Until now Porter Robinson has been considered a prodigy of sorts in regards to his production skills, and overall approach to his music. Over the past year or so, he’s grown into his role of full on touring dj, touring in the vein of world class djs all over the world, and at some of the bigger festivals(he transformed the Neon Garden sidestage into the mainstage on Saturday at E.D.C. Vegas). All the while working on remixes and refining a signature trance/electro/house sound that have earned almost unanimous rave reviews, name drops aren’t even needed at this point.
This E.P. was his answer to maybe the only voice doubting him, the one in his head. It comprises of six tracks, dripping with a new simplicity, yet still retaining that heavy sound we all know and love and associate with P.R. But you’ll find it doesn’t rely only on his own heavy-electro feel, he piles in the prog-house, trance lines, and throws down hard on two dubstep tracks.
The individual songs are good, not great. His effort to explore different sounds seemed to make him more focused on only the production aspect of things, rather than track structure(my favorite track of the e.p., Seconds, takes three minutes to drop). The dub tracks he nails down says I, but there’s too many random suprises throughout the other songs (not to mention exploring three different “genres”)that give it a level of inconsistency, something terribly important in an e.p. or album release. I have to say I’m ok with branching out with new sounds to find your voice, this record is def. party music and bet on hearing these tracks played out with a slew of remixes about to come down on our heads, I just hope the next release is a little more Porter.
Head here to pick up a copy, all in all, the remixes balance is out and make it a killer first release.
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