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[ELECTRONIC/DANCE] This isn’t your typical electronic dance music concert—it’s goes a bit deeper than that and there is more to know about it than just who the DJ is. We’ll start there, anyways. Porter Robinson is Virtual Self, a 26-year-old electro house music producer who has made music for OWSLA, the label run by Skrillex, and in 2014 released Worlds, his debut studio album released by Astralwerks. On his latest tour, dubbed Virtual Self Utopia, Porter splits into two personalities to deliver two distinct sets: one set of techno and 2-step that he delivers under the alias techic-Angel, then an even more chaotic, jungle-inspired set as Pathselector, complete with a stage environment that evokes a sense of the early 2000s warehouse rave scene. For Porter, it’s clear that the visual aesthetic of the experience is as important as the music. A press release from the artist describes the visual feel of the show as a combination of “digital abstract, arcane magic design, and digital grunge.” Catch this ambitious tour when it comes to Buffalo RiverWorks on Saturday, September 1, presented by MNM Presents.