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Why are you taking a (in your own words) reasonable assumption so freaking personally?

Sorry if I was a bit too snippy mate- I'm not offended per se I just find the whole thing ridiculous. Although maybe come to think of it I am just the littlest bit offended, when a whole gang of people are just about calling me a liar when all I ever wanted to do was share some little-known music...no hard feelings though, but a man's got to defend himself, eh

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Originally posted by ecksemmess 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

Despite the fact you posted it on TA five months before you discovered a Jason Porter mix on eBay and were reminded of a DJ who "had become a dull memory". Amazing that you could start work on painstakingly recreating the sound of a producer you'd half-forgotten almost two years before you had any audio examples to work on, and get your recreation so spot on. Occam's Razor, anyone?

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J Despite the fact you posted it on TA five months before you discovered a Jason Porter mix on eBay and were reminded of a DJ who "had become a dull memory". Amazing that you could start work on painstakingly recreating the sound of a producer you'd half-forgotten almost two years before you had any audio examples to work on, and get your recreation so spot on. Occam's Razor, anyone?

Spoke to my mate about the mixes endlessly starting in Late 2004, which was what inspired me to do Trial of the Mind as well as start looking every day on eBay, which finally paid off when I found Trellis. It also inspired me to dig up the old sheet music I had written in the 90's early mornings after returning home from the club, making notes of my favorite tracks and bits I'd heard that night. Helped a lot, making the dull memories a bit less dull.

And yet you didn't so much as mention Jason Porter even once in your thread about Trial Of The Mind.

Getting tiresome mate. If the best you've got is that I failed to shout my unoriginality from the rooftops when promoting my own work, I'll take this opportunity to bow out. At the end of the day I'm not nearly as concerned about convincing anyone as I must seem to be. Just trying to do my due diligence to put in a good word for the truth of the situation. In any case, I'm glad people are still enjoying the mixes as much as I am! Later, everyone.

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Originally posted by ecksemmess Getting tiresome mate. If the best you've got is that I failed to shout my unoriginality from the rooftops when promoting my own work, I'll take this opportunity to bow out.

No, the best I've got is that there is literally no information on this DJ available on the Internet that doesn't come from you. The next best thing I've got is the mountains of implausibilities and contradictions I've listed in this thread. Compared to that, the fact your track was made purposely as a slavish Jason Porter tribute, but you totally neglected to mention that fact (even though you happily talked about your influence from Mike Oldfield in the same thread) is pretty small fry.

Bro just admit its you, be proud of your mix as its actually pretty good imo. I dont need to think that a professional dj made it as the quality of the mixing is good enough for a professional to have done it, and that is far more important than some outlandish tale about a once in a lifetime dj who disappeared like a thief in the night.

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Originally posted by ecksemmess Getting tiresome mate. If the best you've got is that I failed to shout my unoriginality from the rooftops when promoting my own work, I'll take this opportunity to bow out. At the end of the day I'm not nearly as concerned about convincing anyone as I must seem to be. Just trying to do my due diligence to put in a good word for the truth of the situation. In any case, I'm glad people are still enjoying the mixes as much as I am! Later, everyone.

ecksemmess hello mate!! Rich here we used to chat quite a lot back in the old days of msn. Just to let everyone know, ecksemmess is a hardcore collector of dancemusic and he is passionate about collecting mixes from certain periods. He used to download and trade mixes all the time! I first met him when he kept chasing me to upload Scott Bond live @ Gatecrasher, August 1997 on the oldskoolanthemz forum back in October 2006. It is now featured in the Scott Bond Tracklistings Archive here He was persistent and I really do admire that quality in any trance enthusiast. After several back and forths, we started to chat online. He then started to talk about his past - living in the UK and then moving over to NY. I remember him saying to me, "if you love Scott Bond mixes, then check out this old mixtape that I converted of Jason Porter - Trellis, he has a similar style". This was my first introduction to Jason Porter and was just before he stuck up the Trellis mix on tranceaddict and it received all the hype.

In all truth, I don't think ecksemmess is Jason Porter. He's a die-hard fan of mixes (especially trance - he had a collection going back to the late 80's with Belgian Techno, House influences etc from what I remember) and it's the fact that he vanished leaving so very little information on the background of the DJ/amazing mixes, identity of these tunes which brings out all the conspiracy theories. The sad truth is that now, there's very few people with a historical and detailed trance knowledge like there used to be on here e.g. Aloep - they've all moved on. Just look at how few oldskool trance tracks are being identified on here whereas you want something played by Armin last year and it'll get recognized in a heartbeat! This is a crying shame as all we can do is rely on archives to piece things together and as there's still no conclusion, we have to jump to conclusions that this is some hoax.

ecksemmess, good to have you back and please stick around mate. Share some more oldskool gems with us. Your contribution of these wonderful mixes have been outstanding!

...and the plot thickens.

Bump for #drama!

Any new mixes magically surfaced?

many years have passed...

i was sorting through my old drives and the internet is super lucky today

download justin silverstein - trial of the mind #notjasonporter

feel free to mirror it and keep it in circulation

i have some other IDE drives worth of content but i dont know where they are or if they even work.

edit: VLC seems to think this thumbnail/cover art:

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edit: filedropper link died so i've put it on a more permanent platform thanks google drive

Set reeks of silky smooth quality even at 155 kbps and the transitions are so spot only mixed that I can't hear a drifted bass drum from either track. Its either because each track starts with a breakdown pad sorted intro and mixes it in over the original track. I don't hear bass drums colliding at all even with 1 channel high passed or vice versa.

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Originally posted by KilldaDJ many years have passed... i was sorting through my old drives and the internet is super lucky today download justin silverstein - trial of the mind #notjasonporter feel free to mirror it and keep it in circulation i have some other IDE drives worth of content but i dont know where they are or if they even work. edit: VLC seems to think this thumbnail/cover art: VLC screenshot

Isn't this by a TA member called ekscessmess or something that is "totally not jason porter" yet sounds exactly like him? IIRC he also shared a Reason file of the entire set, I think I might still have it somewhere, I'll try to find it.

Also I have the following sets on my HD that are available for upload if anyone wants them:

1998-02-21 - Jason Porter - Live @ Liquid (Part 1).mp3
1998-02-21 - Jason Porter - Live @ Liquid (Part 2).mp3
1998-05-xx - Jason Porter - Mix [INCOMPLETE].mp3
2007-05-xx_-_Jason_Porter_-_Minimal_Mix_[.mp3
Jason Porter Promo Mix November 1997.mp3
Justin Silverstein - Trial of the Mind 2006.mp3
Jason Porter - Trellis (1994).mp3
Jason Porter - 1992 Studio Mix.mp3

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Originally posted by Vernon Wanderer Also I have the following sets on my HD that are available for upload if anyone wants them: 1998-02-21 - Jason Porter - Live @ Liquid (Part 1).mp3 1998-02-21 - Jason Porter - Live @ Liquid (Part 2).mp3 1998-05-xx - Jason Porter - Mix [INCOMPLETE].mp3 2007-05-xx_-_Jason_Porter_-_Minimal_Mix_[.mp3 Jason Porter Promo Mix November 1997.mp3 Justin Silverstein - Trial of the Mind 2006.mp3 Jason Porter - Trellis (1994).mp3 Jason Porter - 1992 Studio Mix.mp3

Would be appreciated.

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Originally posted by Vernon Wanderer Isn't this by a TA member called ekscessmess or something that is "totally not jason porter" yet sounds exactly like him?

Someone didn't read back through the whole thread before replying.

Reading back through this thread, you the hypothetical reader might be tempted to conclude I'm some kind of online Hercule Poirot, but it wasn't me who originally floated the idea that ekscessmess had invented Jason Porter. I just did a bit of digging into it and it became extremely obvious after a few details clicked into place. Definitely one of the most ingenious ways an amateur producer has ever got their tunes out there, I'll give him that.

The fact that Trial of the Mind and, say Trellis have both a near identical sound palette AND composition sealed the deal for me.

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well those links died a sudden death lmao

any updates on tracklists?

The track you want to ID is just as chilling as the whole Jason Porter story itself.

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Originally posted by Mattsanity The track you want to ID is just as chilling as the whole Jason Porter story itself.

one day hopefully

Read the thread, man. You're never going to get IDs because these are unreleased amateur productions.

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