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Josh Collins: Who needs drugs with tracks like these?

June 17, 2006 at 3:01 am · Filed under Beatport.com, Chillout, druggy, House, progressive

About once every two years, I discover an artist who rocks me, who renews my faith in the quest for Quality Tunes, who makes me wonder how I ever got this far without knowing about them. Like Monolake a year ago, and Fluxion the year before that. This year it�s Joshua Collins, a name that was vaguely familiar to me but ultimately meaningless.

I should also mention I�m not super-huge into house; most house is a little too �flaming� for me� a little too disco-ish or tacky or whatever. I�m generally not into vocals either.

This guy doesn�t just do house; he does druggy, spatial, liquid, freaky, groovy house that ripples and smears with tracers, that hovers in the air between your speakers and you. This guy does my kind of house. This music reminds me of coming home high as a kite as a teenager and listening to CITR 101.9 FM in Vancouver and listening to the alien sounds of house, drum and bass and techno until the wee hours of the morning, or until the drugs wore off and I could sleep. Music so far out there as to be almost inaccessible, yet strangely seductive. True human creativity in its rawest, purest form. This music actually makes me feel high, the highest honor of any urban art work. It makes me nostalgic. And speaking of drugs, I�m guessing Joshua Collins did his fair share of acid back in the day. Whoa.

Without You is probably my favorite Josh Collins track… druggy and delicious. It’s like a mushroom overdose; twinkling and dripping with tracers and waves of euphoria. This is out there.

Josh Collins – Without You