Life Is Sweet! Nice to Meet You, the second Lightspeed Champion long player, is an unassumingly epic collection of 12 pop songs, two instrumental intermissions, and one piano étude. Lightspeed’s early leaning towards American country dressin
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Check out Va$htie's Blog to watch an exclusive behind the scenes video with me in the studio with Theophilus London. Also you can listen to a sneak peak of one of the new songs we've been working on. Believe!
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Last weekend saw the airing of my special on NPR with host Liane Hansen. I speak in detail about influences as well as the writing and recording process for the new album "Life Is Sweet! Nice To Meet You." You can listen to the feature by visiting the
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Filling a hole is a tumultuous journey. There are a million (and one) ways to go about it. Obviously, this is nothing new, and you could argue that this is something we've all been doing since the day we were born.
Sometimes we trick ourselves, into thinking we have filled a void when really we haven't at all. But the question is, in doing so, surely you then
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It's been nearly two years since my last official release, but the MARLENE e.p is available worldwide in stores and digitally online from today!

Posted by Devonté Hynes on January 25, 2010 at 12:00pm — 15 Comments
First part of article written by Dr Leah Kelly from The Rockefeller University from a discussion we had based on the subject of Synesthesia.
“I do a lot at the same time “.This is a massive understatement coming from Devonté Hynes. The 23 year old, probably best known as musical artist Lightspeed Champion also vents his talents by writing short stories, comics and other musical side projects, the latest of which
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Paranoia traits aren't as easily removed as one would fool themselves into believing. A sudden boost in confidence, is... upon realization. Only that. A sudden boost.
That's not to say that that boost won't last a long time.. I just feel that eventually, like with most other traits, it will come up time and time again.
A face connection.
The parallels and connotations are what gets me the most (/worst). Images are
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Visit SPIN.COM to check out the article on an ELVIS cover I recorded at the historic Avatar studios for Elvis' 75th Birthday!!!
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There's a song on the new "Lightspeed" album called "Faculty Of Fears". The majority of the song is about.. well. Something else, but! At least a portion of the song references old crazy female crone's or "carogne" from Anglo-French times. The other side, is also referencing Lucia Pamela. The estranged singer who made only one album (Into Outer Space With Lucia Pamela)
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M.Ashraf composed 2,800 songs for films during Pakistan's Lollywood boom.
His range of influences spread much further than almost any other musician / composer of the last 30 years. I'm occupying myself this Christmas as I sit in my apartment alone by listening to his songs, although, I do plan on seeing Sherlock Holmes at some point. Anyway, Merry Christmas.
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The next score in this experiment that I will post online is the Cello score.
Also to make this more fun, I've decided with each score I will post a downloadable mp3 midi version played by myself of what each part should entail.
This means that even if you can't play any of the instruments, or read the sheet music. You can download mp3's of each part, and if you so wish, put them together and play them at the same time
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