Pretty Lights
Derek Vincent Smith (born November 25, 1981) is an American electronic music artist who performs under the stage name Pretty Lights, originally a duo project consisting of him and Michal Menert, who left after the release of their first album. Smith is also the proprietor of an associated music label, Pretty Lights Music.
Early life
Smith started skateboarding with Michal Menert in the 8th grade. The pair, together with a drummer Menert knew, began making music after Smith brought a bass guitar to a skating session. Paul Brandt (Paul Basic) eventually replaced their original drummer. Calling themselves "The Freeze", the band consisted of Derek Vincent Smith on the bass guitar, Michal Menert on the guitar and keyboard, and Paul Brandt on the drums. The group was influenced by artists like the Beastie Boys, Tha Alkaholiks, A Tribe Called Quest, Wu-Tang Clan, The Roots, and The Casualties as well as by old school hip hop, funk, punk rock, and the skater culture. The band placed second in a community battle of bands in their sophomore year. After graduating from high school, Smith attended University of Colorado at Boulder, but dropped out during his freshman year to focus on his music instead.
Podcasts:
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ALBUMS
- Pretty Lights 2006-2009 CD Box Set released: 2013
- A Color Map of the Sun Remixes released: 2013
- A Color Map of the Sun released: 2013
- Before the Final Countdown Begins released: 2010
- Defocused on the Bright Diamonds released: 2010
- Passing by Behind Your Eyes released: 2009
- Filling Up the City Skies released: 2008
- Taking Up Your Precious Time released: 2006
A Color Map of the Sun Remixes
Released 2013- Around the Block (Datsik remix)
- One Day They'll Know (ODESZA remix)
- Done Wrong (Opiuo remix)
- Always All Ways (SuperVision remix)
- Let's Get Busy (heRobust remix)
- Color of My Soul (Paul Basic remix)
- My Only Hope (Blood Diamonds remix)
- Press Pause (Free n Losh remix)
- Vibe Vendetta (GRiZ remix)
- Yellow Bird (Michal Menert remix)
- Where I'm Trying to Go (Marvel Years remix)
- One Day They'll Know (Break Science remix)
- Sweet Long Life (Eliot Lipp remix)
- Prophet (Culprate remix)
- Go Down Sunshine (12th Planet remix)
- All I've Ever Known (Two Fresh remix)
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Around The Block
by: Pretty LightsMy goddess eh
The product of new york city nights
When you criticize and you caught up in all the pretty lights
Getting high in my city is like requirement
Its my environment
I won't humble it like a violin
Analbar back in the house like a santafar
Posting it up the fan on the block hand of god
Worst bar
Right now its the best moment you ever known
You gotta make it your own
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