I come today with some sad news (depending on your view of it), Porter Robinson and Madeon had their groundbreaking world tour along with a new single titled Shelter and ideally wanted to keep it a one time only type performance. Unfortunately, somebody had leaked recordings of the show from Seattle as well as many other things such as what seems to be a Shelter Live Album, and many of Porter’s demos from 2011-2014. At the time of writing this Porter Robinson nor Madeon have responded on social media, however I do expect them to be completely devastated… especially Porter. Not to undermine Madeon at all but with the Shelter tour I could tell Porter put his heart and soul into it, especially after finally being able to project his vision with Worlds. He essentially built his own world and then to have it all come crashing down like this would break my heart as well.
The reasoning behind the leak seems to deal with the a breach of security with Porter’s Dropbox account. To sum up from what I’ve gathered, it seems that there was somebody who had hacked into the server and attained old demos and live tour edits. Porter’s management released this statement:
Recently, a server was hacked which contained Porter Robinson demos from the years 2011-2014, as well as some more recent live show related music files.
The leak contains nothing that Porter is currently working on, nor anything that was planned for future release. The leaked music represents very old demos / ideas that Porter never intended to release at any time.
The thing that is interesting about this all, There’s some works in progress, one new song possibly and there’s also older edits from Worlds and fan-made edits in there. The fan-made edits threw me off a bit as it was supposed to be a leak of “Porter’s Dropbox”, however that could be something the person that leaked it threw in there as a jab at the remakers. I truly do feel awful for Porter & Madeon in the sense that their entire vision could’ve been crushed with this leak, especially since some of it was never meant to be released. Stay up to date on their responses on social media because this is sure to be an interesting situation, and just uncovering what this could mean for the artists. Keep your head up guys.