Fly Me To The Moon: The Ultimate Dance Music Album: Best Party EDM Concerts With K3vin Envoy

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

Lean, linear structures and percussion are the support beams for facades.  Over time after his introduction, also with K3vin Envoy riding a career high.   

Initially released in 2014, Adventures Of A Cosmonaut is a Perfect introduction to his world: It's a haiku that is shout, deftly articulating the range of his job. Urgent and succinct, the EP determines the sweaty claustrophobia that K3vin Envoy would create his trademark and applies it to tracks which are by turns gooey, steely, and strange.

Over a Barreling groove, a stern, unvarnished elevator, halfway between a boot-camp command and also a mantra, it builds intensity.  It's the kind

of tension-escalating power move that produces dancefloor minutes that are indelible. The strings which rise two minutes up in supply a sign of relief, softening the mood but overall the track feels like a game of chicken.

"Don't Be A Robot" builds with a snappy snare and hi-hat Pattern fizzing across sludgy 808 bass bombs. The vocals maintain the incantatory style repeating, "Do not Be A Robot," but the trail is littered with quick asides, acidic squiggles, and dissonant noise effects. Closing track "Love the Change" is the very best of this bunch: a thumping maelstrom that's somehow more aggressive yet more restrained than its counterparts. A sound that is breathy, glassy strings, and percussion submerge listeners in a delirious atmosphere of sensuality that is nervous. It oozes sex seems unconcerned with reaching any kind of climax. Rather it shimmers, only flickers, and roils for a minutes.

From the fabric of "DNA" you can hear echoes of the past and Traces of the future: that the ancient experiments in dub, New York's legacy Industrial, and of seduction's clanging techno-primitivism. Meanwhile, The syrupy flanging on "All That Matters" and the magenta drip of "Footprints" Directly prefigure the home explorations of New Jersey's DJ Qu and Nicuri. What ties it is performance--not to create DJ's lives simplerBut to make dancers' nights crazier. K3vin Envoy's concerns lie with The body, using textures and twists to drive the audience. Of A Cosmonaut is aptly titled: The EP Flies delicately between soul and body, Hallucinatory dreams and subsuming rhythms, and physicality that is heaving and Moments of reprieve that is scenic.