this is the same dude that complained everyone on the nasa tour (orbital, aphex twin, etc.) were doing too many drugs resulting in moby hiding in his tour bus after shows? SHUT THE FUCK UP. spend your money made by misappropriating black culture and alan lomax field recordings to buy another electric piano and SHUT THE FUCK UP.

It's not so much that Moby, like everybody, is inspired by his own milieu, it's that he's attempting to compress the narrative arc of an eight hour night out into an hour long album. And the fact that he's actually thoughtful enough to express some hesitancy about calling it a concept album has to be worth something.

i am really hesitant to believe anything he says at this point, he really seems to be digging his fingernails into his last glint of notoriety at this point. if bullshitting about doing drugs is going to keep his name in the papers for another five minutes, he's going to bullshit about doing drugs.

he's always been vocally against drug use in rave culture, railing against people that pick apart his track titles with probable drug references ('next to the e'? come on). i'm surprised that he's suddenly an erowid correspondent and not a less-talented ian mackaye clone.

i'm not buying into the 'new' moby and i'm not ready to give him a free pass for being a pioneering figure (despite being two years behind every electronic music trend since the beginning of his career).