Scott Daniel Mellor (born 7 May 1982), known by his stage name Loston, is an Australian music producer and graphic designer. He rose to popularity in mid 2012, releasing reworks (bootlegs) of popular indie songs by
James Blake,
Banks,
Sampha
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, and
London Grammar. Loston grabbed the attention of many prominent blogs including Hypetrak and
Earmilk, catapulting his remixes to the top of the
Hype Machine
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charts on three occasions and chalking up millions of
SoundCloud plays.
Loston released his first solo single since the Echoes EP (2018) called Wait in April 2021.
In January 2020 Loston collaborated with
Slumberjack, HWLS, Twerl and
ShockOne on the song Inferno which was released on bandcamp, all proceeds from the track were donated to the
Australian Red Cross Bushfire appeal, in relation to the devastating bushfires at the time.
In 2018 he released his debut EP Echoes, a 6-song release featuring the songs Disappear, Solitaire, Holding Pattern, Junction and a cover of Tears for Fears "Everybody Wants to Rule the World.
Loston has produced for
Nicole Millar (vocalist on
Peking Duk song
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), on the song "Cover Me", Which was released on her debut EP 'Tremble' through Universal on February 5, 2016. He has also been linked to Bay area rapper 100s and Queens NY rapper Bryant Dope.
Loston released a collaborative track with friend
Ta-ku in April 2015 entitled "No Reason", which featured vocals from the song Count the Saints by
Foxes.
Loston featured on
Dim Mak Records' ''New Noize Vol 5'' CD in 2013.
Mellor runs a graphic design studio out of Perth, Australia, and Los Angeles, California, called Thinktank (also known as THTA). He has won two
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History
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and has designed for musicians including
Skrillex,
Tom Morello (of
Rage Against The Machine),
Birds of Tokyo,
The Bloody Beetroots,
Labrinth,
Yelawolf,
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, and Ta-ku. Scott has also designed for Create and Explore,
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, aNYthing, Champion USA,
XLARGE Japan,
Dim Mak Records.
In 2011, Mellor spoke at the AGIdeas conference in Melbourne to a sold-out crowd.
Mellor is the former art director of the Streetx clothing label, and also worked as the creative director for Origin NYE music festival from 2013 to 2020.
References
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Living people
Australian record producers
1982 births