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His first official single which he released on own popcultur label, Icarus, was taut electro-house, but its follow-up, Finale also released on popcultur/Columbia Records was “a 92 bpm anthem rock track”. His repositioning of their ‘The Island’ as tough, sparkling house won whilst his remixes on the Yelle “Que Veux Tu” and Deadmau5 “Raise Your Weapon” singles further raised his profile with support from of Annie Mac, Axwell, Sebastian Ingrosso, Steve Angello, Pete Tong, Deadmau5, Alan Braxe, Chase & Status, Skrillex, Knife Party, Porter Robinson, Zedd, Diplo, Martin Solveig etc.Īs well as these breathtaking remixes there was the excitement caused by his Pop Culture video that he uploaded to YouTube in July 2011, which featured him performing with his Novation Launchpad controller, as he live mixed 39 samples from pop tracks from the likes of ELO’s Mr Blue Sky and the Gorillaz ‘Dare’ to Britney Spears’s ‘Baby One More Time’ – into three and half minutes of music that has currently had nearly 23 million views. Instead, he entered an online remix competition for drum’n’bass band Pendulum. He posted some of his tracks online, but declined label requests to release them and other artist’s offers of remix work.

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A year later, he began learning how to make music. Hugo Leclercq aka Madeon was introduced to electronic music aged 11, when he came upon a documentary about Daft Punk. I have been moving towards something that is fully sincere and authentic and 100 percent me. “The next thing that I do will be in the wheelhouse of Worlds. And I’m really struggling to commit to a new sound or concept,” he says, kidding. He’s happy to bask in this World for a bit, while he plots a much-intimidating sophomore album. He’s taken a similar approach for his next release, a track-by-track album of remixes entitled Worlds Retold: It doubles as a platform to show off the skills of his favorite new talent, such as Odesza, Galimatias and Deon Custom. That, in turn, calibrated the overall aesthetic for Worlds, for which he also recruited several relatively unknown vocalists. The first track he recorded for Worlds, the voluminous, ethereal “Divinity Made,” was born of his seemingly impossible self-challenge to write a song that was beautiful, loud, yet vintage-sounding. “A huge part of my work has always been this effortful, expedited self-discovery,” Porter says. Making Worlds was an intriguing challenge for him. “I think that helped speed up how sick I got of dance music and all of its tropes.” And I was DJing a lot of other people’s music,” he says.

“It took me to a place where I wasn’t writing music. Then, in 2012, he scored an iTunes No.1 with the shimmering “Language.” Porter found himself touring five days a week, staying at his parents’ house when he was in town.

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Porter’s grassroots following exploded during the release of a successful EP and series of high-profile DJ gigs. (These days, he’s graduated to StepMania, which, yes, he totally dominates.) “Something about the tempo was super-interesting to me.” The artist’s first foray into electronic music came through the arcade-stomping game Dance Dance Revolution. There’s never been anything conventional about Porter’s approach to music.

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It finds an unlikely common ground for Porter’s diverse inspirations: Kanye West’s Graduation, Daft Punk’s Discovery, The Postal Service, and an array of orchestral movie scores. Something nobody else has.”Īnd thus begat Worlds, a cinematic excursion that commingles Porter’s technological prowess with his love of evocative melody. “I figured that one way to develop a unique identity as an artist would be to combine all my favorite things in music - it would result in a collective expression of my taste and experience.

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What’s now come full circle began a few years back, when Porter turned down countless DJ offers to devote himself to introspection and reinvention.

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And with more than 185 million album streams under his belt, 100,000+ in ticket sales for his 2014 Worlds Live tour, plus triumphant headline appearances across the global festival circuit with his groundbreaking live show Porter’s fans have stood by him in kind. It has, at turns, been called “gorgeous” (New York Times), “delightful” (Rolling Stone), and “imaginative” (NPR).

That music can be heard on his first studio album, Worlds (Astralwerks/Virgin EMI), a journey through textural synth-pop. Listen to "Shelter" now! | Read more about the Shelter Live Tour here.