I Am the World Trade Center is an American synthpop duo consisting of musician Daniel Geller (co-founder of Kindercore Records) and vocalist Amy Dykes.
Geller co-founded Kindercore Records with Ryan Lewis in 1996 in Athens, Georgia, United States.
When Geller asked Dykes to provide the vocals for an instrumental track he had written, they considered starting a band.
With encouragement from Lewis, they played a live performance in Austin, Texas, at the 2000 South by Southwest festival.
The band's debut album, Out of the Loop, was released in 2001 on the Kindercore label and according to a 2002 interview with The Stanford Daily, the band's name represented the dynamic of the duo's relationship: "The two towers, equal and independent, together made up one entity and came to represent the relationship that Geller and Dykes forged professionally and personally."