Kavinsky Confirms New Collaboration With The Weeknd – EDM.com

Kavinsky says his upcoming collaboration with The Weeknd has been a very long time coming.
Longtime followers of the synthwave pioneer will recall that he and The Weeknd beforehand joined forces in 2013, when the latter remixed the previous’s “Odd Look.” In a brand new interview with NME, Kavinsky reminisces on that time period, acknowledging The Weeknd’s meteoric rise since then.
“My pal (the artist Prince 85) launched me to him,” Kavinsky says of assembly The Weeknd. “He was one in all his collaborators and producers. I occurred to simply love his voice once I heard it so we did our monitor collectively again then very simply, very merely. This was manner earlier than he turned tremendous enormous and was actually accessible and accessible.”
Whereas a lot has modified since then, the 2 by no means overpassed making a follow-up monitor. Whereas Kavinsky hasn’t been as simple in saying once we can anticipate a launch date, the celebrities appear to be aligning for it to reach prior to later.
“So one thing may occur—one thing may occur very in all probability,” Kavinsky informed NME. “It’s occurring quickly, and he’s nonetheless such a pleasant man.”
The timing ties properly with The Weeknd’s latest wholesale embrace of dance music on his newest album, Daybreak FM, which options manufacturing from Calvin Harris and Swedish Home Mafia, amongst others. Kavinsky can be gearing up for a large album cycle of his personal with the approaching March twenty fifth launch of Reborn, his first LP in almost 9 years.
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