Moby 'Play'

Mark very kindly sent me a copy of Moby's "Play" CD today..thanks chum..unfortunately, I'm still not massively keen on this and it seems to constitute a very rare conflict of taste. I think it has a lot to do with the extensive amount of sampling that seems to form the basis of all tracks. I think the principal of building tunes up around what are after all, very familiar samples, is now rather jaded and seems to be almost a shortcut to creativity. However, some tracks are rhythmically interesting but not in a particularly fresh and dazzling way. I'm not too keen on Moby's downbeat harmonic, modal style either, and I still think that Stereo Lab's daring ironic creativity is still one of the best things around.