Pretty Lights Music releases SuperVision “Telekinetic EP” : Incredible Electro-Soul [Free Download]

Pretty Lights Music family SuperVision follows up his previous full length Telescopic with his long awaited free released Telekinetic EP which just got released via PLM for free download. It carrys out the expected soulful Pretty Lights Music family vibe yet hits with SuperVision’s unique electro inspired edge. All 6 songs are great telling their own story, reminding me of some early Pretty Lights records like Glowing In The Darkest Night. Like all released on Pretty Lights Music it is available completely for free, so don’t miss out on the download. Enjoy!

SuperVision – Telekinetic EP | Direct Download

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Watch: Pretty Lights produced his own vinyl records then sampled them for his new album “A Color Map of the Sun” including new track [VIDEO]

Derek Vincent Smith aka electronic producer Pretty Lights has been busy truly carving his unique method of production over the past few years. It includes sampling old vinyl records by remixing and arranging them into completely unique modern sounding productions. He has self released a string of impressive albums and EP’s all completely for free, gaining him quite an impressive fanbase worldwide.

2 years ago Derek began more then impressive task of creating his newest album by using samples that he had created instead of vinyl hunting. In 2011 he started working and recording musicians from all over the world then actually pressing this recordings sessions all to vinyl records. He pressed all these recordings to build a personal vinyl collection so he could replicate his style he had crafted, but end with something 100% his own. The long awaited album A Color Mapping of the Sun, will be seeing a release on July 2nd. He will be releasing it for free like all his past releases, as well as through iTunes and physically on limited Vinyl and CD.

The video in his words:

“The first half of this video is part of a track from the Live Studio Sessions recordings. The second half is the song that was made from sampling the first recording. The purpose of the video is to show the production process of the album; homemade vinyl + modular synthesis.”

Here we have the full audio track of the first part of the video.

Pretty Lights - Live Studio Sessions Reel 15 Break 5 from “A Color Map of the Sun” | Download

Pretty Lights – Around The Block feat. Talib Kweli (Music Video) from New Album ‘A Color Map of The Sun’ + Release Date

Wow… I am floored. After years of patiently waiting, Pretty Lights announces details on his long awaited album titled A Color Map of the Sun set to release on July 2nd. Today we get the first official single from the album “Around the Block” and featuring none other then Talib Kweli himself. This is summer spirited electro-soul jam with a his signature hip-hop flavor, now with all original vocals from one of the most soulful rappers alive. The music video is easily one of his best to date, filled with countless visual effects giving it that certain untouchable edge. It has some frames showing Derick getting his own original vinyls pressed from musicians he recorded all over the country, then sampling the vinyl on his computer for that unique warmness. He is creating a documentary to compliemnt the album to show how unique the process really was, see the trailer for the documentary below. This is one of the songs that is so good you end up replaying the second it is done.This song is available for free download like all of Pretty Lights music. His album will be available for free on July 2nd, as wel as released on vinyl and double disc CD. Enjoy!

Pretty Lights – Around The Block feat. Talib Kweli | Download through Pretty Lights | Direct Download

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Pretty Lights – A Color Map of the Sun Documentary Trailer

Pretty Lights – Ultra Music Festival 2013 Live Set

Pretty Lights has climbed his way to one of the top electronic acts in the country, yet has only in the past 2 years been playing massive EDC, Electric Zoo, and Ultra Music Festivals.  Well this past weekend he let loose his soulful beats on Miami knocking them down to their knees. He played an incredible mix of his older tracks and some of the new unreleased tracks off his long awaited next album. He sounded like no one else at  Ultra and managed to leave everyone who witnessed his set blown away. Enjoy!

Pretty Lights – Ultra Music Festival 2013 Live Set

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Pretty Lights – The Day Is Gone – NYE 2012-2013 HD Recap Video : New Electro-Soul

Pretty Lights just dropped off his latest song “The Day Is Gone” complete with a a video recap of his New Years Eve shows in New York this past year taking place at the historical Roseland Ballroom. He manages to convey such soul and emotion in each in every one of his songs almost making most other artists feel very fake and artificial. The gritty bass heavy edge clashes with the soulful vocals in all the right ways. This looks like quite the party to remember. Enjoy!

Pretty Lights – The Day Is Gone

Coachella Music Music & Art Festival 2013 Full Lineup Announced + Ticket On Sale Date

…..No Daft Punk. The lineup just got released for the most buzzed about festival in the country, Coachella Music & Art Festival. The legendary festival which takes place in the sunny Indigo Valley, California every year expanded to two weekends last year to accommodate the incredibly high demand. The 2013 festival will be taking place over April 12th – 14th and April 19th – 21st.

Tickets go on sale Tuesday, January 29th at 10am PST.

So there is no Daft Punk.. yet again. I guess we were silly for letting our hopes get up once again. But there is a reunion from Wu-Tang Clan, which is more then dope. Also confirmed is the much speculated reunion of Ben Gibbard electronic project The Postal Service. Of course Red Hot Chili Peppers will be incredible, but didn’t they just play every festival last year? Phoenix is an incredible band, so that’s awesome to see them headline. All in all for Coachella standards I would say the headliners are a tad weak, and they have definitely shifted more towards live acts again. Make sure to read the small text because there defintely is a the stacked lineup of everyone underneath the headliners.

In the electronic spectrum we have Bassnectar, Pretty Lights, Knife Party, Benny Benassi, TNGHT, Eric Prydz, Dog Blood (Skrillex + Boys Boize), Major Lazer, Disclosure, Hardwell, Kill the Noise, Wolfgang Gartner, Nicky Romero, Excision and that’s just a handful.

In the hip-hop world, besides Wu-Tang Clan we have 2 Chainz, Danny Brown, Jurassic 5, Pusha T, and Earl Sweatshirt.

What is everyone’s thoughts?

The Governors Ball NYC Music Festival 2013 Full Lineup : Impressive Lineup Including 50+ Acts on Randall’s Island, New York

As the the year continues to kick off we get another incredible lineup for one of the summer’s biggest parties in America. The Governors Ball takes place every year in New York City at Randall’s Island, an actual island. The festival is taking place over the weekend of June 6th, 7th, and 8th. It seems to always have a massive lineup filled with big headliners to some of the best buzzing upcomers. The Ball’s lineup tends to be a great mixture of everything hip. From a great balance of hip-hop, electronic, indie, blues, folk, and other live acts. It seems to be a great alternative for those in the North East not looking to make the nationwide trek.

This lineup is insane. Not an event to miss for anyone within range!

More info and tickets here: http://governorsballmusicfestival.com/

SnowBall Music Festival 2013 Complete Massive Lineup

It already been announced that the massive 3 day long Colorado snow music festival SnowBall had relocated from the Vail area to Winter Park for 2013. The festival has always had one of the freshest most diverse lineups not just in Colorado but on the West coast. They have consistently had a great blend of the hottest new electronic, live band, and hip-hop acts all at the same festival to enjoy while freezing your ass off. Well now for the big switch of locations, this lineup completely makes up for the move. The headliners include past attendee Colorado electronic icon Pretty Lights who knows how to shut a festival down. STS9 makes their highly anticipated debut Snow festival appearance which is sure to be one to remember. Rowdytown headliner, fellow Colorado Native Big Gigantic are set to unleash their new stage setup. The man bringing real hip-hop back to American mainstream… Kendrick Lamar. One of our favorite rising Electro stars Porter Robinson is set to have a epic headlining performance. Datsik will probably drop bass louder then you have ever heard.. literally. Flying Lotus is one of the most intelligent producers and will take you too another world with his future sounding productions. The collaboration project between GRiZ and Gramatik aka Grizmatik will be performing their first official festival performance with live production. And those are only the headliners playing the festival, look above / below at the rest of the jaw dropping lineup. These are more then enough reason to rage in the freezing snow for 3 days for an unforgettable weekend filled with snow and music. Hope to see everyone out in the snow this year!

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Pretty Lights vs. The End of The World 2012 [Free Download]

Pretty Lights just put out a tribute to 12/21/2012.. today, the apparent “End of the World”. Well this song “Pretty Lights vs. The End of World 2012″ features a mashup of classic rock and hip-hop samples all over some original Pretty Lights electronic freshness. He said that he “performed this track on NYE from 2011 to 2012″, and decided to let it looses on today’s End of the Mayan calendar. If this is a battle, it looks like Pretty Lights beat the end of the world. Enjoy!

Pretty Lights vs. The End of The World 2012 | Direct Download

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Pretty Lights – Halloween Funtime REMIXMONSTRousMASHup : Halloween Remix Mashup Sampling 4 Songs

Pretty Lights decided to get festive and make a Halloween track in spirit called “Halloween Funtime REMIXMONSTRousMASHup “. Which is eseentialy a fun remix mashup that has samples from “Nightmare On Elm Street Theme Song, Halloween Theme Song, some dark Bach Fugue 9, and of course, the super sweet and creepy Crypt Keeper’s laugh from Tales From The Crypt.” as said by Derek. The track captures the halloween spirit with recognizable samples while injecting a a subtle amount of his signature Pretty Lights style to get you moving. Enjoy!

Pretty Lights – Halloween Funtime REMIXMONSTRousMASHup | Direct Download

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Bassnectar & Pretty Lights New Years Eve Runs (Hampton, New York City, Nashville) December 28th, 29th, 30th, 31st: Pre-Sale Tickets + New Music

New Years Eve 2013 is filled with HUGE amount premiere NYE parties all across the nation (stay tuned for our full Nationwide New Year party breakdown coming later this week). We had to tell you about this run because early bird tickets go on sale this Wednesday. Pretty Lights and Bassnectar are teaming up to bring 2 epic nights to the Hampton Coliseum in Hampton, Virginia on December 28th and 29th. Then Pretty Lights will be hitting New York City on December 30th and 31st, at the iconic and relatively intimate, Roseland Ballroom .  Then on New Years Eve December 31st Bassnectar will be taking making return to Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee. These are all sure to be some increidble ways to bring in the New Years, and if any are within range I wouldn’t miss out. Look below for pre-sale and ticket details.

Bassnectar and Pretty Lights at Hampton Coliseum on December 28th / 29th will go on sale Wednesday at 10am.

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Here’s “Infinite”, which is another new Bassnectar track off his upcoming Freestyle EP due out October 16th. (Listen to more new tracks here). Also is Pretty Lights’ recent single “So Bright (Ft. Eligh)”.

Bassnecter – Infinite

Pretty Lights – So Bright (Ft. Eligh) | Download

Pretty Lights, Krewella, Baauer, RL Grime Halloween Show at Penn State University: Ticket Giveaway + Music [CONTEST]

Pretty Lights is going to be playing a HUGE halloween show at Penn State University this year taking place at Bryce Jordan Center. Glowfest is throwing the show, and have also brought out an amazing opening lineup including: the dubstep trio featuring 2 girls Krewella, trap beast Baauer, and fellow trap star RL Grime. I’ve included some music from all the amazing artists below, and also we’ve got a contest giving away a 4 pack of tickes to this event. If you are anywhere close.. DO NOT MISS THIS EVENT! Grab tickets here. Contest To Win Tickets Below!

Pretty Lights – So Bright ft. Eligh | Download

Adventure Club ft. Krewella – Rise & Fall (Krewella Remix) | Download

Baauer – RinseFM Mix

Kanye West – Mercy (R. L. Grime Remix)

Pretty Lights Halloween Ticket Giveaway

1st Place Winner : (1 Winner Picked) Receives 4 General Admission Tickets to Pretty Lights Halloween

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Winners picked Thursday Night October 18th at 6pm EST  (Announced Friday at 12pm MST)

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Winners picked  Thursday Night October 18th at 6pm EST  (Announced Friday at 12pm MST)

Pretty Lights – So Bright ft. Eligh (Music Video) : Epic Music Video at Red Rocks 2012

Pretty Lights live is certainly something special, I remember seeing Pretty Lights at his first Red Rocks show and walking away knowing I’d seen one of the best shows in my entire life. Well he’s made playing the historic Red Rocks Amphitheater a annual tradition, and this year for his third time playing he made the occasion two days long. This video features his newly released leak off his upcoming album “So Bright” featuring vocals from Eligh, and even shows some footage of Eligh playing live with PL at the Red Rocks shows. There’s a very cool scene with showing Derek (Pretty Lights) smoking multiple blunts with some members of the Pretty Lights Music cast (Michal Menert, Break Science, Gramatik).  Another great video by RadioEditAV. Enjoy!

Pretty Lights – So Bright (ft. Eligh) | Download Audio

Pretty Lights – So Bright (ft. Eligh) : Must Hear New Electro-Soul / Dubstep Original

Pretty Lights has been locking himself away any chance he’s not playing some massive festival, and has been working on his biggest project to date, an album featuring all original samples recorded from muscians that he has found. We already got the first sample with “You Get High” and “We Must Go On” and “I Know The Truth” might be on the allbum. Well here’s “So bright”, a track that starts out slow before building up to a glitchy melodic anthem filled with some distored vocals. The vocals are from Eligh of Living Legends, are pack so much emotion while being so distorted. It’s a song that paints a story, and I can’t stop replaying it. I can’t wait to hear the rest of his upcoming album. Download coming soon, enjoy the stream for now! UPDATE: Download added!

Excerpt from Derek : “All the samples used in the track are from self composed one of a kind vinyl pressings. There is a short documentary to be released soon about the making of this upcoming PL album because it was a very unique and laborious process. I’m insanely excited to release the entire record but… I’d prefer to do it on my own terms:). Much love to all PL family, I hope you enjoy the track.”

Pretty Lights – So Bright (Ft. Eligh) | Direct Download

Electric Daisy Carnival Las Vegas 2012 Live Sets (Post 2 of 5): Pretty Lights, Kill the Noise, Dada Life, R3hab, Borgore Full Sets

(Check out Post 1 here feat. sets from Steve Aoki + Afrojack, Datsik, Benny Benassi, Chuckie)

Here’s the next batch of live sets from Electric Daisy Carnival 2012 Las Vegas, the 300,000 person electronic festival featuring some of the biggest names in all sub genres of electronic music. Check out PART 1 of the EDC live set series featuring Steve Aoki + Afrojack, Datsik, Benny Benassi, Chuckie.We made sure these were the highest quality mp3s so you could blast them everywhere, but we do apologize for the occasional announcer in a few of the sets, we can’t fully control everything. Turn up the bass for all these, stay tuned for parts 3-5. Enjoy!

Well first up is Colorado favorite Pretty Lights, who played a truly monumental set on the main stage right before David Guetta and Avicii. He busts everything out from his groovey funk tracks to the heavy dubstep BANGERS and everything in between.

Pretty Lights – Electric Daisy Carnival (Las Vegas) | Download

Next up is heavy set from Kill the Noise, ranging from a perfect blend of electro house to some of the filthiest dubstep made, even having him debuting his new track off his upcoming OWSLA EP featuring vocals from UK singer Mercedes.

Kill the Noise – Electric Daisy Carnival (Las Vegas) | Download

Then we get a full glass of electro BANGERS from the swedish duo Dada Life. You can feel their champagne popping / banana throwing live show energy through the live set featuring all of there iconic original anthems, and tons of unreleased bootleg mashups.

Dada Life - Electric Daisy Carnival (Las Vegas) | Download

Here we get another hard hitting electro house set, this time from R3hab, the dutch producer who who’s made his fair share of HUGE originals and countless official remixes this past year. He hits all the big EDM anthems, with his own twist of course.

R3hab - Electric Daisy Carnival (Las Vegas) | Download

Lastly Borgore hits us with some of the heaviest, grossest sounding dubstep I’ve heard in awhile. He never disappoints with so many originals, remixes, bootlegs, and more that are sure to rattle your subs. Don’t miss his notable “Smell Yo Dick” bootleg that is sure to make you smile.

Borgore - Electric Daisy Carnival (Las Vegas) | Download

(Check out Post 1 here feat. Live Sets from Steve Aoki + Afrojack, Datsik, Benny Benassi, Chuckie)