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moby play & play the B sides

One of the notable aspects of Play, as opposed to other electronic albums of the time, was the way in which it combined old gospel and folk music rhythms with modern house sensibilities. Moby sampled heavily from the collected field recordings of Alan Lomax in songs such as “Honey”, “Find My Baby”, and “Natural Blues”, while the track “Run On” was inspired by the traditional “God’s Gonna Cut You Down”. The album also has more purely electronic tracks, as well as the rock-influenced single “South Side” and the more ambient “Porcelain”. In 2003, the album was ranked number 341 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

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