Article: Mo' Moby: Moby on feelin' gay, slapping the religious right, and his new CD, Hotel.(MUSIC makers)(Sound Recording Review)

Moby is a tough guy to label. Culturally, says the heterosexual born-again Christian, "I'm more of a gay Jew than I am a straight WASP from Connecticut. My formative years were spent peppering my speech with Yiddish and hanging out in gay nightclubs."

But the electronic music pioneer thrives on contradictions. His Grammy-nominated 1999 breakthrough, Play, transformed archival folk recordings into dance floor-friendly pop songs.

His latest release, Hotel, could easily be mistaken for the product of an artist laboring under multiple personality disorder, ranging from what Moby calls "decadent, degenerate dance songs" ("Very," "I Like It") to tender romantic ballads ...

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