Breaking the Sterotype 07-12-2011 - by Dante Alexander, Staff Mumbler Electro-house/dubstep artist Porter Robinson proves that young artists don't always have to be terrible. With a rapid ascent to fame all before he was even out of high school, and at the same time giving us great tracks that are definitely worth listening to.
Okay. Justin Bieber and Rebecca Black- quickly tell me what they have in common. Go ahead...
...Of course, at this point, your answer was probably along the lines of, "their music is terrible," though put in terms much more crude and profane. Congratulations, you're predictable. Not that I'm trying to argue with your claims here- if you've read any of my reviews it should be pretty evident that I'm good at hating things -but I mention these two here to make a very different point. Youth. You really have to wonder, if these artists had more experience with music and more time to perfect their craft, if they would actually be bearable to listen to.
There seems to be a pattern in the music industry. One where the artists are slowly moving to a point of unoriginality where they are nearly indistinguishable, and where the record companies are attempting to exploit younger and younger stars. It's a clever marketing scheme, truly, because who better to sell albums to than shallow, simple minded kids? They're given someone that they feel they can relate to and identify with- someone close to their own age and with lyrical subject matter so vague it could apply to absolutely anyone. Yet, there are still those of us that groan time and time again when this marketing strategy is utilized; there are those of us that see a pop star years younger than the last one and wonder just when the music industry will actually give us someone with talent. So is this always the case? Is there a correlation between how young a musician is and how utterly bad their songs are?
For the first time in a very long while, this is not the case...
Let me introduce you to Porter Robinson. The young electro-house artist hailing out of North Carolina. Taken from the bio on his Facebook page: "18-year-old Porter Robinson had never set foot in a club when his smash hit "Say My Name" shot to number one on Beatport's Electro-House chart, making people do just that on dancefloors and DJ booths across the globe." This statement, however large, is no exaggeration. "Say My Name" is an impressive, beat-centralized song with a catchy pulse and an angelic synth breakdown, and young Robinson has already rocked this song at EDC, as well as toured with huge names like Tiesto.
But his Facebook bio also points out, "Some might call Porter a prodigy, but that label belies his musical maturity and ignores his years of production experience."
Future artists should use Robinson as an example; at an age before most had even picked up an instrument, Porter was already producing some great techno/handsup tracks under the name of "Ekowraith." He is an artist who has obviously put in the hours to produce something of worth, very deserving of his rapid climb to success, and if more young musicians bothered to learn their stuff as well as he has the world of modern music would be a lot more bearable. As for a rating, as electronic music goes, Robinson's hit track, "Say my Name" deserves a solid 8.5 out of 10 so go check it out for yourselves.
by Murat
they put evan bourn into dlc so they might put crsihtian in dlc and they might not even make a next svr they got LOW they might change over to that
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