WHEN A BANANA WAS JUST A BANAN

* Josh Wink releases his fourth studio album ­»When A Banana Was Just A Banana­¼. âÂIn a nutshell, it speaks really of the loss of innocence of music. Music was just music when I was growing up. Nobody was ridiculed or had views of ­»I only listen to this one kind of music­¼ - I grew up listening to everything! 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 Banana­¼.âÈ âš Josh Wink * Philadelphia born and based, Josh Wink, is one of the true pioneers of techno, house and allied styles - blurring the definitions as a Producer and DJ. More than 20 years have passed since Wink first came into public conscious via the ­»electronic­¼ and ­»rave­¼ explosion and he still takes trends, makes trends and breaks trends; unafraid to walk the border between stylistic boundaries as he experiments and gets you under his influence. * Rewind to 1989, aged 19 and already an established DJ on the underground ­»rave­¼ scene, Wink­¼s first ever EP ­»TribaConfusion­¼ came on Strictly Rhythm, under the moniker E-Culture. More releases followed on seminally revered labels and in 1994 he formed his own label ­»Ovum Recordings­¼. In 1995, Wink released three hugely influential tracks ­»Don­ Laugh­¼ ­»I Am Ready­¼ (as Size 9) and ­»Higher State Of Consciousness­¼pioneering in style and still played today. He released his debut album in 1996 ­»Left Above The Clouds­¼ (Nervous) and followed with his second Long Player in 1998 ­»HearHere­¼ (Ovum) - working with pioneering vocalists; Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails, Caroline Crawley of 4AD fame, and local Philadelphia artist Ursula Rucker. Wink­¼s huge mix compilation ­»Profound Sounds Volume 1­¼ (Ovum) was released in 1999 and due to thesuccess and integrity of the series, is now up to Volume 3 and still going strong. * His releases have the unique quality of being revered and championed by the most underground to the mainstream, creating memorable songs that have no time or genre restraints; sparking fads in production techniques and generating innovation worldwide. * Continuing his stable releases as an artist, in 2000 he sampled Lil Louis­¼ ­»French Kiss­¼ to create the international hit ­»How­¼s Your Evening So Far?­¼ (FFRR/Ovum). Other formative releases this decade include ­»Superfreak­¼ (Ovum) , ­»516 Acid (Ovum), ­»Oakish­¼ (Ovum), ­»Swirl­¼(Ov­»Have To Get Back­¼ (M-Nus) , Thick As Thieves­¼ (Poker Flat), andWink­¼s third artist album ­¼20 To 20­¼ (Ovum * Remixing is something that Wink is very aware of, and is asked to have his production hand involved in many projects, yet has chosen to be protective and except only few. Over the years he has crafted remixes for the likes of Radiohead, D—ˆp—ªche Mode, Slam , Moby, Dave Clarke, Ladytron, Chicken Lips, Lenny Kravitz, Gus Gus and RadioSlave to mention but a handful. * In 2008, Wink unleashed the first single to be taken from ­»When A Banana Was Just A Banana­¼ - ­»Stay Out All Nightdefied the current music trend and was immediately made ­»Essential New Tune­¼ byPete Tong on his Radio 1 show, where he classed it as âÂthe biggest dance record in the world right nowâÈ, as well as huge DJ support from Dubfire, Laurent Garnier, Steve Bug, Loco Dice and many more. In February 2009 comes the full Long Player. ­»When A Banana Was Just A Banana­¼ presented in three formats, the CD format is in a continuous DJ mix style, whilst the vinyl and digital formats are unmixed and perfect for DJs and dancefioors. ­»Airplane Electronique­¼ begins the ride, inspired from when Wink played the ­»Piknik Electronik­¼ festival in Montreal âš âÂa mixture of house and tech with a twisted feelâÈ.†  ­»Counter Clock­¼ is up next (to be released in Februaru with a remix from Chris Leibing) âš âÂI was listening to a set of DJ Dixon and noticed how slow and groovy most of the set was, which infiuenced me to make an equally slow track, yet keep a heavily twisted and intense feelingâÈ ­»What Used To Be Called Used To Be­¼ is an acigroover based on Wink­¼s un-released remix of Someone Else­¼s âš ­»Lowdown Brittle­¼. ­»Jus Right­¼ âš with the at 17 minutes in length,†  is a perfect summer release: âÂReminds me of some old French 80­¼s disco house sounding thing, which I'm a sucker for! It­¼s not what people expect from me, but at the same time it is - deep and pumpingâÈ. ­»Dolph in Smack­¼ âš âÂTo me it sounds like a dolphin on he hence ­»Dolphin Smack­¼.† If I get the right crowd, this breakdown is magical, as it's very OUT THERE. I­¼m very excited to ffnally release it­»Minimum 23­¼ âš âÂMarries the vasounds of USA style house and my electronic-tweaky-ness of production, gets insane response on the dance-fioorJackin-House Tech!âÈ ­»Everybody To The Sun­âÂHypnotic. No bass-lin here, but the bass of the drum every four measures gets the ladies hips going.â ­»Hypnoslave­¼ âš âÂHypnotic as all hAnd ffnally, ­»Stay Out All Night­¼ â âÂI was listening to a lot of 90's NYCand Chicago house (which I'm very infiuence by) when I made this track. I had a lot of fun bringing a bit of jazzy rhodes lines, jackin house beats and a deep ass bass to my sets.†  I played it for Matty B