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Moby revitalized his career with the gospel and blues explorations of this landmark of electronic dance music.  Richard Melville Hall had established himself as a pioneer of electronic music with his dramatic use of samples and juxiposition of thundering beats and delicate atmospherics on albums like 'Everything is Wrong'; but when it came to recording 'Play' he delved into field recordings produced by Alan Lomax as he explored the deep south during the depression.  Moby admits:  "I wish I had stories about me getting them myself, hanging out in prisons and farms in Georgia, Atlanta or Alabama, or whatever. But no, I just went around the corner to my old record store and bought the reissues ... Making 'Play' was incredibly frustrating, because I’ve made my records pretty much all by myself in a bedroom studio, but making  'Play' was during a time when I felt like everyone else except for me was making huge, amazing-sounding, successful records, and  'Play' is quite a lo-fi record. I was signed to Mute Records but I was trying to get a deal in the United States, and record label after record label had rejected me, and so when I was working on  'Play', I was fully aware of the fact that at the time I was kind of a has-been making a lo-fi record in his bedroom that no one would likely ever hear. And I’m not just saying that to be self-deprecating; that was the objective truth. So it was a very frustrating record to make because I never thought it sounded good enough ... The real litmus test for me was at the MTV Music Awards,  I met Chris Rock, and if anyone was going to skewer me for sampling African-American vocals from the early 20th century, it would be him, and he told me how much he loved the record."

'Play' became an international sensation, going to thirty-eight in the US;  twenty-one in Germany;  twelve in Switzerland;  seven in Australia;  five in the Netherlands; three in Belgium; and number one in Austria, France, and the UK.  It has sold over twelve million copies worldwide and has been certified platinum in over twenty countries.





http://www.moby.com/






Honey

If my honey comes back, sometime
I'm gonna rap that jack, sometimes
Get a hump in my back, sometimes
I'm going over here, sometimes
Way down yonder, sometimes
Gonna get my pal, sometimes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVwDlkJoITU






Find My Baby
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=my1B2ldiiW8







Porcelain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJWlBfo5Oj0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAYHTES4whs




South Side
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J23DIIrcqY




Bodyrock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hfQ5uIKrlw




Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1Xsj9-3Pvo




Run On
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kv9Mcz90uDs






Natural Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivtKcM1DGeY





Machete
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL1Hp2X9LP4









full album:



1. Honey -- 0:00
2. Find My Baby -- 3:30
3. Porcelain -- 7:32
4. Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad? -- 11:33
5. South Side -- 15:57
6. Rushing -- 19:49
7. Bodyrock -- 22:51
8. Natural Blues -- 26:30
9. Machete -- 30:43
10. 7 -- 34:22
11. Run On -- 35:23
12. Down Slow -- 39:11
13. If Things Were Perfect -- 40:45
14. Everloving -- 45:07
15. Inside -- 48:28
16. Guitar Flute & String -- 53:18
17. The Sky Is Broken -- 55:27
18. My Weakness -- 59:49







B-sides
full album:



Flower 0:00
Sunday 3:27
Memory Gospel 8:31
Whispering Wind 15:14
Summer 21:17
Spirit 27:16
Flying Foxes 31:25
Sunspot 37:42
Flying Over The Dateline 44:32
Running 49:21
The Sun Never Stops Setting 56:27