Electronic / Alternative Dance · 1990s Career
Moby moved through techno, ambient and alternative electronic music during the 1990s before achieving a major late-decade breakthrough with a style that blended samples, blues and downtempo production.
Electronic roots
Early work emerged from rave and techno culture, but Moby repeatedly resisted staying inside one electronic subgenre.
Play
Released in 1999, Play used archival blues and gospel vocal samples over electronic arrangements, creating one of the most commercially successful crossover electronic albums of its era.
Why he matters
Moby helped make downtempo and electronic production accessible to a broad pop audience at the turn of the millennium.