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Released
  
31 May 2004

Label
  
NovaMute

Length
  
59:13

I Com (2004)
  
Mixing Me (2005)

Genre
  
Electronica, Electroclash, Dance

Producer
  
Thies Mynther Tobi Neumann The Hacker Smash TV

I Com is an album by Miss Kittin released in 2004 on label NovaMute. It was Miss Kittin's first solo release, having previously released albums in collaboration with The Hacker and Golden Boy. As in her previous works, electro funk and electroclash continue to be the primary genres.

Contents

Most of the tracks on the album were produced by Miss Kittin with either Thies Mynther and Tobi Neumann (producers of Chicks On Speed). House music vocalist L.A. Williams raps on track "Requiem for a Hit", the album's second single.

Critical reception

I Com received generally favorable reviews. The album holds a score of 73 out of 100 on the review aggregator website Metacritic. Joseph Shoo of Drowned in Sound commented that I Com has the "sweet attitude of sheer independent energy" while containing "neural giddiness and cerebral edginess". Likewise, Johnny Loftus of Allmusic described I Com as "the best bits and pieces of the post-everything genres have been rearranged in a newfangled data stream to represent Miss Kittin's very elusive, entirely accessible muse. The alluring result is cool, reloaded." By contrast, Derek Miller of Pitchfork Media noted that "some of Kittin's lyrical deficits undercut her production."

Singles

  • "Professional Distortion" was the first single released on 17 May 2004 It peaked at #83 on the UK Singles Chart and at #77 on the French Singles Chart.
  • "Requiem for a Hit" was released on 27 September 2004. It peaked at #92 on the UK Singles Chart and at #6 on the Belgian Dance Chart.
  • "Happy Violentine" was released on 14 February 2005 as the third and final single. It peaked at #84 on the UK Singles Chart and at #9 on the Belgian Dance Chart

    • Promotion

    Miss Kittin released the EP Mixing Me on 19 April 2005. The EP contains remixes of several I Com tracks such as its three singles.

    Personnel

  • Florian - vocals
  • L.A. Williams – rapping
  • The Hacker - programming, breathing
  • Miss Kittin - producer, design, synthesizer, drums, vocals, photography, drawing
  • Thies Mynther - synthesizer, bass, piano, producer
  • Tobias Neumann - bass, guitar, producer, vocoder, audio production
  • Tobi Neumann - guitar, guitar (bass), vocoder
  • Bente Schipp - graphic design

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    References

    I Com Wikipedia
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