Mastodawn

I recently learned something that surprised me: for many people, Moby is known almost entirely because of a single album - Play.

Digging a bit deeper, I found out the story behind it, and it completely changed the way I see that record. Play was supposed to be his last album. He recorded it in a small home studio, almost as a quiet farewell.

What makes it special is that he built many of its tracks around old vocal samples from early 20th-century folk and gospel recordings. He shaped the music around those voices, set the mood, and released it and almost nobody cared. At least, not at first.

The breakthrough happened when Moby made a bold decision: he licensed every single track from the album. Commercials, movies, TV, soundtracks - suddenly Play was everywhere. It became a massive cultural moment, completely unexpectedly.

To me, it's a fascinating example of how timing, luck, and real artistic vision can collide. His later albums never reached the same commercial peak, but they're not "worse" — music just keeps moving, shifting, evolving, the same way everything else does (haha, especially the Internet as in my previous posts).

I'm almost sure you've heard at least one of these:

Natural Blues - https://youtu.be/z3YMxM1_S48
Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad? - https://youtu.be/o1Xsj9-3Pvo
Porcelain - https://youtu.be/IJWlBfo5Oj0
All of them come from Play.

But you might also know this one:
Lift Me Up — https://youtu.be/pT_Y-eodTv4
That's from Hotel (2005), a very different era of his work.

I'd recommend listening to the whole album from start to finish - https://open.spotify.com/album/4KZWx8zo5ym89aopr0dBIb.

#Moby #PlayAlbum #MusicHistory #ElectronicMusic #TripHop #Downtempo #Sampling #BehindTheMusic #IndieMusic #90sMusic #2000sMusic #MusicCulture #MusicDiscovery #NowPlaying #SmallWeb #FediverseMusic #Music #Fediverse

Whothefami Nov 27

I am not LGBT. It’s an attitude.
Curious about life, music, culture, and the mind — beyond labels, beyond genders.
I’m an artist. That is all.

#AttitudeNotLabel #Curiosity #ArtistMindset #BeyondLabels #SelfDiscovery #MusicCulture https://whothefami.substack.com/p/an-artist-not-a-label

An Artist, Not a Label

I am not LGBT.

Brett Gornall

No Context Pictures Nov 19

1967 A Joyful Moment from a Musician's Life, January 1967 Issue.

https://nocontext.loener.nl/fullpage/01-January1967-Page-086.png

#photography #illustration #madman #nocontext #sfw #Mid-CenturyFashion #MusicCulture #1960sLifestyle

HP Music Nov 10

When a Sundanese legend hits global frequencies —
DJ Plus Plus’ “Laut” remix turns culture into energy. 🌊

Gamelan meets synth.
Tradition meets rhythm.
Indonesia meets the world. 🌍

Not a remix. A rebirth.

🎧 Read: https://www.hpmusic.id/en/post/dj-plus-plus-laut-remix-doel-sumbang

#WorldMusic #DoelSumbang #DJPlusPlus #GlobalSound #MusicCulture

DJ Plus Plus “Laut” remix Doel Sumbang

Indonesian DJ Plus Plus revives Doel Sumbang’s classic “Laut” with an emotional electronic twist — a remix bridging cultures and global moods.

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HP Music Nov 4

🎸 A concert so raw, it rewrote the rules of rebellion.

In 1976, The Sex Pistols played inside Chelmsford Prison.
The sound was broken, the cables were tangled, and the crowd — actual inmates — went wild.

But this wasn’t chaos for the sake of noise. It was the birth of a sound that refused to obey.

Every modern musician chasing “authenticity” owes something to that moment.

Read the full story 👇
🔗 https://www.hpmusic.id/post/sex-pistols-dan-konser-paling-gila-di-penjara-chelmsford-1976

#SexPistols #PunkHistory #MusicCulture #IndieMusic #TrueSound

Sex Pistols dan Konser Paling Gila di Penjara Chelmsford 1976

Bayangkan belum terkenal tapi berani manggung di penjara! Inilah kisah gila Sex Pistols saat tampil di HM Prison Chelmsford, Inggris, tahun 1976 — konser punk paling berbahaya yang mengubah sejarah musik.

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