Richard Melville Hall releases Go, the very best of Moby, on the Mute label, on November 6. He has gone off the boil recently, and his infamous licensing of every track on the Play album tested many fans’ patience. But early-to-mid Moby is a fantastically rich techno-house-ambient-God-bothering seam, and always worth returning to.

1 Honey Play’s stomping opener. It was at once clear Moby had his beady little eyes on world stardom and he wasn’t disappointed.

2 We Are All Made of Stars And this Heroes-like stunner opened his next album, the patchy 18.

3 Southside Another moment of Play brilliance. And almost certainly an ad, too.

4 All That I Need Is to Be Loved The fraught, slamming standout from his career high, Everything is Wrong.

5 Machete The dark heart of Play.

6 Go Twisting the Twin Peaks theme into new shapes, and duly catching our attention, in 1991.

7 Porcelain Lounge-bar piano, trip-hop beats, and a lyric to end it all to.

8 New York New York This new single is a fab, arch homage to NYC, featuring Debbie Harry.

9 When It’s Cold I’d Like to Die With the great Mimi Goese, this is the sound of despair.

10 Move (You Make Me Feel So Good) This is the storming house standout from his 1994 EP, Move.

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