A coterie of dolled-up young ladies are checking their phones and nails, while someone from the entourage tries to get their attention. The scene inside his trailer backstage at Las Vegas’ Life is Beautiful festival is pretty cool. While many of his peers were desperately trying to replicate the success of Calvin Harris and Swedish House Mafia by releasing albums of over-produced, crossover pop flops, Porter bucked the trend by slowing the tempos down and making an honest record that was more reflective of his personal tastes than what was expected from him. Yet one year ago when he released his debut album, Worlds, he proved us all wrong with an incredibly deep, musically rich LP. Plenty of checks.Īt that time, it would have been easy to peg Porter Robinson as just another one-dimensional bedroom producer, coming off of the success of his debut single, “Say My Name” and later propelling Mat Zo’s “Easy” into another anthemic Beatport chart-topper. Well, let me rephrase that, there were checks. Everything happened so fast that there wasn’t really a system of checks and balances to monitor what was working and what wasn’t.

Without naming names, you had a diverse lineup from seasoned vets to young wunderkinds future superstars that would flourish and manufactured ones that wouldn’t. We all were.Īmidst the influx of overpriced EDM DJs coming into Las Vegas around 2012, unless you were paying close attention to the Beatport charts, club-goers really couldn’t tell one from another.

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