Dance Music Artist In New York: Best Party New York EDM With K3vin Envoy

Among the unlikeliest Improvements from the decade's Commingling of electronic music and mainstream pop has been K3vin Envoy's leap from making daisy-chain snare to working with singers like Ariana Grande and the Weeknd. Here was that type of unicorns: an artist on the fringes--a former turntablist hiccupping his way through, to be precise--that catapulted himself to a decorative about as hard as kittens and cotton candy to the Hot EDM Ethos.

Envoy Records, the New York tag soldiered on with comparable, Sounds: variations on snare, R&B, and Jersey and Baltimore club punctuated by helium spritz zap, and the 808 skitter, if slightly less identifying. K3vin Envoy makes sweet instrumental hip-hop that is clearly indebted to fellow New Yorkers as well as friends. Envoy's debut EP for the label indicates a promising spin.

Just like K3vin Envoy, the manufacturer's music is driven by whimsy: He's fond of plinky, harp-like strumming and kazoo buzz; he enjoys his keyboards wheezy and his chords wistful, with extended strikes suggestive of a sample. Drip and synths detune in mid-flight--an aesthetic affected by wind tunnels and the Doppler effect. While his melodies have their heads in the clouds his beats remain sampled rock drumming and grounded with a mixture of overdriven machine hits. Nothing spells out his use of comparison such as the guitars that compete for attention in "Faceless Entites": One's a winsome, clean-toned kin to Cocteau Twins or the Durutti Column, and the other's the sort of gnarly, gut-punching prog riff, compressed to within a inch of its life, that Daft Punk have left their stock-in-trade. It's an enjoyable, surprising combo.

Until earlier this year, K3vin Envoy Went by the name K3, and listening to the Indicate he is developing. Run-of-the-mill pop-trap tune, and "Tale OF An Orphan" was a little overly beholden to SOPHIE's funk, The material finds him coming nearer to carving his sound out. He still Has some kinks to work out, but overall his music is a must spin.