he started out playing classical guitar and then went on to play with seminal connecticut hardcore punk group 'the vatican commandoes' when he was 13. Moby has been making music since he was 9 years old. Moby has been retrofitting antiquated styles and archaic sounds to the electronic age since “Natural Blues” – one of many enduring hits off of his 1999, twelve-million-plus selling international smash album Play. Much of Innocents recalls early Moby in the best way.
To this end they almost exclusively used old (and usually broken.) equipment in the making of the record. The thematic vulnerability is also reflected in the production, 'Spike' Stent is known for big productions, but given the nature of the songs on Innocents he and Moby committed to a much more analog and lo-fi production approach. The Innocents became the inspirational motif for the album, embracing human vulnerability and the desire for human connection, while celebrating imperfection in a world that too often esteems unrealistic and artificial perfection. Working with all of these collaborators has helped me to make a record that I'm very proud of, and working this way also gave me some semblance of a social life.' (Moby) 'I spend most of my time alone in my studio, so for Innocents it seemed like a really nice idea to involve other people in the making of the record. The list of eminent collaborators on Innocents includes Wayne Coyne (The Flaming Lips), alt-rock legend Mark Lanegan, Cold Specks, Skylar Grey - best known for co-writing and performing on Eminem and Rihanna's Love The Way You Lie indie-folk singer Damien Jurado, and Inyang Bassey who was the vocalist on The Right Thing from Destroyed. For the first time in his career he worked with an outside producer, friend Mark 'Spike' Stent, whose résumé includes Madonna, U2, Muse, Björk, and Massive Attack.
Moby chose to make this record with a stellar cast. He has sold over 20 million albums, headlined Glastonbury, and is back with arguably one of the best albums of his career, Innocents. Moby is one of the most innovative and individual forces in electronic and popular music today.
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