Lightspeed Champion

Dev Hynes (born 23 December 1985 in Houston, Texas), better known as
Lightspeed Champion (or sometimes Blood Orange) is a British composer,
songwriter, producer and author, who has written #1 records for artists such
as Florence and the Machine, Diana Vickers and The Chemical Brothers on their
2007 Grammy award winning album We Are The Night. He is currently ... read more

Blood Orange headlining a show; Solange album coming soon

Dev Hynes w/ CANT @ Mercury Lounge in 2011 (more) Blood Orange, aka the R&B-leaning solo project of Dev Hynes aka Lightspeed Champion (ex-Test Icicles), was in Australia ...
Posted 16 January 4.53pm — Comment on this

Blood Orange, 'Coastal Grooves' - You Review

Chancing hipster, or inspired genre-dabbler? That's the question people have been asking about Dev Hynes ever since he first appeared as part of Test Icicles, and one you...
Posted 8 August 2011 1.51pm — Comment on this

Blood Orange: Coastal Grooves - review

(Domino)Once Shoreditch's answer to Zelig, popping up in the background of every micro-trend, Dev Hynes has relocated to the States. His music has changed, too, the delic...
Posted 4 August 2011 11.00pm — Comment on this

Blood Orange – ‘Sutphin Boulevard’

Lightspeed Champion frontman Dev Hynes went and packed himself off to Noo Yawk a couple of years ago where he’s probably been hanging out with loads of new hipster ...
Posted 2 June 2011 4.27pm — Comment on this

Devendra, Dando, Culkin ... in one movie?

What if Macaulay Culkin, Devendra Banhart, Arrested Development's Alia Shawkat, Lightspeed Champion, Evan Dando and friends all got together ...
Posted 28 April 2011 6.47pm — Comment on this

Fresh Drops From The Soundcloud: Blood Orange, Asobi Seksu

Dev Hynes is an international man of mystery as well as the busiest musician on the planet. As if his extensive work as Lightspeed Champion and with Test Icicles or c...
Posted 25 April 2011 9.18pm — Comment on this

News: Theophilus London's new single is out next week

(photo by Yumna) "Flying Overseas", a collaboration between Brooklyn's finest and freshest hip hop/soul artist Theophilus London and Dev Hynes aka Lightspeed Champion and...
Posted 6 November 2010 1.41am — Comment on this

Singing Chelsea Pensioners, chanting Benedictine nuns, what next?

With the release of three profession group albums in the run up to Christmas, Stuart Heritage wonders which other professions should release their own recordProfession gr...
Posted 30 October 2010 12.07am — Comment on this

Underage festival | Pop review

Victoria Park, LondonAlice Glass shrieks wildly at the crowd, and they shriek back. The lead singer of rave group Crystal Castles – a band whose goal is to write a ...
Posted 3 August 2010 10.30pm — Comment on this

10 Things We Learnt At Field Day

Guerrilla bake sales, a tug of war and The Fall - it could only be Field Day in London's, thankfully, sunny Victoria Park. Here are the ten things we learnt there.1. Er...
Posted 2 August 2010 4.45pm — Comment on this

Field Day exclusive ticket offer

Field Day has firmly cemented its place in the UK festival calendar with a plethora of aural delights and rustic merrymaking including sack-racing, splat the rat and th...
Posted 27 May 2010 1.52pm — Comment on this

Singles out this week

PICK OF THE WEEK Kelis Acapella (Interscope) Before Gaga stole her thunder, Kelis was the true eccentric of the girl-pop universe, as confirmed by a knitting teacher fri...
Posted 8 May 2010 12.11am — Comment on this


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