Every record has a room behind it, a circle of people whose instincts shape what finally reaches the listener. For Kim Kay, that room is small, seasoned, and remarkably well traveled. As she moves from the intimate pop of her 2025 EP Life in Reverse to the club-ready charge of her new EDM single “Animal,” released September 10, 2026, the story of her sound is also the story of the collaborators who helped build it.
Life in Reverse arrived on July 8, 2025, through Belgian Bed Records, delivering three songs, “Ordinary Love,” “Wrong Reasons,” and “Od on U,” in seven tightly edited minutes. Credits across the EP name four songwriters: Kim Van Hee, David Schoenwetter, Eric Sanicola, and Jeroen Geerinck. Schoenwetter and Sanicola also took the producer’s chair, and between them they bring decades of experience in pop and dance music to the project.
David Schoenwetter is a New York-based producer, songwriter, and mix and mastering engineer who leads a second life on the dance floor as INViDA, a Beatport-charting DJ and electronic artist. His studio work spans names as varied as Norah Jones, Yoko Ono, Death Cab for Cutie, and the Gipsy Kings. As INViDA, his melodic, high-energy records have drawn support from Tiësto, Hardwell, and Don Diablo and have been released on labels including Ultra Records, Revealed, and Smash The House. His very first co-write, “Last Goodbye” by Tom Swoon and Swanky Tunes, was released on Ultra and premiered by Tiësto. He is known for pairing electronic textures with organic, human-played sound, a balance that suits an artist whose songs live comfortably in both headphones and clubs.
Eric Sanicola brings a pop pedigree built over more than two decades. Born in Rockville Centre on Long Island in 1981, he has been credited on numerous Gold and Platinum albums. His break came at just 18, when lyrics he wrote for Jennifer Lopez, though never used on her album, caught the ear of producer Ric Wake, who signed him to a publishing and production deal. From there, his credits grew to include One Direction, Dizzee Rascal’s “Love This Town,” Big Time Rush’s “Halfway There,” Cascada, Paulina Rubio, and Bishop Briggs, along with composing work on Disney’s Enchanted. He also spent three years writing and producing at RedOne Productions, the hitmaking camp behind some of the most recognizable pop of its era.
Kim Van Hee and Jeroen Geerinck round out the writing credits, and the result is a genuinely shared authorship. These are songs shaped by several sets of hands, each bringing a different instinct for melody, structure, and feeling, and the cohesion of Life in Reverse suggests a room that listened to one another.
That combination of chart-tested pop craft and dance-floor credibility helps explain where Kim Kay has landed. Even before “Animal,” her music was already moving toward the club. “Ordinary Love” was issued as a radio edit and reimagined in remixes by Paul Morrell, Ralph Wegner, and Morlando, proof that the songs written in that room could travel well beyond it.
Seen through that lens, the turn to EDM looks less like a leap than a natural next step. The instincts for the dance floor were in the room from the start, sitting right beside the instincts for a clean pop hook. With “Animal,” Kim Kay has let them take the lead.
Kim Kay’s “ANIMAL” is available now on Spotify and other major streaming platforms.
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