Skinny Banton

Skinny Banton. Wayne Robinson by his civil name, Shadowflow as a stage alias, is the architect of bouyon-muffin. The sub-genre builds in two stages. First in 1993, when Skinny Banton launches his vocal project in Dominica. Then in 1995, through a direct collaboration with WCK that formalises the fusion: Jamaican ragga toasting and dancehall laid over the Bouyon rhythmic base, at slower tempos (110-135 BPM documented). It is one of the first conscious hybridisations of Bouyon with an external vocal language, well before Famalay (Dada/Soca 2019), before Nasty Business (Mr Ridge 2022) or RnBouyon (Fallon 2024).

The discographic reference point arrives in 2010 with the compilation "Best of Skinny Banton 'Bouyon Muffin'", 22 titles gathered and available on Spotify. It is the canonical marker of the sub-genre: bouyon-muffin holds as an archaeological canon of the transversal sub-genres, with few emerging artists after 2020 but a solid historical trace. His profile is therefore essential to anyone trying to map the complete sub-genres of Bouyon, without it, the story jumps straight from WCK 1988 to Nasty Business 2022, which creates a narrative hole of some thirty years.