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To that end, Moby's approach to communicating his message has evolved. Animal Rights, an angry, dissonant album, sold poorly when it came out in 1996. But in 1999, with the infinitely more accessible, danceable Play, Moby hit platinum. And with every copy of Play comes a concise, heartfelt plea for the welfare of the planet's animals. Because millions of copies of that album have been sold, its booklet is probably the most widely read vegan treatise ever. And now Moby is taking the message a step farther.
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Clearly, Moby enjoyed visiting and performing at Mount Holyoke as much as Mount Holyoke enjoyed having him here. During the hours before the concert, he sat in on an Italian class, played ball on Skinner Green and chatted with students. In the evening, this friendly, approachable side of him manifested itself in the way he spoke to and played to the crowd. Between songs, he cracked jokes with the audience as though they were close friends.
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Moby was raised in Connecticut and encouraged to be creative by his mother who raised him by herself after his father died. By the time he was 10, he had learned classical guitar. In his teens and twenty's, he was playing in rock and punk bands most notably the Vatican Commandos.
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Moby plays keyboard, guitar, and bass guitar, and expresses mild irritation at the assumption that everything on his newer albums is a sample. He used to be in a punk band the Vatican Commandos, but abandoned punk in 1989 for electronic music.
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A few years and a postponed visit later Moby returns to Morning Becomes Eclectic while in town for the Grammy nominations and to highlight his latest release, 18 - B-Sides (V2 - 2003). He ... took the reins as guest DJ playing songs from his personal collection.
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It's 3 a.m. in Brussels, Belgium, on a recent Thursday, and Moby has just gotten his second wind. In Europe to promote "18," his follow-up album to 1999's mega-popular "Play," his typical day involves sleeping from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m., being photographed and interviewed from 2 to 10 p.m., bolting down dinner and then crashing at a hotel or on an airplane en route to the next country.
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