![]() ![]() He kindly let me cut through his kitchen and out the back door. Mike pointed out his back window to another house across the compound. I felt like an ass.ĭev? Oh, he’s over in the guest house. He was in the throes of making dinner for his family - a smiling wife appeared at the stairs, an adorable child skipped across the floor, and even Mike’s Brother, AJ, was there, standing next to the kitchen island by a large bowl of salad-looking food. Answering the door was Mike Mogis, spoon in hand. I walked up to the door and knocked, certain that I had the wrong address. It was colder than hell the night I drove up to the large, ’60s-style house right on Dodge St. I was to meet Dev at the studio at 7 p.m. Here was a chance to find out why, while also getting a glance inside what I’ve been told is the sweetest recording studio in the region.ĭomino set up the interview for last Monday. Domino won, but a year after the release of their debut, For Screening Purposes Only, Test Icicles broke up. After only a few club gigs around London in ’05, Test Icicles became the subject of a fierce label bidding war. Having seen the bands I’ve covered in the past, would I like to do an interview for Lazy-i?ĭevonte Hynes, the mad genius behind Lightspeed, used to be the vocalist in Test Icicles, a band that only a couple years ago was on the verge of exploding across the London musical landscape, thanks to a rowdy style that combined noise with hardcore dance beats. So I get this e-mail from UK label Domino Records telling me that one of their bands, Lightspeed Champion, was in Omaha recording with superstar producer Mike Mogis at ARC Studios - the new mansion studio that replaced Lincoln’s Presto! studios. On this Throwback Thursday, let’s step into the Wayback Machine and set the dials to 2007 and revisit Dev Hynes before he became Blood Orange…Ĭolumn 111: Englishmen in Omaha - Lazy-i, Jan. Little did I know after working with the likes of Sky Ferreira, Carly Rae Jepson, Britney Spears even Kilie Minogue that Hynes would emerge years later as the break-out act Blood Orange, with the infectious dance hit “Best to You” off last year’s Freetown Sound. I’d never heard of the singer/songwriter and was simply looking for a way inside Mike Mogis’ at-the-time brand-spanking-new ARC Studios. ![]() The future of Devonte Hynes was a bit murky 10 years ago when the following story was published in Lazy-i and The Reader. Dev Hynes circa 2007, then a member of Lightspeed Champion, stands next to a giant Buster Sword at Ala-Ka-Zam in the Crossroads. ![]()
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