Turn up the lights in here, baby. Extra bright, I want y’all to see this.

That’s the motto at 8 p.m. tonight when performer Pretty Lights hits the Convocation Center with MacBook and headphones in tow.

Fort Collins, Col.-based DJ and producer Pretty Lights (real name Derek Smith) spins an eclectic blend of electronica, ambient noise, funk and dubstep, with booming bass as backdrop to it all.

Pretty Lights has been releasing various remixes and original compositions since 2006, and his six albums have been downloaded over 1.4 million times from his website, prettylightsmusic.com.

His newest track, “I Know the Truth,” is sure to be a crowd favorite, with heavy bass drops and a glitched-out synthesizer that crests and falls for the duration of the track.

“I wanted to try to fuse the emotion of dark ’60s soul music with the energy of raw, bass-heavy dubstep,” Smith says of the track on his website. “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.”

Even if you’re not sure what that means, give it a listen. “I Know the Truth” and all other Pretty Lights material is available to download for free on its website.

Pretty Lights has been performing across the country, hitting it big with a national tour in 2010.

Perhaps the show that put Pretty Lights on the map was a sold-out New Year’s Eve show at the Congress Theater in Chicago to ring in 2011.

And ring he did.

Bathed in a frantic rainbow of lasers, strobes and spotlights, the crowd raged through remixes of Kanye West’s “All of the Lights,” Pink Floyd’s “Time,” and a specially-produced version of the Chicago Bulls theme song.

But why take my word for it?

Come see the pretty lights at Pretty Lights yourself, and bring a friend or two. Just don’t hit anyone when you’re fist-pumping.