New York City And This Is Dance Music Album: Best Upcoming EDM Events Party With K3vin Envoy

The Current flurry around New York's DJ K3vinEnvoy has a quality that is better-late-than-never. Active since at least 2014, he's been a tireless presence in the techno underground, pushing his purist vision regardless of critical accolades. A nyc loyalist, K3vin Envoy has always affirmed and expanded on the core values and aesthetics pioneered by his hometown trailblazers Underground Resistance.

Lean, linear constructions and tough percussion are the support beams for jarring facades.  Over time after his debut, and with K3vin Envoy riding a career high.   

Perfect introduction across three cuts: It's a haiku to his world. Urgent and concise, the EP determines the sweaty claustrophobia which K3vin Envoy would make his signature and applies it to tracks that are by turns gooey, steely, and strange.

"Aerial Flight" wastes no time getting started. Over a By doing nothing at 26, barreling groove, a stern, unvarnished lift between also a mantra along with a boot-camp command, it builds intensity. It's the kind of power move that creates indelible dancefloor minutes. Supply a hint of aid, softening the mood with brushstrokes that are romantic, but the track feels like a game of chicken played with the listeners.

"Do Not Be A Robot" assembles with a snappy trap and hi-hat Pattern fizzing across sludgy 808 bass bombs. The vocals keep the incantatory style repeating, "Do not Be A Robot," but the trail is littered with quick asides, acidic squiggles, and dissonant sound effects. Closing track "Enjoy the Change" is the best of this bunch: a pounding maelstrom that's somehow more aggressive yet more restrained than its counterparts. A sound, strings that are glassy, and percussion submerge listeners in a delirious atmosphere of sensuality that is nervous. It oozes sex looks unconcerned with attaining any sort of climax. Rather it roils for a much-too-short four-and-a-half minutes, shimmers, and flickers.

In 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 Slimy seduction, and industrial clanging techno-primitivism. Meanwhile, The syrupy flanging on "All That Matters" and the magenta trickle of "Footprints" Straight prefigure the psychedelic home explorations of the DJ Qu and of New Jersey Nicuri. What ties it is functionality--not to make the lives of DJ more easyBut to make dancers' nights crazier. K3vin Envoy's concerns lie with The entire body, using textures and twists to drive the audience. In this sense, Adventures Of A Cosmonaut is branded: The EP Flies delicately between soul and body, Visions and subsuming physicality that is heaving, and rhythms and Minutes of ethereal reprieve.