Moby used his headline set at On The Beach Festival to credit British DJs and producers with creating rave culture, praising figures such as Paul Oakenfold, Danny Rampling, Pete Tong and Carl Cox as its true originators. The comments came during the electronic music veteran's first headline show in nearly 25 years, and highlight the lasting influence UK dance music culture has had on artists internationally, including Moby himself, who has long described himself as an Anglophile.

During the show, Moby performed hits including 'We Are All Made of Stars', 'Extreme Ways', 'Porcelain' and 'Natural Blues', closing with 1994's 'Feeling So Real'. He recalled attending his first UK rave, Rain Dance, in 1991, describing a joyful crowd of 10,000 people, and singled out a moment when the DJ played Rozalla's 'Everybody's Free' as one of his greatest memories. He dedicated his closing song to the spirit of rave culture that the UK invented and has kept alive since the 1990s, also noting the influence of British bands such as Joy Division and the Sex Pistols on his musical taste growing up.