Porter Robinson’s genre-crossing Essential Mix

Making his Essential Mix debut in January 2012 at the age of 19, the now 21-year old electronic music revolutionist Porter Robinson has just returned to the BBC Radio 1 show format for the second mix of its kind. Surprisingly having gone through a musically sea change within the intervening 29 months, the North Carolina native was temporarily also doubting on the future of electronic music:

I spent two years writing ‘Worlds’ and during that time I’d become really pessimistic about the future of electronic music. But once I finished the album I went and made an active effort to find new electronic music that touched me. I’ve fully changed my mind! I think the future is really, really bright. There’s a ton of great music today that just needs to be discovered. That’s not to say this mix is entirely devoid of classics, but it’s mostly made up of stuff I’ve heard recently.

Precisely in order to disclose these so far undiscovered musically gems to the world, he takes listeners on a two-hour long, genre-defiant journey through his current favorites, but also brings along ‘Lionhearted’, ‘Sea Of Voices’ and ‘Sad Machine’ off his forthcoming debut album ‘Worlds’, as well as the unreleased Anamanaguchi remix of latter. A selection of 72 tracks that rightly creates an appetite for more.

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1. 近藤浩治 – Day 3 Theme (Majora’s Mask)
2. Point Point – Life In Grey
3. Chrome Sparks – Marijuana
4. ID – ID
5. Gorillaz – Clint Eastwood (Unlike Pluto Remix)
6. Nömak – Chrystaline
7. Yeo – Girl
8. Mat Zo – Lucid Dreams (The M Machine Remix)
9. Grant Bowtie – Reach
10. Wee – Aeroplane (Reprise)
11. Porter Robinson – Sad Machine
12. Porter Robinson – Sad Machine (Anamanaguchi Remix)
13. LORDE – Tennis Court (Flume Remix)
14. Lindsay Lowend – Basement Dweller Overture
15. 宇多田ヒカル – Simple and Clean
16. Haywyre – Sculpted
17. Ricky Eat Acid – Untitled (Notes)
18. Chrome Sparks – Goddess
19. Kris Menace feat. Black Hills – Waiting For You (Oliver Remix)
20. Flume – Holdin On
21. Andrew Bayer feat. Ane Brun – Lose Sight
22. CHVRCHES – Strong Hand
23. Froxic – You Can Dance
24. Chrome Sparks – Send The Pain On
25. Lorn – All Corrupt Everything
26. Claude VonStroke – Plasma Jelly (EPROM Remix)
27. Proxy – 10,000
28. Nero – Satisfy
29. Lil Sony – Auto-lock
30. Impressions – Untitled
31. Nömak – Friends = Family
32. Ludacris – Party Girls (KR$CHN & Nanpa NOIR Remix)
33. Tomggg – Popteen
34. Porter Robinson feat. Urban Cone – Lionhearted
35. CHVRCHES – ZVVL
36. Slum Village – Fall In Love (Moody Good Remix)
37. Hermitude & Flume – Hyperparadise (GANZ Flip)
38. Milky Ray – lull〜そして僕らは〜
39. Milky Ray – lull〜そして僕らは〜 (Maon Remix)
40. Tennyson – No Answer
41. Canblaster – I Think About U
42. Baths – Ocean Death
43. Lorenzo D’Ianni & MCJ – Scrape
44. Jusai – Dark Voice (Luix Spectrum Remix)
45. Habits of Hate (Happa & Manni Dee) – Limelight Roles
46. Porter Robinson – Sea Of Voices
47. Slow Magic – On Yr Side
48. fu_mou feat. 星子 – Green Night Parade
49. memory cards – Phoenix Downs (Yandere Remix)
50. Deon Custom – Circles
51. Pa’s Lam System – I’m Coming
52. Morgan Page & Sultan & Ned Shepard & BT feat. Angela McCluskey – In The Air (DJ SoySauce Remix)
53. きゃりーぱみゅぱみゅ – Yumeno Hajima Ring Ring
54. きゃりーぱみゅぱみゅ – Yumeno Hajima Ring Ring (Yandere Remix)
55. Kasbo – Reaching
56. Torahhorse – Donubts
57. A$AP Rocky – Ghetto Symphone (GANZ Flip)
58. Infinity Shred – Mapper
59. Daft Punk – Veridis Quo
60. Touch Sensitive – Pizza Guy
61. Daft Punk – Emotion
62. Nömak – Clint
63. ID – ID
64. Mat Zo – EZ
65. Madison Avenue – Don’t Call Me Baby (Motez Vicious21 Remix)
66. Lindsay Lowend & Makino Yui – Bar Harbor (DJ Wildparty Mashup)
67. Kid Simple – Far Light
68. Point Point – Morning BJ
69. Avec Avec – おしえて
70. metome – BShop’s Rising Sun
71. Panama – Always (Wave Racer Remix)
72. George & Jonathan III – Crystal

Author

Patrick Glück