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		Rock musicians -- United States -- Biography.
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		Trance (Underground dance music) -- History and criticism.
		Underground dance music -- History and criticism.
		Techno music -- History and criticism.
		Ambient music -- History and criticism.
		House music -- History and criticism.
		Electronic music -- History and criticism.
		Popular music -- United States -- 1991-2000 -- History and criticism.
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Porcelain : a memoir / Moby.

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Penguin Press, 2016.

781.66092 M687p

Rock musicians -- United States -- Biography.

Disc jockeys -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.

Trance (Underground dance music) -- History and criticism.

Underground dance music -- History and criticism.

Techno music -- History and criticism.

Ambient music -- History and criticism.

House music -- History and criticism.

Electronic music -- History and criticism.

Popular music -- United States -- 1991-2000 -- History and criticism.

Singers -- United States -- Biography.

Lyricists -- United States -- Biography.

9781594206429 (hc.)

406 p., [24] p. of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm.

Parking lot, 1976. The future -- Dirty Mecca, 1989-1990. One hundred square feet ; Vegan cookies ; Night moves ; Hands in the air ; Garbage-filled shaftway ; Goat-skin bucket ; Tic-tac-toe with a chicken ; L train conductor ; Orange sodium light ; Quarters on needles ; Bloody skateboard wheels ; Wet socks on the radiator ; Smeared black magic marker -- Moby Go!, 1990-1992. Yams ; Crossed arms ; Silver radio ; Black lacquer ; Baby food ; Giant loop of keys ; Thin gray curtains ; Brown floral bedspread ; Lights through the trees ; Yellow hard hat ; Trillions of miles -- Distortion, 1992-1995. Beanbag chairs ; Plywood dance floor ; Sunburn ; Monochromatic strobes ; Juniper bush ; Biology textbook ; Dental floss ; Lemon zinger ; Cracks between the floorboards ; Dust motes ; Snakes in cages -- Alcohol enthusiast, 1995-1997. Thousands of leather jackets ; A mullet the size of a poodle ; Neon-green muppet monster fur ; Ants and thumbnails ; PVC bodysuit ; Rose-colored lights ; Wet sweater ; Sugarcane fields ; Acoustic foam ; Cheetos on the casino floor ; Orange jacket ; Condensation on freezing glass ; Dark water ; Eighteen inches of mud ; Stagnant green water -- The rave's progress, 1997-1999. Oak trees ; Wedding reception ; Rain on the skylights ; Windowless bedroom ; Chair with cigarette burns ; Melting pools of snow ; Beige Camry.

"There were many reasons Moby was never going to make it as a DJ and musician in the New York club scene. This was the New York of unchecked, drug-fueled hedonism in pumping clubs where dance music was still largely underground, popular chiefly among working-class African Americans and Latinos. And then there was Moby - not just a poor, skinny white kid from Connecticut, but a devout Christian, a vegan, and a teetotaler. He would learn what it was to be spat on, to live on almost nothing. Not without drama, he found his way. But success proved all too fleeting. And so by the end of the decade, Moby contemplated an end in his career and elsewhere in his life, and put that emotion into what he assumed would be his swan song: the multimillion-selling Play, released in mid-1999. A deeply intimate exploration of finding one's place during the most gloriously anxious period in life, when you're on your ownand you live with the honest dread that you're one false step from being thrown out on your face. Porcelain is about making it, losing it, loving it, and hating it. It's about finding your people, your place, thinking you've lost them both, and then, somehow, when you think it's over, from a place of well-earned despair, creating a masterpiece. A musician's memoir that captures an age, and something timeless about the human condition. Push play. Born in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, Richard Melville Hall (born in 1965), known by his stage name Moby, is an American singer-songwriter, musician, DJ and photographer. He is well known for his electronic music, veganism, and support of animal rights. He has sold over 20 million albums. AllMusic.com considers him "one of the most important dance music figures of the early 1990s, helping bring the music to a mainstream audience both in the UK and in America". He lives in Los Angeles"--Provided by publisher.

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