Blog: Consequence Of Sound

Normally, Pretty Lights , headed by Derek Vincent Smith, manipulates lush soul and vintage funk samples into wobble-heavy electro tracks. But with the release of a remix EP in early 2011, which featured remixes of Pink Floyd, Kanye, and Jay-Z, Smith demonstrated the capability to splice nearly any genre into his signature party starters. The Colorado-based producer is now working with some of the Millennial-generations most respected alternative rock songs: Radiohead’s “Everything in its Right Place”, Nirvana’s “All Apologies”, and Nine Inch Nail’s "Closer". Unlike traditional, pure-mashup artists, Smith does not simply create a hybrid of the [...]