32 KISSY SELL OUT
How’s this year been for you so far? This is a good year for me because I’m releasing my second album Wild Romance, which is a big deal because I think it’s the best thing I’ve ever done. I’ve been in this for kinda three or four years and the only thing that is missing is having a really good album, which kinda connects the dots between my radio show and DJ sets. So it’s nice knowing that it’s coming and it’s out this month.
Your first album titled ‘Youth’ that was quite a hit. Why did you call your new album ‘Wild Romance’? Well it was nice of you to say that it was a hit. It’s called Wild Romance because I’m just a different person. I’ve changed a lot; I’m a man now, know what I mean?. Youth was about the fact I was still a kid being surrounded by a load of adults being told what to do. With the new one I feel a lot more confident it’s just a ‘Kissy’ record through and through. It is a wild romance to me I hope it’s a wild romance to listen to. Literally from the name I wanted to grab someone by the hand and then run them through this little adventure.
Are you trying to portray your Kissy Sell Out sound in this album? I think you’ve got it in one there, it’s taken up to this point in my ca- reer to figure out what absolutely my sound is, something that can be encapsulated in album form. That’s what it’s about, I guess with anything new you’ve gotta feel it but it’s a fucking banging album.
How would you describe your sound? Electro, Speed, Garage
Taking you back, how would you describe your influences growing up? Lots of things really, I used to like lots of specific things in lots of dif- ferent genres. Like the cutting up style in Jungle music in regards to Mickey Finn, but I like the ex- perimentalism of bands like Sonic Youth. I love the lack of repetition that’s what is great about music, the journey aspect of music, you hear an idea and you move on. It’s always changing the whole way through, that’s something that doesn’t happen in Dance music very much. I hate House music, I just hate the repetition. That’s why I’m an Electro kid. I love the odd guitar solo too, like growing up
watching Bill and Tedd. I spent a lot of time doing improvised guitar solos!
You’re also nurturing new talent, could you tell us a bit about that? I don’t understand why more people don’t do it; well I do understand it takes a lot of time to find people and stuff. You know I’ve always said from the start the best records in my sets are the unsigned ones, the little demos I get sent. You know talk- ing about it on the radio and stuff has made it easy to do. It’s where I came from where a few big names played some of my tunes just because they liked it, i’ve been so lucky. It’s the least I can do to give other people a chance from first hand experience. That’s what my label is about San City High;
it’s about giving people
a first chance, putting their first records out there. I’ve got no license rights over the songs I use, it’s because I don’t want to…do you know what I mean? I don’t want to make money out of anyone. I don’t really do this to make money I’ve wanted to do this since I was a kid. We don’t want your DJ fees, we don’t want any of your money.
You also do charity work as well can you tell us a bit about that? I don’t really bring it up, I don’t really do it to get popular or anything like that. I just think it’s a glorious thing for me to be able to contribute to that I feel really strongly about, one of them being British Association of Adoption and Fostering. Another one is Changing Faces for people with facial disfigurement. Both are examples of things which are so unfair, children aren’t born as bad people or anything they are shaped by the environment around them. Children that have had bad luck being brought up in a terrible household is such a terrible thing. The other thing is that we live in such a materialistic culture that if you have a facial disfigurement it’s such a big deal, it breaks my heart and anything I can do to help it’s my pleasure… completely my pleasure.
Finally, if you were marooned on a desert island what three famous people would you take with you and why? A comedian that i’m really into at the moment is Micky Flanagan, I think he’s absolutely hilarious. I’m hesitated to say Keanu Reeves because I am a massive fan, so
HOUSE//ELECTRO//TECHNO THE GUESTLIST NETWORK | MAY 2011 Joe le Groove
This month TGN caught-up with famed electro DJ Kissy Sell Out to discuss his latest album and why he believes music is about the love and not the money...
so I might be a bit star struck if I’m with him and I might not be able to say anything! I would also bring a dude from dance music like Felix Da House Cat, being on a desert island with that lot would be quite fun!
Kissy Sell Outs new album “Wild Romance’ is out now. For more information go to
www.kissysellout.com
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