Moby – Play (Turquoise Color Vinyl)

229,99

Limited Club Edition in Turquoise Color Vinyl. Still Sealed.

Following a notorious flirtation with alternative rock, Moby returned to the electronic dance mainstream on the 1997 album I Like to Score. With 1999’s Play, he made yet another leap back toward the electronica base that had passed him by during the mid-’90s. The first two tracks, “Honey” and “Find My Baby,” weave short blues or gospel vocal samples around rather disinterested breakbeat techno. This version of blues-meets-electronica is undoubtedly intriguing to the all-important NPR crowd, but it is more than just a bit gimmicky to any techno fans who know their Carl Craig from Carl Cox. Fortunately, Moby redeems himself in a big way over the rest of the album with a spate of tracks that return him to the evocative, melancholy techno that’s been a specialty since his early days. The tinkly piano line and warped string samples on “Porcelain” frame a meaningful, devastatingly understated vocal from the man himself, while “South Side” is just another pop song by someone who shouldn’t be singing — that is, until the transcendent chorus redeems everything. Surprisingly, many of Moby’s vocal tracks are highlights; he has an unerring sense of how to frame his fragile vocals with sympathetic productions. Occasionally, the similarities to contemporary dance superstars like Fatboy Slim and Chemical Brothers are just a bit too close for comfort, as on the stale big-beat anthem “Bodyrock.” Still, Moby shows himself back in the groove after a long hiatus, balancing his sublime early sound with the breakbeat techno evolution of the ’90s.

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Little Idiot IDIOT 061, 5060236634252 2xLP, Album, Club, RM, Turquoise Color Vinyl US 2018-01-00

A1. Honey
A2. Find My Baby
A3. Porcelain
A4. Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?
B1. South Side
B2. Rushing
B3. Bodyrock
B4. Natural Blues
C1. Machete
C2. 7
C3. Run On
C4. Down Slow
C5. If Things Were Perfect
C6. Everloving
D1. Inside
D2. Guitar Flute & String
D3. The Sky Is Broken
D4. My Weakness

Credits:

Artwork [Original Artwork By, Print] – April Frankenstein
Design [Album Design] – Ysabel Zu Innhausen Und Knyphausen
Instruments [All Instruments Played By] – Moby
Liner Notes [Words By, Insert] – Tyler Barstow
Photography By – Corinne Day
Written-By, Producer, Engineer, Mixed By – Moby

Media Condition: Mint (M)
Sleeve Condition: Mint (M)

Sticker on sleeve reads:
Re-Recorded + Newly Remastered Audio
2LP Transparent Turquoise Color Vinyl
2 exclusive 12″x12″ Art Prints

Embossed cover.
Custom inner sleeves.
Includes an art print and a cocktail recipe.

Natural Blues mixed in Sheffield […]

Honey: features samples from the Bessie Jones recording Sometimes, produced under license from Atlantic Recording Corp. By arrangement with Warner Special Products.
Find My Baby: features samples from the Boy Blue recording Joe Lee’s Rock, produced under license from Atlantic Recording Corp. By arrangement with Warner Special Products.
Bodyrock: contains a sample of Love Rap as performed by Spoony G & the Treacherous 3. Used under license from Enjoy Records, Inc.
Run On: features samples from Run On For A Long Time by Bill Landford & The Landfordaires, used courtesy of Sony Music.

All songs published by Little Idiot Music/Songs of Kobalt Music Publishing USA (BMI) except Bodyrock, published by Little Idiot Music/Songs of Kobalt Music Publishing USA (BMI)/Bobby Robinson Music.

℗ 2017 Little Idiot © 2017 Little Idiot

On labels:
℗ 2017 Little Idiot Music
© 2017 Little Idiot Music

 

 

 

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