Poor Boys aka NSDOS x TISS
After meeting in New Orleans during their respective residencies at the Villa Albertine in 2024, TISS and NSDOS began a musical collaboration that felt as natural as it was exciting, under the name Poor Boys.
This atypical duo, made up of a drummer and an electronic music artist, offers a captivating exploration based on improvisation, where rhythms shaped by human gesture blend seamlessly with those generated by machines.
The fusion of these two strong musical identities promises hypnotic live performances, oscillating between jazz, experimental music, and electronic soundscapes.
The name is borrowed from the famous club located on Saint Bernard Street in New Orleans, a place they frequented regularly during their time in the city.
Their music is a captivating exploration rooted in improvisation, where rhythms shaped by human gesture merge harmoniously with those generated by machines.
By combining TISS’s organic percussion with NSDOS’s electronic expertise, the duo creates music that transcends borders and conventions, clearly reflecting the influence of the Detroit techno scene, Afro-Caribbean music, British trends, and Afrobeat.
This collaboration also stands as a vibrant tribute to the legacy, boundless creativity, and musical soul of New Orleans.
About TISS RODRIGUEZ
A drummer since the age of 10, Tiss Rodriguez was raised on jazz and Caribbean, African, and Latin American music played at Le Baiser Salé, the famous Parisian club founded by his parents forty years ago on the legendary Rue des Lombards, home to some of the capital’s greatest jazz venues. Building on this early immersion, he later trained with leading masters: Mokhtar Samba to learn North African music, Lukmil Perez for Cuban music, and Etienne M’bappé and Richard Bona for Cameroonian music.
He has worked with artists such as Catherine Ringer, Moodoïd, Mayra Andrade, Sébastien Tellier, Shy’M, Imany, Asa, Spleen, Juan Rozoff, and Daby Touré. His sources of inspiration are numerous and extremely diverse: he has an insatiable curiosity for musical styles and genres from around the world.
About NSDOS
After studying dance, NSDOS, aka Kirikoo Des, sought to create sounds on which to place his movements. He therefore had to imagine a new sonic order, an alternative approach to music—through abstraction. NSDOS does not settle for simple software to compose his sounds; instead, he prefers to create his own mediums: futuristic instruments hacked together from old sound cards, Game Boy emulators, and small pieces of metal dissected and reassembled to give birth to surreal machines. Surrounded by these hybrid tools, he deconstructs the rigid anatomy of techno. Pads are distorted, rhythms fragmented, sounds mutilated—reduced to their very essence.