Night Fever guest · Season 1, Episode 9
Moby
The club DJ who turned electronica into a global hit record.
Timeline
1980s
Starts out DJing at Rudolf Piper's New York club, Mars.
1991
"Go" breaks him out of the club circuit.
1999
Play becomes a multi-platinum worldwide phenomenon.
2016–2019
Publishes the memoirs Porcelain and Then It Fell Apart.
What they are doing now
Still making and producing music - and campaigning loudly for veganism and animal rights.
Connected to
On the scene timeline
1988 · 28-30 Tenth Avenue
Mars opens on the West Side Highway
Rudolf Piper's five-floor club, where a young Moby picked up some of his first proper DJ residencies.
1991 · 220 Twelfth Avenue
Gatien reopens the Tunnel
A Chelsea freight tunnel becomes the home of hip-hop Sundays and, later, Junior Vasquez's residency.
1991 · London and New York
Moby's Go breaks out of the clubs
A Twin Peaks sample over a rave breakbeat becomes a UK top-ten hit and pulls American electronica into the mainstream.
1999 · Worldwide
Moby's Play licenses every track and sells ten million
The record that proves a club producer can soundtrack an entire decade of advertising.