Where it all began...
Geopainter | New York | 08/01/2005
(5 out of 5 stars)
"For those who only discovered Moby in the past few years, due to the phenomenal success of "Play" and the media expuse he's gotten since, it might come as a surprise that Moby used to make honest-to-goodness dancefloor-ready techno! This record chronicles his early 90's sound and is worth obtaining simply for his first hit, the classic "Go", still heard at clubs today! The album is a mesmerizing blend of beats and hooks, and is guaranteed to get you moving or driving fast! "Next is the E" was a modest club hit, and has an insanely fast beat and wild vocal screams. "Have you seen my baby?" features a scary-serious male asking the question while Moby's blippy keyboards build and swell. And as a precursor to the experimentation with disparate genres that would characterize his later career, Moby includes blues guitar on "Everything" and cuts of downtempo ambience on "Slight Return" and "Stream". This LP was truly ahead of its time and is a great summary of both the state of early 90's US dance and Moby's role in shaping the scene."
GO!
Josephll | CET | 04/02/2004
(4 out of 5 stars)
"This was Moby's FIRST Cd and it's very diffrent from the radio friendly "play" and "18" but still very pleasant. This album is more of a rave/house album then the elecro-pop he later made. "Go" and "Drop a beat" became big Euro hits and Moby became a big name on the charts already in 91-92. It's a great album, most are obviosly instrumental with fast beats and catchy addictive melodies, Dancable like few other Moby albums. Songs like "Yeah" and "Next is the E" are also great, simular to the other two but so are the rest also, we can clearly see that this was a album from 1992 when the rave music was huge and Moby wanted to create his sound, later on he got a more solid and personal sound though. A CLASSIC album anyway. Worth the money."