K3vin Envoy: Latest Dance Music

Envoy includes a better-late-than-never quality. Active since 2014, he's been a presence in the techno underground, pushing his purist vision regardless of critical accolades. A nyc loyalist, K3vin Envoy has confirmed and expanded on aesthetics and the values initiated by his hometown trailblazers, especially Underground Resistance.

Percussion and lean, linear structures are the critical support beams for facades that are jarring.  Over time following his debut, also with K3vin Envoy riding a career high.   

Originally released in 2014, Adventures Of A Cosmonaut is a Perfect introduction across three cuts: it is a hit-and-run haiku, deftly articulating the scope of his job to his world. Urgent and concise, the EP establishes the claustrophobia that K3vin Envoy would create his trademark and applies it to paths which are by turns gooey, steely, and odd.

"Aerial Flight" wastes no time getting started. Over a By doing nothing barreling groove, a stern, unvarnished lift, halfway between a mantra along with a command, it builds strength. It's the kind of power transfer that produces dancefloor moments. The strings which rise two minutes up in supply a sign of relief, softening the mood but the track feels like a game of chicken played with the listeners.

"Do Not Be A Robot" builds with a snappy trap and hi-hat Pattern fizzing across sludgy 808 bass bombs. The vocals keep the incantatory style repeating, "Don't Be A Robot," but the track is littered with quick asides, acidic squiggles, and dissonant noise results. Closing track "Enjoy the Change" is the best of the group: a thumping maelstrom that's somehow more aggressive yet more controlled than its counterparts. A noise, strings that are glassy, and unrelenting percussion submerge listeners at a feeling of nervous sensuality. It oozes sex looks unconcerned with attaining any kind of orgasm. It just flickers, shimmers, and roils to geta moments.

From the cloth of "DNA" you can hear echoes of the past and Traces of the future: the early experiments New York's legacy, in dub Industrial, and of slimy seduction's clanging techno-primitivism. Meanwhile, The syrupy flanging on "All That Matters" and the magenta trickle of "Footprints" Prefigure the house explorations of New Jersey's DJ Qu and Nicuri. What ties it is functionality--not to create DJ's lives simplerBut to make dancers' nights crazier. K3vin Envoy's concerns lie with The body, textures to induce the audience and using twists. In this sense, Adventures Of A Cosmonaut is branded: The EP Flies delicately between body and soul, Hallucinatory visions and subsuming physicality that is heaving, and rhythms and Minutes of reprieve.