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Mon Jun 17 2002 at 20:33:59
"Here ya go, guys. Here's the equipment that Moby's last CD was recorded on."
--
Don Fleming
's recollection of an interview he did with the
BBC
, as he gestured toward
Alan Lomax
's ancient reel-to-reel recorder.
Though Moby has a nice-guy reputation and a fervent fan base, often overlooked is the fact most of the material on his breakthrough album "
Play
" was lifted directly from
field recording
s made by
Alan Lomax
.
Moby's hit "
Natural Blues
" sampled extensively from "
Trouble So Hard
," an obscure 1930s recording sung by the late
Vera Hall
.
Lomax, now 87 and retired in Florida, collected the Vera Hall material during one of his many trips through the American South, where he recorded such figures as
Muddy Waters
. Hall's work is merely a small fragment of the thousands of hours of tape in the Lomax Archives' vaults.
Moby sampled the songs legally, having paid a nominal licensing fee for their use, but Hall's heirs, as of 2002, have only seen a fraction of the royalties Moby has.
Moby seems untroubled by such thoughts.
"I wish I had stories about me getting them myself," Moby told a
CNN
reporter in 2000, "hanging out in prisons and farms in Georgia, Atlanta or Alabama, or whatever. But no, I just went around the corner to my old record store and bought the reissues."
Sources:
www.cnn.com
www.alan-lomax.com
www.ubl.com
Personal reportage
, conversations with
Don Fleming
, October 2001-May 2002.
What did people use as incidental music before Moby was invented?
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Halcyon + On + On
DJ Shadow
Everything2 hacks
Fatboy Slim
Christian
electronica
Mockingbird
Geeks In Space
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Alan Lomax
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Voodoo Child
Herman Melville
Meat Beat Manifesto
animal rights
We are all made of stars
vegan
ascetic
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