Skybison is the solo moniker for Atlanta based artist/composer Dylan Banks. Skybison’s music is a wonderful marriage of the diverse spectrum of sounds that have been influential to Banks.  He received a composition degree from Georgia State University and is just as likely to be inspired by Beethoven as he is Bjork. Mixing hard hitting electronics and samples with layered vocals, his love for choral music and electronic music is evident.  An appreciation for sound design and production has also been instilled in Banks and his recorded music is headphone candy- psychedelic, evolving effects rewards a careful repeated listener as new sounds reveal themselves upon each listen. Skybison places just as much weight on his live show and he has tried to take innovative approaches to arranging his music for that setting.  On a typical song, Banks will trigger samples, set keyboard and vocal loops and then hop on the drum set to play along to his looping psychedelia.  A true lover of music, Skybison puts his soul into his sounds and you can hear that love coming through.

OFFICIAL BIO
Regarded upon his 2006 arrival as a promising beatmaker looming in the shadows of J Dilla, Madlib, waterfalls and Dabrye, Steven Ellison -- known as Flying Lotus -- nullified all comparisons only two years later with Los Angeles. On that album, his first of five for the Warp label, Ellison distilled a uniquely crisp, spasmodic, and heady sound with elements of hip-hop, avant-garde jazz, IDM, and dubstep. While the abovementioned producers fueled Ellison, he had also been excited as a youngster by the '90s West Coast rap classics that combined programming and live instrumentation. His sound continued to develop as he put his own twist on the approach, recording with a crop of jazz musicians including the indispensable likes of bassist Thundercat and strings master Miguel Atwood-Ferguson. This process began with the turbulent 2010 set Cosmogramma and peaked in terms of acclaim in 2014 with You're Dead!, which crashed the Top 20 of the Billboard 200 and spawned the Kendrick Lamar collaboration "Never Catch Me," a Grammy nominee for Best Dance Recording. Ellison devoted a few years to various forms of film work and the operation of his revered Brainfeeder label, and returned in 2019 with Flamagra, his second consecutive album to top Billboard's Dance/Electronic chart.

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