I’ll be honest and say I’m not a huge fan of Moby’s music. But there is no denying that in terms of videos, commercials, and films he is one of the most licensed musicians composing today. Even if you are like me, and don’t enjoy listening to his music in your car, you have to admit his music works well in movies. That’s why I got really excited when I found out that he is offering to license his music for free.
It’s all available from the website Moby Gratis. Simply create an account and log in. He offers a free license for anything non commercial, or short film. For commercial works, its not free…but all profits go to the human society. I haven’t yet looked into the cost of licensing for commercial works, but I suspect it is quite affordable considering Moby is a grammy nominated artist.
At first when I found out about it, I expected a mediocre offering of a few songs. Once you log in you’ll see there are 64 full length tracks, and next to each is a link to request a license.
I’ve listened to about a dozen tracks so far. Most of is essentially ambient music, which would work well as background music. I’ve yet to find anything that really works well as a featured song…the kind of song that plays as your main character walks off into the sunset sort of thing…but most of it should work well as music under dialog.