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Skrillex biography

Skrillex draws on a vast range of influences like Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, Autechre, IDM and acid house music – as well as video games like Final Fantasy and shows like Transformers.

From, 2004-2007, Moore found success singing for post-hardcore band From First to Last (signed to Epitaph). After a number of successful tours, Moore was forced to resign from the band due to issues with his vocal cords and subsequently began to focus on his solo career.

Skrillex released his debut EP, My Name is Skrillex, in 2010 as a free download, launching his reworked career. Soon following was the EP Scary Monsters & Nice Sprites, which garnered both top spots in the club music charts and three Grammy Awards, including for Best Dance/Electronica Album. If there was any doubt that this former vocalist could not transition into the EDM world, it was all dashed away with these successes.

Skrillex’s 2011 three-track EP, More Monsters and Sprites, helped kick off a successful tour. Moore also produced a track for Korn called “Get Up.” Later in that year, the band would join Skrillex on stage at Coachella. As if that year weren’t busy enough for Moore, he released yet another EP, Bangarang, that would ultimately bring home two more Grammy Awards in 2013. The record combines unrelenting, thumping kick drums with bass wobbles, chopped-up vocal hooks, catchy synth lines, and heavy drops.

Not content to just make music under the Skrillex name, Moore went on to form not one but two side projects in 2012. Dog Blood was a team up with Boys Noize, which featured the techno charts-topping track “Next Order.” Jack Ü was next up, this time pairing Skrillex with Diplo. For a while, this act kept its members a secret — another example of the masterful showmanship behind his projects.

In 2014, Skrillex promoted himself in a new way which reinforced his cutting-edge tech image with global fans. Using an app called “Alien Ride,” hidden messages and a countdown would boost anticipation for what would come next. The tracks revealed would comprise what would be his first full-length album release. Recess debuted at #4 on the US Billboard 200 charts and made it onto Rolling Stone’s top 50 records of 2014.

Since 2016, Skrillex has been racking up props with collaborations and remixes, amazing fans and peers alike. His impressive and eclectic mix of collaborators includes the likes of former girlfriend Ellie Goulding, Damien Marley, NERO, Deadmau5, A$AP Rocky, Chance the Rapper, Kill the Noise, and many more. He’s also dropped songs for video games, another one of his huge passions. Examples include "Face My Fears," an opening song for the video game Kingdom Hearts III.

Skrillex has toured with sold-out shows worldwide. Renowned for impressive set design, the “Mothership” tour is said to have required eight fully-loaded tractor-trailer trucks to transport its giant onstage spaceship. He has further built a reputation for his live shows and cleverly synchronized audio/visual displays. While touring slowed down due to the pandemic, he returned to form in 2021 with a performance in Brooklyn and with many more planned for the future.

Porter Robinson biography

Porter Robinson (born July 15th, 1992) is an American electronic musician and DJ from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He released his first studio record in August 2014.

Every now and then, you come across an artist who makes you feel like an underachiever, unambitious, or just plain lazy; given what he’s already achieved at the tender age of just twenty-two, you’d have to count Porter Robinson amongst that number. He kicked his career off at the age of just twelve, and his earlier work was heavily indebted to dance music that he was exposed to through his love of Japanese video games - Dance Dance Revolution being one particular example.

By 2012, he released a debut single, “Language”, that pretty much immediately garnered international attention; it was released outside of his native U.S. via the legendary Ministry of Sound, and was quickly picked up by Radio 1 in the UK, where it was added to their Essential Mix. His ever-growing stature in the dance world led to him being tapped for official remixes of songs by artists as internationally acclaimed as Deadmau5 and Avicii by 2013, and he rounded off a hugely successful summer the same year by playing some of the world’s biggest music festivals. August 2014 saw the release of his debut album, Worlds, which met with critical acclaim and cracked the top twenty in the U.S.

Live reviews

Seeing Skrillex live is truly an electronic experience. It's not just his throbbing, undulating music that I love either – as he progresses through his set the stages behind him flashes in patterns that would make old-school Windows Media Player envious! Let me try and paint the picture for you...

The dark club pulses and writhes while multiple lighting types flash and move around obscuring Skrillex and seeming to seep into the walls. The signature cacophony of noise, visuals, and fog spill onto the floor, overtaking and enveloping us. As he moves from song to song Skrillex commands us to scream until our voices are hoarse and the music seems to thrum away the pain.

Hypnotic beats are flying from his station and enrapturing the club while Skrillex paces on top of his work space. Falling to his knees he drops the bass and the music screams “Skrillex.” His body hums with tension as he masterfully flips faders and switches and yells his instructions, encouragements, and demands at the crowd. I am transported to that place where music is all of my senses and I feel another wave of music breaking over me. Even Skrillex himself seems transported by the very music he has created. His body writhes along to the music making his adjustment movements seem frenzied and almost deformed.

Skrillex is a beast and his element is music.

Anonymous

Recently, EDM has taken the U.S. by storm. Festivals and concerts are popping up everywhere, it’s played all over the radios and these once unknown DJs have become part of our music industry like any other well-known artist. All DJ sets seem to be compromised of a common formula: build up, drop, transition and repeat. Many of these DJs just take this mindset, play an intense set and call it a day. But there’s something special about Porter Robinson and when he’s performing you know it’s a Porter set. It oozes his personality, gives off his own flare and voice— and even if you don’t know much about Porter it’s like his set gives you a glimpse into his creative mind. Ultra Miami 2013, weekend two to be exact - that’s when I first saw him live. If you’ve either witnessed it in person or through the live stream, the Ultra Worldwide stage attracted tens of thousands of people in a space that was probably less than 200 feet long and wide. Not exactly ideal spectator conditions. I was sardined between the people around as I squirmed my way to the front because there was no way I wasn’t going to be front and center for my favorite artist of all time. When Porter came on, the crowd went wild as he played his classic tracks like “Unison” while throwing in some unique material ranging from 172bpm, techno and hardstyle—not your typical EDM set. And that’s what made it so amazing because no one saw it coming. He’s a risk taker and he plays what he believes in, not repeated mainstream music that’s been butchered over and over again. Mixed with his amazing video and light set that shined geometric patterns and beautiful digitally created landscaping like mountains and fields, everything about his set was Porter. The energy was incredible and I even forgot how little space I had as I slowly, but surely grooved my way to the front. Twenty minutes in, I made it. Porter just started playing “Easy” (feat. Mat Zo) and the crowd exploded in energy to his hit single. I shyly turned to this six-foot guy raging next to me asking if he could put me on his shoulders. He gladly obliged and as I rose, every other girl doing a double decker came down and in that moment, I was the only person seven feet above ten thousand people. I’m in tears trying to explain the absolute awe and adrenaline rush I experienced—no words to even describe the pure natural euphoria I felt as I looked to the front and see Porter jamming out as the chorus of “Easy” roles in and everyone including me was screaming the lyrics at the top of our lungs. Porter appropriately ended the emotional roller coaster that was his set with the famous “Language." That song says so little yet so much sentiment is given off by it and it just touches the soul. A perfect farewell song to a beautifully composed set.

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