Biografia
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Data di nascita
15 Luglio 1992 (età: 33)
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Luogo di nascita
Chapel Hill, Orange County, North Carolina, Stati Uniti
Porter Robinson (born July 15, 1992) is an American electronic dance music producer and DJ. He primarily produces in the electro house genre.
Biography
Porter Robinson began producing at the age of 12 using Sony ACID Pro emulating sounds he heard from video games. He later began producing Hands Up under the alias Ekowraith using FL Studio. Robinson primarily uses Lennard Digital Sylenth1, Native Instruments Massive, 3xOsc, Sytrus and several other commercial and free audio plugins.
He is currently 19 years old and recently graduated high school in his hometown of Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Music career
He has released a variety of original singles on Glamara Records and Big Fish Recordings. His first single, "Say My Name", was an enormous success, landing at #1 on Beatport's Electro-House chart.In the summer of 2011 he signed with OWSLA, a new label operated by Skrillex, to release his first EP entitled Spitfire. Spitfire reached the number one spot on the iTunes Dance chart as well as the number one spot on Beatport's overall release chart.
Porter has been commissioned for official remixes by Lady Gaga (Interscope Records), Avicii (Ministry of Sound), Spencer & Hill (Bazooka Records)and Innerpartysystem (Red Bull Records).
Touring
As a DJ, he has toured internationally and performed alongside artists including Deadmau5, Tiesto, David Guetta, Skrillex, Diplo, Moby, Afrojack, Above & Beyond, Dada Life, A-Trak, Gareth Emery and many more.
He performed at many major music festivals during 2011 including Ultra Music Festival, Electric Daisy Carnival (3 cities),Electric Zoo, South by Southwest, Global Dance Festival, Virgin Mobile FreeFest, Beyond Wonderland,Electric Forest and Nocturnal Festival.
Throughout February 2011, he appeared on the Project Blue Book Tour with Skrillex and Tommy Lee & DJ Aero.
In June and July 2011, he performed as direct support to Skrillex on the OWSLA tour.
In August 2011 he toured throughout Australia and New Zealand.
In September and October 2011, he performed as direct support to Tiesto on his College Invasion tour of the United States and Canada. Following this, Porter began a run of headline dates across clubs in North America as part of "The Spitfire Tour".
In 2012 he is announced to play festivals including Festival Imperial, Coachella, Future Music Festival, Ultra Music Festival, and Lollapalooza, and performed a live Essential Mix that was broadcasted from Hull City Hall, January 28 on BBC Radio 1 during his first trip to the UK. During the set, he played a new, unreleased track called "Language" which was later released on April 10.
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