat driven “Where is Your Pride?,” a spoken word with a powerful message delivered in the late dub poet’s characteristically warm Handsworth burr.
Other wonderful voices on Always Centered at Night, include Sudanese, Netherlands-based chanteuse Gaidaa on “transit,” London-based, Burundian royal refugee J.P. Bimeni, and Kingston-raised, London-based Aynzli Jones.
The album is the continuation of the project of the same name that Moby announced in 2022. He saw this project as a similar service to the idiosyncratic New York record shops that he frequented in the late 1980s, where he’d hear something recondite and exciting and it would open up whole new worlds. always centered at night was his way of working with special writers and vocalists to make songs inspired by the spirit of musical discovery.
These are often personal songs, and the personal is the political, as is the border-defying nature of the work. Moreover, they’re crepuscular, conceived at twilight, with many of the styles of the last 30 years in electronic music coming to the fore, such as the trip-hoppy “We’re Going Wrong” featuring Brie O’Banion, the broken beat, almost drum ‘n’ bass influenced “Medusa” with Aynzli Jones, or the Latin house of “Feelings Come Undone” with Raquel Rodriguez.
Moby will embark on his first tour in over a decade later this year across Europe/UK in celebration of Play, which featured classics “Porcelain,” “Natural Blues” and “Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?” and sold over 12 million copies worldwide, winning numerous awards and becoming the biggest-selling electronic album of all time. Tickets for the select dates, including a newly added show in Lausanne, Switzerland, are on sale now. Several dates have already sold out with 100% of his tour profits going to European animal rights organizations.
