Travelling Without Moving

After experiencing a stressful period while recording The Return of the Space Cowboy, Kay sought to make the next album more focused and universal. He also did not want to remain as a semi-underground act "that stuck to its little niche and sold one and a half million albums every time. I wanted to breakout and be something bigger, more international." Speaking of the album's general mood, Kay said: "[With Emergency on Planet Earth], people weren't cheering in the streets or anything, and [The Return of the Space Cowboy] was quite sad. With [Travelling Without Moving], I decided it was important to show people we could enjoy ourselves. That's why it's cars, life and love".{{Cite news|last=Moon|first=Tom|author-link=Tom Moon|date=29 May 1997|title=Jamiroquai's Sunny Song has a Serious Message: The Group Warns of a High-Tech 'Virtual Insanity.'|work=The Philadelphia Inquirer|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/1841833235/E737482ED91B4B5EPQ|url-status=live|via=ProQuest|access-date=24 February 2021|archive-date=2 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210402225123/https://www.proquest.com/docview/1841833235/E737482ED91B4B5EPQ}} Kay booked the band into the residential studio Great Linford Manor so that they could work at their own pace.

The first song composed for the album was "Virtual Insanity". It was recorded as a rough demo and was not fully realised until the album's final recording stage. The song has a piano opening with "buoyant keyboards and soaring strings."{{cite magazine|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1996/Music-Week-1996-08-10.pdf|title=Reviews: Singles|magazine=Music Week|date=10 August 1996|page=12|accessdate=1 September 2021}} Its lyrics are about the prevalence of technology and the replication and simulation of life. The second track "Cosmic Girl" is a disco song with "spacey" lyrics, based on rhythmic "looped beats" "to give it an off-center, otherworldly" sound.{{cite book |at=[https://books.google.com/books?id=ZlKfh83AJEEC&pg=PA94 pp. 94–96] |last=Toussaint |first=Godfried T.|author-link=Godfried Toussaint |title=The Geometry of Musical Rhythm: What Makes a "Good" Rhythm Good? |title-link=The Geometry of Musical Rhythm|publisher=CRC Press |year=2013|isbn=9781466512023}} For the next track "Use The Force" the group channels "that real vintage football vibe", filled with horns, wah-wah guitar and a rippling barrage of Latin percussion". The fourth track "Everyday" is described "as seductive as any Maxwell ballad" and has "over aching strings and a come-hither bass line".{{cite web |last1=Murray |first1=Sonia |title=Jamiroquai's 'Travelling' jams to a soulful sway |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/412667569/EF69C756D30D4371PQ |website=The Atlanta Constitution |access-date=10 September 2021 |date=16 January 1997 |via=ProQuest |archive-date=13 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211113054656/https://www.proquest.com/docview/412667569/EF69C756D30D4371PQ |url-status=live }} The fifth song, "Alright", was described as an "easy-going disco-funk" track.{{cite journal|title=Travelling Without Moving|journal=The Times|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/318632707|first=David|last=Sinclair|date=6 September 1996|access-date=2 April 2021|archive-date=2 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210402225102/https://www.proquest.com/docview/318632707/2958EE1580114F32PQ/15|id={{ProQuest|318632707}}|url-status=live}}

"High Times", a song with "razor-edged funky guitars", references Kay's drug use during the recording of The Return of the Space Cowboy: "'High Times' was admitting the truth of the matter, of where I'd been and how lucky I was to be coming out of the other side."{{cite AV media|title=Travelling Without Moving|author=Kay, Jay|others=Jamiroquai|publisher=Sony Music Entertainment|year=2013|id=88691967912|type=liner notes}} This is followed by the reggae track, "Drifting Along". The tracks "Didjerama" and "Didjital Vibrations" are instrumental tracks containing ambient didgeridoo.{{cite journal|title=Travelling Without Moving|journal=The Observer|author-link=Neil Spencer|url=http://www.proquest.com/docview/250394270/3F56696ABA104E4APQ/|via=ProQuest|first=Niel|last=Spencer|date=8 September 1996|access-date=2 April 2021|archive-date=2 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210402225122/https://www.proquest.com/docview/250394270/3F56696ABA104E4APQ|url-status=live}} The title track is next on the album and samples Kay's purple Lamborghini in the intro.{{cite web|date=1 November 1997|title=Stoned Groove: Jamiroquai's Jay Kay|url=http://www.papermag.com/stoned-groove-jamiroquais-jay-kay-1425142910.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180118122730/https://www.papermag.com/stoned-groove-jamiroquais-jay-kay-1425142910.html|archive-date=18 January 2018|access-date=6 September 2018|website=Paper|language=en}} It features a "driving groove" and after two minutes, it "transitions into a bassline-paced, heavy workout".{{cite web |title=The Greatest 50 Albums Since '93 |url=http://www.vibe.com/photo-gallery/greatest-50-albums-since-93 |website=Vibe |access-date=7 October 2021 |date=18 April 2013}} The album ends with the dance track, "You Are My Love", and the soul ballad, "Spend A Lifetime".

Travelling Without Moving was first released on 28 August 1996 in Japan,{{cite web |title=#TravellingWithoutMoving was released for the first time today in Japan! #Throwback to these good ole' times touring Tokyo in September 1997 |via=Twitter|url=https://twitter.com/JamiroquaiHQ/status/1431542075292536833 |access-date=24 November 2021 |language=en}} then on 9 September 1996 in the United Kingdom on Sony Soho Square. Released on the Work record label in January 1997,{{cite journal|last=Flick|first=Larry|date=1996|title='The Way It Is' changes color under Chameleon|journal=Billboard|volume=108 |issue=39|page=30}} it was the band's first US Billboard 200 entry, where it reached number 24 and it sold 1,400,000 shipments. The album peaked at number 2 in the UK chart and sold 1,219,197 copies. In Japan, it reached number 6, and in the year end charts there, it ranked number 87 in 1996 and number 58 in 1997. It peaked at number 2 in the French SNEP Album charts and number 6 in the year end chart in 1996. In Switzerland, it reached number 3 in the Swiss Albums Charts, and number 37 in the year end chart in 1996. It ranked number 9 in the German Media Control Albums Chart, and It ranked at number 69 in 1996 and number 38 in 1997 in the German year end charts. In the Netherlands, in peaked at 16 in the album chart, and number 48 in the year end chart in 1997. In the Australian ARIA Albums chart, it ranked at 6 and in 1997 47 at the end of the year. The album was certified platinum in these countries, except in Germany where it was certified gold. It was also triple Platinum in Europe by the IFPI denoting sales of 3,000,000 copies. The album has overall sold more than 8 million copies worldwide. In 2013, Travelling Without Moving was one of the first three albums to be re-issued on the band's 20th anniversary campaign, also containing a bonus disc of remixes, demos, live performances and B-sides.{{cite web|url=http://sonymusic.ie/news/jamiroquai-20th-anniversary-reissues |title=Jamiroquai 20th Anniversary Reissues | The Official Sony Music Ireland Site |publisher=Sony Music Ireland|access-date=2014-08-30 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130530163240/http://sonymusic.ie/news/jamiroquai-20th-anniversary-reissues |archive-date=30 May 2013 }}

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"Do U Know Where You're Coming From" was the first single to be released on 20 May 1996,{{cite magazine|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1996/Music-Week-1996-05-18-I.pdf|title=New Releases: Singles|magazine=Music Week|page=25|date=18 May 1996|access-date=25 August 2021|archive-date=2 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210602213417/https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1996/Music-Week-1996-05-18-I.pdf|url-status=live}} where it peaked at number 12 in the UK.{{cite web |title=Jamiroquai {{!}} Full Official Chart History |url=https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/28264/jamiroquai/ |publisher=Official Charts Company |access-date=28 November 2021}} It is a drum and bass song by M-Beat which features vocals by Kay.{{cite web |last1=Kot |first1=Greg |title=Jamiroquai Traveling Without Moving |url=http://www.proquest.com/docview/418268309/2CA48C3A9922456BPQ/ |website=Chicago Times |access-date=15 September 2021 |date=24 January 1997 |archive-date=15 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210915073900/https://www.proquest.com/docview/418268309/2CA48C3A9922456BPQ/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite magazine|last=Odell|first=Michael|date=March 1997|title=Son of Soul|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FCwEAAAAMBAJ&q=jamiroquai&pg=PA101|url-status=live|magazine=Vibe|language=en|pages=101–102|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201215080237/https://books.google.com/books?id=FCwEAAAAMBAJ&q=jamiroquai&pg=PA101|archive-date=15 December 2020|via=Google Books}} The second single "Virtual Insanity" was released on 19 August 1996,{{cite magazine|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1996/Music-Week-1996-08-17.pdf|title=New Releases: Singles|magazine=Music Week|page=35|date=17 August 1996|access-date=25 August 2021|archive-date=9 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210609162910/https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1996/Music-Week-1996-08-17.pdf|url-status=live}} reached number 3 in the single and number 1 the R&B charts in the UK.{{cite web |title=Official Hip Hop and R&B Singles Chart Top 40 |url=https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/official-hip-hop-and-r-and-b-singles-chart/19960825/114/ |publisher=Official Charts Company |access-date=28 November 2021 |language=en}} Its music video, directed by Jonathan Glazer, played heavily on MTV, which depicted Kay "perform[ing] in a room where the floors, walls and furniture all moved simultaneously."{{Cite web|last=Scheerer|first=Mark|date=5 September 1997|title=Beck, Jamiroquai big winners at MTV Music Awards – September 5, 1997|url=https://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/9709/05/mtv.music.awards/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201215080341/http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/9709/05/mtv.music.awards/|archive-date=15 December 2020|access-date=20 January 2018|publisher=CNN}}"Cosmic Girl" was released as its third single on 20 November 1996,{{cite magazine|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1996/Music-Week-1996-11-23.pdf|title=New Releases: Singles|magazine=Music Week|page=29|date=23 November 1996|access-date=25 August 2021|archive-date=9 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709183229/https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1996/Music-Week-1996-11-23.pdf|url-status=live}} reaching number 6 in the UK and number 7 in the US Dance Club Songs charts. Its music video features a Ferrari F355 Berlinetta, a red Ferrari F40 and a purple Lamborghini Diablo SE30 "on mountain roads and across a desert."{{cite web |title=Nineties nostalgia – Jamiroquai's 'Cosmic Girl' Lamborghini Diablo on sale for £549,995 |via=ProQuest|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/1925029662/686D16DCFCB4F4EPQ/ |website=The Telegraph |access-date=27 November 2021}} "Alright" was issued on 28 April 1997,{{cite magazine|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1997/Music-Week-1997-04-26.pdf|title=New Releases: Singles|magazine=Music Week|page=33|date=26 April 1997|access-date=25 August 2021|archive-date=6 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211106121924/https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1997/Music-Week-1997-04-26.pdf|url-status=live}} ranking number 6 in the UK and number 78 in their only Billboard Hot 100 appearance.{{cite magazine |url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/jamiroquai/chart-history/bsi/ |title="Jamiroquai Chart History (Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs)"|magazine=Billboard }} "High Times" was the final single, released on 1 December 1997,{{cite magazine|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1997/Music-Week-1997-11-29.pdf|title=New Releases: Singles|magazine=Music Week|page=35|date=29 November 1997|access-date=25 August 2021|archive-date=9 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709183503/https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1997/Music-Week-1997-11-29.pdf|url-status=live}} and peaked at number 9 the US Dance Club charts.{{cite magazine |title=Jamiroquai Chart History (Dance Club Songs) |url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/jamiroquai/chart-history/dsi/ |magazine=Billboard|access-date=28 November 2021}}

After the album was released, Kay received backlash from the press for his interest in sports cars, because it contradicted his environmental beliefs on Emergency on Planet Earth.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_NNmFiUnSmUC&q=jamiroquai+funk+movement&pg=RA2-PA1986|authorlink=Colin Larkin|page=1986|title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music|last=Larkin|first=Colin|year= 2011|publisher=Omnibus Press|isbn=978-0857125958|language=en|via=Google Books}} The album's visual concept revolved around sports cars, with the Ferrari logo being recreated within the band's Buffalo Man logo. Paper magazine also pointed out this contradiction with the music video for "Alright", "when Kay rolls up in his purple Lamborghini to party on the dance floor with a bevy of bodacious babes, concerns about seals, whales, rain forests and the revolution are checked at the door." He said that he was hesitant to release the album as he expected the backlash, but added "Just because I love to drive a fast car, that doesn't mean I believe in chopping trees down. It doesn't mean I think they should build more roads for my car".{{Cite journal|last=Poulton|first=Sonia|date=1996|title=Getting personal with Jamiroquai's Jay Kay|url=https://archive.org/stream/muzik017_october_1996#page/n107/mode/2up/search/jamiroquai|journal=Muzik|volume=17|pages=108|via=Wayback Machine}} Keyboardist Toby Smith also said, "We all want to be an ecologically conscious band, but we like cars [...] We're hypocrites like the rest of the world. But then again, you can only drive one car at a time.{{cite journal|last=Mehle|first=Michael|title="Lost In America ... But Maybe Eclectic English Band Jamiroquai Finally Has Country's Ear."|journal=Rocky Mountain News|date=20 May 1997|page=6D}}

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| rev3score = C+{{cite magazine |url=https://ew.com/article/1997/02/14/travelling-without-moving/ |title=Travelling Without Moving |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |date=14 February 1997 |access-date=28 August 2011 |last=Diehl |first=Matt |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150418013455/http://www.ew.com/article/1997/02/14/travelling-without-moving |archive-date=18 April 2015 |url-status=dead}}

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Critics have generally praised Travelling Without Moving for its focused and refined sound, as it deepened the acid-jazz and soul styles that were informed from their first two albums.{{cite web |last1=Hicklin |first1=Aaron |title=He sells millions of records, has a famously gorgeous girlfriend, a Georgian manor and more fast cars than he could drive. So what, wonders Aaron Hicklin, makes Jamiroquai's singer think everyone is out to get him? |url=http://www.proquest.com/docview/331193107/E62A53A00EEA405BPQ/ |website=Sunday Herald |access-date=14 September 2021 |archive-date=18 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211118061312/https://www.proquest.com/docview/331193107/E62A53A00EEA405BPQ |url-status=live }} Linton Chiswick of Q magazine said that this resulted in "a fat, squishy disco feel." Parry Gettelman also wrote that Kay had "evolved into quite a writer."{{Cite web|last=Gettelman|first=Parry|date=7 March 1997|title=Jamiroquai: [Metro Edition]|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/278907100/6EC341C877574C68PQ/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-02-22|website=Orlando Sentinel|via=ProQuest|archive-date=2 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210402225102/https://www.proquest.com/docview/278907100/6EC341C877574C68PQ}} The Source also gave the album 4 out of 5: "Travelling is essentially about the metaphysics of having a good time... Jamiroquai have a thousand musical tricks up their sleeves; edgy horns laced with jazz intricacies, energetic bass lines and disco rhythms, and a wider variety of tempos than usual in British funk."{{Cite magazine|title=Travelling Without Moving|first=Kweli|last=Wright|date=February 1997|page=86|magazine=The Source}} Tom Moon remarked that: "There are no digital samples on Traveling Without Moving. In fact, just about every sound comes from a vintage analog instrument."{{Cite news|last=Moon|first=Tom|author-link=Tom Moon|date=29 May 1997|title=Jamiroquai's Sunny Song has a Serious Message: The Group Warns of a High-Tech 'Virtual Insanity.'|work=The Philadelphia Inquirer|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/1841833235/E737482ED91B4B5EPQ|url-status=live|via=ProQuest|access-date=23 February 2021|archive-date=2 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210402225123/https://www.proquest.com/docview/1841833235/E737482ED91B4B5EPQ}}

Stephen Thompson of The A.V. Club said that the album "sounds an awful lot like its predecessor", but he concluded: "It's a tribute to Jamiroquai that more of the same still sounds pretty damned good."{{cite web|last=Thompson|first=Stephen|date=29 March 2002|title=Jamiroquai: Travelling Without Moving|url=https://www.avclub.com/jamiroquai-travelling-without-moving-1798192901|url-status=live|access-date=2021-03-30|website=The A.V. Club|language=en-us|archive-date=24 November 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191124063753/https://music.avclub.com/jamiroquai-travelling-without-moving-1798192901}} A Music Week reviewer wrote: "Jamiroquai still wear their influences firmly on their sleeve but this is their most accomplished and satisfying offering yet." Matt Diehl of Entertainment Weekly writes, "when it comes to Stevie Wonder, frontman Jason Kay still gets imitation confused with homage." In a 2004 discography review by Ben Sisario, Travelling Without Moving is the only Jamiroquai album rated slightly higher than others, with Sisario singling out "Virtual Insanity" and "Cosmic Girl" for being radio-friendly, but criticising the album's use of the didgeridoo. David Bennun of Muzik considered it "tepid funk" in an unfavorable review.{{cite journal |last=Bennun |first=David |title=Jamiroquai: Travelling Without Moving |journal=Muzik |date=October 1996 |issue=17 |page=130 |url=http://www.muzikmagazine.co.uk/issues/muzik017_october_1996.pdf |access-date=6 November 2020 |archive-date=4 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200904220417/http://www.muzikmagazine.co.uk/issues/muzik017_october_1996.pdf |url-status=live }} The album's lyrics have also been criticised, with Matt Diehl writing they "ultimately strip away the soul."

For their music video for "Virtual Insanity", it won Video of the Year and Breakthrough Video at the Video Music Awards;{{cite web|url=http://www.mtv.com/vma/1997|title=VMA 1997|publisher=MTV|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160713073457/http://www.mtv.com/vma/1997|archive-date=13 July 2016|access-date=26 April 2020}} additionally, it won Alternative/Modern Rock Clip of the Year and the Maximum Vision at the Billboard Music Awards.{{cite magazine|magazine=Billboard|title=Jamiroquai Takes U.S. with Traveling|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4AkEAAAAMBAJ&q=jamiroquai+billboard+music+video+awards&pg=PA44|first=Doug|page=44|last=Reece|date=6 December 1997|via=Google Books|access-date=26 October 2020|archive-date=15 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201215235112/https://books.google.com/books?id=4AkEAAAAMBAJ&q=jamiroquai+billboard+music+video+awards&pg=PA44|url-status=live}} The song also earned the band a Grammy Award for Best Performance by a Duo Or Group and the album was nominated for Best Pop Vocal Album.{{cite web |last1=Considine |first1=J.D. |title=Odd Spins; Grammys: Upsets are sprinkled through the Grammy Awards, but Dylan and other veterans get their due.: [Final Edition] |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/407010278 |website=The Baltimore Sun |access-date=18 November 2021 |language=en |date=26 February 1998|id={{ProQuest|407010278}} }}{{cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/life/music/awards/grammy/lgram003.htm|title=Complete list of Grammy nominations|access-date=29 November 2021|work=USA Today|date=5 March 1999|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19990210075205/http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/awards/grammy/lgram003.htm|archive-date=10 February 1999}} Travelling Without Moving has won three best album awards at the MOBO and Japan Gold Disc Awards in 1997, and at the Hungarian Music Awards in 1998.{{cite web|url=http://www.mobo.com/history/1997|title=1997: Mary J. Blige, Eternal, Simply Red and The Prodigy|website=MOBO Awards|language=en|access-date=20 January 2018|archive-date=20 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180120124202/http://www.mobo.com/history/1997|url-status=live}}{{cite web |title=Nyertesek 1998 |url=http://www.fonogram.hu/nyertesek-1998 |language=hu |website=Hungarian Music Awards |date=12 August 2016 |access-date=10 December 2018 |archive-date=10 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181210202616/http://www.fonogram.hu/nyertesek-1998 |url-status=live }}{{cite web|url=http://www.golddisc.jp/award/11/index.html|title=第11回日本ゴールドディスク大賞 / Gold Disc Hall of Fame 11th|language=ja|date=1997|website=Japan Gold Disc Awards|access-date=10 December 2018|archive-date=16 February 2017|archive-url=https://archive.today/20170216191102/http://www.golddisc.jp/award/11/index.html|url-status=live}} Fnac listed the album in its 2008 list The 1000 Best Albums of All Time, in no order.{{CN|date=December 2023}} Pause & Play ranked the album at number 11 in The 90s Top 100 Essential Albums in 1999.{{cite web |title=Albums {{!}} Pause & Play CD and Music Site |url=http://www.pauseandplay.com/features/vault-of-fame/albums/ |website=Pause & Play |access-date=7 October 2021}} Studio Brussel included it in The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time in 2015.{{CN|date=December 2023}} Vibe called Travelling Without Moving "the most infectious dance record since the 70's disco revolution", and ranked it at number 42 in its 2013 list The 50 Greatest Albums Since '93.

The high album sales of Travelling Without Moving earned the band a Guinness World Record for the best-selling funk album in history.{{cite web|title=Best-selling album of funk music|url=https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/74163-best-selling-album-of-funk-music|access-date=2021-07-04|website=Guinness World Records|language=en-GB}} Paul Sexton of Billboard magazine credits this period of Jamiroquai as their American breakthrough: "Long a European success story for the Sony S2 label, the group once accused of being a mere Stevie Wonder soundalike has grown into its own style and added a substantial American audience in the process."{{cite magazine|last1=Paul|first1=Sexton|date=6 June 1998|title=Rhythm & Brits|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/227138894|volume=110|issue=23|pages=42|magazine=Billboard|access-date=10 November 2021|archive-date=18 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211118061312/https://www.proquest.com/docview/227138894|id={{ProQuest|227138894}}|url-status=live}} However, the band were unable to replicate their success in America since then.{{cite web |last1=Adams |first1=Cameron |via=ProQuest|title=Virtual insanity of my career |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/358758889/2466B47FDF1048EEPQ/ |website=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=13 November 2021 |language=en |date=17 January 2002}} The music video of "Virtual Insanity" was described as "one of the most famous music videos ever", making them "icons of the music-video format", according to Spencer Kornhaber from The Atlantic.{{Cite news|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/01/missy-elliott-im-better-jamiroquai-automaton-videos/514736/|title=Escape to the Future With Missy Elliott and Jamiroquai's New Videos|last=Kornhaber|first=Spencer|date=27 January 2017|work=The Atlantic|access-date=11 May 2018|language=en-US|archive-date=15 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201215080406/https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/01/missy-elliott-im-better-jamiroquai-automaton-videos/514736/|url-status=live}} The song also led to the climax of "1970s soul and funk that early acid jazz artists had initiated", according to writer Kennith Prouty.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nVxgs_E57_EC&q=jamiroquai&pg=PA875|title=Encyclopedia of African American Music|last=Prouty|page=481|first=Kenneth|date=2011|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-0313341991|language=en|via=Google Books}} The Lamborghini Diablo SE30 was also considered a "Nineties icon" in part of the "Cosmic Girl" music video, according to The Daily Telegraph.

{{Track listing

| headline = Standard edition{{ref|a|[a]}}

| total_length = 67:07

| title1 = Virtual Insanity

| writer1 = Jay Kay, Toby Smith

| length1 = 5:40

| title2 = Cosmic Girl

| writer2 = Kay, Derrick McKenzie

| length2 = 4:03

| title3 = Use the Force

| writer3 = Kay, Smith, McKenzie, Sola Akingbola

| length3 = 4:00

| title4 = Everyday

| writer4 = Kay, Smith, Stuart Zender

| length4 = 4:28

| title5 = Alright

| writer5 = Kay, Smith

| length5 = 4:25

| title6 = High Times

| writer6 = Kay, Smith, McKenzie, Zender

| length6 = 5:58

| title7 = Drifting Along

| writer7 = Kay, McKenzie, Simon Katz, Zender

| length7 = 4:06

| title8 = Didjerama

| writer8 = Kay, Wallis Buchanan, McKenzie, Zender

| note8 = Instrumental

| length8 = 3:50

| title9 = Didjital Vibrations

| writer9 = Kay, Buchanan, Zender

| note9 = Instrumental

| length9 = 5:49

| title10 = Travelling Without Moving

| writer10 = Kay

| length10 = 3:40

| title11 = You Are My Love

| writer11 = Kay

| length11 = 3:55

| title12 = Spend a Lifetime

| writer12 = Kay, Smith

| length12 = 4:14

| title13 = Do You Know Where You're Coming From

| note13 = M-Beat featuring Jamiroquai, bonus track

| writer13 = Kay, Smith, M-Beat

| length13 = 5:02

| title14 = Funktion

| note14 = Hidden track

| length14 = 8:28

| writer14 = Kay, Smith, Buchanan, McKenzie, Zender, David Paich, David Foster, Cheryl Lynn

}}

{{Track listing

| headline = Australian bonus disc: "Alright" Remixes EP{{cite AV media notes |title=Travelling Without Moving|others=Jamiroquai |year=1997|type=CD |publisher=Sony Soho Square|id=483999 0 }}

| all_writing =

| title1 = Alright

| note1 = Radio Mix

| writer1 =

| title2 = Alright

| note2 = Tee's Radio Jay

| writer2 =

| title3 = Alright

| note3 = Tee's in House Mix

| writer3 =

| title4 = Alright

| note4 = DJ Version Excursion

| writer4 =

| title5 = Alright

| note5 = Tee's Digital Club

| writer5 =

| title6 = Alright

| note6 = D&C Human Mix

| writer6 =

| title7 = Alright

| note7 = D&C Electro Groove Mix

| writer7 =

}}

{{Track listing

| headline = Australian bonus remix disc{{cite AV media notes |title=Travelling Without Moving|others=Jamiroquai |year=1997|type=CD |publisher=Sony Soho Square|id=483999 5 }}

| total_length = 36:29

| title1 = Virtual Insanity

| note1 = Single Edit

| writer1 = Kay, Smith

| length1 = 4:07

| title2 = Virtual Insanity

| note2 = Unreality Mix

| writer2 = Kay, Smith

| length2 = 3:57

| title3 = High Times

| note3 = Sanchez Radio Edit

| writer3 = Kay, Smith, Zender, McKenzie, Wheeler

| length3 = 3:53

| title4 = Space Cowboy

| note4 = Classic Club

| writer4 = Kay

| length4 = 7:51

| title5 = Alright

| note5 = Tee's in House Mix

| writer5 = Kay, Smith, Harris

| length5 = 7:20

| title6 = Cosmic Girl

| note6 = Classic Mix

| writer6 = Kay, McKenzie

| length6 = 9:23

}}

{{Track listing

| headline = 20th anniversary reissue bonus disc

| title1 = Virtual Insanity

| note1 = Salaam Remi Remix

| writer1 = Kay, Smith

| title2 = Cosmic Girl

| note2 = Quasar Mix

| writer2 = Kay, McKenzie

| title3 = Alright

| note3 = Alan Braxe and Fred Falke Remix

| writer3 = Kay, Smith

| title4 = High Times

| note4 = Sanchez Radio Edit

| writer4 = Kay, Smith, Zender, McKenzie

| title5 = Do U Know Where You're Coming From

| note5 =

| writer5 = Kay, Smith, M-Beat

| title6 = Bullet

| writer6 = Kay

| title7 = Slipin' N' Slidin{{'-}}

| writer7 = Kay, McKenzie

| title8 = Hollywood Swinging

| note8 = Live on the Chicago Riviera

| writer8 = Robert "Kool" Bell, Ronald Bell, George M. Brown, Robert "Spike" Mickens, Claydes Charles Smith, Dennis R. Thomas, Rick A. Westfield.

| title9 = Alright

| note9 = Live at the Verona Amphitheatre

| writer9 = Kay, Smith

| title10 = Virtual Insanity

| note10 = Live at the Verona Amphitheatre

| writer10= Kay, Smith

}}

{{Track listing

| headline = 25th anniversary reissue bonus track{{cite web |title=Travelling Without Moving: 25th Anniversary Yellow Vinyl |url=https://store.jamiroquai.com/*/Store/Travelling-Without-Moving-25th-Anniversary-Yellow-Vinyl/74FA1C3B000 |language=en |access-date=29 November 2021 |archive-date=3 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211203043858/https://store.jamiroquai.com/*/Store/Travelling-Without-Moving-25th-Anniversary-Yellow-Vinyl/74FA1C3B000 |url-status=dead }}

| total_length = 71:35

| title15 = Cosmic Girl

| note15 = Dimitri from Paris Remix Radio Edit

| length15 = 4:28

}}

• {{small|{{note|a|a}}}} Some editions contain either "Do U Know Where You're Coming From" or "Funktion" as a bonus track.{{cite AV media|title=Travelling Without Moving|others=Jamiroquai|publisher=Work|year=1996|id=OK 679031|type=liner notes}} Others have both tracks.{{cite AV media|title=Travelling Without Moving|others=Jamiroquai|publisher=Sony Soho Square|year=1996|id=483999-11|type=liner notes}}

Credits adapted from album liner notes.{{cite AV media notes |title=Travelling Without Moving|others=Jamiroquai |year=1996|type=CD |publisher=Sony Soho Square|id=483999 9}}

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Jamiroquai

• Jay Kay - vocals
• Toby Smith - keyboards
• Stuart Zender - bass
• Simon Katz - guitar
• Derrick McKenzie - drums
• Wallis Buchanan - didgeridoo
• Sola Akingbola - percussion

Additional musicians

• DJ D-Zire - turntables
• Simon Hale – string arrangements and conductor
• Gavyn Wright and the London Philharmonic Orchestra – strings
• Max Beesley – vibraphone {{small|(Funktion)}}
• Gary Barnacle - saxophone
• John Thirkell - trumpet
• Katie – backing vocals
• Beverly – backing vocals

Production

• Al Stone – production, engineering
• Blue – design and art direction
• Lorenzo Agius – photography

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