A veteran of US house and techno comes to Contact

From his first entries in the house music canon in the early 90’s, Josh Wink has consistently demonstrated that you can be hugely successful and uncompromising as an artist. Well known crossover hits like “Higher State Of Consciousness” shows Wink’s commitment to the underground, crystalized in his label Ovum Recordings and his mammoth discography that spans more than 25 years.

With a keen instinct for the evolution of 4/4 dance music, Wink has maintained his relevance. The driving strains of house and techno he deals in these days are as on-point as anything he has turned his hand to throughout his long career.

Wata Igarashi is an artist in steep ascendance at present, having forged a connection with New York institution The Bunker and appeared on Peter Van Hoesen’s Time To Express label. With a trippy, faintly psychedelic approach to techno, he should provide a perfect foil to Josh Wink’s full-bodied sound.

Shhhhh, a widely popular underground DJ in Tokyo, have built his reputation around adventurous combinations of music from different stylistic, geographical and temporal locations, all bound together by unconventional rhythms that tap into the current pulse of leftfield dance music.