some like sinewy back arching cirque du soleil looking motherfucker

Look, okay, I'll put something up here later but right now you all have to listen to me very carefully.

I need you all to look around your rooms.
Do you have any laser pointers?
Do you have any strobe lights? Black lights? Oil lights?
I'll settle for a fog machine, a string of colored christmas lights,your iTunes visualizer, you flicking your overhead light on and off with a sheet of construction paper in front of your face.

Anything, really, anything at all that you can do while you listen to this


Edit: Right.So this guy, Derek Vincent Smith.
Mastermind behind "Pretty Lights", which is him as producer/beatmaker/DJ and, when doing live shows, one other guy on a drum kit.

I had never heard of this guy until I stumbled upon it a few days ago while (hey hey surprise) reading K-Murdock's blog.

These are some of the fattest beats I've ever heard.
Now, in the beat community, the predicate of "fatness" has a specific meaning when operating on "beats".

The only abiding definition of a fat beat is one that makes you make The Face the first time you hear it.

(The Face also comes in different variations. The Dance or The Move or The Sound are all just different versions. It's the body's natural response to fat beats - a sort of primordial "god damn".
Example of The Face is perfectly demonstrated by a Mister Shawn Carter upon first hearing of the fat beat that would eventually become Dirt Off Your Shoulder.
If you've done your homework clicking my links before, you've seen this look - exactly two minutes in.


Anyway.

Aimin' At Your Head (see top) by Pretty Lights came out of fucking nowhere, blew me away, and prompted me to do my regular research.
Turns out this guy is popping up in a lot of music reviews lately.
Turns out this guy has been on tour lately, with his live drummer and giant wall of LEDs.

Turns out he's releasing all his tracks out in free downloadable EP's on his website.
That alone is pretty god damned amazing, when you think about it.

What blows me away about Pretty Lights is that it's a culmination of exactly what I've been talking about for the past months.
Each track has a solid foundation in the obscure and funky soul tracks that are a staple of good beatmaking, but you only manage to hear them if you deliberately dig.
Because on top of them, he's layered the skullpounding drive of great house music, and chopped it all up with quintessential electro brainfuzz.

It's like they took all my favorite music styles and made a little super dream baby for me to have all for myself.
Here is a remarkable example:
Pretty Lights - Finally Moving

Good song. Soul samples and grooviness abound, right? But it's a little focused, a little too lazily drifting along.

So he remixed it. Did an electrohouse remix of his own song.


OH MY GODDDDDDDD THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT IT NEEDED

It's like if Deadmau5 and Justice were put in a supercollider with RJD2 and Girl Talk.

It's exactly like that. It's so fucking good. Expect this man to blow up shortly. Expect new Texts From Last Night to show up namedropping the Pretty Lights show (at which they, I dunno, gave a handjob to a guy who looked like the Pope.)

And it's pretty diverse, within it's greater Subphylum!
There are fast songs and slow songs and more conventional popular music songs and more outlandish funk samples and holy shit this horn section sample is so fresh and so clean-clean.


SO. Number 5. To finish my list. Pretty Lights.