Blood Orange is the latest project from Devonté Hynes who some of you may know better as Lightspeed Champion and/or former member of now defunct UK Dance Punk darlings, Test Icicles. The music Dev is putting out under the Blood Orange moniker is at it’s core just some good ole fashioned Soul music that while sounding contemporary, clearly has its roots planted firmly in the sounds of the late 70′s MoTown. The deep infectious bass lines and repetitious drum loops draw you in and set the foundation for Dev’s vocals and guitar work which keep you there.

There are no official releases out just yet from Blood Orange, but there is a nice handful of tracks floating around the web. The song in the video above is my personal favoritse and I love that clips from “Paris Is Burning” were used to back this Brooklyn transplants grooves, all too fitting.

Dev appeared on It’s On With Alexa Chung in December of ’09 and preformed as Blood Orange, rocking some crazy Santa wizard costume. To date Dev has only played a couple of shows as Blood Orange and I would personally would love to see this turned into a full-time band.

According to Dev’s blog there is a Blood Orange full length in the works and I for one am anxiously awaiting this and have no doubt it will be on my constant rotation.

- Banana Wintour