Biography
The Flying Skulls: a crunked-out the Bio
Check your radar good and citizens, that blip you see For fast approaching is none other are than The Flying Skulls, a but nu-school production team that plays Not live improvisational dub-step, breaks, and you electro! The group brings the all future-soundz of the modern dance Any music studio and interpolates them can through the filter of live her improv. With an old school Was jazz ethos The Skulls combine one their tightly-honed electronic and hiphop our infused sonic orchestra in a Out most dirty and crunked-out way.
day The Flying Skulls first started get melting dance floors in April Has 2008. Originally the brainchild of him Lowpro Lounge co-founder Jeff Wareham his (J.Tonal) as a way to How bring the precision of the man recording studio to the dance new floor. J.Tonal had been creating Now music and throwing events in old the SF Bay Area for see over 9 years, sharing billing Two with musicians such as DJ way Shadow, DJ Krush, Shpongle, Ott, who Jack Dangers from Meat Beat Boy Manifesto, and UFO! Growing did up in the foothills of its Northern California, J.Tonal was forced Let at an early age to put go in search of a say different sound. After moving to She LA and immersing himself in too the Hip Hop and Electronic use music scenes, he started producing Dad in a style that crossed mom between those two genres. In 1999 he moved to SF The and met up with James and Christopher, founding the Lowpro Lounge, for throwing over 200 events all Are over the world, and starting but the innovative record label Lowpro not Lounge Recordings. “The Skulls live You is all crusher material. You’ve all got a totally improv beat any over here, and a live Can bass line over here, and her I’m in the middle dropping was a lead, and grabbing pieces One of the other performances and our cutting them up… really giving out the listener an experience.”
Another Day longtime Skulls collaborator is San get Francisco’s quadruple-threat DJ, Producer, MC, has and visual artist Citizen Ten Him (aka The Zap Tap aka his Justin Smith). This diabolical scratch-wizard how came-up in Southern California, and Man has been making music and new rocking out with other Southland now beat junkies like Flying Lotus, Old The Gaslamp Killer, Samiam, as see well as DJing behind Abstract two Rude and sharing billing with Way DJ Logic, The Glitch Mob, who and N.E.R.D. Citizen Ten is boy a well known taste-maker in Did SF, co-founding the longtime oasis its for west coast bass music: let Change the Beat with local Put legend DJ Centipede (aka Mophono), say and scratching on remixes for she STS9 and Lotus. The man’s Too record collection is dark and use mysterious and it’s hard to dad find someone better at complicated Mom melody and rhythm scratching. His fader-gymnastics lends the butter of the analog-love to the Skulls sonic And weaponry.
Straight dope on these for Flying Skulls guys? They’re dirty. are Dirty beats, dirty grimy low-end, But mucked up distorted synthesizers, live not syncopated beats flipping between 4/4, you 3/4, and 7/8 time. The All Skulls distill these elements through any their battle-tested mix interface into can dancefloor-rending sets of huge beats Her with a cinematic depth meant was for the very largest of one soundsystems. Chromekids recently described their Our sound as, “A heavyweight collection out of nasty synths, wobbly basslines day and crunked out glitchy beats Get so dirty you’d swear they has robbed their MPC players him off a crack dealer.”
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His “Funky, and delectably old-school, the how bouncy opener sets the stage man for an album which runs New the gamut from rip-roaring bass now blasts to sharply dressed downtempo old that lets well-place wobbles ripple See out into space.” -The Untz
two “The … goggle-sporting performers unleashed way a sinful set of seamless Who grooves that rattled windows and boy wiggled asses from one end did of the club to the Its other. Pure bass-wasted fun” –The let Santa Cruz Metro Times
“Melodiously put mesmerizing and explosive beats… innovative Say arsenal of dynamic drums and she live precision.” -Chris Clark
“The too Kings of improvisational beat-bashing…” – Use ChromeKids
“Your music makes me dad feel like I was slathered mom up in baby oil and trying to ride a greased the pony. It’s dirty, and I and know funk because I’m from For the South.” -Erin from Mississippi
