He’s opened for the few super-DJs more popular than he-Skrillex, Deadmau5, Tiësto-and holds a monthly residency at the Marquee, America’s highest-grossing club, where he’s set to perform tonight. Robinson made his name in EDM as a teenager, not simply topping Beatport charts but crashing the store’s servers with his mob of supporters. A billboard by the road advertises a vasectomy.įor the towering dance music Porter Robinson has been producing over the past few years, this is home. “Those are some nice titties.” The backseat TV plays a candid camera show with a skit called “Spank Prank,” which features a woman walking down the street while being repeatedly slapped on the ass. I tell the driver to take me to Whole Foods. When I line up for a taxi, I’m followed by two women wearing only thongs and glittery star stickers over their nipples. The heat outside, like everything here, feels both obscenely fake and uncomfortably real.
The image of a millionaire DJ, blown-up six stories tall, hangs off the side of the MGM Grand, while a smaller sign nearby suggests other entertainment: “EXPERIENCE THE BLAST: SHOOT A MACHINE GUN.” Inside the massive casinos and the shopping malls that adjoin them, A/Cs hum overtime, unnaturally preserving whatever’s wandered into the desert. There’s a pyramid, a castle, an Eiffel tower, a monument of a Harley-Davidson plowing through a building. Exits to casinos curl up and away from the main drag in disorienting curves, their guardrails like tracks of a roller coaster. Getting to The Strip from the Las Vegas airport requires a left turn, more or less. I'm also really interested in speaking about creativity more broadly, since it's something i've thought about a lot over the last few years.From the magazine: ISSUE 93, August/Sept 2014. after "Worlds", i felt this really strong need to write an album that explored the beauty of reality and of the everyday, but as i'm sure we'll get into here, it was one of the hardest (and most worthwhile!) things i've ever done. Last friday, i released my second album, "Nurture", which is a project that took me about 6 years on-and-off. i also launched a side project a few years ago called Virtual Self (recommended if you're interested in deep dives into electronic music subgenres and turn-of-the-millennium aesthetics). since then, I worked on "Shelter" with Madeon, and also co-created "Shelter the Animation" shortly after. Hello (again) everyone! i did an AMA 6 years ago around the release of my last album, Worlds.
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