In Natural Blues, soul, electronic, pop, blues and gospel are inventively harmonised. I dig when artists can seamlessly blend genres and styles into an alloy of a song - it's creativity at its finest, and interesting because it gives us something different to experience. Here is Natural Blues (1999), for which Moby sampled Trouble So Hard by Vera Hall (recorded in 1937!) bringing southern American, Gospel-type soul into Electronic music. The way the samples are edited, also, using effects such as Reverb and Delay, blends the vocals with the added features, and makes the song sound entirely devised in the same creative space. You do not need to scour Play's songs very long or far to hear the recordings' influence - they're the crux of the songs. He made them the feature, and it seems as though they were the stimulus for the rest of the music, which sounds based around the sample. He gave them new life, and brought them into a contemporary era of music. I like that the singers' vocal performances are therefore still very recognisable as their own. He did not over-produce them, so they have maintained their unique and soulful quality (this also gives Play its identifiable style and tone. What I find so admirable in the way Moby sampled these traditional vocal performances is how true he kept the samples to their original tone and timbre. They contain extremely rich and tonally interesting voices, without other instruments cramping the recordings - they're clean vocal takes lending them well to remixing (with greater space for creative composition and control). Listening to the recordings, it is evident why they were so inspiring and intriguing to Moby as samples. The story goes that Moby was introduced, by a friend, to a collection of CDs entitled ' Sounds of the South: A Musical Journey from the Georgia Sea Islands to the Mississippi Delta' (1993) - full of field recordings of folk music (made by Alan Lomax). There are such gems on this record, including Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?, Porcelain and Natural Blues. I specifically really love his work on Play (his fifth album, released in 1999). He generally uses sampling as a means to heighten the expression he aims for in a song - it's about kindling people's emotions through music for him I think.Īnd I'd say he is successful in that aspect because there is great unity between the samples and the music he builds around it - it makes the music pleasant to the spirit. When I think 'Moby', my mind conjures clean-cut, masterly simple mixes with sombre tones. Two of these people are Moby - a.k.a Richard Hall - and Fatboy Slim - a.k.a Quentin Cook. Watch The Official Moby Reverb LP Shop trailer below.There are several artists I greatly admire in their ability to effectively use sampling in their music-making. The Official Moby Reverb LP Shop begins Thursday, 14th June, at 8am PT/10am CT/11am ET/4pm BST. In other Moby news, the legendary producer recently remixed Pendulum as part of the drum & bass group’s forthcoming ‘The Reworks’ remix LP and released his 15th studio album, ‘Everything Was Beautiful, And Nothing Hurt’, this past March. This past April, Moby also partnered with Reverb to sell a portion of his synth collection and studio gear. Well, except me, because now I don’t have any records.” “I would rather you have them than me, because if you have them, you’ll play them, you’ll love them, and the money will go to the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. “These are all the records that I bought and loved and played and carried all around the world,” Moby told Reverb LP. ![]() Many of the records available for sale are said to feature Moby’s handwritten marks from those same sets. Moby is also selling off hundreds of techno, house and hip-hop records he’s collected over the decades, including the same copies he used when he would perform at legendary underground clubs across his native NYC in his early DJ years. All proceeds from the sale will be donated to the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, which works to promote healthful vegan diets for disease prevention and works to end the use of animals in education and experiments. The sale will also include rare items from Moby’s personal collection and discography such as two first pressings of his ground-breaking ‘Play’ album, test pressings and signed gatefold reissues of ‘Play’ and ‘18’, promo recordings and more. ![]() In partnership with Reverb LP, a marketplace for records, Moby is launching The Official Moby Reverb LP Shop Thursday, 14th June, where he’s selling off every single piece of his record collection, which includes over 1,000 records, signed LPs, test pressings and hard-to-find releases.
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