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Josh Wink is rather like the Madonna of house music but with less muscley arms.

I don't mean he has a fondness for Kabbalah or a secret penchant for doing the splits in tight lycra (although he might for all I know) but he's been around for, like, ever,  has long periods without much activity and then just when you least expect it, he springs back right into the absolute eye of the zeitgeist with a track so ace that you can't believe you ever even considered writing him off.  

Only Wink could chuck a few copies round Miami and end up with a 'Single of the Week' from Pete Tong, Carl Cox AND Anja Scheinder.

In a landscape that is inundated with new productions to the extent that hype is swamped by content, only Wink could manage to create such an underground buzz; around a white label, in a market when white labels really have lost all value. 

So is it worth it? Well of course it is. It's Josh Wink, and when has he not delivered? (OK, so the Madonna analogy ends there obviously) He manages to sum up exactly where the It sound is at right now, and do it better than anyone else at the same time.

Stay Out All Night is old and new, fresh and nostalgic, techy, and jackin' and unmistakably Wink. It will be heard out this summer from Pacha to Panorama, at Weekend in Berlin and all weekend in Ibiza. The original EP comes in the simplest format of 3 mixes, with organ, without organ and dub. Less is more when it's already this versatile. Constant though all mixes is a solid Chicago (or is it a Philly) beat, and that trademark melting pot of what he himself call 'his mistake theory' - unidentifiable experimental studio sounds - blended together and swirling trippily around an warm and fuzzy organ that relentlessly drives the whole thing.

Maybe it's not pushing enough boundaries for you, maybe it's not the most uber-cool techno record ever heard, but as everyone scrambles around to find the alternative to a rapidly fragmenting minimal scene, 'Stay Out All Night' is something that will unify a whole range of DJs again and possibly give us a memorable tune this summer.