i am no trainspotter since '85 like some peeps on this list and i don't know moby personally like others. to tell the truth i don't even own any of moby's music. the thing that i do know is that is too easy to hit a giant with a rock. when people expose themselves through art, music, or other mediums they inherently make themselves subject to criticisms, rejection, and ridicule. i feel that instead of evaluating moby's "down-ness" with the present form of techno music with snobby ideas of purity we should just support the artists that each of us enjoy with our pocketbooks and purses and let the man do what he wants...let mtv do what it wants...let the massive corporate music industry do what it wants! the only continuous thing that i have noticed in my mere 21 years is that the saying "you don't know what you got till its gone" is true. i relate this to music and art in general by saying that real change in opinions and attitudes about art and music takes place in baby steps and minute advancements. its seems to this humble man that most great artists are only noticed in a posthumous manner because of the shear volume of 'art' being produced at any given time. i feel that we are a product of a commercial world where instant satisfaction is only down the road. in this manner i think that fans of techno music want immediate recognition of the complexity of seemingly simple music. they want recognition and validation. i just don't think that the world will be ready to give that to us.
this is all just my opinion...no harm no foul -sam __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
