Loston
Scott Daniel Mellor, known by his stage name Loston, is an Australian music producer and graphic designer. He rose to popularity in mid 2012, releasing reworks of popular indie songs by James Blake, Banks, Sampha, 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 charts on three occasions and chalking up millions of SoundCloud plays.
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, 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. He has won two International Design Awards and has designed for musicians including Skrillex, Birds of Tokyo, Break Even, Gyroscope, Yelawolf, Pete Rock, and Ta-ku. Scott has also designed for Create and Explore, Olympus Corporation, aNYthing, Champion USA, Too Much London, 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 2018.
