From From W.B. E. E. E. Chicago and PRX. This is sound opinions. I'm Jim De Regottis.

And I'm Greg Kott. Electronic artist Moby lived through the gritty

exuberance of underground rave culture as well as the decadence of mainstream

success. It felt like bizarre almost psychedelic magical alchemy, you know, that I had combined some old

drum machines and scents and old vocals and somehow created this bizarre pop culture phenomenon.

Moby joins us for a conversation about his first memoir,

Porcelain.

Then we review the new album from hip-hop jazz group,

Intellectual. That's all coming up on sound opinions. album from hip-hop jazz group, intellectual.

That's all coming up to sound opinions and that's porcelain by our guest this week

Moby. That song comes from his 1999 album Play, which was a huge breakthrough

album for Moby and reaching a mainstream audience.

It was an unprecedented success for an electronic artist at the time and it helped make Moby the public

face of techno for many listeners.

Porcelain is also the title of Moby's first memoir.

The second volume, Then It Fell Apart, is due out next month.

We spoke with Moby in 2016 when Porsalin was published. It documents his time coming up in the

house scene until just before play was recorded. To me, Porcelain ranks up there

Greg right next to beneath the underdog by Charles Mingus as one of the best music

autobiographies ever written so we were very excited to welcome Moby to the studio. This book is blowing both of our minds.

What an accomplishment, congratulations.

Why Moby write a book?

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