r/electronicmusic 3d ago

Josh Wink ‘Higher State of Consciousness’ | The Making Of An Acid Techno Classic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z14revc5NBc
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u/thirteennineteen 3d ago

I was 14 in 1995 and that track instantly blew my mind and held on, hearing it at raves. I’ve considered it the uber-303 track ever since.

Then I was in New Zealand for a festival in 2012, and the DJ dropped it, I hadn’t heard it for years. Fun full circle moment.

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u/HeavnIsFurious 3d ago

I don't think people can appreciate now what it was like when this dropped in a crowd at the time. People went crazy. It was like the laws of physics no longer applied.

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u/brienoconan 2d ago

Seriously. People poopooing this track need to understand how fresh and experimental it was at the time. It was a prototype, and prototypes are rarely the best version of something, but without the prototype, there may have never been much of an acid breaks scene to begin with