Kissy Sell Out

Kissy Sell Out is a music producer, radio host and electro DJ from Essex, England.
He is also a designer and has studied at Central Saint Martins Art College in London.

Kissy Sell Out says following about his debut album called Youth:

Youth is really personal and I’m so proud of it. On the one hand there are lots of anecdotes from my childhood like ‘Essex Boy’ or ‘This Kiss’, which is a straight ahead pop song about when I was 14 and kissed one of my mate’s girlfriends — actually the guy who had the DJ Hype CD! It was a horrible experience.

But then there’s other stuff that reflects what was happening while writing it. It was hardcore and it took over our lives, spending 14 hours in the studio. ‘Bethnal Green Café’ is about our girlfriends at the time turning on us. They just thought we were being musicians, skiving and not getting real jobs, but what was really happening was Dan and I were fighting so hard to stick up for our vision in the face of a major label — literally men in suits trying to tell us what to do. ‘Go Explode’ is also a bit about that, I was under pressure and I wished the world would leave us alone.

The title track really sums up the album. Even though it’s an instrumental it reminds me of being 16 and partying with my friend Rob and having to run across town to make it home for 12am curfew. We ran and ran and managed to get back and I lay there on my lawn, so exhausted, looking at the stars and I remember thinking, fucking hell, I’m so lucky to have had experiences like this. I was thinking about that when I came up with ‘Youth’s’ spacy synth melody. The first half of the song is more like my remixes, playing with tempo, but it encapsulates my ambitions for the album by being the most melodically complicated thing I’ve ever done.

One of the things that will always keep me from getting a big ego is what I’m known for doing is actually me. My radio show is the music I listen to on my iPod and the album is about my life, so if people don’t like it, it’s like they don’t like me.
It’s tough but it keeps things in perspective.

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