# Josh Andres

Josh Andres is an American composer, conductor, songwriter, and music producer. His music has been classified as a combination of electronic, jazz and orchestra. Josh lists his primary influences as the music of Willie Hutch, Miles Davis, Ennio Morricone, Bernard Hermann, John Carpenter, Quincy Jones, and more.

## Biography
### Early life

Joshua Andres was born in Zanesville, Ohio on January 3, 1987. He is the eldest of three children with a sister, Kalee, and a brother, Matt. His parents, Tim and Kris, had no musical backgrounds. From age three until 18, Josh lived in the small city of Sandusky, Ohio. He attended Sandusky City Schools, where he learned to read and write music.
At age 5, Josh's dad, Tim, enrolled him in guitar lessons at Musician's Alley music store. He would then learn to read music. He attended guitar lessons until age 12 before joining the middle school band and learning the trumpet. While studying the trumpet in the Sandusky City Schools system, he was introduced to Jazz music. This introduction to improvisation would help shape Josh has a composer.
After he graduated from high school in 2005, Josh moved to Toledo, Ohio and attended the University of Toledo. Originally registered as a chemistry major, Josh was introduced to recording software Pro Tools and music composition and production by a friend of his dorm roommate. This introduction to music production and digital music led him to make a degree change to digital music production and the beginning of his current career.

### Early career

The same artist who introduced Josh to Pro Tools and music composition also introduced him to the first artist he would collaborate with, Big J Tha White Wonder. Josh worked with J as his primary producer and engineer. At that time, Josh was unfamiliar with orchestration and music notation. Due to this, he leaned heavily into sampling, which shaped his and J's sound. Josh would frequently sample Soul, Funk, and Jazz records to craft beats for J. This unique sound led to placements with notable artists Emilio Rojas and D-Black. During this time, he began to travel frequently to New York City. During one of the trips to New York, Josh met EDM DJ/Producer Ming (DJ) through a mutual producer while working on a project at the New York City recording studio Stadium Red. Following their meeting, Josh developed a business partnership with Ming (DJ), which involved shopping musical works for commercial television.
To help Josh position himself to get more sync licensing placements, MING introduced Josh to Bass Music. In an interview with Urban Hit Promotions Magazine, Josh says, "I thought Electronic Music was only Techno and House, which I respected but was never a big fan of." [2] Josh goes on to say that MING's introduction to Dubstep was when Josh switched from hip-hop production to EDM full-time, resulting in the creation of Statik Link.

### Career in EDM

With his new knowledge of bass music, Josh began to put together production ideas within the genre in 2011. Knowing that live performance and DJing were a considerable part of the genre, Josh knew he needed to partner with someone who knew the art form. In 2011, he partnered with a local Toledo DJ, Rob Sample, and officially formed the dance music group Statik Link. At this time, he and Rob began working on their first project, "Statik Link The EP." The project was rooted heavily in bass music, focusing on dubstep and electro-house subgenres.
In 2012, during a tour stop in Chicago performing music from the "Statik Link The EP," Josh was introduced to trap music. Trap music, primarily known for its hip-hop roots, consists of electro-sounding instruments, vocal samples, and hip-hop drums. Fascinated with the sound of trap music, Josh began work on Statik Link's new project, which concentrated primarily on the growing EDM trend of trap music. While experimenting with this new sound, Rob Sample, Josh's original founding partner in Statik Link, would leave the group to pursue other music opportunities. Luckily, around the same time, Josh would meet a bass music DJ who specialized in trap music, Dan Dwyer, through a mutual friend. Josh, looking to partner with another DJ and producer, approached Dan about working together. Dan accepted forming the second iteration of Statik Link.
The group began working on new music immediately. Josh, using the production techniques and sounds he was well respected for during his hip-hop days, and Dan's vast knowledge of remixing and dance music, had the group cranking out a slew of remixes leading up to their debut release. While working on Statik Link's debut Trap EP, they released tracks that experienced significant success. The group's first trap remix of Zomboy’s "Here To Stay" was critically acclaimed. The remix resulted in a top Trap Remix title awarded Statik Link for May 2013 by DJCity.com, the most popular DJ Pool in the USA [4]. The remix of "Here To Stay" was followed up with the success of Statik Link's remix of Kaskade's single "Atmosphere," which went viral over the internet, resulting in a top hit among Kaskade Trap Remixes across the Internet. Josh continued to work on Statik Link's debut Trap EP while touring with Dan across the US. While working on his debut EP, Josh stayed in contact with MING.
Upon completing the EP, Josh submitted the work to Hood Famous Music, MING's label imprint. During this time, MING experienced success with his debut release on DIM MAK, King Kong's EP. MING now also producing trap and bass music for two Top 10 Beatport charting singles ("Rock" by Paul Mendez at #2 and "Colossal" by Fortune Cookie at #5 on the Beatport Hip Hop charts). Impressed by one of the productions on the album the group had submitted, MING partnered with Statik Link to produce the anthem "Block Party" ft Moxiie. The critically acclaimed single experienced much success, resulting in a Top 100 post on iTunes and a Top 10 post on Beatport. Following the success of "Block Party," Statik Link released their 1st major label remix of Australian recording artist Bonny Anderson for Sony Music in 2014 [8]. The remix was featured on Australian artist Bonnie Anderson (singer)'s EP "Blackout."
In August 2014, after the successful release of multiple remixes, Statik Link signed with the Bass Music label "Dirty Duck Audio" to release their debut Bass music EP. Dirty Duck Audio, known for its work with UK Trap artist Gold Top, released Statik Link 3 track EP on September 8, 2014, via Beatport exclusive. The EP contains three new original works titled "Clap When She Walkin," "Get Down (Dat Azz)," and "Xposed Ft Big J Tha White Wonder." The EP featured Big J Tha White Wonder, who frequented Josh's early hip-hop productions. The EP was critically acclaimed and received support from EDM.com (9). The EP debuted at number 22 on the Beatport hip-hop charts (10).
On January 12, 2015, Statik Link and Dirty Duck Audio partnered to release the "100HRTZ (The Remixes)" EP on Beatport (11). The EP featured remixes from Grammy-nominated producer Ming (DJ), Haterade (DJ), Instant Party! (DJ), Trentino (DJ), Jelo (DJ), Stuart Software (DJ), and a special VIP Mix from Statik Link. The EP was critically acclaimed and supported by EDM.com, Trapsounds, YourEDM, and many other prominent EDM sites and blogs.
After a 5-year career in dance music, Statik Link announced Dan Dwyer was leaving the group. In a Facebook post (14), the group explained that Dan was leaving for personal reasons, and Josh was taking control of Statik Link. In the same announcement, Josh explained that he was returning to live instrumentation and changing the direction of the music to focus more on funk, soul, and jazz sounds.

### Formation Of Onza Records and Josh Andres Library Music

After Dan departed from the group, Josh, now without a production partner, decided to put the Statik Link project on hold and return to the hip-hop sounds and samples that got him into producing music. In 2018, he formed the boutique label, "Onza Records", and created his library music project, the "Josh Andres Music Library" or "JAML," that he distributed exclusively on on Tracklib. The JAML focused primarily on recreating the sounds that Josh loved to sample early in his career. This project saw him revisiting the Jazz sounds he was exposed to early in life and revisiting playing live instruments such as the trumpet, saxophone, and guitar. To further improve his skills, he re-enrolled in a music composition program at the The Juilliard School in the fall of 2019. During his studies, he learned more about orchestration and composition, raising the sonic authenticity of his library compositions.

### Current Career

While studying composition at The Juilliard School, Josh developed the tools in orchestration and conducting to begin his career in film, video games, and media composition.
Since completing the program in 2022, Josh has composed and produced for multiple media projects. His unique background in electronic music and his newfound knowledge of orchestra music has led to a sought-after sound that have been featured in the films Bagman Rising, Max, and Sanctuary, video games from Bill Roper (video game producer)'s Codename SkinWalkers, and Org, and TV shows on Netflix, HBO, Amazon Prime, and more.
In addition to his professional compositions, he's also worked on film scores with the Costa Rica National Symphony Orchestra and Czech National Symphony Orchestra.
Josh announced in March 2025 the return of the Statik Link project, where he will release new electronic music focusing on the sounds of 1980s and 90s cinema synth-wave and retro-wave styles.

## Discography
### Josh Andres Music Library Albums

* "Western Dreams'" (Onza Records) (2025)
* "Explorations'" (Onza Records) (2025)
* "A Walk In Paradise'" (Onza Records) (2024)
* "psychadelica'" (Onza Records) (September 2023)
* "Elysium'" (Onza Records) (June 2023)
* "Genesis'" (Onza Records) (May 2022)
* "Momentum'" (Onza Records) (April 2023)
* "Mr. Sinister'" (Onza Records) (June 2022)
* "Infinite'" (Onza Records) (April 2022)
* "Opulence'" (Onza Records) (March 2022)
* "Midnight'" (Onza Records) (February 2022)
* "Daily Bread'" (Onza Records) (January 2022)
* "renaissance'" (Onza Records) (October 2021)
* "Cruisin'" (Onza Records) (September 2021)
* "Replicants" (Onza Records) (September 2021)
* "Into The Inferno, Vol 2." (Onza Records) (Aug 2020)
* "Horizons"(Onza Records) (Mar 2020)
* "Shapes Of Music, Vol.3" (Onza Records) (Jun 2020)
* "Shapes Of Music, Vol.2" (Onza Records) (Jun 2019)
* "No Shame" (Eq Distro/Onza Records) (Nov 2019)
* "Eyes Closed" (Eq Distro/Onza Records) (Sept 2019)
* "My Beautiful Heartbreak" (Onza Records) (May 2019)
* "Shapes Of Music, Vol 1" (Onza Records) (Feb 2019)
* "Into The Inferno, Vol.1"(Onza Records) (Jan 2019)

### Solo EPs

* "Renaissance" (Statik Link Music) (March 2016)
* "100 HRTZ The Remixes" (Dirty Duck Audio) (2015)
* "100 HRTZ" (Dirty Duck Audio) (2014)
* "Statik Link The EP (2011)

### Singles

* Block Party (with Ming (DJ) and Moxiie) (2013)
* Just Stay Rockin (with Johnny Labs) (Late 2013)
* Dro (Original Mix) (2014)
* Boss Sh*t Ft Mighty High Coup (Original Mix) (2015)
* The Don (Original Mix) (2015)
* About That (Original Mix) (2015)
* Something Different (Original Mix) (2015)
* #Bounce (Original Mix) (2015)
* Cut Like A Razor Ft Drbblz x Tovr and Roc $ir Real (Original Mix) (2015)
* Black Lotus (Original Mix) (2015)
* Why I'm Here (2015)
* So Obvious (Original Mix) (2016)
* Kick Tha Funk(Original Mix) (2016)
* Inevitable (with NR) (2016)
* Bring Tha Funk Back (Original Mix) (2016)
* We Came To Party (2017)