Moby - 'In This World'

What this video is

Released November 4, 2002, 'In This World' arrived during Moby's commercial peak following the landmark Play (1999), as his follow-up album 18 pursued a more introspective, gospel-sampling ambient direction. The track's prominent vocal sample from 'Lord Don't Leave Me' by The Davis Sisters continues Moby's practice of embedding African-American spiritual and gospel traditions into electronic frameworks — a defining…

Why it matters

Represents the apex of ambient electronica's mainstream penetration, blending post-rave chill-out production with gospel sampling at a moment when electronic music had firmly entered multiplex soundtracks and retail playlists. The video is a landmark in early-2000s CG-animation hybrid production,…

The director

StyleWar is a Swedish directing collective co-founded by Oskar Holmedal and Martin Sjöström, originating as a boutique graphic design and animation studio in Stockholm circa 1998–1999. Members trained at Forsbergs design school, Stockholm, with additional…