Moby ‘Best Of’ - Interview

MOBY: Well, it's funny. The first time I sampled a Blues vocal and wrote a song around it was 1989 and there was even an early single, I think it came out in 1991, called "Everything Is Alright" and it sampled an old Blues vocal, so when I made "Play" and I sampled the old Blues vocals, to me, I was just continuing doing something that I had already done a lot.

It was just that I guess at that point no-one else had heard it and what attracted me to these old Blues and Gospel vocals was that they were beautifully sung and they were very emotional and the emotion was very clear and very straightforward and you know, not necessarily couched in metaphor and imagery, but it was just [a] very specific, straightforward description of what the singer was feeling.

Q18: What appealed about combining the Gospel voices with ultra-modern electronic music?

MOBY: It's… See sometimes when people ask me what my inspiration for making a piece of music was or for making a certain record, my answer, which might seem really disappointing, but it's the honest, albeit very simple answer, I make records because I like making records and I make music because I like making music and if I combine electronic music with old Gospel vocals, there's really no thought behind it, it's just purely because I like the way it sounded and it affected me, emotionally.
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