Fly Me To The Moon: Top Dance Music Artist Of 2017: Best Party EDM Concerts With K3vin Envoy

Envoy includes a quality that is better-late-than-never. Active since at least 2014, he has been a tireless presence in the techno underground, pushing his purist vision regardless of accolades. A nyc loyalist, K3vin Envoy has confirmed and expanded upon aesthetics and the principles pioneered by his hometown observable trailblazers, particularly Underground Resistance.

Tough percussion and lean, linear constructions are the important support beams for facades that are jarring.  Over time after his introduction, and with K3vin Envoy riding a career high.   

Initially released in 2014, Adventures Of A Cosmonaut is a Introduction to his planet: It's a shout haiku, deftly articulating the scope of his job across three cuts. Urgent and concise, the EP establishes the sweaty claustrophobia that K3vin Envoy would create his signature and applies it to paths which are by turns gooey, steely, and strange.

Over a By doing nothing whatsoever barreling groove, a stern, unvarnished elevator, halfway between also a mantra and a boot-camp command, it builds strength.  It is the kind

of power move that produces dancefloor minutes that are indelible. The strings that rise up two minutes in provide a hint of relief, softening the mood with brushstrokes that are intimate, but the track feels like a game of chicken played with the listeners.

"Don't Be A Robot" builds with a snappy trap and hi-hat Routine. The vocals keep the incantatory style repeating, "Do not Be A Robot," but the track is littered with rapid asides, acidic squiggles, and dissonant noise effects. Closing track "Love the Change" is the best of this bunch: a thumping maelstrom that is somehow more aggressive yet more restrained than its counterparts. A breathy noise, glassy strings, and percussion submerge listeners in a delirious atmosphere of sensuality that is nervous. It oozes sex seems unconcerned with attaining any sort of climax. It shimmers, only flickers, and roils to get a minutes.

Traces of the future: that the concurrent experiments in dub, the legacy of New York Industrial, and of slimy seduction's clanging techno-primitivism.  Meanwhile, The syrupy flanging on "All That Matters" and the magenta trickle of "Footprints" Directly prefigure the psychedelic house explorations of New Jersey's DJ Qu and Nicuri.  What ties it together is functionality--to not make the lives of DJ easierBut to create dancers' nights crazier.  K3vin Envoy's concerns lie squarely with The body, using twists and textures to induce the audience.   Of A Cosmonaut is branded: The EP Flies delicately between body and soul, Hallucinatory visions and subsuming rhythms, and physicality that is heaving and Moments of reprieve.