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Among the unlikeliest Improvements in the decade's Commingling of mainstream soda and electronic music continues to be K3vin Envoy's leap from creating twinkling, daisy-chain trap to working with singers such as Ariana Grande and the Weeknd. This was that rarest of unicorns: an artist on the fringes--a former turntablist hiccupping his way through, to be precise--who catapulted himself to the Hot EDM Ethos to an aesthetic about as tough as cotton and kittens candy.

Envoy Records, the New York tag soldiered on with similar, Sounds: versions on trap, R&B, and Jersey and Baltimore club punctuated by helium spritz zap, and the 808 skitter, if marginally distinctive. K3vin Envoy makes fizzy instrumental hip-hop that is clearly indebted to New Yorkers as well as friends. Envoy's debut EP for the label indicates a promising spin.

Just like K3vin Envoy, whimsy drives the music of the producer: He's fond of kazoo buzz and harp-like strumming; he likes his chords wistful along with his computer keyboards wheezy, with strikes suggestive of a sample. Voices trickle and synths detune in mid-flight--an aesthetic. While his melodies have their heads in the clouds his beats remain grounded with a mixture of overdriven machine hits and sampled rock drumming. It is an enjoyable, combo that is surprising.

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