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# Porter Robinson Just Let Other People Remix His Diary. That Takes More Nerve Than It Looks.
- URL: https://electronicdispatch.com/porter-robinson-just-let-other-people-remix-his-diary-that-takes-more-nerve-than-it-looks/
- Published: 2026-11-08T18:22:49.000Z
- Updated: 2026-11-10T21:25:09.000Z
- Description: Sixteen tracks revisit Porter Robinson’s most personal album, with remixes by Ninajirachi, underscores, and others.
- Author: Jazmine Gonzalez
- Tags: New Music, Culture

**Porter Robinson just handed his most personal album to a new lineup of remixers and let them do whatever they wanted with it — and the fact that it still sounds like him is the whole story.** [SMILE! :D plus+](https://music.apple.com/us/album/perfect-pinterest-garden-ninajirachi-underscores-remix/6828383740?i=6828384000&ref=electronicdispatch.com) arrived November 6 via Mom+Pop, a sixteen-track remix expansion of 2024's SMILE! :D, pulling in Ninajirachi, underscores, and a wide cast of collaborators to rework one of the most emotionally bare records of his career.

## Why a remix album, and why now

SMILE! :D wasn't a victory-lap record the first time around — it was Porter workin through burnout, self-doubt, and the pressure of followin up Nurture, one of the most beloved albums in the genre. Handin that record to other people to reinterpret is a different kind of vulnerable than writin it in the first place. You're not just hopin people like your feelings anymore, you're hopin they handle 'em right.

![Porter Robinson performing live at Merriweather Post Pavilion](https://storage.ghost.io/c/c4/19/c4192dc1-b3e9-4189-9c56-711d819926f8/content/images/2026/11/1920px-Porter_Robinson_performing_at_Merriweather_Post_Pavilion_01.jpg)

**Photo: Nintendult, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons*

## Part of a bigger wave

This isn't happening in a vacuum. Rolling Stone's been tracking a real remix-album revival across pop and dance music right now, and SMILE! :D plus+ is one of the biggest entries yet — a victory lap with its sleeves rolled up, not a cash-grab reissue.

- **Sixteen tracks** spanning the remix project.
- **Ninajirachi and underscores among the credits** — artists with their own distinct voice, not ghost-writers smoothing the edges.
- **Out now via Mom + Pop Music**, the same home as the original.

## What to watch

The real test isn't the first week of streams. It's whether any of these reworks earn a permanent spot in his live set, the way some remixes outlive the originals they came from. Chart placement matters less here than whether the front rows start requestin a specific version by name.

*Feature image: SWinxy, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.*