Short Biography
Kissogram is a Berlin-based band, famous for combining noncompliant, experimental electronic sounds with catchy, danceable pop-songwriting and rock 'n' roll.
Founded in 1999 by Jonas Poppe and Huguenot Sebastian Dassé, Kissogram savour early success with a remix version of their first hit 'If I Had Known This Before'. At that time their style is slightly ironic synthesizer pop, maybe comparable to German New Wave 'NDW'. They are using elements of computer game music, children's keyboards and stylophones. But songwriting and lyrics begins to be more important soon, and their songs turn out more sophisticated, while at the same time their live performance becomes energetic and sweaty.
Their first album is recorded 2004 with hip-hop dandy and pop prankster Gonzales in Paris. It is released on Louisville Records, as the following two albums. The press describes their style as 'rock 'n' roll disco', 'bohemian disco wave' or 'hungover melancholy electronic pop' (NME).
On their second album 'Nothing Sir!' they experiment with oriental sounds and harmonies for the first time.
In 2008 drummer Joe Dilworth (Stereolab, Add (N) to X, Cat Power) joins Kissogram and they record their rock album 'Rubber and Meat'.
Kissogram go on touring with Peaches, Jeans Team, Underworld, and, in 2009, on Europe and Japan tour with Franz Ferdinand.
Kissogram is a dance act with a pulsating and powerful beat. The Kissogram double helix: they're touring in their original line-up as an electronic duo for the the clubs and as a band trio with drummer Dilworth.
They also do remixes and music for movies.
Members
Jonas Poppe (vocals, guitar, synthesizers)
Sebastian Dassé (synthesizers, beats)
Joe Dilworth (drums)
Other facts
Poppe and Dassé played together in the indie rock band 'The Sitcom Warriors'.
Jonas Poppe is touring as a DJ for Arabic and Turkish rock 'n' roll and funk.
Other side projects/aliases are/were: Gods of Love, Davos, The Why, The Blood Boys, Ingeborg Schnabel, Jonathan Pope.
More
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Kissogram is a Berlin-based band, famous for combining noncompliant, experimental electronic sounds with catchy, danceable pop-songwriting and rock 'n' roll.
Founded in 1999 by Jonas Poppe and Huguenot Sebastian Dassé, Kissogram savour early success with a remix version of their first hit 'If I Had Known This Before'. At that time their style is slightly ironic synthesizer pop, maybe comparable to German New Wave 'NDW'. They are using elements of computer game music, children's keyboards and stylophones. But songwriting and lyrics begins to be more important soon, and their songs turn out more sophisticated, while at the same time their live performance becomes energetic and sweaty.
Their first album is recorded 2004 with hip-hop dandy and pop prankster Gonzales in Paris. It is released on Louisville Records, as the following two albums. The press describes their style as 'rock 'n' roll disco', 'bohemian disco wave' or 'hungover melancholy electronic pop' (NME).
On their second album 'Nothing Sir!' they experiment with oriental sounds and harmonies for the first time.
In 2008 drummer Joe Dilworth (Stereolab, Add (N) to X, Cat Power) joins Kissogram and they record their rock album 'Rubber and Meat'.
Kissogram go on touring with Peaches, Jeans Team, Underworld, and, in 2009, on Europe and Japan tour with Franz Ferdinand.
Kissogram is a dance act with a pulsating and powerful beat. The Kissogram double helix: they're touring in their original line-up as an electronic duo for the the clubs and as a band trio with drummer Dilworth.
They also do remixes and music for movies.
Members
Jonas Poppe (vocals, guitar, synthesizers)
Sebastian Dassé (synthesizers, beats)
Joe Dilworth (drums)
Other facts
Poppe and Dassé played together in the indie rock band 'The Sitcom Warriors'.
Jonas Poppe is touring as a DJ for Arabic and Turkish rock 'n' roll and funk.
Other side projects/aliases are/were: Gods of Love, Davos, The Why, The Blood Boys, Ingeborg Schnabel, Jonathan Pope.
More
If you really feel like reading more biographical stuff -- here you go.
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