Moby ‘Best Of’ - Interview

Q29: On the last album "Hotel", you seemed to make a lot less use of samples. Was there any particular reason for that?

MOBY: "Hotel" didn't have nearly as many samples as some of the records I made in the past and I wish I had a good answer or a good explanation of why it didn't have lots of samples. The truth is, I was using different software on my computer and the sampling section of this software is really hard to use, so it was me just being lazy. It was just a lot more satisfying and more fun to make music without samples, primarily because the sampling software was such a pain in the ass to use. I should really think of a better reason, but that's the truth of why it didn't have as many samples.

Q30: "Hotel" also featured you singing quite a lot more. Is singing something that you enjoy?

MOBY: I don't particularly like my voice, but I really like singing and so on "Hotel" it was… I mean, the last record I sang on was "Animal Rights", which really probably should have led me to never want to sing again on a record, but with "Hotel", I'd written these songs and most of them were fairly personal, so it just made sense for me to sing them and luckily there's a lot you can do in the studio to take even a sort of poor, weak voice and make it sound passable and so that's what we did with "Hotel".
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