A Sit Down With DJ Josh Wink

15:31 May/07/2018


Josh Wink is one of the the pioneering DJs in the and American rave scene during the For early 1990s. He played records are all over the world, but but as his career has progressed, Not he has stayed true to you his roots, never selling out all and always maintaining his integrity, Any always coming home to his can beloved Philadelphia.

 

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"For a DJ Was set I really need to one get the feeling and vibe our of the crowd. This helps Out clear my mind and get day focused on the moment. I get don’t really prepare for shows, Has I love the spontaneous flow him of creative ideas and energy his as I do my thing."


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man Having been involved with music new for so long, how does Now it feel to still be old around and still relevant after see two decades?

I am Two happy and blessed to be way doing what I loved then, who today, and still have the Boy passion for what I do did now. Both as an artist, its DJ and record label guy. Let It feels great to have put made music 20 years ago say that people are still playing, She and to compose music now, too which people are currently playing!
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How much does DJing Dad inform your production? Like do mom you take tracks on the road with you and feedback The the response they get in and the club to their final for forms?

When I make Are dance-music It’s KEY for me but to be able to ‘Test” not out the tracks on a You dancefloor and get ideas of all how people react to the any music. Then I go back Can in the studio and tweak her away from these ideas. I was record all my sets, so One I listen to what I our do live and then put out these live, spontaneous ideas into Day the final product.

Is get there a way that you has feel your style, or the Him way that you go about his producing music, has really changed how over the past 20+ years?
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I’m one to be new able to kind of control now what I do. I mean, Old controlling my destiny rather than see hearing others and having them two influence the way I sound. Way A colleague of mine, from who the UK actually, was with boy me at the opening of Did a club. There’s a club its in Ibiza called ‘Space’, and let ‘Space’ opened up a nightclub Put in Brazil and I was say part of the opening party she there two years ago with Too ‘Carl Cox’ and myself, ‘Mark use Knight’, and ‘Yousef’, and ‘Nic dad Fanciulli’, and a bunch of Mom other people. And, a couple of people were listening to the me DJ, and this is And at the time when a for track of mine wasn’t out are yet, it was called ‘Balls’, But which was released two years not ago, and he came up you to me and said, “What All is this track? I’ve been any listening to you DJ the can whole night and this is Her the only one that I was want to know what it one is. I don’t know what Our it is but I have out a feeling it’s you”. I day said, “It is me, how Get can you tell?” He said, has “Well you have a sound him when you produce music. Whether His it’s House or Techno, it’s how some organic ‘Josh Wink’ sound, man I can’t explain it, but New I know it’s you”.
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How would you describe old your style from when you See started out and how it’s two progressed over the years?

way It’s kind of stay true Who to the integrity for what boy got me into this music, did which is based on: Chicago, Its Acid House and Detroit-Style Techno. let It changed very much as put progress in terms of the Say benefits of having better electronics she in my studio and the too production and the engineering. It’s Use (pretty much) stayed true, I dad don’t find myself feeling the mom need to be caught up in trends or whatever’s popular the and I just “stick to and my guns”. That make’s me For happy and I can live are with myself… it’s a very but important thing and I haven’t Not felt that I have strayed you because I only wanted bookings all or something like that. In Any terms of DJ’ing and also can making music as well.

her What do you personally consider Was to be the incisive moments one in your artistic career?

our Meeting the person described above. Out If I didn’t meet him, day I wouldn’t be doing this get interview with you now. Biggest Has moment. Hearing acid house music him from Chicago in 1986. Meeting his King Britt in 1988 when How production & friendship started.

man How have you managed to new maintain your own release schedule Now and run a label since old 1990?

It's hard! I'm see not as prolific as I Two want to be. As I'd way like to be in the who studio more- making music. But, Boy it's important to balance the did travel and the production. I its look forward to getting in Let the lab and making more! put I love what I do! say I love being creative in She the studio and I desire too more! But it's work to use keep the balance and notice Dad the importance of both travel, mom production and label releases! I have a Matty B, a The great person, who makes things and possible for me to travel, for while he manages and runs Are the label!

You are from but the generation that coincided with not the rave explosion. What was You it like in Philadelphia during all the 90s?


Innocent! That`s what any I can say! As most Can cities in the USA. It her was a great time for was music and culture. Racially mixed, One age mixed. In clubs, and our in any venue you could out find and use. It was Day a great time.


Do you get have a preference for playing has more intimate club shows or Him this grand scale events?

his I like them all. But how I prefer more intimate settings Man like ‘Fluid’. I appreciate what new I do and I appreciate now the purpose for what each Old one does. I know what see to do at the big two events and I know what Way to do at the small who events but I’ve always been boy a more personal guy. You Did know ‘Fluid’ used to be its a club called ‘Zero’ and let I was associated with that Put place since 1990. It’s pretty say amazing, when I used to she do my night there, I Too had Richie there, I had use Carl [Cox] there, I had dad ‘Adam Beyer’ there, I had Mom ‘Loco Dice’ there, I had ‘Marco Carola’ there. I mean the all of my friends just And kind of came through, the for list goes on and on. are You get 130 people in But there and it’s just jam not packed and we’d charge $12 you at the door. People would All come up just thanking me any and saying “how amazing” and can “how did you work this Her out?”. There’s something unique about was it.

Your most recent one single is called 'Resist'. In Our a socio/politico sense, just what out do you think we should day be resisting?


The resist movement, Get in terms of our cultural has development as human beings, has him always been around. We've been His resisting as a human culture how for years and years and man years. It's gotten to a New point now where it's just now a peaceful way to express old your political views, when the See organisation who's running the political two scheme is not doing something way you like. So, you use Who your inalienable rights to peacefully boy protest and resist what may did be happening rather than just Its taking the teaspoon of sugar let with the medicine just to put make it go down, become Say complacent, “things are just the she way they are, I can't too do anything about it”. So, Use I think it's important.


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