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there's no sickness pain or danger in that fair land to which i go ♫ Pretty Lights - Wayfaring Stranger (ft LeAnn Rimes and Dr. Ralph Stanley) Anyone who follows the TBE Twitter or Facebook page knows that I was just at the LA premiere of that Re:Generation movie that Hyundai and The Grammy's put together. The same project that was tied into all those Veloster events I went to in December.Basically 5 DJs are paired with a different [...]
You can buy tickets here for Feb. 16th - 8:00pm and here for Feb. 23rd - 8:00pm . Both links show "temporarily down" so t ry this if they still don't work . The showing is at AMC Pacific Place 600 Pine St. Seattle, WA 98101 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =iLlxvrXURoo Download the Free Soundtrack Experience the music of RE:GENERATION now at: Mark Ronson — Jazz — "A La Modeliste" (with Erykah Badu, Mos [...]

Re:Generation is the soundtrack component of the Re:Generation Music Project by Amir Bar-Lev, a documentary that follows the history of music by combining old and new, classic and electronic. On Re:Generation , five of today's most influential electronic dance music producers- Mark Ronson, DJ Premier, The Crystal Method, Pretty Lights, and Skrillex- spin EDM into classical, rap, jazz, country, and rock. The album is not just a timeline compilation- each song spans across a multitude of genres and time periods. Re:Generation is a piece of woven art- a euphonic quilt. [...]

Earlier this afternoon organizers of the Summer Camp Music Festival announced the late night acts for this year's event. Les Claypool and the Dead Kenny G's will perform in the barn on the Friday night of the festival. Gigantic Underground Conspiracy, featuring members of the Disco Biscuits, Big Gigantic, Conspirator and the Underground Orchestra will play a late night set on the Saturday night of the festival, while Pretty Lights will be performing the late night show on Sunday. The 2012 Summer Camp Music Festival is set to take place at [...]
Pretty Lights has released a new song "We Must Go On", along with a self-produced video. It presents the hip-hop vibe with an uplifting yet reflective vocal hook, saying "times will get better". The mastermind behind Pretty Lights, Colorado-based artist Derek Vincent Smith, created the video with his girlfriend, visual artist Krystle Blackburn. Together with two Canon 7Ds and about six lenses, they collected footage during their travels in 2011, which included London, Paris, Warsaw,...
"We Must Go On" is the latest single from Colorado's Derek Vincent Smith, or 'Pretty Lights' as he is professionally known. Smith began making electronic music in 2006, and has since released three albums, multiple EPs, and has formed his own record label, Pretty Lights Music. The label includes several talented electronic music artists, including the Slovenian producer known as Gramatik. Listen to his latest single below, then check out his website for free downloads of all of Pretty Lights' music. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Pretty Lights - We Must Go On (Download) Website // Facebook Page (Submitted [...]

Today I'm stoked to share with you guys and gals an uber chill remix of the Pretty Lights Music artist, and 2012 Snow Ball performer, Gramatik. You have already heard some sick music from him like Stairway To Hip Hop Heaven, and his most recent album Beats and Pieces Vol 1 . Here F.A.Q morphs this instrumental hip hop into some funky bass music that will take you back to the days of disco. From the classic samples to the funky synths this remix is sure to get you moving. Turn it up and savor this funk [...]

If you haven't heard about the uber-cool new documentary Re:Generation , you've clearly been living in an electronic music dark place. The official video for the original Skrillex version can be viewed here , and is a short preview of what the full documentary will look like. A first wave of screenings occurred Feb. 16, with the second coming this Monday, Feb. 23. Tickets are available here . To sum the documentary up in short, Mark Ronson , DJ Premier , The Crystal Method , Pretty Lights and [...]
BEAUTIFUL INSTRUMENTAL HIP-HOP - It's always Tea Time at Buttercup Junction round at Dereks. The prolific Derek Vincent Smith AKA Pretty Lights skips merrily across the internet offering free downloads, elaborately decorated easter eggs and freshly picked flowers. Weeeee....! Download through the soundcloud page....

The line-up for this years Sasquatch Festival came out on Thursday night and it is a pretty decent looking list. Even though there is roughly a -12% chance that I will be able to attend this year, I thought it would be kind to preview some songs from artists that I would be excited to go see. This is just a small sampling so head over to The Official Site for more info about bands playing and how to get tickets. Enjoy! Free mp3: Active Child - Hanging [...]

Sasquatch! Music Festival 2012 Lineup Announcement from Sasquatch Festival on Vimeo . Sasquatch Festival in Washington at the Gorge will be held on Memorial Day Weekend this year. Packed with electronica, indie, chillwave, and some hip hop it looks like it will be a stellar holiday weekend. The more I look at line up the more clear it becomes; this was a thought out and well put together festival. I hope more festivals follow in the footstep of Sasquatch! [...]
The Pacific Northwest Festival we've all been waiting for has just announced a killer lineup! Sasquatch takes place at the Gorge on May 25th - 28th.

The annual Sasquatch festival, definitely a festival that I need to attend in the very near future, announced a killer line up for this year's installment. Recently solo Jack White, along with Beck and Bon Iver, will be headlining the George, WA based three-day event. Also leading the way are Pretty Lights, Tenacious D, The Shins, Girl Talk, St. Vincent, Feist, and Silversun Pickups. But that's not all who you'll get to see at the Gorge Ampitheatre this year. Also performing this year are Metric, Mogwai, Explosions In The Sky, The Head [...]
Pretty Lights is out with a new soulful single called "We Must Go On," accompanied by the above video. The track hearkens back to Derek Smith's earlier days of combining verses from old soul classics with an extended instrumental intro as the heart of the song builds on itself, creating some agonizing tension in anticipation of the full melody. It's a dreamy track that oozes with musical self-reflection. The video seems to confirm this fact with street scenes filtered on top of each other, creating a memory mash-up. Krystle Blackburn, director and girlfriend of Derek, adds grainy, indecipherable imagery that, [...]
Pretty Lights - We Must Go On (official music video) from Pretty Lights Music on Vimeo . filmed and edited by Derek Vincent Smith (Pretty Lights) and Krystle Blackburn (PLM's Creative Director). The track is a new Pretty Lights song with a classic soulful hip-hop style. The two of us traveled together all over the world during 2011, and filmed as much as our schedules allowed. Locations included in the video include Detroit, [...]
Filmed and Eedited by Derek Vincent Smith (Pretty Lights) and Krystle Blackburn (PLM's Creative Director). Captured recordings as they traveled together all over the world during 2011. Locations included in the video include Detroit, Warsaw, Oslo, NYC, Vancouver, London, Paris, Prague, New Orleans, Auckland, Sydney, Denver and many more. . The track is a new Pretty Lights song with a classic soulful hip-hop style. [...]
Derek Vincent Smith, aka Pretty Lights, has seen his popularity rise exponentially since he began dropping awesomely soulful hip-hop beats on the people of Colorado. The man with the awesome electric shows, and the bangin samples sprinkled throughout his music, truly represents everything that is right in the world of Electronic music. To say that [...]

First up is legendary DJ Double R's rework of On'n'On ... he simply doesn't do the track any Justice . Justice - On'n'On (Ruined by Rick Rubin) Little Dragon's vocals on Ritual Union are perfectly tamed by German dj/producer Tensnake. He took what were amazing vocals, built an environment around it that allowed it to breath, and it flourished into an overpowering sedative. Little Dragon - Ritual Union (Tensnake Remix) Don't [...]
Great new downtempo track from Pretty Lights called 'We Must Go On". He also filmed and edited the great video to accompany the song. Pretty Lights - We Must Go On [click to download] Official Music Video for "We Must Go On" filmed and edited by Pretty Lights: Click Here to purchase Pretty Lights music from iTunes. Pretty Lights official site Pretty Lights [...]