Pretty Lights is about to drop an album two years in the making. ‘A Color Map of the Sun‘ will further establish his reign of transcending the bounds of genre, reinventing the way we listen to electronic dance music. As he continues to rise as a tastemaker in the industry, WhiteRaverRafting decided to take a look back at his earlier work, a collection of rare and unreleased content from his earlier days including work with artists like Michal Menert and Corey Eberhard.
1.) NY State of Mind x Cream Mix
2.) Speaking of Happiness
(removed from Filling Up The City Skies Disk 2 for copyright issues)
3.) “Love You Left Behind” (NYE/Red Rocks 2012 Night 2 Starting Song RIP)
4.) STS9 – Beyond Right Now (Pretty Lights Remix)
[The New Orleans Make It Right Remixes]
5.) Gold Coast Hustle Chicago Re-edit
6.) Michal Menert & Derek Vincent Smith – Summer Love
7.) Shining Bright Despite The Message Mashup
8.) Don’t Push It, Don’t Force It Remix
9.) Rustified
10.) Pretty Lights/ Menert – DOA Remix (ClashMusicMix)
The next three tracks are from an unofficial Electro City EP
11.) Better Than I’ve Ever Been (ft. Kanye West) [Disco Electro Soul]
12.) Everybody Walk (ft. Prince and The Time)
13.) Toxic (ft. Ludacris and Yael Naim)
Quick Note: The Electro City EP consisted of 5 tracks and was an unreleased album, given out only as hard copies at Red Rocks in 2009 during his opening set for STS9. [Download full EP]
14.) Rare, Throwback Live Set – 1.27.2008 @ Cervantes Ballroom
Final remaining tracks are from a group called Listen, comprised of Derek Smith, Michal Menert and Corey Eberhard before Pretty Lights existed.
15.) Listen – Swingset
16.) Listen – Magic Penguin Circus
17.) Listen – Fading Sedation
18.) Listen – Track 1 (First Album)
19.) Listen – Track 3 (First Album)
20.) Listen – Track 5 (First Album)
21.) Listen – Track 8 (First album)
Download both albums from Listen:
Editor’s Note: We realize some of you PLM heads may have heard these before, but this is for the fans who haven’t had the same chance at discovering the sounds that define Derek. Please understand that some of these tracks are HD rips from live sets, but others are just works from many years past. Happy to share this with everyone. Much love to the PLF <3.
-wade
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