Pretty Lights sure lives up to his moniker! Blame Derek Smith and his drummer, Adam Deitch if your lights went out on November 14th. Incredible light show aside, he DID bring the funk. He drove the crowd wild. If you were to see it from his view on stage, it probably looked like a hot pulsing mass of fun. The crowd had to be doused in water multiple times, and they even handed out water bottles for the dehydrated. I’ve seen the first at shows like Ratatat, but never the latter, since they usually sell you the water for 3 bucks!
Pretty Lights is Derek Smith. He hails from the south-western state, Colorado. He incorporates a drummer for his live sets, the current drummer is Adam Deitch. Derek makes funky, electro, hip-hop. With a ton of funk, soul, and hip-hop samples. Most of the crowd that was there for him were also fans of the Minneapolis hip-hop/rap scene, as well as acts such as Ratatat, Lotus, Bassnectar and Rusko.
He took the stage at about 10:10 and ended his set sometime round 12:30. It was all a blur of delightful and groovy beats.I also couldn't tell you what he played being that I had never seen him before. His latest EP, “Glow in the Darkness” is the only thing I’ve heard by him and he had no set-list. Sorry. If YOU want to get to know Pretty Lights, you are in luck! He has his whole catalogue of music for free on his website! www.prettylightsmusic.com.
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♥ Michal Menert |
The crowd also seemed to enjoy the opener, Michal Menert. A very fitting opener since it seemed Michael was in the same league of electro-hip hop. He has quite the charisma on-stage, and the crowd ate it up.
Check out more of Michal on his Myspace:
myspace.com/michalmenert
More of Pretty Lights, especially free music!:
prettylightsmusic.com
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♥ Pretty Lights at First Ave, Minneapolis (11/14/10) |
