I do want people to have a sense of just the extreme level of meticulousness and care that goes into everything. I wouldn't expect anybody to catch all the details of what I'm doing. The level of obsession is so extreme.
— Porter Robinson
I wanted to have a grander vision, something that I felt like I was really fighting for and I wanted to have a real idea and be authentic.
There's so many things that can go wrong, and if I'm merely playing and not hosting a festival, none of those things reflect on me.
I'm not a huge movie buff and I don't watch that much television, but I've spent most of my life playing video games of one kind or another.
An underexplored reason why nostalgic art is worthwhile is that it influences the way the past is remembered.
I think that my biggest influences are electronic acts. Daft Punk is probably my number 1, then Kanye West would be number 2 after that.
I was still on track to go UNC at Chapel Hill, I had no plans to be a musician. It wasn't even a goal of mine. Then I had this song that blew up and went viral and suddenly I found myself playing shows and having this music career.
I wanted 'Second Sky' to be my way of recommending truly good music to my audience that I think is worthy of their time.
But to me, 'Worlds' is meant as kind of an appreciation of fiction and stories and escapism and fantasy.
Virtual Self' combines a lot of unlike elements - trance, jungle, slowed-down breakbeats.
I wanted what I was doing to be really true to me and my tastes. That's what 'Worlds' was, me taking a break from what I was doing and doing something that was honest, authentic and real.
So, the concept was a single-stage festival, and I open and close the festival to encourage people to stay for all of the other artists.
I played video games for years. I immersed myself in them. They're so beautiful. They have these gorgeous imaginary landscapes. And they were just very dear to me.
For me, the early 2000s stood for this vast, magical, electronic cyber realm - a time when the internet was so infinite, mysterious, and under-explored.
Virtual Self' was me trying to paint a picture of a very foggy, distorted memory that I had of electronic music on the internet.
