“This healed my millennial soul.”
“I haven’t felt feelings like this in a very long time.”
“That look into the camera.”
“The scream after the first drop is EVERYTHINGGGGGGGG.”
“I lost count on how many times I listened to this.”

If you haven’t heard (and watched) Moby’s live Natural Blues from Coachella 10x yet, get on it. You’ll thank me later.

Back in 2000 I was working for the Rocky Mountain Shambhala Center Expansion Project. That meant I lived in Boulder, and lived at Rocky Mountain Shambhala Center, which we renamed…Shambhala Mountain Center. It also meant I listened to Moby’s Play, a dominant album that year, a seminal album that brought electronica (laced with samples of gospel, slave songs) to the masses (me included)….as I drove up and down from Boulder to Red Feather Lakes, again and again.

This was around the time Red Hot Chili Peppers and Ben Harper and Lauren Hill were also happily dominating.

Years later, I’ve largely forgotten about Play, that perfect album, though I still know every song, its ruts ingrained in the earth of my mind.

So hearing Moby “perform” this song with, instead of samples, live performers at Coachella…man I’ve listened to this song, and watched Jacob Lusk, the man with the voice, the presence, commanding, fun, emotional, earthy, heavenly all at once…wow, at least 11 times and counting.

So yeah I had to share.