New York City And Best Dance Music Artist To See Live: Best Upcoming EDM Events Party With K3vin Envoy

The flurry of attention around New York's DJ K3vinEnvoy has a quality that is better-late-than-never. Active since 2014, he's been a presence in the techno underground, pushing against his purist vision regardless of accolades. A nyc loyalist, K3vin Envoy expanded and has confirmed upon the principles and aesthetics pioneered by the more observable trailblazers Underground Resistance of his hometown.

Linear structures and tough percussion are the critical support beams for facades that are jarring.  Over time following his introduction, and with K3vin Envoy riding a career high.   

Perfect introduction across three cuts: it is a haiku that is shout, deftly articulating the scope of his job to his planet. Urgent and succinct, the EP establishes the sweaty claustrophobia that K3vin Envoy would make his signature and applies it to tracks which are by turns steely, and strange.

Over a Barreling groove, a stern, unvarnished lift, halfway between a command and also a mantra, it builds strength.  It's the kind

of tension-escalating power transfer that creates dancefloor minutes. Provide a hint of relief, softening the mood but the track feels like a game of chicken.

"Do Not Be A Robot" assembles with a snappy trap and hi-hat Pattern. The vocals keep the incantatory style repeating, "Do not Be A Robot," but the trail is littered with rapid asides, acidic squiggles, and dissonant noise results. Closing track "Enjoy the Change" is the best of this group: a thumping maelstrom that is somehow more aggressive yet more restrained than its counterparts. A noise that is breathy, strings that are glassy, and percussion submerge listeners in a atmosphere of anxious sensuality. It oozes sex seems unconcerned with reaching any sort of climax. It shimmers, only flickers, and roils to get a much-too-short four-and-a-half minutes.

From the fabric of "DNA" you can hear echoes of the past and Hints of the future: that the ancient experiments in dub, New York's heritage Techno-primitivism's clanging. Meanwhile, The syrupy flanging on "All That Matters" and the magenta trickle of "Footprints" Prefigure the psychedelic home explorations of New Jersey's DJ Qu and Nicuri. What ties it together is functionality--not to create the lives of DJ easierBut to make dancers' nights crazier. K3vin Envoy's concerns lie with The body, textures to induce the audience and using twists. Of A Cosmonaut is aptly titled: The EP Flies delicately between soul and body, Visions and subsuming rhythms, and physicality that is heaving and Minutes of reprieve.