I mean, if I had to listen to only one genre for the rest of my life, it’d be rap.' In some ways I only listen to other genres to keep me sane, when I need a break from hip-hop. Fittingly, Evian Christ also told FACT, 'I live for rap. Evian Christ was already in the spotlight (albeit 'underground') from the February 2012 release of Kings and Them, but being a producer on Yeezus' 'I'm In It' got the hip-hop audience to listen (him and Kanye giving themselves Jesus-esque names seems serendipitous, too). It's not the first 'producer from non-major city gets discovered on the Internet and quickly blows up' success story, but it's a significant one. He's aware of the mixed crowd of listeners, and maybe he could have predicted it, telling FACT yesterday, 'I think you can listen to Kings And Them alongside any rap album and have it make sense.' Now his Waterfall EP, out March 17, is one of the most hyped releases of the first half of this year, and based on his admittance that it takes from both rap and trance, it will appeal to the wide audience he has watching him. He started touring with Purity Ring in the US just days after he got his teaching certification and never looked back.

When he was signed to Tri-Angle on the strength of a few songs he casually uploaded to YouTube ( 'Drip' is supposedly the first song he ever made), he didn't know the artists he was being compared to or that much about the label (besides Clams Casino being on the roster). Take a moment to realize that no one in music knew who Evian Christ was in 2011, he had only been to London once before February 2012, when he played a Tri-Angle Records warehouse showcase there, and only six months before Kanye West called him to get on the next plane to Paris for Yeezus (January 2013), he was 'putting off music' to become a teacher.

This song is part of a recurring post franchise called “Nowhere to Go,” where Young Cedar highlights dance music that might get lost in needless genre categorization or your overflowing SoundCloud feed.

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