Pretty Lights is a really impressive collaboration between two artists - Colorado based Derek Vincent Smith & Cory Eberhard. Smith uses samples as the basis of his production - normally this would be uninteresting, however i have never heard an artist (aside from maybe Daedelus) who manipulates them in such a unique and exciting fashion - using a Monome and and Akai MPD32, accompanied on the drums by Eberhard, Pretty Lights is able to create some truly exceptional live music.
Their latest album 'Making Up a Changing Mind' is unbelievable - a tour de force of glitch-hop beats, buzzing synth lines, crammed full of funk and soul samples...and the best part, is that, like rest of their music, the album is completely 100% free
The band relies on donations, so please please please donate here,
To give you an idea of what to expect from the download, listen to this, a really cool reinterpretation of 'Private Number' - Judy Clay & William Bell
Finally Moving - Pretty Lights.mp3
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Download the album here:
'Making Up a Changing Mind' - Pretty Lights (VBR)
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