![]() But at the same time, my favorite experience in life, probably, is drinking a lot of caffeine and getting really hyped up and listening to music and going for a drive. It’s hard for me to understand what people are feeling. I don’t smoke, and I’ve never rolled in my life. I think everyone has their own way to enjoy the show. Are you bothered by the drug culture at electronic dance music festivals like Electric Zoo or Ultra Music?Ī. Overall it’s kind of a more sensitive experience. I think it’s important that people realize it’s not meant to be this craziest party of all time. I’ll be singing and triggering samples and running multitracks and playing keys. I’m going to be playing exclusively my own music. My live tour that I’m about to do over the course of the next two months. People enjoy immersing themselves in fiction and fantasy - it’s a phenomenon that’s all-encompassing.Ī. I’ve also realized everyone has a fictional universe that’s dear to them, whether it’s literature or Dungeons & Dragons or HBO. Not that I’m the greatest or most authentic - I just think people are ready for a shake-up. There’s not a lot of risk taking or authenticity. And right now the scene is a lot of hashtags and promotions and people’s Twitter accounts being run by their managers. There are guys out there that are amazing craftsmen, but don’t have artistic vision. It kind of feels like people were waiting for something like this to happen - some kind of disruption to the E.D.M. Why might it be resonating with people?Ī. This album has received a lot of buzz, from sites like Fader and Rolling Stone. I kept finding myself using chords from classic animé intro progressions. I realized a lot of what I was channeling was related to video games tropes. It definitely wasn’t drug-inspired surrealism. Everything pointed to this certain kind of surrealism and weirdness. I found that so much of my taste derives from escapism and fictional universes. It took a lot of introspection and working to find out what charms me. I basically went off tour and totally immersed myself in my home. What was the process of making this shift?Ī. So it was important to find what the next step was. scene, and I didn’t know what I stood for. I kind of had this angst where I found myself at the top of this E.D.M. Eventually, I found myself with a massive following and not much of an idea of what I wanted to do or represent artistically. There were all these opportunities presented to me with different artists, and I kept taking them. When did you become less comfortable with the electronic dance music scene?Ī. I was definitely among the first electro-D.J.s to mix super fast: one break, one drop, and you’re out and on to the next song. It was like, “You’re going to pay me $500 bucks to go out to Portland and play music that I like? That sounds amazing!”īecause I was not coming from that culture, it freed me up from a lot of constraints that D.J.s have imposed upon themselves, like referencing other people’s sets or letting a song ride out for a long time. before, I never D.J.ed myself, or cared about D.J.s at all. ![]() I had a song that happened to do well and then suddenly was asked to go on tour. Also a lot of Kyary Pamyu Pamyu: It’s the best art-directed pop project and the best pop songwriting of all time. I’ve also been listening to the music I kind of grew up with: the soundtracks from Dance Dance Revolution, StepMania and The Legend of Zelda. “Worlds” is kind of a homage to all those fictional universes that I loved growing up. I basically spent my childhood on the computer, playing online games and watching animé, starting with Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh!, and then anything on Adult Swim. What were the main influences on this album?Ī. Here are excerpts from that conversation. constraints and drug culture, exuding both nervous humility and plain-spoken confidence about his talents. Robinson, 22, was interviewed recently by phone in his hometown, Chapel Hill, N.C., where he was walking his dog, Zorro, around the neighborhood. On “Worlds,” he has opted instead for washes of gorgeous textures, contemplative storytelling and remarkably sharp melodies. Robinson has rejected that mind-set and the head rush of adrenaline that currently dominates the scene. After several years of performing at bacchanalian festivals like Ultra and Electric Daisy Carnival, Mr. Robinson is a star of electronic dance music, or E.D.M., but the sounds that appear on his first full-length album, “Worlds” (Astralwerks), released on Tuesday, would no doubt be puzzling to many of his fist-pumping boosters. In 2010 an 18-year-old unknown named Porter Robinson began turning heads on the electronic dance scene for his spastic, high-octane production. ![]()
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