Play was an outlier when it was released in 1999; an electronic album made with decades-old vocal samples, a last-ditch attempt by Moby to forge a successful music career. Thanks to licensing deals that put Play in movies and car commercials, it sneakily got more airplay than any electronic album before or since, and because of that, has become the most influential. Electronic music went from being the province of a few obsessives to being a global force thanks to Play's mainstreaming of the genre.
We break down the why, and the package details over here.
Read our interview with Moby, written by the writer who reviewed Play in Spin in 1999, here.
Read about how Moby got the CD's he used to make Play, and the friend who wanted them back, here.
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