![]() There are similarities to Moby in the way Fatboy Slim employs sampling, but he also has his own distinct method and style. I am also a huge fan of his music and sampling, he has made some very timeless Electronic tunes I think. It is a very genuine use of sampling I think.Ī fellow sampling master of the 90s-00s is Fatboy Slim. He brought out the meaning in the lyrics, and the sincerity of the original - which is still the shining grace of the tune - and even did so in the film clip bringing a new context to the authenticity of the original vocals. He couples the original sample with devised synthesis - his composed rhythms and melodies - so wonderfully that it somehow brings out the beauty in the original vocal performance - as if, if those vocals were performed today it would be for/with that music (like, Vera Hall would be proud of it-type-thing). In Natural Blues, soul, electronic, pop, blues and gospel are inventively harmonised. I dig when artists can seamlessly blend genres and styles into an alloy of a song - it's creativity at its finest, and interesting because it gives us something different to experience. ![]() Here is Natural Blues (1999), for which Moby sampled Trouble So Hard by Vera Hall (recorded in 1937!) bringing southern American, Gospel-type soul into Electronic music. The way the samples are edited, also, using effects such as Reverb and Delay, blends the vocals with the added features, and makes the song sound entirely devised in the same creative space. You do not need to scour Play's songs very long or far to hear the recordings' influence - they're the crux of the songs. He made them the feature, and it seems as though they were the stimulus for the rest of the music, which sounds based around the sample. He gave them new life, and brought them into a contemporary era of music. I like that the singers' vocal performances are therefore still very recognisable as their own. He did not over-produce them, so they have maintained their unique and soulful quality (this also gives Play its identifiable style and tone. What I find so admirable in the way Moby sampled these traditional vocal performances is how true he kept the samples to their original tone and timbre. They contain extremely rich and tonally interesting voices, without other instruments cramping the recordings - they're clean vocal takes lending them well to remixing (with greater space for creative composition and control). Listening to the recordings, it is evident why they were so inspiring and intriguing to Moby as samples. The story goes that Moby was introduced, by a friend, to a collection of CDs entitled ' Sounds of the South: A Musical Journey from the Georgia Sea Islands to the Mississippi Delta' (1993) - full of field recordings of folk music (made by Alan Lomax). There are such gems on this record, including Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?, Porcelain and Natural Blues. I specifically really love his work on Play (his fifth album, released in 1999). He generally uses sampling as a means to heighten the expression he aims for in a song - it's about kindling people's emotions through music for him I think.Īnd I'd say he is successful in that aspect because there is great unity between the samples and the music he builds around it - it makes the music pleasant to the spirit. When I think 'Moby', my mind conjures clean-cut, masterly simple mixes with sombre tones. Two of these people are Moby - a.k.a Richard Hall - and Fatboy Slim - a.k.a Quentin Cook. Watch the record sale's promo video before the Thursday launch.There are several artists I greatly admire in their ability to effectively use sampling in their music-making. ![]() Moby's move to sell off his wax comes after an April sale on Reverb, also done to support the PCRM non-profit, that featured more than 100 instruments, pieces of gear and other accoutrements. Well, except me, because now I don't have any records." "I would rather you have them than me, because if you have them, you'll play them, you'll love them, and the money will go to the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. "These are all the records that I bought and loved and played and carried all around the world," the artist explains in a video promoting the sale. ![]() His collection is said to be heavy on techno, house and hip-hop from the '80s and '90s, with many of the records featuring handwritten markers Moby added to help him during his DJ sets. The sale on online marketplace Reverb LP will include Moby's personal copies of nearly every one of his own records, along with hundreds of 12-inches he used as a DJ early on his career. Moby will put his record collection up for sale this Thursday and donate all proceeds to an anti-cruelty non-profit group, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. ![]()
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