A 15-track compilation of Moby's early career, collected from seven releases, this album fails to show the diversity that makes his self-titled LP such a joy. The tracks...
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This self-titled disc collects the frenetic early singles that made Moby's reputation, including the million-selling hit "Go," which features our man playing (not sampling)...
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After recording a string of dance classics culminating with the pop hit "Go," Moby released his full-length debut balancing those songs with a few decidedly inventive album...
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Moby is a completist and his raw emotion is nomadic and passionate on the six-song EP Move. A club/house favorite prior to his mega-success in the new millennium, Moby now...
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Moby's major label debut tries to break down arbitrary boundaries by embracing industrial dance music, old-style house, and alternative rock, but the lyrics are preachy and...
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For some it was the pinnacle of his career, for others one of a continued string of triumphs (others doubtless cared not at all, thinking somehow that synth and dancebeats...
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Here's where the quality starts to drop off, as Moby attempts to do the ambient house thing, and proves himself seriously inferior to the Orb or Aphex Twin (not to...
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Like so much of Moby's earliest work, this isn't so much an album as a compilation via his original label, Instinct. Ambient influences in techno were all the rage in 1993...
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Animal Rights 2/11/1997, Yahoo! Music, Jim Derogatis
Now thoroughly lost and confused, Moby tries his hand at a metal/dance mix and comes off as a very poor imitation of Trent...
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Everything Is Wrong: The DJ Mix Album is essentially an album showing off the turntable skills of the tremendously successful techno artist Moby. However, the album is...
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Considering that Moby's music is most effective in small doses, perhaps it shouldn't be a surprise that the compilation I Like to Score is a strong record. However, it does...
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Rare: Collected B-sides isn't just for the die-hard Moby fan. Compiling a number of B-sides and non-LP singles on a single disc, Rare features a few run-of-the mill remixes,...
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When Play became a breakout hit in 1999, Elektra readied a basic trainer for listeners new to Moby's practically trademarked style of down-tempo house baroque. Ranging from...
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No matter which of his many hats New York iconoclast Moby chooses to don--musical or philosophical--he does it with conviction and reverent irreverence. The 18 cuts...
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Following a notorious flirtation with alternative rock, Moby returned to the electronic dance mainstream on the 1997 album I Like to Score. With 1999's Play, he made yet...
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In one of the two essays in the liner notes for 18, Moby alludes to his past as a "rigid" idealist about life and music, expressing that he's tried to open himself and...
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As MP3s and the constant rise of the DVD bring into question how relevant traditional albums are, Moby digitizes his loose ends and uses new formats to provide more than...
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Play: The B Sides ends up quite close to what regular listeners would expect from a collection like this. There are a few blues-sampling songs similar to "Play" (though none...
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In one of the two essays in the liner notes for 18, Moby alludes to his past as a "rigid" idealist about life and music, expressing that he's tried to open himself and...
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Hotel rarely shows, in any shape or form, traceable inspiration from the new wave and post-punk era Moby advertised as being in full effect. The first half contains simple...
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