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“Top 100 guys are jumping ship to make pseudo-deep-house:” Porter Robinson
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“Top 100 guys are jumping ship to make pseudo-deep-house:” Porter Robinson

By Nick Jarvis 4 November 2014
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At just 22 years of age, Porter Robinson is electronic music’s bona fide
wunderkind: eloquent, intelligent and acutely aware of how the music industry
machine works. His brand new debut album Worlds is a game-changer, and he built
its live show from the ground up: from writing and producing the music to
creating nearly 30 concept artworks to visually evoke the album’s universe, and
teaching himself how to sing live.

“When people are judging this show, they are 100 percent understanding me,”
Robinson told inthemix recently. The live show will visit Australia for the
first time this year as part of the national Stereosonic tour – and Robinson
will also be stopping by Sydney’s Electronic Music Conference while he’s here
to give a keynote speech on dance music’s “state of the union”.

> > ON TOUR WITH PORTER ROBINSON: READ OUR HEADLINE FEATURE HERE

You might expect that an artist whose album is such an all-encompassing,
immersive world would live inside a bubble of imagination: but Robinson’s head
is firmly buried in the ever-morphing online world of dance music culture. And
that’s exactly what he’ll be addressing in his EMC keynote speech.

“It would be a little bit self-serving for me to go up to a panel and just talk
about myself as an artist,” Robinson says. “I’m purely doing it ‘cause I wanna
talk about the subject and it’s interesting to me…and I kind of like speaking
in public.

“I definitely try to stay aware of the broader trends of music. I’ve been on
this weird kick recently where I made a SoundCloud account just to follow every
single EDM top 100 DJ… Once I finish browsing Reddit and I come to the bottom
of Tumblr and I’m not interested anymore then I open up this second SoundCloud
account and I’m, like, ‘let me just listen to a bunch of the stuff that
everyone is putting out today’.

“And that’s where I’m seeing this trend of a lot of these [top 100] guys
jumping ship and trying to make pseudo deep house inspired stuff… I get the
sense that that stuff is making a lot of Dutch DJs a little bit nervous. It’s
like a soap opera. That sounds so bad, but it’s fun for me to see what people
are doing. I listen to basically everything that comes out.” Catch Porter
Robinson waxing lyrical on the complexities of dance music culture during his
keynote speech at EMC – follow the link below for more info.

> > FIND OUT ALL ABOUT EMC AND PORTER ROBINSON’S KEYNOTE HERE.

Post by Porter Robinson.

Topics:Electronic Music Conference Porter Robinson Stereosonic
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