Play Public List
Information about plays
list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID
GET /v2/plays/?format=api&offset=94040&ordering=-airdate
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This is my favorite song on the whole record. Hands down, bar none. Also recorded demo to a cassette. When Play was released, I didn’t think anyone was gonna listen to it. So I figured towards the end, I will put on the songs that I like. No one’s gonna listen to this record, certainly no one’s ever gonna get this far in the record. Track 15 or whatever? So I put it on there for myself. [The title] is not very inventive. Brought to you by the people that invented the orange.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3548890, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3548890/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-09-04T15:53:19-07:00", "show": 64473, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64473/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia601602.us.archive.org/0/items/mbid-e554a001-1f79-432e-9667-adb192d13029/mbid-e554a001-1f79-432e-9667-adb192d13029-24788694923_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia601602.us.archive.org/0/items/mbid-e554a001-1f79-432e-9667-adb192d13029/mbid-e554a001-1f79-432e-9667-adb192d13029-24788694923_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Inside", "track_id": "1c2ea064-392a-4c7f-8119-7725d765cb5a", "recording_id": "33405549-5095-4166-9aa6-491c149f26f7", "artist": "Moby", "artist_ids": [ "8970d868-0723-483b-a75b-51088913d3d4" ], "album": "Play", "release_id": "ac7f9059-a31a-48f9-b357-d1a9390f19c0", "release_group_id": "7f6a4e72-9fee-39db-8817-63425f97a0f5", "labels": [ "V2" ], "label_ids": [ "dc2f5993-7a3d-4c59-bba0-0a77bf9d7416" ], "release_date": "2000-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "This was featured in Riding Giants, a 2004 documentary about the history of surf culture.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3548889, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3548889/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-09-04T15:50:16-07:00", "show": 64473, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64473/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia601602.us.archive.org/0/items/mbid-e554a001-1f79-432e-9667-adb192d13029/mbid-e554a001-1f79-432e-9667-adb192d13029-24788694923_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia601602.us.archive.org/0/items/mbid-e554a001-1f79-432e-9667-adb192d13029/mbid-e554a001-1f79-432e-9667-adb192d13029-24788694923_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Everloving", "track_id": "8fa332ad-e8d7-41d0-b1cf-87cff87a1bc0", "recording_id": "d67618b6-87c0-4ece-bcf0-bc561cf54079", "artist": "Moby", "artist_ids": [ "8970d868-0723-483b-a75b-51088913d3d4" ], "album": "Play", "release_id": "ac7f9059-a31a-48f9-b357-d1a9390f19c0", "release_group_id": "7f6a4e72-9fee-39db-8817-63425f97a0f5", "labels": [ "V2" ], "label_ids": [ "dc2f5993-7a3d-4c59-bba0-0a77bf9d7416" ], "release_date": "2000-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "n a 2009 interview with Rolling Stone, Moby recalled this track: \"This still makes me laugh. I recorded a rushed demo to cassette. I could never mix it in a way I was happy with, so I just ended up using the cassette demo on the album. If you listen to it, there's hiss, there's tape warble. It's probably one of the only songs on a 10-million-selling record recorded to cassette. And what's funny is that it's been licensed. Oliver Stone used it in a movie, it's been in a couple really big movies. And every time I hear it in a huge movie, I think to myself, This is just a crummy demo on demo on cassette.\"", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3548888, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3548888/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-09-04T15:49:49-07:00", "show": 64473, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64473/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Между Мной И Тобой", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "90364437-687b-4874-8d6b-cd5ad1d27805", "artist": "Оскар", "artist_ids": [ "ece6f5c1-c634-4796-9692-e4b9de52ea1c" ], "album": "Бег по острию ножа", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "2d3b39cb-f82c-4832-ad44-2d20d682ad88", "labels": [], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "2000-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "\"Running on the Edge of a Knife\" is the debut studio album by Russian singer Oskar, released in August 2000 on the Nox Music label.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3548886, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3548886/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-09-04T15:44:35-07:00", "show": 64473, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64473/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia601602.us.archive.org/0/items/mbid-e554a001-1f79-432e-9667-adb192d13029/mbid-e554a001-1f79-432e-9667-adb192d13029-24788694923_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia801602.us.archive.org/0/items/mbid-e554a001-1f79-432e-9667-adb192d13029/mbid-e554a001-1f79-432e-9667-adb192d13029-24788694923_thumb250.jpg", "song": "If Things Were Perfect", "track_id": "fde959af-da12-47e0-8d7b-90b049dd4806", "recording_id": "012d9d20-692e-431a-87e1-ec6ef217aef7", "artist": "Moby", "artist_ids": [ "8970d868-0723-483b-a75b-51088913d3d4" ], "album": "Play", "release_id": "ac7f9059-a31a-48f9-b357-d1a9390f19c0", "release_group_id": "7f6a4e72-9fee-39db-8817-63425f97a0f5", "labels": [ "V2" ], "label_ids": [ "dc2f5993-7a3d-4c59-bba0-0a77bf9d7416" ], "release_date": "2000-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Moby samples Willie Hutch’s “Hospital Prelude Of Love Theme” in order to obtain the chorus’ vocals.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3548887, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3548887/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-09-04T15:44:01-07:00", "show": 64473, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64473/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Hospital Prelude of Love Theme", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "0f8d3a61-d01c-4478-8a44-47d0fe5bd4bc", "artist": "Willie Hutch", "artist_ids": [ "870b79e0-10b7-4e19-b11f-65607cffad9a" ], "album": "Foxy Brown", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "303faebd-9fc9-3e3d-99c0-f1f99151f6a8", "labels": [ "Motown" ], "label_ids": [ "8e479e57-ef44-490c-b75d-cd28df89bf1b" ], "release_date": "1974-04-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "\"If Things Were Perfect\" by Moby directly sampled Willie Hutch's \"Hospital Prelude of Love Theme\".\n--\nThis song was part of the \"Foxy Brown\" soundtrack. The bass line is played by Lawrence Dickens.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3548885, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3548885/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-09-04T15:42:03-07:00", "show": 64473, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64473/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "LVLNWK", "track_id": null, "recording_id": null, "artist": "Neako", "artist_ids": [ "45457c0d-505a-4c46-b8e4-f2c0e2b3e02e" ], "album": "LVLZEBRA", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": null, "labels": [], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "2012-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Neako directly sampled multiple elements of Moby's previous 1 minute-and-35 second song \"Down Slow.\"\n--\nRapper, producer & songwriter Nikko “Neako” Bailey, was born and raised in Newark, New Jersey. Here's a biography: https://genius.com/artists/Neako", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3548883, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3548883/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-09-04T15:40:13-07:00", "show": 64473, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64473/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia601602.us.archive.org/0/items/mbid-e554a001-1f79-432e-9667-adb192d13029/mbid-e554a001-1f79-432e-9667-adb192d13029-24788694923_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia801602.us.archive.org/0/items/mbid-e554a001-1f79-432e-9667-adb192d13029/mbid-e554a001-1f79-432e-9667-adb192d13029-24788694923_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Down Slow", "track_id": "9df0edd1-b2b5-4823-b408-6713fcff544a", "recording_id": "895f374d-d80d-44db-b1b9-c3550d16f876", "artist": "Moby", "artist_ids": [ "8970d868-0723-483b-a75b-51088913d3d4" ], "album": "Play", "release_id": "ac7f9059-a31a-48f9-b357-d1a9390f19c0", "release_group_id": "7f6a4e72-9fee-39db-8817-63425f97a0f5", "labels": [ "V2" ], "label_ids": [ "dc2f5993-7a3d-4c59-bba0-0a77bf9d7416" ], "release_date": "2000-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Moby: \"The only songs I really like off 'Play'are the quiet instrumentals. All the songs from here on in, I really like. The first five songs on the record don't interest me very much, but the last five songs I'm quite proud of.\"", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3548884, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3548884/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-09-04T15:39:47-07:00", "show": 64473, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64473/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "Moby: “The only thing I’ve ever been able to say, in my defence… I don’t even like the word defence,” Moby starts when asked about this debate.\n\n“When I have used African American or black vocals, samples, it’s out of a place of just profound love and appreciation for those voices, with the full understanding that I have no right whatsoever to use them or lay claim to any aspect of the experience that gives them their power,” he says.: ttps://www.scotsman.com/whats-on/arts-and-entertainment/cultural-appropriation-is-real-but-we-also-live-in-an-inter-twined-complicated-world-moby-3186394", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3548881, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3548881/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-09-04T15:31:45-07:00", "show": 64473, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64473/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia601602.us.archive.org/0/items/mbid-e554a001-1f79-432e-9667-adb192d13029/mbid-e554a001-1f79-432e-9667-adb192d13029-24788694923_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia601602.us.archive.org/0/items/mbid-e554a001-1f79-432e-9667-adb192d13029/mbid-e554a001-1f79-432e-9667-adb192d13029-24788694923_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Run On", "track_id": "9bd42612-cf95-4575-9d35-3676fd3d0a2d", "recording_id": "003304eb-5bb9-498e-8185-c6b220e75692", "artist": "Moby", "artist_ids": [ "8970d868-0723-483b-a75b-51088913d3d4" ], "album": "Play", "release_id": "ac7f9059-a31a-48f9-b357-d1a9390f19c0", "release_group_id": "7f6a4e72-9fee-39db-8817-63425f97a0f5", "labels": [ "V2" ], "label_ids": [ "dc2f5993-7a3d-4c59-bba0-0a77bf9d7416" ], "release_date": "2000-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Moby said, \"'Run On' was one of the first songs written and it was really hard to put together, because it has so many samples in it. I didn’t use computers at this point, it was all done with stand-alone samplers. When it was finished, I collapsed in exhaustion. I didn’t know this when I recorded it, but it’s a standard. Everybody’s done it. Elvis Presley did a version of it, Johnny Cash did it. If you were a gospel or country star, everyone covered that song. And I had no idea.\"\n--\nOne of those samples was the previous song from Bill Landford & The Landfordaires.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3548880, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3548880/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-09-04T15:28:02-07:00", "show": 64473, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64473/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/2cf211d8-4b77-4ec4-b00b-0bac6020a988/36977422609-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/2cf211d8-4b77-4ec4-b00b-0bac6020a988/36977422609-250.jpg", "song": "Run on for a Long Time", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "1c2ac0ef-08e9-42a5-b50d-0ffa47615334", "artist": "Bill Landford & The Landfordaires", "artist_ids": [ "4fcadeab-6be0-4a80-b447-15f930536112", "6648374c-c3cc-4058-9dd3-336b32aea41c" ], "album": "Triumphs of the Blues", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "4bf20aa3-bf02-4439-8f3f-26c3411863e8", "labels": [ "Haba’na" ], "label_ids": [ "2db61ae8-7fd3-471f-8f25-e84e98a85e6d" ], "release_date": "2003-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "The earliest recording, from 1946, is by the Golden Gate Quartet, with subsequent versions released by (among many others) Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Tom Jones, and even Marilyn Manson.\nThis version, dating from 1949, is by Bill Landford, a founding member of the aforementioned Golden Gate Quartet.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3548879, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3548879/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-09-04T15:27:11-07:00", "show": 64473, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64473/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia801602.us.archive.org/0/items/mbid-e554a001-1f79-432e-9667-adb192d13029/mbid-e554a001-1f79-432e-9667-adb192d13029-24788694923_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia801602.us.archive.org/0/items/mbid-e554a001-1f79-432e-9667-adb192d13029/mbid-e554a001-1f79-432e-9667-adb192d13029-24788694923_thumb250.jpg", "song": "7", "track_id": "a90fa7e6-1fb6-47b8-835c-d158528309a1", "recording_id": "a1eb1605-cbac-4f1c-b2c3-bf51b8f26b1c", "artist": "Moby", "artist_ids": [ "8970d868-0723-483b-a75b-51088913d3d4" ], "album": "Play", "release_id": "ac7f9059-a31a-48f9-b357-d1a9390f19c0", "release_group_id": "7f6a4e72-9fee-39db-8817-63425f97a0f5", "labels": [ "V2" ], "label_ids": [ "dc2f5993-7a3d-4c59-bba0-0a77bf9d7416" ], "release_date": "2000-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Sampling Material's \"Reduction.\" Moby said that it was one of his favorite songs on the album, \"even though it's about a minute long.\"", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3548877, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3548877/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-09-04T15:22:15-07:00", "show": 64473, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64473/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/d3c704c0-109a-4aab-8dbe-b72116034ad2/26446039107-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/d3c704c0-109a-4aab-8dbe-b72116034ad2/26446039107-250.jpg", "song": "Reduction", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "e8c81ba9-b5ce-4c21-a4c2-50c5d2580d86", "artist": "Material", "artist_ids": [ "ceaf841a-60e9-4391-9e26-88b853cd4658" ], "album": "Temporary Music (1979–1981)", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "8d4c3dc5-171a-3455-90f2-592859aa1ea1", "labels": [ "Restless Records" ], "label_ids": [ "573cf520-bd75-4040-8a4a-71f805759139" ], "release_date": "1981-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Material is a musical group formed in 1979 and led by bass guitarist Bill Laswell. 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Machete was the only techno song. It’s such a weird song. To me it reminds of that late-’80s EBM. When I was recording it, I was trying to be like Meat Beat Manifesto, Frontline Assembly, Skinny Puppy. 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Mr. Moby sampled the drums for \"Machete.\"", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3548875, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3548875/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-09-04T15:08:54-07:00", "show": 64473, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64473/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Looking Out My Window", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "d7bebc23-d877-42e0-b7c5-bb5bcb2d921e", "artist": "Tom Jones", "artist_ids": [ "57c6f649-6cde-48a7-8114-2a200247601a" ], "album": "The Ultimate Collection", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "739de38f-24de-46c8-b990-207d74ab7575", "labels": [], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "2014-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Moby sampled this song in 1992 for \"Ah Ah\" and in 1999 for \"Machete\" on the album \"Play.\"", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3548873, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3548873/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-09-04T15:04:40-07:00", "show": 64473, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64473/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia601708.us.archive.org/8/items/mbid-679841df-599d-402f-9f89-0d0bb6e94368/mbid-679841df-599d-402f-9f89-0d0bb6e94368-3024595035_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia801708.us.archive.org/8/items/mbid-679841df-599d-402f-9f89-0d0bb6e94368/mbid-679841df-599d-402f-9f89-0d0bb6e94368-3024595035_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Natural Blues", "track_id": "9ce6861c-a7eb-345d-b47c-49ed291d23b9", "recording_id": "b2d6930a-63aa-449a-b3a8-d1c54a54f4ae", "artist": "Moby", "artist_ids": [ "8970d868-0723-483b-a75b-51088913d3d4" ], "album": "Play", "release_id": "679841df-599d-402f-9f89-0d0bb6e94368", "release_group_id": "7f6a4e72-9fee-39db-8817-63425f97a0f5", "labels": [ "V2" ], "label_ids": [ "dc2f5993-7a3d-4c59-bba0-0a77bf9d7416" ], "release_date": "1999-06-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "The song is built around vocals sampled from \"Trouble So Hard\" by singer Vera Hall (1937) and The Banks Brothers' \"All the Way.\"\nIt also sampled the drums from Coke Escovedo's \"I Wouldn't Change a Thing\" and Rufus' \"Half Moon.\"", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3548872, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3548872/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-09-04T15:03:08-07:00", "show": 64473, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64473/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/5ff2c07c-ab4c-4048-aea9-284641668b3a/34497436221-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/5ff2c07c-ab4c-4048-aea9-284641668b3a/34497436221-250.jpg", "song": "Trouble So Hard", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "2c7f809d-bbf6-4409-b214-eb6f9d094eb2", "artist": "Vera Hall", "artist_ids": [ "a4073adb-937f-4e44-8d22-0330720f6f20" ], "album": "Alan Lomax: Popular Songbook", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "5f9a7431-bae3-327d-ac0d-ab345f6b5644", "labels": [ "Rounder" ], "label_ids": [ "4b8d82bb-8abc-471f-a809-4060e2bc9a3a" ], "release_date": "2003-08-26", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Adell Hall Ward, better known as Vera Hall, was an American folk singer, born in Livingston, Alabama. 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Moby sampled thse vocals for his song \"Natural Blues.\"", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" } ] }
