Porter Robinson has continued to prove his ability to produce some of the most full-bodied and complex works in electronic dance music. He has remained consistent in voicing his desires to create something different and truly beautiful in his next album.
Porter Robinson has hit a homerun with “Sad Machine.”
His second track “Sad Machine” off of his sophomore album Worlds chronicles the emotional exchange between what Robinson described as a “lonely robot girl” and human male. Using a Vocaloid synthesizer, Robinson manipulated the voices of the duet, utilizing his own vocals for the part of the male.
I’d used Vocaloid as the vocals for several of the songs on Worlds, and then the idea of a duet between a lonely robot girl and the human boy who encounters her occurred to me. I didn’t have much time before I had to turn in the entire album, so I just sang the male parts. I wanted something that felt distantly sad, a little cute, surreal, hopeful, and maybe somehow evocative of fiction?
While this isn’t your momma’s dance music, it is a refreshing reprise from the big room bangers that are consistently churned out by many of the big names in electronica.
The track is out now and available for download through iTunes.
