Astralwerks
2004
I Com
About This Album
If the electroclash movement did anything besides get a bunch of gawky people laid, it nourished the liberal vertical marketing of electronics through the sediment of music. That fief's unintentional yet nevertheless influential royal Miss Kittin takes its latent notions to heart and foot for I Com, her solo debut. By 2003 a mostly full-time Berliner, Kittin collaborated for the record with that berg's Tobi Neumann and Thies Mynther, producer dudes who have files on both Chicks on Speed and Peaches. This feels right, as Kittin has cut a solo rug that's informed by the Chicks' newsprint clothing art beat futurism and dyed in Peaches' sexy muddy juice, but is drier and droller than either, and cooler than a night on the town with the universe's most hippest kid. She's always been smart, this one called Kittin. But with I Com, she has winnowed her dueling personas -- brilliant techno-inflected DJ and haughtily self-aware vocalist -- into a fantastically complete, wildly inventive package that offers the lunatic best of both badass sides. "Professional Distortion" splatters guitar distortion over clicking rhythms and rap detachment from the woman herself; "Requiem for a Hit" drops salty lyrics ("Um, excuse me, would you mind to.
Track List (try tracks 1,2,3,6,7,8,9 and 11)

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