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Originally posted by Vernon Wanderer I hope ecksemmess comes to his mind and admits it now, because I really love this, and I'm sure I'm not the only one. I hope he continues to produce things, he makes really interesting tracks.

This is the point of the story I really don't get. What's the fucking point? He'd get more out of it and more attention if he'd just post the material straight up, especially on TA.

ecksemmess is Jason Porter, and Tupac is still alive

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Originally posted by Woony This is the point of the story I really don't get. What's the fucking point? He'd get more out of it and more attention if he'd just post the material straight up, especially on TA.

Not necessarily. "Unknown guys releases unpublished music for free" happens hundreds of times a day on the Internet. On TA he would have to post his own music in the relatively inactive Producer forum and he also posted these Jason Porter sets on other forums, where he might have been ignored entirely. Posing it as someone else's music allows him to hype it ("I found a fucking killer set from 1994" vs "Hey guys, my music is really good!") and the whole backstory appeals to fans of old-school trance.

Admittedly, it's bizarre behaviour, but everything about Jason Porter is bizarre.

this whole thing is really strange and cool at the same time.

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Originally posted by paulversuspaul this whole thing is really strange and cool at the same time.

it actually freaked me out. I always had a weak stomach for scary stories about anonymous people. It made me think that J. Porter was a ghost or something.

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Originally posted by Vernon Wanderer The mp3 is safe and working.

Huh. When I try to go to http://xeron.net, it redirects me to "http://allstar click.com/tmp/"
And when I use google cache and see the proper site, the link turns into "download.htm".

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Originally posted by netroM Huh. When I try to go to http://xeron.net, it redirects me to "http://allstar click.com/tmp/" And when I use google cache and see the proper site, the link turns into "download.htm".

http://www.xeron.net/ works perfectly for me


Edit: here is direct dl: http://www.xeron.net/Justin%20Silverstein%20-%20Trial%20of%20the%20Mind%202006.mp3

I just listened to all 48 minutes of Trial of the Mind. all I can say is it's weird ass music. some of the melodies were pretty spooky, especially the one at 44:10

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Originally posted by Vernon Wanderer Edit: here is direct dl: http://www.xeron.net/Justin%20Silve...Mind%202006.mp3

cheers
google just tricked me by thinking that the www.-prefix wasn't needed.

http://www.divshare.com/download/1920563-c00

2007-05-xx_-_Jason_Porter_-_Minimal_Mix_[.mp3

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ReBeL 9, as someone who saw the real Jason Porter over a hundred times back in the day, I can promise you that this is 99% probably the real JP. It's a dead ringer for him, style wise, melodically, transitions/mixing, etc.

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I'm not really sure, but he definitely looked at least 30ish when i saw him in the early-mid 1990s... so he must be getting on in years by now. Heard he got his start in Chicago right around the time that Frankie Knuckles was pioneering the house sound. Rebel9, of course I want more JP sets, I constantly bother my mate Jeff about it, but usually he tells me to slag off since he wants them as bad as me! Neither one of us personally knows Porter or has any way of contacting him. Jeff found the new mix from one of his drugged-out club scene buddies who doesn't even remember how/where he got it! BTW, do you guys recognize any of the tracks in the new mix? Please post with any leads, I want them all!!

Ah yeah. I never cared much for that mix. Wrote it off as a "fake Jason Porter" ( ) mix years ago when it surfaced.

real or fake jason porter sounds pretty cool.

whats the best set to grab? or quintessential porter?

at work atm n cant really scour the net...

not gonna lie, for an insane man who is claiming he is some non existent dj named jason porter, that dude is pretty good at mixing. i would def plur at that.

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Originally posted by Light The Fuse whats the best set to grab? or quintessential porter?

I'd say Trellis 1994. After that go Live @ Liquid 98.

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Originally posted by paulversuspaul that dude is pretty good at mixing.

In reason.

Is any of this stuff available for streaming? Downloading a 100+ MB file, without knowing what I'm getting, is too much of a gamble for me.

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J I did a bit of detective work and the guy who is the source of all Jason Porter knowledge (ecksemmess) had a few threads in the production forum around 2005 where he promoted his old-school trance inspired productions with lots of videogame music influence. Sound familiar? In the first Jason Porter thread netroM links, the 1994 Trelllis set has a FFVI remix on it, even though the game was only released in Japan at that time. ecksemmess mentions he heard Porter play this same track live that same year. This is the same set that contains an anachronistic sample from Heroes (2006) as well, remember. Other incriminating details: he claims to have seen Porter dozens of times in the '90s, which is no mean feat if there was no way of telling when the guy was playing, and yet when he started the first Jason Porter thread he'd apparently almost totally forgotten about this DJ he'd seen dozens of times across the '90s, who apparently "changed his life". He finds a Jason Porter CD for sale on eBay but doesn't bother to contact the seller finding out information on where it came from, instead posting it on TA and asking everyone here instead. Draw your own conclusions. You can find ecksemmess' old productions by searching his post history through his profile on the threads netroM linked.

Just have to nerd out for a bit - FFVI came out in the US in October 1994. (I totally agree with you that the whole Jason Porter thing is a hoax, albeit a very interesting one)

I'm going to create Jacksanity as an old prog dj

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Originally posted by pointPi Is any of this stuff available for streaming? Downloading a 100+ MB file, without knowing what I'm getting, is too much of a gamble for me.

Lives in Sweden.

Complains about the internet.

can anyone ID his bloody tracks? I only knew two and that was Crescendo - Are You Out There and some Bjork track in the 1995 mix.

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Originally posted by pointPi Is any of this stuff available for streaming? Downloading a 100+ MB file, without knowing what I'm getting, is too much of a gamble for me.

http://www.divshare.com/download/1920563-c00
has a stream option.

Would rather recommend you d/l Trellis (100 MB) or Live @ Liquid (60 MB).

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Originally posted by Chimney Lives in Sweden. Complains about the internet.

I gotta admit, that is funny. Because it's true.

I recommend the 1992 studio mix, mainly because of the track @22minutes, perfect trance IMO. And the rest of the tracks are awesome.

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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