Pretty Lights

Derek Vincent Smith aka Pretty Lights landed in Calgary last night for Snowblower, a free outdoor music festival made ice-hot by PK Events as part of High Performance Rodeo. Armed with a sack of samples and a Monome 128, the Colorado-based producer served 2,000 toqued-up souldiers a sonic sushi roll of soulful glitch-hop and grimey wobbles dripping with horns, funk and dubwise sublines. We'll be talking about this one for a while.

You can download Pretty Lights' latest album, Passing By Behind Your Eyes, along with a shovelfull of other free stuff at prettylightsmusic.com.

In the meantime, here's the man dropping Let Em Know It's Time to Go with drummer Cory Eberhard at Red Rocks last summer.


Pretty Lights - If I Could Feel Again

Holy shit

Brooklyn duo Holy Ghost! have been crafting some pretty awesome rubs and riddims since their 2007 rocket, Hold On. They just put out a special edition tape of their remixes for DFA Records, and it's the best thing I've heard this year.

Holy Ghost! Remixes Mixtape Vol. 1 A


Holy Ghost! Remixes Mixtape Vol. 1 B


Side A
-greetings from ghostface
1. prince language's hot 97 intro
2. phoenix "listzonamia" HG! loves paris remixomania
-dj medhi's everythng sounds better in french shoutout
3. only fools and horses "spectacle wins" HG! remix
-a-trak "!" drop
4. jazzanova "i can see" HG! remix
5. they came from stars. i saw them "moon song" HG! remix
-dj am's holy poop shoutout
6. in flagranti "business acumen" HG! remix
-jack renault's sirens
7. data rock "the pretender" HG! remix
-stretch armstrong's upper west connect shoutout

Side B
1. james "jigga" murphy's "phone tap" intro
2. panthers "goblin city" HG! remix
-jay green/panthers' shoutout to d-bone and terrier
3. moby "i like to move in here" HG! remix
-moby's disarmingly genuine hello
4. curses! "the deep end" HG!'s "the day school dub" remix
-drop the limes' holy ghost! is wack! drop
5. cut copy "hearts on fire" HG! remix
-dan's radio promo
6. mgmt "of moons, birds and monsters" HG! remix
7. van she "(don't fear) the reaper" HG! remix