Oh lordy!! Missing out on this much fun almost makes me wish I stopped by this place more than twice a year! I never really took all this conspiracy-hoax-insanity seriously before but now that it seems to be catching on, let me take this opportunity to nip it in the bud- I AM NOT JASON PORTER, for the love of god. I will certainly admit that the whole thing should seem fishy to any reasonable person, shit, it seems fishy to me! But the reality is what it is. I saw a man who I was told was called Jason Porter spin live, repeatedly, about fifteen times ranging from the Autumn of 1992 to Xmas break 1994. (Yes, I've said earlier that I saw him "dozens of times" or "a thousand times" or some such exaggeration. I'm a pathological exaggerator.) But wait- the story gets even LESS believable! I haven't mentioned my age on here I don't believe, but I was in fact FOURTEEN years old in 1992. Clubbing at 14? Yep! So chew on THAT.
There seem to be 2 things the tinfoil hat nutters on here can't get past, namely the sample in Trellis which is supposedly off-date (haven't checked), and the electronic piece I did called Trial of the Mind. I will grant, Trial of the Mind is OBSCENELY derivative of Jason Porter's mixes. Those of you who have assumed the same person made both aren't hallucinating the resemblence. But the fact is, Trial of the Mind was the result of a year and a half of painstaking attempts on my part SPECIFICALLY to replicate Jason Porter's style- attempts that were directly inspired when I heard tell from my one mate about the possibility of finding some old Jason Porter bootlegs (he did later come through and those sets were ultimately shared here along with the ones I found on the Bay). From the looks of it, I succeeded eh! I'm flattered really!
Plenty of other lame accusations barely worth responding to- e.g.
"He didn't even bother tracking down the seller on eBay" - went apeshit trying to do just that, thank you.
"How could he have seen Porter spin many times when his name was never on the flyers" - not one but TWO close family friends worked in clubs in the south of Spain during that period, where we often went on holiday and where Porter seemed to spin constantly around then (also a big help as I was trying to get in there at 15, barely looking 13)
"Jason Porter changed his life but then he forgot all about him" - nitpicking something I said about the memories having faded. Of course the memories faded, I hadn't been able to listen to the music for over a decade!
I could go on (and on, and on) but I just don't see the point. It's like politics or religion after a point. Those of you who have some inner need to believe in a grand conspiracy will always do so I suppose, just check Occam's Razor on Wikipedia and ask yourself whether it's really harder to believe that a guy on TA is obsessed with an extremely obscure DJ, and maybe got some mis-dated mixes of his, and made his own music directly copying those mixes--or, that said guy on TA spent what apparently must have been YEARS painstakingly building a huge body of music and mixes and an endless fake story, JUST to release it all to a small group of trance music fans on ONE website and then do nothing with it ever again. Christ, say it out loud and see how silly it sounds.
Anyway thanks for the laugh guys, and I'm sure many of you will be more convinced than ever of your paranoia after reading all this, but, nothing I could do about that I suppose! Have a good one
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