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Moby may be one of the most highly recognizable dance music artists of all time.

But he's also a talented multi-hyphenate whose unconventional 30-year career includes

massive success as a producer and DJ and notoriety as an animal rights activist.

Moby's latest project, Reprise, is a greatest hits album that revisits the highlights of his extensive catalog.

The songs are re-recorded with the Budapest Art Orchestra and varies vocalists like Jim James.

Moby's most well-known electronic songs are reimagined on reprise into sparse soul-stirring compositions.

On today's episode, we'll hear Rick Rubin and Moby reminisce about their early punk rock days in New York City

where the first time Moby ever heard house music while dancing in a club basement next to Prince.

Moby also talks about what it was like to be buddies with David Bowie, getting sober,

and why he decided to sell the big fancy castle he lived in all by himself.

This is Broken Record, liner notes for the digital age. I'm Justin Richmond.

Here's Rick Rubin with Moby.

I can tell from the window behind you that you're not in the house that I last visited you in.

No, I had this... think of it like a J. Gatsby epiphany. I was in this huge crazy castle by myself.

And at one point, I asked myself, like, why do I live by myself in a giant castle?

So I sold the big crazy castle and moved to this much simpler, prettier house in Los Felis, right by the observatory.

Cool. Tell me a little bit about the experience of recognizing that moment. What was the moment like? And did it happen at once?

I mean, that's the thing with epiphanies. And I don't know if this has been your experience,

but a lot of the epiphanies I've had have taken a long time to sort of come to fruition.

And when I finally have them, they're so self-evident.

So it builds for a long time and then once you notice it, how did it take so long for me to see the elephant in the room, essentially?

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