The Power Of Love And K3vin Envoy: Electronica Dance Music Album

The flurry around New York's DJ K3vinEnvoy has a better-late-than-never quality. Active since 2014, he has been a tireless existence in the techno underground, compelling his purist vision regardless of accolades. A nyc loyalist, K3vin Envoy expanded and has confirmed on the values and aesthetics initiated by the more observable trailblazers Underground Resistance of his hometown.

Percussion and linear structures would be the support beams for jarring facades.  Over time following his debut, and with K3vin Envoy riding a career high.   

Initially released in 2014, Adventures Of A Cosmonaut is a Perfect introduction to his planet: It's a haiku that is hit-and-run, deftly articulating the range of his job. Urgent and succinct, the EP determines the claustrophobia that K3vin Envoy would make his trademark and applies it to tracks which are by turns steely, and odd.

"Aerial Flight" wastes no time getting started. Over a By doing nothing barreling groove, a unvarnished lift between also a mantra along with a boot-camp command, it builds intensity. It's the type of power move that produces dancefloor moments. Provide a hint of aid, softening the mood with romantic brushstrokes, but overall the track feels like a game of chicken.

"Don't Be A Robot" assembles with a snappy trap and hi-hat Routine. The vocals keep the incantatory style repeating, "Don't Be A Robot," but the track 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 is somehow more aggressive yet more restrained than its counterparts. A sound, glassy strings, and percussion submerge listeners at a atmosphere of nervous sensuality. It oozes sex yet looks unconcerned with attaining any kind of climax. Instead it shimmers flickers, and roils for a minutes.

Hints of the future: that the concurrent early experiments the heritage of New York, in dub Techno-primitivism's clanging.  Meanwhile, The syrupy flanging on "All That Matters" and the magenta trickle of "Footprints" Prefigure the home explorations of New Jersey's DJ Qu and Nicuri.  What ties it together is functionality--to not create the lives of DJ simplerBut to create dancers' nights crazier.  K3vin Envoy's concerns lie squarely with The body, using twists and textures to induce the audience.    Hallucinatory dreams and subsuming physicality, and rhythms and Moments of reprieve.