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Well, this "best of" is obviously geared toward more recent Moby fans, those that discovered him with "Play" and might not be too interested in his earlier work, eclectic as it is. To be honest, i'd rather listen to this compilation rather than the "1993-1998" compilation, which includes a bunch of bland ambient bits.
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Considering how many greatest hits albums there have been (I like to score, all the b side albums, extended "Play", best of, etc...), you'd imagine that pulling from newer work means you don't risk being redundant. (or making it that much further transparent you're trying to squeeze every dime out of every bleep and blues sample on your hard drive.)
For me what always enhanced the otherwise borderline simplistic music was a raw energy that I took to be born from a maverick mind, this punk veteran philosophy major with a penchant for sex, jesus, and animals. Album cover essays were not as fatuous, spotlight didn't show so many flaws.
Now I find him on a michael stipe level of annoying. So I'd argue that his slow decline in musical importance is on a intimate connection with his slow decline in being the moby I took him to be.