Rabbit in the Moon

{{short description|American electronic music group}}

{{about|the American band|the mythological rabbit|Moon rabbit}}

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{{Infobox musical artist

| name = Rabbit in the Moon

| image = Rabbit in the moon live.jpg

| caption = Rabbit in the Moon performing in 2017

| background = group_or_band

| origin = Tampa, Florida, U.S.

| genre = {{hlist|Electronic|house|breakbeat|drum and bass}}

| years_active = 1991–present

| label = Hallucination Recordings
Southbeat

| associated_acts =

| website = {{official URL}}

| current_members = David Christophere
Bunny

| past_members = DJ Monk

}}

Rabbit in the Moon is an American electronic music group that formed in 1991. Their style draws from psychedelic trance, house music and breakbeat, along with other diverse influences. They were among the first to mix theatrical stage performance with rave music.{{Cite web |last=Shurba |first=Nicolette |title=Florida rave phantasmagorics Rabbit in the Moon fall to earth … once more |url=https://www.orlandoweekly.com/music/florida-rave-phantasmagorics-rabbit-in-the-moon-fall-to-earth-once-more-6127574 |access-date=2024-06-19 |website=Orlando Weekly |language=en}}

History

Formed in 1992 in Tampa, Florida, the group consisted of performer/singer Bunny and producer David Christophere.{{Cite web |last=Schlein |first=Zach |title=Rabbit in the Moon on Ultra's Beats, Breaks, and Beach-Orgy History |url=https://www.miaminewtimes.com/music/rabbit-in-the-moon-ultra-music-festival-2018-interview-10186567 |access-date=2025-02-08 |website=Miami New Times |language=en}}

After several singles released on Monk and David Christophere's Hallucination Recordings label under the name Anarch-E, their first success as producers came in 1993 with the release of the "Phases of an Out of Body Experience" single on Hardkiss Records. As remixers, Rabbit in the Moon has reworked songs by artists such as Garbage ("Queer" and "Milk"), Tori Amos ("Precious Things"), Sarah McLachlan ("Fear", "Possession"), Orbital ("Are We Here?"), Smashing Pumpkins ("The End Is the Beginning Is the End"), Goldie ("Inner City Life"), White Zombie ("Blood, Milk and Sky") and Delerium ("Euphoria").

Rabbit in the Moon collaborated with Humate and in 1994 they released the Hemispheres E.P.{{Citation |title=Humate And Rabbit In The Moon - Hemispheres E.P. |date=1994-11-27 |url=https://www.discogs.com/release/34884-Humate-And-Rabbit-In-The-Moon-Hemispheres-EP?srsltid=AfmBOoopKr2LvwDTQidj788CtuXopTL4SEbTU2T_tvItp10dPFCdSpJD&utm |access-date=2025-02-08 |language=en}}

Throughout their career, Rabbit in the Moon toured extensively in the United States playing shows at venues and raves.

In 1999, Rabbit in the Moon performed in the first Ultra Music Festival.{{Cite web |last=Schlein |first=Zach |title=Rabbit in the Moon on Ultra's Beats, Breaks, and Beach-Orgy History |url=https://www.miaminewtimes.com/music/rabbit-in-the-moon-ultra-music-festival-2018-interview-10186567 |access-date=2024-06-19 |website=Miami New Times |language=en}}

The Rabbit in the Moon Remixes Volume 2 CD came with a liner note stating that there was a new album to be released in summer of 2001. The album never materialized. Because of Monk's departure, questions were raised as to whether the group was breaking up, but this was not the case.

= DJ Monk leaves =

DJ Monk left the group in 2002. A new song called "Time Bomb" surfaced in 2003, with David Christophere and Bunny as the only producers on the track.{{Citation needed|date=June 2020}}

In 2005, they made the song "Came and Conkered", inspired by and featured in the soundtrack of the 2005 video game Conker: Live & Reloaded. They were asked by Nile Rodgers to create music for the Xbox remake of the game.{{citation needed|date=April 2017}}

Early in 2007, a countdown to a new album appeared on the band's MySpace page, putting the release date in April 2007. The album was ultimately released on July 10, 2007. It features two discs: one, a collection of past singles and newer material in audio CD format; the other, a collection of music videos and live performances from various festivals and concerts in DVD format. The record is called "Decade", and was released on Contagious Musiq / Southbeat Records.[http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=7398003&BAB=M Rabbit in the Moon Decade CD]

In 2008, on the second night of the Annual World DJ Festival in Seoul, South Korea, frontman Bunny was injured when a glass bottle thrown by someone in the crowd hit his left eye, lacerating his retina, lens, and skin, and severely damaging his vision. Friends and fans throughout the electronic dance music community rallied to raise money to help him pay for his medical expenses.[http://newsflash.bigshotmag.com/big-shot-magazine/1237/ Nearly Blinded by Crowd Injury, Community Rallies to Help RITM’s Bunny, by Zel McCarthy, Big Shot Magazine, September 3, 2008]

{{As of|2010}}, Rabbit in the Moon announced on their MySpace page that they were working on a new double album.{{citation needed|date=April 2017}}

On March 27, 2010, Rabbit in the Moon performed at the Ultra Music Festival in Miami. David Christophere was not seen at this show, fueling rumors he left the band and of an imminent band break up.

Bunny has been performing in several countries under the title BUNNY or Bunny Live.{{Citation needed|date=June 2020}}

David Christophere produces music and DJ from his home base in Los Angeles.{{Citation needed|date=June 2020}}

= Reunion =

On August 31, 2013, the group played Firestone Live in Orlando, FL.{{Cite web|title=DC (RABBIT IN THE MOON) REUNION LIVE SET, by DC (Rabbit in the Moon)|url=https://dcrabbitinthemoon.bandcamp.com/track/dc-rabbit-in-the-moon-reunion-live-set|access-date=2020-06-26|website=DC (Rabbit in the Moon)}}

On December 16, 2015, Ultra Music Festival in Miami announced the appearance of Rabbit in the Moon on their lineup of 2016 edition .{{Cite web|title=Ultra Music Festival Announces Phase One Lineup For Eighteenth Annual Edition · Ultra Music Festival|url=https://ultramusicfestival.com/worldwide/ultra-music-festival-announces-phase-one-lineup-for-eighteenth-annual-edition/|access-date=2020-06-26|website=Ultra Music Festival|language=en-US}} The group performed at Electric Daisy Carnival in Orlando in November, 2016.

The group played at Ultra Music Festival Miami 2017 and 2018. As well as Ultra Korea, Insomniac Countdown, Freaknight Seattle, and the great salt air Utah Das Energi festival.

Selected discography

Original productions and singles:

class="wikitable sortable"

! scope="col" | Year

! scope="col" | Title

! scope="col" | Detail

1993

| Out of Body Experience/Freak to the Beat

| Hallucination 12"

1994

| Phases of an Out Of Body Experience

| Hardkiss 12"

1995

| Untitled/The EP that Never Was

| rowspan="2"|Limited Edition Hallucination 12"

1997

|Deeper

rowspan="2"|1998

|Rabbit in the Moon Remixes Volume 1

|Hallucination 3x12" and CD

Waiting for the Night

|Appears on 'For the Masses' Depeche Mode Tribute

rowspan="2"|1999

|Floori.d.a

|Hallucination 2x12" and CD Maxi

Rabbit in the Moon Remixes Volume 2

|Hallucination 3x12" and CD

rowspan="2"|2002

|9ine Eleven Dub

|rowspan="2"|White Label

Time Bomb
2007

| Decade

|Southbeat Records

2009

|Blue Monday on Ceremony – A New Order Tribute

|24 Hour Service Station

2016

|Pheet Original release

|

rowspan="2"|2017

|Let's Dance Remake release with live video

|{{Cite web|title=Let's Dance, by Rabbit in the Moon|url=https://rabbitinthemoon.bandcamp.com/track/lets-dance|access-date=2020-06-26|website=Rabbit in the Moon}}

Seven Loves Electro EP

|Insomniac Music / Thumper Music
Limited Release vinyl 12" and Digital

2018

|Vibration EP

|

=Remixes=

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! scope="col" |Artist

! scope="col" | Track

! scope="col" | RITM's Mix

! scope="col" | Label

Astral Pilot

|Electro Acupuncture

|Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation

|Harthouse

Aquarhythms

|Heart Sequence

|Moveable Feast Mix

|Astralwerks

Banco de Gaia

|Drunk as a Monk

|Brass Monkey mix

|Mammoth Records

BT & Tori Amos

|Blue Skies

|Fathomless mix

|Kinetic Records/Perfecto Records

Cosmic Baby

|Cosmic Greets Florida

|greets berlin & 7 am pacific rmxs

|Logic

Delerium

|Euphoria (firefly)

|Divine Gothic Disco Mix & Dub

|Netwerk

Garbage

|Queer

|Heftybag mix and F.T.F.O.I. mix

|Geffen Records/Almo Sounds

Garbage

|Stupid Girl

|

|Geffen/Almo Sounds

Garbage

|Milk

|Got It, Butchered Vegas and Udder mixes

|Geffen/Almo

God Within

|The Phoenix

|river & rain rmx

|Hardkiss

Goldie

|Inner City Life

|

|London/FFRR Records

Healy & Amos

|Argentina

|Helium mix

|Positiva Records

DJ Keoki

|Caterpillar

|disco 2001 mix

|Moonshine Music

Love and Rockets

|R.I.P. 20C

|D.eath M.etal T.echno mix & R.I.P.ella

|Red Ant

Nightripper

|Tone Exploitation

|exploitation rmx

|ESP

Orbital

|Are We Here

|Oral Mix & Laconic Dub

|London/FFRR

Planet Perfecto (Paul Oakenfold)

|Bullet In The Gun 2000

|Bloodhound Gangbangers & Spooky Red Ribbon Mixes

|Perfecto

Planet Soul

|Set U Free

|Moon Spirits dub

|Strictly Rhythm

Rabbit in the Moon/Humate

|East

|southern stimulation

|Superstition/RisingHigh

Sarah McLachlan

|Possession, Fear & Fear of Possession

|

|Arista Records

Smashing Pumpkins

|The End Is the Beginning Is the End

|Melancholy & The Infinite Madness Mix & Dub

|Warner Bros.

The Stone Roses vs. RITM

|Fool's Gold

|Message To The Majors & Straight Beat Mixes

|Jive Electro

The Stone Roses vs. RITM

|I Wanna Be adored

|Acid Hacienda V2.1, Sex EFX & 909, For The Love Of Acid Mix & LunaSol's Acid Hacienda

|Jive Electro

TDF (feat. Eric Clapton)

|Ripstop

|Creamy Funkshunal mix

|Reprise

Velocity

|Lust

|Desirable mix

|Superstition

White Zombie

|More Human Than Human

|

|Geffen

White Zombie

|Blood, Milk & Sky

|Subterranean Mix

|Geffen

References

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