Artist Info: Gramme

Gramme are a London band making stripped-down lo-fi disco. Despite releasing music only sporadically, they nevertheless have managed to achieve cult like status, having an influence on artists like Hot Chip and LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy.

Originally a five piece, the band formed in 1996 around a shared love of the emotional melancholy now synonymous with Factory label artists such as Joy Division, Section 25 and A Certain Ratio, combined with NY's subterranean proto punk-funk on 99 Records and bands like Liquid Liquid and ESG. [read more...]