Richard Melville Hall (born 1965), known professionally as Moby, is an American electronic musician, composer and producer active since the late 1980s.

Widely known for the 1999 breakthrough album Play and for work across ambient, techno and downtempo styles. Publicly known as a vegan and animal-rights/environmental activist. His work often incorporates samples and spans dance, ambient, rock and pop approaches.

DeBaser hosts a decent amount of reviews of Moby, spanning his ambient, electronic and pop-era works. Reviews praise Play and several ambient releases, note stylistic shifts (rock, disco, pop), and discuss his activism. Opinions vary on late-period albums and live shows.

For:Fans of electronic, ambient and downtempo music; readers interested in Moby's major albums and viewpoints on his activism.

 I know that you don't like Moby. Activist, devout Catholic, and committed vegan: Moby is ultimately the anti-rockstar par excellence, the stubborn moral of a country priest, the whining voice that announces the delay of a train at the station, the rerun of the badly dubbed TV series that no one has ever watched and loops on an airport hall screen.

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 Play by Moby (1999) has the great merit of giving artistic dignity to electronic music made of samples and various manipulations that until its release seemed like an expedient for those who didn't know how to play.

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 Moby makes an ambient record, purely droning, with the experience of someone who has been making music at a high level for decades, and with the dignity of such.

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 Moby's performance in Turin demonstrated it once again!

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 It must have been the dreamy atmosphere, the colors and the beauty of the sounds chosen by Moby for his unique masterpiece "Play", but without realizing it, I have arrived home, parked the car in the garage, overcome the difficult obstacle of the stairs, opened the thousand locks of the house door, changed clothes, and reached my warm bed, ready to dream.

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