Our first installment for the countdown to Throwdown Thursday features a few tracks from Pretty Lights. To get a better idea of what Pretty Lights is, here is a description from Jambase.com
"Pretty Lights is the musical vision of the ultra-versatile Colorado based producer Derek Vincent Smith, accompanied in the live setting by drummer, Cory Eberhard. Together these two achieve a raw energy rarely reached in the realm of electronic music.
At a time when music lovers from almost all subcultures and genres are finding common ground in the basic form of bangin' beats, Pretty Lights is giving the people what they want; electro organic cutting-edge party rocking beats that fill venues with energy and emotion and send dance floors into frenzies"
Pretty much sums it up...they throw in a ton of different samples and blend them with the dopest beats to create musical masterpieces. Here are some choice picks
"Finally Moving (Remix)" - Pretty Lights
This track includes a sample of 20th century Gospel/Soul singer Etta James, who has an incredible. Then it throws down a sweet guitar lick, followed by some bangin' beats. This is probably their signature song
"Hot Like Sauce" - Pretty Lights
My personal favorite, this track throws several different voice samples, blending it with some dope beats. It constantly evolves throughout the song and is a true masterpiece. My personal favorite part comes at around the 3:15 mark, when it goes into a glitched out hip hop voice sample that no words can be made out from but still sounds amazing. Go hyphy in dis bitchhhhh
"Up And Down I Go" - Pretty Lights
Starts off a little slow but once the beat drops its amazing. Great dance track
"Let The World Hurry By" - Pretty Lights
A little more laid back than the previous three, which bang pretty hard. This one is suuuuuper groooooovyy
"Total Fascination" - Pretty Lights
This one samples LL Cool J's "Who Shot Ya." Not sure who the vocal sample is at the beginning of the track but she has an incredible voice. This one bangs real harddd
"Fly Away Another Day" - Pretty Lights
This track takes a little longer than some of the others to pick up, but once it does it is absolute fire. at about the 2:40 mark they throw in some glitched out Biggie samples which sounds so fuckin raw
"Final Countdown (Live Mix)" - Pretty Lights
Last New Years Eve, PL threw down this mix counting down to the new year. Derek threw it together last minute and it is absolute fire...it is a remix of the Europe classic "Final Countdown" that was featured in the Rocky series. Up and coming artist Trey Palms raps over this beat in a track we already posted here. Anyway...The first drop is absolutely ridiculous, and then it goes on for about 14 min of straight heat. It's a live mix but the sound quality is superb nonetheless...I would be totally down to come out to the field with this song this year
"Let Em Know It's Time To Flow" - DJ Tip-Z
"She Wants Pretty Lights Babies" - JDubsssss
These last two are mashups that feature beats thrown down by Pretty Lights mashed up with other artists, ideal for those who like more vocals in their music. The first one is the PL track "Let Em Know It's Time To Go" and includes artists like Biggie and Tupac in it. The second is PL's "Aiming At Your Head" mashed up with the Ace of Base classic "All That She Wants." So fucking hotttttt
That's all for part 1...parts 2 and 3 for the countdown to Throwdown Thursday coming soon, stay tooned.....
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