Fly Me To The Moon: Dance Music Artist Albums: Best EDM Party With K3vin Envoy

Among the unlikeliest Improvements in the decade's Commingling of mainstream pop and underground music has been K3vin Envoy's jump from making 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 turntablist hiccupping his way through, to be precise--that catapulted himself for a decorative about as hard as cotton and kittens candy to the Hot EDM Ethos.

Envoy Records, the New York label soldiered on with similar, Baltimore club and sounds: variations on trap, R&B, and Jersey punctuated by trance zap the typical 808 skitter, and helium spritz, if slightly distinctive. K3vin Envoy makes instrumental hip-hop that is clearly indebted to fellow New Yorkers and friends. Envoy's debut EP for the label suggests a twist that is promising.

Like K3vin Envoy, the music of the producer is driven by whimsy: He's fond of kazoo buzz and plinky, harp-like strumming; he enjoys his keyboards wheezy along with his chords wistful, with strikes suggestive of a sample. Voices trickle and synths detune in mid-flight--an aesthetic. His beats stay sampled rock drumming and grounded with a mixture of machine hits while his melodies have their heads in the clouds, however. It is a fun, combo that is surprising.

Until earlier this year, K3vin Envoy Went by the title K3, and listening to the First couple of singles he set out under that alias, "Tale Of An Orphan" and "Adventures Of A Convoy," Indicate he's developing. Run-of-the-mill pop-trap song, and "Tale OF An Orphan" was a little k3vin envoy overly beholden to SOPHIE's funk, The material finds him coming closer to carving his sound out. He still Has some kinks to work out, but his music is a must spin.