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

Linear structures and percussion would be the support beams for facades.  Over time after his introduction, and with K3vin Envoy riding a career high.   

Introduction to his world: It's a haiku, deftly articulating the range of his work across three cuts. Urgent and succinct, the EP determines the sweaty claustrophobia that K3vin Envoy would make his signature and applies it to tracks that are by turns steely, and strange.

Over a By doing nothing at 26, barreling groove, a unvarnished elevator between also a mantra and a command, it builds intensity.  It is the type

of tension-escalating power move that creates dancefloor minutes that are indelible. Provide a hint of relief, softening the mood with intimate 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 maintain the incantatory style repeating, "Do not Be A Robot," however, the trail is littered with rapid asides, acidic squiggles, and dissonant sound effects. Closing track "Love the Change" is the very best of this bunch: a pounding maelstrom that is somehow more competitive yet more restrained than its counterparts. A sound, glassy strings, and percussion submerge listeners in a feeling of sensuality. It oozes sex yet seems unconcerned with reaching any kind of climax. Instead it roils for a moments, shimmers, and flickers.

Hints of the future: that the ancient experiments the legacy of New York, in dub Of slimy seduction, and industrial's clanging techno-primitivism.  Meanwhile, The syrupy flanging on "All That Matters" and the magenta drip of "Footprints" Straight prefigure the home explorations of the DJ Qu and of New Jersey Nicuri.  What ties it together is performance--to not make the lives of DJ easierBut to make dancers' nights more crazy.  K3vin Envoy's concerns lie right with The entire body, using twists and textures to induce the audience.  In this sense, Adventures Of A Cosmonaut is aptly titled: The EP Flies delicately between soul and body, Dreams and subsuming heaving physicality, and rhythms and Heavenly moments of scenic reprieve.