With the Shelter Tour reaching its closing days, inthemix took the opportunity to speak with Porter Robinson and Madeon while they were still working as a singular unit. Ahead of their Australian tour, they answered questions on a range of topics from their past as producers in their teens to today’s dance music scene. Porter had this to say about where dance music currently is:
Porter: Hugo you want to go first? I don’t know if our answers to this would be the same.
Madeon: I don’t think they will. Dance music has a format, and it’s not something that’s very exciting to me personally anymore. I don’t think it ever truly was, but electronic music and electronic production is still exciting. What I care most about lately is songs and pop music, ultimately, so the format of DJ music is not something that I’m very attached to anymore.
But I feel optimistic about the future because I’ve seen this pattern before and I think right when things grow still, a lot of producers are inspired to do something new and do something awesome. I think that part of what will be important in the future is for producers to have a certain level of care when it comes to new ideas and new sounds to try to be as unique as possible with they’re in the studio. I think sometimes people have a tendency to take advantage of what they see is the next big sound, which often times is damaging.
Porter: Right now I’m really excited about electronic music generally, and I love it. I think that this genre tends to ebb and flow in terms of quality and levels of inspiration. I am excited. I’m really watching what I say pretty carefully, so I’m sorry about that. I think that in 2016, in my opinion, things fell into a rut, and I don’t think there were that many new ideas. Obviously there’s always awesome stuff happening in the underground, but I wasn’t particularly inspired by a lot of the music that was released that year.
But I feel optimistic about the future because I’ve seen this pattern before and I think right when things grow still, a lot of producers are inspired to do something new and do something awesome. I think that part of what will be important in the future is for producers to have a certain level of care when it comes to new ideas and new sounds to try to be as unique as possible with they’re in the studio. I think sometimes people have a tendency to take advantage of what they see is the next big sound, which often times is damaging.
This is only a chunk of the many smart comments the two had in the full interview, which can be found on inthemix.
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