Rave legend Moby got everyone talking this year with the release of his autobiography Porcelain , detailing his rise from a New York DJ to becoming a crossover icon with the release of the phenomenally successful Play in 1999. He’s just offered us a visual accompaniment, in the form of a documentary he’s produced alongside Thump .
Moby explains that he was born in New York before moving to Connecticut with his parents as a child. He dreamed of returning all his life before he was finally able to make it a reality in the late ‘80s, when he moved back and rented an apartment on the Lower East Side.
“Rents were cheap, and there were nightclubs everywhere,” he says. “Hip-hop was at its heyday, house music was being invented, and techno was a brand-new thing. The rave scene had just started, the club kids were still innocent, and New York was this dysfunctional, filthy, wonderful degenerate paradise.”
Watch Moby’s documentary Porcelain (Visual Memoir), courtesy of Thump , below.
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