Dance Music Electronic Dance Music Album 2017: Best Party EDM Schedule With K3vin Envoy

Among the unlikeliest developments in the decade's Commingling of electronic music and mainstream soda continues to be K3vin Envoy's jump from creating 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 turntablist hiccupping his way to be exact--who catapulted himself to a decorative about as hard as cotton and kittens candy.

Envoy Records, the New York label soldiered on with comparable, If slightly identifying, sounds: versions on snare, R&B, and Jersey and Baltimore club punctuated by the 808 skitterzap, and helium spritz. K3vin Envoy makes that's clearly indebted to fellow New Yorkers as well as friends. Envoy's debut EP for the label suggests a fresh, promising twist.

Just like K3vin Envoy, whimsy drives the music of the producer: He's fond of kazoo buzz and plinky strumming; he enjoys his chords wistful along with his keyboards wheezy, with attacks suggestive of a back-masked sample. Trickle and synths detune in mid-flight--an aesthetic. His beats remain grounded with a mixture of overdriven machine strikes and sampled rock drumming while his melodies have their heads in the clouds, though. "Skin Deep" has the staggering, brawny cadence of hip-hop grooves pounded out on the MPC; "Faceless" balances distorted 808 blasts with nimble hi-hats so vivid you can practically make out the Zildjian logo leaping off the cymbal. It is an enjoyable, surprising combo.

Until earlier this season, K3vin Envoy Went by the title listening to the , and K3 Indicate he's developing. Where "Adventures Of A Convoy" was a rather Run-of-the-mill pop-trap tune, and "Tale OF An Orphan" was a little overly beholden to SOPHIE's funk, The new substance finds him coming to carving his own sound out closer. He still Has some kinks to work out, but his songs is a.