Pretty Lights - Lonesome Street

Pretty Lights - Lonesome Street

Pretty Lights is the musical creation of Derek Vincent Smith, who while putting on live shows is accompanied on the drums by Cory Eberhard, both coming from Colorado. His music is the byproduct of digital sampling and transforming it to create a new kind of music that crosses all genres pulling bits and pieces from each one, the end product being a combination of glitchy hip-hop beats, buzzing synth lines, and vintage funk and soul samples. Pretty Lights' sound is generated by synthesizing samples and organic beats using the monome and the Akai MPD32. Smith programs these digital controllers with the music production software Ableton Live 8. Download all of Pretty Lights' albums here.