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 Great news for Josh Wink fans with Apple music as he drops a fresh 67 deep playlist featuring some top quality classic bangers. If you don't have Apple music, borrow a mate’s as this is good...
Today, electronic music pioneer Josh Wink releases his new Selects Playlist on Apple Music - a deeply personal, wide-ranging collection of the tracks that shaped his musical foundation long before his own productions would influence global dance culture.
“These are some of the songs that soundtracked my life during my early teenage years and early 20s,” Wink says. “They not only served as tools for me to DJ with but also nurtured and inspired my desires to make electronic music as an artist in the 90s.”
What makes this playlist so compelling is the sheer breadth of sound it captures. The selections read like a map of Wink’s inner universe during his formative years - a vivid blend of early electronic innovators, synth-pop icons, industrial experimentalists, hip-hop pioneers, post-punk visionaries, and foundational house and techno artists.
Across its 67 tracks, the playlist moves effortlessly from Kraftwerk’s “Home Computer,” 808 State’s “Pacific State,” and Jean-Michel Jarre’s “Oxygène Pt. 4” to the raw Chicago DNA of Phuture’s “Acid Tracks,” Adonis’ “No Way Back,” Sleezy D’s “I’ve Lost Control,” and Steve Poindexter’s “Computer Madness.” It embraces post-punk and industrial classics from Siouxsie and the Banshees, Cabaret Voltaire, Fad Gadget, Front 242, Joy Division, and The Normal - bands whose dark romanticism and mechanical pulse helped define a generation of DJs.
There are also the artists who blurred genre lines long before it was fashionable: Herbie Hancock’s “Rockit,” Afrika Bambaataa’s “Planet Rock,” Scritti Politti, A Tribe Called Quest, Paul McCartney’s “Temporary Secretary,” and Grace Jones’ “Slave to the Rhythm.” Each track reflects a different shade of curiosity - an early openness to sounds that were futuristic, funky, confrontational, emotional, or simply unlike anything else at the time.
Soul, jazz fusion, and Philadelphia roots also weave through the playlist, from Teddy Pendergrass to MFSB, underscoring the deep musical DNA of Wink’s hometown. And ambient, cinematic selections like Steve Roach’s “Structures from Silence,” Tangerine Dream’s “Love on a Real Train,” and Peter Gabriel’s “Of These, Hope” offer glimpses into the meditative, textural worlds that later informed his own atmospheric productions.
Taken together, the playlist forms a beautifully eclectic portrait of the influences that shaped Wink’s evolution from a young Philadelphia DJ into one of electronic music’s most enduring and respected innovators. As he celebrates the 30-year legacy of his own transformative releases— ’Higher State of Consciousness,’ ‘Don’t Laugh,’ and ‘I’m Ready’ - Josh Wink’s Selects Playlist offers fans an intimate look at the tracks that quietly fueled his imagination, ambition, and artistic voice.
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