Collaborations
The Self Preservation Society
This triple vinyl album features 34 carefully-chosen songs from the late 1960s and early 1970s, from genres that encompass progressive, folk and psychedelic rock.
Curated by Lush’s Mark Constantine and performed by a galaxy of bright stars, the album captures a period of time that was rich with experimentation of all kinds, an era when anything and everything could happen.
Original compositions from artists as diverse as Genesis, Cream, The Zombies, Nick Drake, The Doors and Frank Zappa have been given the deluxe treatment by a phalanx of great talent including James Porter, Eliza Carthy, Jackie Oates, Marry Waterson and Julie Tippetts.
It’s been three long years in the making; the result is an extraordinarily diverse and diverting record.
The Tah - Dahs
The Tah Dahs are a Dallas-based indie rock band formed in 2001 by Roy Ivy and James Porter. The original lineup started as a five piece and included friends Chris Fowler on rhythm and Wurlitzer, Adam Carter on bass and Rebecca Kraemer on viola. Ivy left for a year's stint to tour and record with the Polyphonic Spree. On his return to Dallas, the band trimmed down to a power trio and began to write a more aggressive style of pop music with James Porter on drums, Charlie Papathanasiou on bass and of course Roy Ivy on guitar and vocals. In 2005, the band released Le Fun on Dallas's indie label Undeniable Records. Later that year, work began with Master Engineer and Producer Stuart Sikes on a follow-up album, Mein So Called Kampf, which was released on Bandcamp. The band called it quits in September of 2012. Both Roy Ivy and James Porter continued to collaborate together as well as release their own solo albums.
Gorillas
In 2007 James wrote, performed and recorded the soundtrack and theme song to the indie-movie "Gorillas" using a toy drum set, trumpet, guitar, bass and keys.
The happy
Bullets
In 2008 The Happy Bullets were writing tons of new songs, one of these was called "Fuck Yeah". The first recording of this track was engineered and recorded by James who played the drums as well as percussion. The song was re-recorded later and put on the album "Hydropanic at the Natatorium" in 2009.
Chaser
In the early 1990's James played bass and sang in Chaser. Even though he was only in high school his band played many local venues in the Deep Ellum area of Dallas. The bands most popular song was "Ring" off of their self titled album.
Disposable
Music
In 2011 James and Tim Ruble from The Happy Bullets formed Disposable Music. James recorded the demo and played drums as well as sang some backing vocals. The band later went on to record with Stuart Sikes who had previously recorded The Tah - Dahs, Drawn By Jaymz and The Happy Bullets, all in which James performed in. The song "2 Flat Tires" was one of James's favorites.
J&j
In 2016 James and Joe Santori recorded some instrumental tunes after coming home from a long trip in London England.
ENMAIBED
Meeting on the platform Slaps in 2022, James Porter worked with artist ENMAIBED on the track "Waste of Time" where James remixed, added electronic drums, electric guitar, bass, and backing vocals to the song for the album "JustFiveMoreMinutes".
Abby marie Glover
Finding an amazing song performed live by Abby Marie Glover on youtube that had lyrics that resinated in James's heart during a time when he needed something exactly like this song to ease the pain of a busted soul, he added instruments and backing vocals to the ukulele and haunting vocals that Abby performed. The song titled, "Why I've Been Away" tells that "it's gunna be okay" which were the words that James needed to hear.
Tanktredimmuno-deficiency-television
In the year 2000 James played drums and sang in the indie rock band TANKTREDIMMUNODEFICIENCYTELEVISION and recorded their album on a 4-track in the basement of an old speakeasy. The track "Rainy Day" was their most popular song.
clark nova
In 2008 James recorded, engineered and produced some songs for Willie Byerly of Clark Nova. James Played drums on the album. One track in particular James remastered in 2022 called "Pilot".
Mac Sprague
Optimistic
Apocolypse
Connecting through social media James ran across a song by Mac Sprague of the band "Optimistic Apocalypse" and added instrumentation, backing vocals and sound production to the already beautiful vocals and acoustic guitar from the short live video recording, only known as "new tune".
escalator
maintenance
society
In 2008 James and a few other members of The Happy Bullets created a side project called Escalator Maintenance Society. Each member was tasked with writing some songs for the group to perform. "PMS" is a song James wrote, performed and recorded for the project.
