Pretty Lights @ The Pageant, 4/9/2010


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With one part psychedelic dance party, a dash of various samples, and a hefty helping of live drumming, the ingredients making up Pretty Lights’ set mixed perfectly to transform the Pageant into a surreal disco.  Backlit by three massive LED panels and an arsenal of rotating stage lights, Derek Vincent Smith and his touring drummer (who played a kit along with Smith during the entire set) blazed through roughly two hours of layered beats, ranging from hip-hop to dubstep to house.   (more…)

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Weekend Show Forecast: 4/8

Pretty Lights w/ Savoy and DJ Spankalicious

Friday, Apr 9th
Where: the Pageant
When: 8 PM

Electronic music-maker and dance party starter Derek Vincent Smith, better known as Pretty Lights, is bringing his surreal, glitch and sample filled hip-hop beats to the Pageant on Friday night.  Featured in our September ’09 issue, Pretty Lights has been steadily gaining national attention and just released new EP, Making Up a Changing Mind. Oh yeah, and I forgot to mention: it’s free.

Pretty Lights – “I Can See It In Your Face”

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