I Know the Truth

“I Know The Truth,” which received its debut performance at the 2011 Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, is Pretty Lights’ most dubstep leaning track to date. To record the single, Pretty Lights’ Derek Vincent Smith took a new approach: he and the musicians that appear on the track began work in an analog studio, where, for the first time ever, he recorded everything but the vocal sample live. He then cut the session to vinyl and proceeded from there. “With the track ‘I Know The Truth’ I wanted to try to fuse the emotion of dark 60′s soul music with the energy of raw bass heavy dubstep,” says Derek Vincent Smith. ”All the instruments were recorded to tape and then pressed to vinyl and then sampled for the sole purpose of attaining a warm organic timbre, and all the bass and synth sounds were reprocessed through analog synth modules to get a dirtier and at the same time warmer tone. It’s my first attempt at producing in a new style I like to call analog electronica. It’s modern electronic music production created with an approach based on techniques from 40-50 years ago.”