The Reversed Movie Sample on Moby's 'Porcelain'The Reversed Movie Sample on Moby's 'Porcelain'

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The Reversed Movie Sample on Moby's 'Porcelain'

For his biggest hit to date, Moby reversed four chords of the epic battle cry "Fight For Survival" from the 1960 film 'Exodus.' An ingenious way of using a sample for his soothing electronic pop hit 'Porcelain.'

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March 26, 2020

At first, the producer/singer didn’t really think the outcome of 'Porcelain' was quite epic, at all… "I actually had to be talked into including it," he told Rolling Stone ten years after the release of his album Play.

"When I first recorded it, I thought ["Porcelain"] was average. I didn’t like the way I produced it, I thought it sounded mushy, I thought my vocals sounded really weak. I couldn’t imagine anyone else wanting to listen to it. When the tour for Play started, 'Porcelain' was the song during the set where most people would get a drink."

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