Derek Vincent Smith (born November 25, 1981) is an American electronic music artist who performs under the stage name Pretty Lights. He is also the proprietor of an associated music label, Pretty Lights Music.
Smith's music relies heavily on digital sampling and crosses many genres, forming a combination of "glitchy hip-hop beats, buzzing synth lines, and vintage funk and soul samples.". Pretty Lights' sound is generated by manipulating samples and organic beats using the Novation X-Station, monome and the Akai MPD32. Read Full BioDerek Vincent Smith (born November 25, 1981) is an American electronic music artist who performs under the stage name Pretty Lights. He is also the proprietor of an associated music label, Pretty Lights Music.
Smith's music relies heavily on digital sampling and crosses many genres, forming a combination of "glitchy hip-hop beats, buzzing synth lines, and vintage funk and soul samples.". Pretty Lights' sound is generated by manipulating samples and organic beats using the Novation X-Station, monome and the Akai MPD32. Smith uses these digital controllers to program the music production software Ableton Live 8. When performing live, Smith uses two Macbook Pros running Ableton Live 8 and two Akai MPD32s. Smith usually considers his music as "Electro Hip-Hop Soul", a mix between elements of electronic based music, and beats from hip-hop and soul music.
Pretty Lights released A Color Map of the Sun on July 2, which is Grammy nominated for the Best Dance/Electronic Album . The two-CD collection contain the 13-song album A Color Map of the Sun plus a second album, Live Studio Sessions From A Color Map of the Sun.
A Color Map of the Sun builds on the original Pretty Lights sound and style that Smith pioneered. He spent a year composing and recording music and vocals that emulated genres and time periods that spanned the last century, then pressed it to vinyl. He used that vinyl along with a custom built analog modular synth to create A Color Map of the Sun. The resulting album is analog electronica – soulful, electro hip-hop that pays respect to music’s immense power to touch listeners emotionally, kinetically and inspirationally.
For more information and to download all Pretty Lights albums at no cost, visit http://www.prettylightsmusic.com.
Flitting between moody downtempo and upbeat, densely layered material geared for club play, Colorado's Pretty Lights was the project of Derek Vincent Smith. Smith spent his high school years making hip-hop and ultimately dropped out of his freshman year at the University of Colorado at Boulder to focus on his music. He made his recorded debut as Pretty Lights in 2006 with the full-length Taking Up Your Precious Time, which he supported with gigs for acts including STS9, the Disco Biscuits, and Widespread Panic. From there, he kept up a busy release schedule for the rest of the 2000s, issuing the double album Filling Up the City Skies in 2008 and another full-length, Passing by Behind Your Eyes, the following year. In 2010, Pretty Lights went on an extensive North American tour, playing that year's Coachella, Ultra, Movement, and Electric Zoo festivals, among other stops. Smith continued touring into 2011 and also developed his Pretty Lights Music imprint, releasing albums by Michal Menert, Gramatik, and Eliot Lipp. In 2012, Smith appeared in the music documentary Re:GENERATION Music Project and began work on Pretty Lights' fourth album. Instead of sampling existing recordings, Smith worked with longtime drummer Adam Deitch, Soulive's Eric Krasno, the Harlem Gospel Choir, and members of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and the Treme Brass Band to create vintage-sounding original music that he then refashioned into the Pretty Lights sound. The results were 2013's A Color Map of the Sun, which became the first Pretty Lights album to be released physically and digitally at the same time. ~ Heather Phares & Andy Kellman, Rovi
Smith's music relies heavily on digital sampling and crosses many genres, forming a combination of "glitchy hip-hop beats, buzzing synth lines, and vintage funk and soul samples.". Pretty Lights' sound is generated by manipulating samples and organic beats using the Novation X-Station, monome and the Akai MPD32. Read Full BioDerek Vincent Smith (born November 25, 1981) is an American electronic music artist who performs under the stage name Pretty Lights. He is also the proprietor of an associated music label, Pretty Lights Music.
Smith's music relies heavily on digital sampling and crosses many genres, forming a combination of "glitchy hip-hop beats, buzzing synth lines, and vintage funk and soul samples.". Pretty Lights' sound is generated by manipulating samples and organic beats using the Novation X-Station, monome and the Akai MPD32. Smith uses these digital controllers to program the music production software Ableton Live 8. When performing live, Smith uses two Macbook Pros running Ableton Live 8 and two Akai MPD32s. Smith usually considers his music as "Electro Hip-Hop Soul", a mix between elements of electronic based music, and beats from hip-hop and soul music.
Pretty Lights released A Color Map of the Sun on July 2, which is Grammy nominated for the Best Dance/Electronic Album . The two-CD collection contain the 13-song album A Color Map of the Sun plus a second album, Live Studio Sessions From A Color Map of the Sun.
A Color Map of the Sun builds on the original Pretty Lights sound and style that Smith pioneered. He spent a year composing and recording music and vocals that emulated genres and time periods that spanned the last century, then pressed it to vinyl. He used that vinyl along with a custom built analog modular synth to create A Color Map of the Sun. The resulting album is analog electronica – soulful, electro hip-hop that pays respect to music’s immense power to touch listeners emotionally, kinetically and inspirationally.
For more information and to download all Pretty Lights albums at no cost, visit http://www.prettylightsmusic.com.
Flitting between moody downtempo and upbeat, densely layered material geared for club play, Colorado's Pretty Lights was the project of Derek Vincent Smith. Smith spent his high school years making hip-hop and ultimately dropped out of his freshman year at the University of Colorado at Boulder to focus on his music. He made his recorded debut as Pretty Lights in 2006 with the full-length Taking Up Your Precious Time, which he supported with gigs for acts including STS9, the Disco Biscuits, and Widespread Panic. From there, he kept up a busy release schedule for the rest of the 2000s, issuing the double album Filling Up the City Skies in 2008 and another full-length, Passing by Behind Your Eyes, the following year. In 2010, Pretty Lights went on an extensive North American tour, playing that year's Coachella, Ultra, Movement, and Electric Zoo festivals, among other stops. Smith continued touring into 2011 and also developed his Pretty Lights Music imprint, releasing albums by Michal Menert, Gramatik, and Eliot Lipp. In 2012, Smith appeared in the music documentary Re:GENERATION Music Project and began work on Pretty Lights' fourth album. Instead of sampling existing recordings, Smith worked with longtime drummer Adam Deitch, Soulive's Eric Krasno, the Harlem Gospel Choir, and members of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and the Treme Brass Band to create vintage-sounding original music that he then refashioned into the Pretty Lights sound. The results were 2013's A Color Map of the Sun, which became the first Pretty Lights album to be released physically and digitally at the same time. ~ Heather Phares & Andy Kellman, Rovi
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Color of My Soul
Pretty Lights Lyrics
We have lyrics for these tracks by Pretty Lights:
Around the Block My goddess eh The bi-product of New York City nights When yo…
At Last I Am Free at last i am free. i can hardly see in…
Can't Stop Me Now No matter how hard you try You can′t stop me now We…
Change Is Gonna Come I was born by the river In a little tent Oooooh and…
Cold Feeling theres a cold feeling in my heart. the time for…
Drift Away Close your dreary eyes and drift away It's alright Close... …
Evening Sun on and on the rain will fall, drying in the color…
Finally Moving I get a good feeling, yeah Oh, sometimes I get a…
Finally Moving Remix Oh, sometimes I get a good feeling, yeah Get a feeling…
Gazing At The Glare Who am i, if the sun don't shine and the…
Hot Like Sauce Life is too short to have sorrow You may be here…
I Can See It In Your Face I can see it in your face I can see it…
I Know The Truth Have mercy, on me now Have mercy, on me now Have mercy Me…
If I Could Feel Again she said ill do anything to make myself feel pretty…
Let the World Hurry By Ooh We're no strangers to love You know the rules and so…
Lost and Found What is this I can not see In the dark That hides from…
Make You Feel give me some of that good old love let me make…
Maybe Tomorrow you look so sad. you're all alone maybe tomorrow.we'll all …
More Important Than Michael Jordan I love you, don't ever go. I'm lonely baby. I'm lonely bab…
My Other Love Oh what can i do? o yea My other love she's…
Pop Quiz you are fly, you are free, you are family i see…
So Bright The light is shining bright So bright, so bright, I forgot…
Solamente sadness is just another way of life i've grown accustomed…
Still Night The moon, it's so pale And the night is so real You…
The Time Has Come the time has come for bad things to end, the…
Yellow Bird Yellow bird, yellow bird, yellow bird don't fly away (Fly fl…
The lyrics can frequently be found in the comments below or by filtering for lyric videos.
Permafrost3.14
For anyone wondering, I'm not sure, but this is just my best guess as to what the lyrics are:
The sunlight is fading
Changing into gold
Shining on me now
The color of my soul
My shadow is reaching
Out of my control
The lonely that I'm feeling
Is the love I'll never know
C M
"the sunlight is fading
changing into gold,
shining on me now
shining on me now
the color of my soul
the color of my soul
my shadow is reaching
out of my control
the only bet I'm feeling
that I'm feeling
is a love I've never known."
Samaire October
Considering every single thing Pretty Lighs has done is free, you would be foolish not to download all of it. Thank you DVS! Come back soon to us!
SlamifiedBuddafied
Picked up this album the other day, hadn't heard a thing on it.
I just finished the album about half an hour ago.
Go now. Buy this album. Love it, embrace it, let it bring out the color of your soul.
nshaboo101
+Dylan Moore what is his website called??!!!! love his music!!
Way2Dylagent
@SlamifiedBuddafied All of Pretty Lights albums are available to download for free on his website. Support him live!!!!
BeemMeUpScotty!
2019 and still banging this album everyday. My favorite producer of all time is Derek!
Martin jr Saucedo
This song has a special place in my mind
Miklós VÉNER
@BeemMeUpScotty! My ultimate goal is to go crazy live to this, but since I'm soooo long way from the Red Rocks (I'm in Hungary, in the middle of Europe), it's not an option... at least for now! ;)
BeemMeUpScotty!
@Miklós VÉNER this song drops like a hammer. Reminds me of a Circus and a bunch of festival peoples dancing
Miklós VÉNER
Love all his work, but this... this is my all time favorite! ❤
Aaron Green
I love this guy's bass. It's on point!