The Broken Places by Moby published on 2011-04-26T15:05:23Z ‘The Broken Places’ starts off with a vocoder loop. See, when I’m making an album, I’ll tend to write about 300 songs and narrow it down to the 15 songs that are on the album, which isn’t to say that the songs that don’t make it onto the record aren’t any good. It’s not like 300 amazing songs and I have to get rid of 285 amazing songs. Some of them aren’t very good. This song ‘The Broken Places’ was a weird instrumental that I’d written that I liked and thus assumed no one else would like it. And I played it to a few friends and they were like “Ah actually that’s interesting”. The more I lived with it the more I liked it. And what I love, it’s quiet repetitive and almost every element in there is broken, which I guess in keeping with the title but it’s an old Korg vocoder that barely works. I forget what drum machine I used but one of those, I think it might have been a home made, there is this company from Ohio called Paia and I got a home made kit drum machine that someone built in the 70’s. Again, it just barely, barely works. So I felt like this was a broken down, sort of winsome, endearing, electronic piece of music. I needed to come with a title for it. That’s the tricky thing with instrumentals is what you call them. And this one, there is a Ernest Hemingway quote, which I think I’m paraphrasing but basically says, life breaks most of us and some of us are stronger at the broken places, and I’ve always loved that quote, which I’m paraphrasing. And so I liked that as an introductory album title for the album because it does sort of emotionally set the tone for the rest of the record. The one regret I have about that first song is the original version is about 8 minutes long and just keeps repeating for 8 minutes. And I was kind of a sissy and I thought that having an 8 minutes repetitive introductory song in an album was just a little too much to expect anyone to get through. So I was a sissy and I edited it down to 3.5 minutes. If anyone wants the full 8 minutes version I am happy to send it to them. Genre Electronic Comment by RobersonPSC 😵😵😵😵👏📲 2020-08-07T12:07:35Z Comment by HalcyonKnight very intriguing 2016-05-26T11:56:34Z Comment by Ormenelle I see a ghost town under a starry night. 2014-02-13T00:20:56Z Comment by zoeettsa How can a song make you feel so much? 2013-12-12T17:31:43Z Comment by Uksausage Its a bit jean michelle jarre 2013-11-08T01:41:34Z Comment by shandisini Very love this song !!! 2013-10-08T22:57:23Z Comment by nikki papanicolaou moby all day ppl 2013-09-17T04:12:01Z Comment by Armin Maier Great 2013-08-12T15:11:31Z Comment by NieF oups i fly away with this 2013-05-27T14:46:49Z Comment by Eric Saak I love this song... I'd love to hear the 8 minute version 2013-03-26T02:04:49Z Comment by anaδελτα i'm travelling with this 2013-03-10T15:59:18Z Comment by Boonep inspiring 2012-08-16T20:44:47Z Comment by Boonep 1 year I hear this.. nice 2012-08-16T20:14:52Z Comment by ashleylopezbaby best one 2012-08-05T19:27:25Z Comment by Tulaberry Love this atmosphere 2012-06-03T11:59:57Z Comment by electronauta30 El clima que solo Moby puede crear 2012-05-01T06:44:43Z Comment by IJ amazing soothing track 2012-04-04T13:07:11Z Comment by Tony Cagnoni <3 2012-03-13T04:28:55Z Comment by Thomas Blavius wonderful its amzing thanks for this great moment... 2012-02-04T15:19:27Z Comment by Celtus Nice chillout piece 2012-01-14T10:59:33Z Comment by Jesyn Records Salvation is coming soon ! YHWH !!!!! 2011-12-15T22:38:41Z Comment by DesiredEffect Quality 2011-10-15T13:10:01Z Comment by `Hugh Suliman´ Amazing !!!! Congratulationsss !!!! 2011-10-10T22:06:10Z Comment by mina mohammadi Congratulations 2011-10-05T19:29:40Z Comment by J O H N P L A T E MR. MUSIC SINGS WHEN, THE SUN SHINES! THE LOVE LIVES IN THE SHOWER WHEN THE PERSON BREATHES! THE NATURE BLOSSOMS, WHEN TESTS HAPPINESS! WE ARE AND THOSE ARE UNSHAKABLE IS WHO TRUSTS! 2011-09-27T07:47:19Z Comment by Dj C-MIX Very good music;)! Leave me a comment on "PUNKY Dj C-MIX" please! =) 2011-09-24T09:22:39Z Comment by kyle324 this is awesome 2011-09-23T19:01:36Z Comment by Pedro Costa - Composer Really great!!! 2011-09-19T04:42:41Z Comment by Realms of Sirius n'cupo cubo 2011-09-12T19:07:57Z Comment by Blue Skies and Paign Such thoughtful music. Great job! 2011-09-09T07:29:16Z