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• Moby explained to Rolling Stone: "The idea with Play is to have this narrative arc, where it starts off energetic and then by the end dissolves into an opiated haze. 'Inside' is like having done too much ketamine, because it's just so numb. Whenever I put it on, I feel like I'm in a K-hole."
• This was featured in Riding Giants, a 2004 documentary about the history of surf culture.
• No one was more surprised than Moby when Play became a worldwide hit, going to #1 in the UK and #38 in the US. "I assumed it would be marginally successful at best because a lot of nice records come out and don't do anything," he told Interview magazine. "I didn't expect more because it's not a pop record in the sense that Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera make pop records, it's not a boy-band record, it's not an R&B record, it's not a hip-hop record, it's not a white trash grunge record, it's not country western, it's not even dance music. It's just this idiosyncratic body of work, and there isn't a lot of precedent for idiosyncratic bodies of work being successful. But it is a very interesting phenomenon."