JOSH WINK is big. He was back there in Philadelphia in 1991 playing vinyl to ravers and learning his trade as a creator of ecstatic aural environments for the denizens of clubland. He's done stuff with Radiohead too.
Profound Sounds number 1 was the take home version for the compulsive repeatists and the sad (like me) couldn't-be-theres.
Profound Sounds Version 2 might suit those who never were there. It's intelligently crusading stuff for the wider market.
You have to say, it's a numbingly anal thing to do. First buy some artfully selected records. Get permission from the publishers, then re-record, re-eq, re-edit and remaster each tune. Then line 'em all up in a software queue with some added bits and bobs outboard and have a couple of runs through the sequence alone in your studio. When satisfied, record the whole hour in real time – dragging imaginary punters out to dance … and then re-master the end result onto a new CD. The ultimate mix tape. Nine months work. Work ethic or what?
It starts a bit house, a bit spacey, a bit open needed and scary … it is the required adrenalin tugging opening-up stuff. It gets warmer and pulsier with a Latin and tribal feel as it moves on and then picks up through that into a techno trance climax. Musically it is very simple, and the craftsman has done his stuff to make the transitions silky smooth too.
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It’s generally accessible and there's a degree of variation in the styles. It’s that steady shift that makes it a listening experience that evokes the dance thing without trying to simply repeat it on the car stereo. As music it works physically - straight into the emotional nodes and bypassing the right brain completely. Which makes reviewing pretty well pointless. Go listen. For more technical insider descriptions of why it’s really great/crap go read Mix Mag (but you have anyway). It worked for me.
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