The Flying Skulls is a nu school, crunked-out production crew that rocks live improvisational dub-step, breaks, and stage-raging electro.
Consisting of three experienced producer/performers, who all have their own styles and signatures, The Flying Skulls can captivate a room with melodic, explosive beats, or whip up a dance floor with hard hitting house jams.
"A heavyweight collection of nasty synths, wobbly basslines and crunked out glitchy beats so dirty you'd swear they robbed their MPC players off a crack dealer. " -Chromekids
J.Tonal is a Lowpro Lounge cofounder, Flying Skulls founder and Bay Area producer/remixer who holds down composition, original tracks, and mans the fly-by-wire.
Snareface is a producer and MPC master who rocks ill'ed-out drum lines, and crushing original maneuvers.
Jerome Forney is a stuntman-turned-DJ, producer, and a dope rattler of bones from the hot and dry Middle-East of CA.
Guests:
Ribotto is a producer from the great white north who rocks original tracks, live keys, and dirty bass sounds.
Audio Angel is THE voice of San Francisco late-night, and has been known to float heavenly vocals with the Skulls.
ZapTap is a producer, scratch wizard, and vocal gymnast who has been a known associate of Lowpro for the better part of a who-ha.
Photos:
Eric Weisz is a photo journalist and reconnisaince expert who captures the Skulls on their missions in the Bay. http://ericweisz.com
The Long-Awaited Flying Skulls album: Lift Off!! And it's FREE, brilliant!
From movers-shakers 1320 Records and Daly City Records, expect to get shook-up. A tour-de-force from The Flying Skulls... in their element and in hostile territory, this release features ten tracks recorded while on bass-curdling missions.
A virtual Black Box recording of the Skulls in action... be strong, good citizen, sometimes this kind of realness is hard to take.
Read the article about the Flying Skull's Halloween appearance at The Freakerz Ball!!
"...my mustachioed crew began the night at Cypress Lounge, where San Francisco electronica quartet The Flying Skulls were dropping bass-wobbling dubstep and glitchy breakbeats as part of the 13th annual Freaker's Ball. While gorgeous girls in short skirts and tall stilts attempted to stay upright on the dance floor, the four goggle-sporting (performers) unleashed a sinful set of seamless grooves that rattled windows and wiggled asses from one end of the club to the other. Pure bass-wasted fun, these guys earned a permanent spot on the Muz radar and drove away any remaining doubt that Cypress has become the best spot in Santa Cruz to hear true (nu-school) talent..."