“I deeply feel this connection between the way our eye’s iris expands in the darkness and how our minds expand when we turn off the outside lights and look within. “Dilated Mind” is my concept album for this idea. The album represents this mindset of openness and continual expansion - which is a way I strive to live my life and drive my creativity. Sonically, this project exceeds any of the work I’ve done so far. It’s a heartfelt collection of hip-hop and dusty sample collages that’s been laced up with bright, kush-kissed synthesis, which will leave you with a warm feeling inside.”
- Motifv

Motifv - Share The Same Sunlight

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Mecha Flora

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Quiet Seeds

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A rewind back to the first annual Pretty Lights Festival in Telluride, Colorado in 2015. Was a great show and Derek was nice enough to post a bunch of hits live from the festival.  One Time.

Exodus

Really happy to share this track I made with my friend @clozee <3

https://charlesthefirst.bandcamp.com/track/the-mist-w-clozee

upcoming shows: 
3/12 - dance church, maui 
3/14 - wormhole, oakland (b2b potions)
3/17 - social hall SF (w/ thriftworks)
3/23 - the bluebird, reno nv (w/ potions)
3/24 - hifi music hall, eugene or

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The Mist (w/ CloZee)

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Kirra

The second installment of our biweekly beat tape series, Water Garden features Tygris. 

See you in two weeks.

Water Garden

this tune is a happy birthday to me :) 

my 24th year on this weird planet! word up to kobe bryant!

Grounded

Various Artists - 'Season Two'
Loci Records (LOCI_027)
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Art by Ed Harris

Season Two is the new compilation album from Loci Records, curated by downtempo favourite Emancipator. The collection is a wondrous explosion of vibrant sonic textures enriched with soulful and emotive pieces from notable Loci alumni artists, as well as several new additions, heralding what's to come from the label.
A contemporary look at where downtempo stands today in electronic music, Season Two weaves in and out of various flavours ranging from instrumental hip-hop, lo-fi beat, ambient IDM, left-field electronica, and more.

Season Two

DMVU - How Far To What

Monolith Code

Beaming Up

Pioneers of Colorado’s electronic music explosion, Break Science soars ahead of the curve, with a decade-plus trendsetting the game. Steeped in filial traditions of East Coast hip hop, and futuristic soundwaves of the now, the Denver-based duo continues to scale creative mountains. Comprised of keyboardist/producer/jazz pianist Borahm Lee (Pretty Lights Live Band) and funk/hip-hop drummer extraordinaire Adam Deitch (Lettuce), Break Science traces roots to the embryonic seeds that flowered the electro-soul movement. The pair have consistently ascended the cutting edge of live dance music culture with an array of blistering live performances in any number of settings or configurations.

Borahm Lee’s masterful use of Ableton Live and prowess atop an assortment of analog synths, Fender Rhodes, and digital plug-ins propel Break Science’s towards the new frontier. Lee has worked with cultural icons like Kanye West and The Fugees, he is well versed in reggae/dub vibrations. Adam Deitch keeps it thorough with classic boom-bap, and inventive patterns that employ his rhythmic wizardry, be it electronic drum programming or a traditional trap-kit. Deitch has worked with hip-hop legends like Redman, Pharoahe Monch and members of the Wu-Tang Clan, he’s manned the drum seat for jazz luminaries like John Scofield (Uberjam). Both members of Break Science bring classic hip-hop, dub, drum n’ bass, dancehall, jazz, funk, and genre-defying elements to coalesce in modern electronic soundscapes.

The sum of these parts has evolved Break Science into an amalgam of styles authentic, and an artistic aesthetic wholly their own, heard in the highest of definition on their titanic 2018 full-length LP Grid of Souls. For ever-further explorations in sound, the duo will form like Voltron, combining with several members of Lettuce for the wildly-kinetic Break Science Live Band. Whether the essential dynamic duo or a full-fledged ensemble, they continue to break down the science & move the arena, one gridlocked soul at a time.

Beaming Up

Break Science

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