★★★★★
Returning with his first full-length album since 2003's 20 to 20, Philly-born dance music god Josh Wink has seen his stock continue to rise. Growing numbers of minimal aficionados find bliss in Wink's stripped-down approach, while his extended song development and ear for fat, round bass lines have made him a favourite of house and deep house heads for years...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-02
★★★★★
You may remember Josh Wink as the man with the dreads whose acid-fuelledHigher State Of Consciousness damaged more than a few dancefloors in 1996,and then returned to inflict more of the same in a remix guise the following year.The Philadelphian DJ has never quite repeated that massive success butcontinues to command respect among techno lovers for his no-nonsensestyle...
- www.musicomh.com
2010-08-23
★★★★★
Josh Wink misses the good old days. He misses when music was music, when styles and genres blended together to create new, unique sounds. "Today, so many people tend only listen to one style of music with a strong opinion of why... I miss the innocence of how it was... Like when you were younger, A Banana Was Just A Banana." And thus, the title for Wink's fourth studio LP...
- www.urb.com
2009-06-17
★★★★★
As a major-label recording artist, Josh Wink is still finding his way. Last year's Herehear veered from pure techno to a Trent Reznor guest shot to a collaboration with some indie-rock guys Wink knew from around the neighborhood. If it never jelled, give the guy a break: He's trying to imagine an audience that doesn't exist yet. As a major-league DJ, though, Wink knows exactly where he's going. On Profound Sounds Vol...
- www.rollingstone.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
Oh, the flashbacks are coming again. The flashing lights, the scent of sweat and marijuana, the pounding, pounding music, the endless dancing and sniffing of Vicks Inhalers. Weekends with my old rave buddy Steaky were both incredible and punishing, often beginning Thursday night and ending Sunday morning, fueled by drugs and an endless stream of parties...
- pitchfork.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
In the liner notes to Profound Sounds Volume 3, Josh Wink expounds at length on the difficulty of identifying tracks on DJ mixes now. With the traditional DJ setup of two turntables and a mixer, ID'ing tracks is easythe simple left-right sequence of records that the DJ plays. But the evolution of DJ skills and technology has complicated things. When a DJ mixes three records at once along with custom-made loops from a laptop, how does one name that moment in timeand who's the artist? Ri...
- www.popmatters.com
2009-03-22
★★★★★
As a major-label recording artist, Josh Wink is still finding his way. Last year's Herehear veered from pure techno to a Trent Reznor guest shot to a collaboration with some indie-rock guys Wink knew from around the neighborhood. If it never jelled, give the guy a break: He's trying to imagine an audience that doesn't exist yet. As a major-league DJ, though, Wink knows exactly where he's going. On Profound Sounds Vol...
- www.rollingstone.com
2009-03-22
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