DJ Ron: Well that's a great transition, I was about to ask you about how you're DJing on the road a lot right now?
Josh Wink: Yes, over this past year I have been touring a lot. I’ve been fortunate to have been making music since ‘89, but traveling internationally since ‘91. I’m fortunate to still be a name that's recognizable and still have a fanbase of people who come out regardless of the fact that most of the people that came out to see me in the early 90s are married or don’t go out anymore. I’ve retained a good fan base over the years and I’m still fortunate to be able to go out when I want to or stay at home when I want to. Fortunately for me, because I make music, I don’t always have travel as a DJ to get my name out there and keep my name out there. As long as I release music and it’s in the press and people are still talking, that's very important to me. But over the past year I’ve traveled the most that I ever have since traveling internationally in 1991. I released two albums last year in America through Ovum and System, The Profound Sound Volume Two and Twenty to Twenty, and then they were released this year in Europe. So I traveled heavily since July last year in America and really heavily since, March to August of this year. Unbelievably crazy, demanding travel schedule, which I’m very fortunate to still be able to do, but wow, I really feel like I’m getting older.
DJ Ron: When you play out where do you find the music you play? Is it sent to you? Do you buy it? Is it a lot of what you make yourself or what you sign yourself?
Josh Wink: I use everything in my powers to be able to get and play all different kinds of music. Everything that you mentioned I do. I love being a consumer. I love supporting labels. I love buying music. I love getting promotional music. I love traveling and going to cool record shops all around the world instead of just going to one where you only hear the certain kind of music which is in the taste of the buyer. So everything above. I have people send me mp3s of their tracks to play out or send CDRs or labels sending test presses. Any means I can get my hands on music responsibly and legally, I will do.
DJ Ron: I want to mention that night I heard about at Space in Miami when the freon blew up on you. What was going through your mind that night?
Josh Wink: It was such a great party. It was my first time really playing a proper party at Space and it was July 4th weekend so it was absolutely sick how many people where there. It was just really weird, and we didn’t know what was going on. I thought it was just part of the show, where the freon comes out to cool things off. The club was very lucky not to have anybody injured, because there was photographer right where the copper housing was and it actually bent the flash off of his camera. We didn’t know what was going on. I was controlling some of the lights and the siren when Danny Howells had just begun to play. It got freezing in the booth and I couldn’t see anything. I couldn’t breathe and I was using my shirt to cover my mouth. Danny was a little drunk and he had the music so loud in the booth, that I was yelling and asking where he was, because I couldn’t find him anywhere. I got down on the ground because I couldn’t breathe and then I was searching around and yelling for Danny, and he was on the floor. I saw his knee like literally six inches away because you couldn’t see anything. He was like “oh man, what the hell happened?” I was like “I have no idea, I thought this was just part of the show.” He was lucky he was playing a CD track because both turntables were completely covered with ice and were frozen. The slip mats where nowhere around and the paint chipped off the wall. There were paint chips in my hair, it was like the craziest thing ever.
DJ Ron: A friend that was there, she was telling me about trying to pick the paint chips out of your afro.
Josh Wink: Oh yes, it was absolutely hilarious, These are the stories that enrich our lives, but I’ve never experienced anything like that before.
DJ Ron: Let’s dive into the studio, are you Mac or PC based?
Josh Wink: I'm both, I compose music basically with Macintosh. I sometimes use the PC with programs like Final Scratch.
DJ Ron: Are you using Logic, ProTools or Cubase?
Josh Wink: I’ve used Logic Audio.
DJ Ron: Going outboard, what's your favorite piece of outboard gear, like what's your favorite keyboard?
Josh Wink: That's a difficult question, because I have so many. For me, one of the most favorite ones is the TB303, which is also known as the machine to make acid house music.
DJ Ron: The Roland, of course.
Josh Wink: So that has become over the years one of my favorites.
