which people don’t really do now you
can download everything. So I wanted
to do something that worked that way
too.
“But really, as with all my albums, it’s
a case of me trying to push myself
and my boundaries and challenging
people’s expectations to prove that not
everything I do will sound like ‘Higher
State Of Consciousness.’”
A preconception Josh says he also has
to fight when it comes to his DJing.
“A lot of people just want to hear my
hits,” he admits. “But the unique thing
I love about being a DJ is that there
are no rules. It’s complete spontaneity
and I never know what I’m going to
play before I get there, so I might think
I’m going to play all techno and end up
going into acid or deep house.
“I understand that people want to hear
my music that they might know, so it’s
striking a balance between that and
playing some more underground tracks.
I’m absolutely in my element when I’m
up there for two hours creating this
aural atmosphere."
Listening to Josh talk about his DJing,
it sounds as if that’s when he comes the
closest to capturing that ideal state of
listening once more. But does he ever
wish that he could go back there, to
being that kid in Philadlephia listening
to his Walkman whilst raking the lawn?
“Some people are like Uncle Rico from
‘Napoleon Dynamite’, where he’s trying
to buy a time machine to take him back
to his footballing days,” Josh says.
“They’re trying to recapture something
that they think they’ve lost and then
that becomes limiting because it closes
you off to other possibilities.
“In many ways I haven’t changed that
much, because I’m still someone who’s
prepared to love anything and give
anything a go.”
Older and wiser he might be, but
there’s still a part of Josh Wink that
never grew up.
Are we suffering from genre overload?
“It’s the worst thing that can happen to music because a lot of different music is going to be classified under the same name.
"Looking at ‘minimal’ from the past years and what it was in the beginning — it’s changed so much and people were calling
certain house tracks ‘minimal’ when before it was just a house track, you know?
“It maybe helps to sell music for a short period but in the long term it’s doing the opposite. It’s making people have one-track
minds and a lot of people don’t look at other genres any more.
“‘House’ music is a bit difficult because there is this cheesy commercial house and so you need certain genres but I think at one
point you have enough to nail things down — like more Chicago house or Detroit techno, where you know what you’re talking
about.
“With ‘minimal’ there’s now a lot of tracks loaded with percussion so it doesn’t even describe the music anymore!” Steve Bug
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