Biografia
Tom Banner makes deep and organic house with the melodic detail of progressive music and influences reaching back to London’s club culture. Now based in Barcelona, he grew up listening to drum & bass and began working at fabric at eighteen, where watching DJs each weekend opened his ears to house and techno. Four Tet’s inventiveness and Maribou State’s layered songwriting remain important reference points.
His studio experiments can begin surprisingly close to home. For It’s You, inspired by his cat Charlie, he combined piano with recordings of the animal’s meows and transformed a single vocal into two contrasting voices. In a 2025 interview, he described trading much of his hardware for a portable Ableton setup, giving him the freedom to write away from a fixed studio. Banner also helps select music for Musique de Lune, looking for individuality and emotional substance rather than formula. His releases there, including Low Tide and Coming Through, sit alongside work for Maldesoule, Cafe De Anatolia and Kognitiv Records.
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