He released Spitfire in 2011 and the level of demand crashed the server of a prominent online retailer. Success quickly followed as he signed a one-EP deal with Skrillex's OWSLA label. Learning and creating beats throughout his teens, his first single, 'Say My Name,' was released in 2010 (under his actual name). Influenced by the sound of video games such as Dance Dance Revolution, he began to emulate these soundtracks by using Sony ACID Pro his first production alias was Ekowraith. His long-in-the-making sophomore album, Nurture, arrived in 2021.īorn in 1992 in Atlanta, Robinson began producing music at the young age of 12. He has curated his own festival and founded a charity benefitting cancer patients in the African nation of Malawi. He was already a top-shelf international headliner by the time Astralwerks released his influential 2014 full-length debut, Worlds, after which he continued to branch out, earning a Grammy nomination for 'Ghost Voices,' a song he released under his trance/hardcore-influences alias Virtual Self.
He first reached mainstream chart success with vibrant electro-house tracks like 2012's 'Language,' a U.K.
Porter Robinson rocketed to stardom as a teenage EDM producer before his music evolved into an ambitious, introspective form of futuristic electropop.
