out for a while: Miss Kittin – I Com [Nobody’s Bizzness | NovaMute

Artist:
Miss Kittin

Title:
I Com

Label:
Nobody’s Bizzness | NovaMute | Astralwerks

Cat#:
tba | NOMU120 | ASW77263

Release Date:
24th May 2004(original release date)
in 2019 (digital re-issue)

Format:
vinyl, CD, download & streaming

Tracklist:
A1.
Professional Distortion

A2.
Allergic

A3.
Requiem For A Hit
[feat. L.A. Williams]

B1.
Happy Violentine

B2.
Meet Sue Be She

B3.
Kiss Factory

C1.
Soundtrack Of Now
[feat. The Hacker]

C2.
Clone Me

C3.
I Come.com

D1.
3eme Sexe

D2.
Dub About Me

D3.
Neukölln 2

Press Info:
Miss Kittin releases her long awaited debut solo album ‘I Com’ through novamute on May 31st 2004.

Caroline Herve, aka Miss Kittin, has over the past five years, truly become one of the most inspiring DJs and voices to emerge within the electronic music scene. Her vocal collaborations have produced seminal moments of dancefloor heaven. Alongside long-time production partner The Hacker, tracks such as ‘Frank Sinatra’ and ‘1982’ propelled them into the spotlight whilst further collaborations with Felix Da Housecat ‘Silver Screen (Shower Scene)’, Golden Boy ‘Rippin Kittin’, Sven Vath ‘Je T’aime’ and more recently T. Raumschmiere ‘The Game Is Not Over’ and Tricky have confirmed Miss Kittin’s star billing status.

Miss Kittin has also taken centre stage as a headline DJ in her own right – the job that she truly considers her own and one that she excels at. She can flawlessly join the dots between Detroit techno, deep house, electro and Black Dog records and understands how a Prince track can fit into a banging club set. “If I don’t have fun myself, I’m not able to please people,” says Kittin. “DJing must be, in a way, something selfish. I shout it loud: I don’t do it for the people. I never pretended to educate the audience. I just share a big part of me, taking it as serious as I love it.”

French born Miss Kittin is, alongside her frantically busy global DJ schedule, working A&R jobs, hosting radio mix-shows, remixing, collaborating and writing music. “I Com” is Miss Kittin stripped bare: her first solo mission and an album rich in Kittin attitude. From her Berlin base “I Com” has been co-produced by Tobi Neumann and Thies Mynther a.k.a. GLOVE, who had previously also worked with fellow electro-pop upstarts Chicks On Speed. The album opens with the first single “Professional Distortion”, a rock meets blip-hop opus and wry commentary on her experiences in the nightlife world. From there, the album careens through the giddy electro-punk of “Meet Sue Be She” (apparently an ode to her manager) to the shimmering euro-pop of “Kiss Factory” and the icy skank of “Dub About Me”.

One thing soon becomes very clear. One of the main progenitors of the so-called ‘electro-clash’ movement has found her wings, finding a range of style and voice that far outshines such short-sighted preconceptions. On “I Com”, we find a unique personality for whom the notion of ‘electro-clash’ is now a distant memory, where the heavily-accented deadpan delivery over techno beats that established her notoriety on previous recordings has been unseated by a desire to sing, to scream, to rap and to croon, all of which she manages to do with ample helpings of sly wit and wordplay and a musical landscape that incorporates both brazen beats and intoxicating atmospherics.

Several guest appearances enhance the mood, including Chicago luminary L.A. Williams on “Requiem For A Hit” and longtime sparring partner Michel Amato (The Hacker) on “Soundtrack Of Now”. The album also features a cover version; the 1985 Euro-hit “3eme Sexe” (Third Sex) by Indochine.

‘I Com’ is preceded by the single ‘Professional Distortion’ on May 17th.

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