Music : Play

Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0638812704924
Label: V2
Manufacturer: V2
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: V2
Release Date: June 01, 1999
Studio: V2
Sales Rank: 2806
MPN: 127049

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.com's Best of 1999 :
Those who have followed Moby's career are familiar by now with his deep convictions and spiritual connection. On his 1999 release, Play, he celebrates his faith in a masterful, unobtrusive way, channeling gospel and other inspirational samples through beats so earthy they could grow grass on a cement dance floor. It's impossible to separate the joy of the message from the joy of the grooves. --Beth Massa

Amazon.com essential recording:
The great iconoclast of techno returns with a smooth, sacred, and exhilarating record. Play's concoction of breakbeat rhythms, ambient mixology, and inspired blues and gospel samples cry out across musical genres and histories, imparting a time-tested wisdom to beat-driven ears. Moby's devout faith--in both God and his own musical whims--give this approach a sort of legitimacy that another, less sincere artist would never have. That sincerity reverberates through the beats and instrumental eclecticism like a pulse. The soulful refrains and proclamations in "Find My Baby" and "Natural Blues" somehow nestle between straight-up dance-floor rave-ups ("Bodyrock") and melt-in-your-mouth ambience ("Inside") with an effortless grace. Moby reaches across his turntables and finds something pure--almost organic. In fact, the album feels more natural than techno is ever supposed to feel, more spiritual than what DJs are supposed to be able to muster, and more alive than it has any right to be. --Matthew Cooke

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Still beautiful to listen to...
Just bought this CD a couple of weeks ago. I enjoyed listening to it because there's something different about these music compared to contemporary ones. Although obviously they are very modern, you can say Moby's technique of utilizing notes harks back to medieval times. The prolongation of some notes (which are hypnotizing) resembles those of the chants used in religious services. The transitions can be compared to majority of the classical/baroque music. And who could miss the vocals that resemble ... Read More

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- Play - by Moby
This is the album that got me hooked on Moby. I've been a fan ever since.
It goes without saying, I recommend it very highly.

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- A Defintive Album of the 90's
In an era dominated by Grunge and Hip-hop, Moby managed to create an album which will arguably be placed on the best list of the 90's. He introduced the Blues to Electronica and made it commercially trendy.

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- A wonderful surprise...
I will admit when I first bought this album, I did not like it. In fact, I hated it and would have attempted to sell it immediately, but I'd only paid five bucks or so for it in the first place so I kept it, figuring I wouldn't get much of a return. Two weeks passed with me glaring at what seemed to be wasted money in my cd rack before I finally decided to give Moby's "Play" another listen. Boy, am I glad I did.

This cd is something strange and intriguing with tracks that are pure ear candy ... Read More

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- White man plays black

I'm giving this album 4 stars not because it has "killer" songs-though it does have good ones-but for the fact that it is very easy on the ear. Moby has a very mellow, rhythmic, black sounding album here. I don't really have the vocabulary to describe his musical influences...maybe you could list them as blues, soul and perhaps gospel. Some of his songs sound sort of school-girly...like maybe the kind of stuff you'd hear black girls skipping along to in America.

Moby melds these ... Read More

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