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ARTIST: POSTHUMAN
T’ITLE: DECOMPRESSION’ EP
LABEL: BODY WORK
FORMAT: 4 track 12” and 5 track Digital EP
RELEASED: June 2nd, 2014

It feels strange to say that an act who have been around for over a decade releasing more than half a dozen albums should be ‘Ones To Watch’ in 2014, but cousins Josh Doherty and Rich Bevan aka Posthuman’s career has never exactly followed the rules.

Originally part of the, then, thriving UK Electronica scene at the start of the new millennium Posthuman instantly made an impression with a series of releases on their own Seed Records imprint, Manchester’s Skam and legendary UK techno label B12 Records, with their debut album picking up plaudits from Pitchfork as "one of the best IDM-oriented albums of 2001" Over the course of the ‘00s the cousins would go on to release several albums experimenting with everything from pure ambience and techno to post-rock, ‘The People’s Republic’ being hailed by DJ Mag as "joining the dots between early Autechre and Mogwai”, and 'Syn Emergence' being hailed by LFO as "one of the best techno albums ever".

All the time though Posthuman still kept at least one foot on the dancefloor throwing the now-near legendary parties such as the series of raves in Aldwych’s disused tube station that featured everyone from Aphex Twin and Luke Vibert to Goldfrapp and S’Express’ Mark Moore - and since 2007 both promoting and holding down a monthly residency at I Love Acid (Corsica Studios).

The past 18 months though has seen Doherty and Bevan fully turn their attention back to the dancefloor releasing a series of 12”s on labels such as Tusk Wax, Balkan Vinyl, and RSI that have caught the attention of DJs like Daniel Avery, Ben Sims, and Disco Bloodbath’s Damon Martin, combining grinding Detroit inspired Techno and bubbling Acid House basslines with icy precision.

Which brings us to the ‘Decompression’ EP - the soundtrack to a corrupted AI system’s final moments, corroded circuits firing and misfiring to produce 4 new tracks of hypnotically dark acid plus a remix from Houndstooth artist House of Black Lanterns. From the abyssal ‘Decompression’ through to the percussive ‘So Cruel’, ‘Back to Acid’s snake like bleeps and onto HOBL’s elegiac remix, this is an EP sure to dominate dance floors from underground bunkers to warehouse raves alike.

The first of two new 12”s to be released on the Bruxelles-via-London imprint Body Work (Waze & Odyssey, LPZ, CVNT and more), the ‘Decompression’ EP arrives hot on the heels on the heels of their remix of Bohemian Groove for New York’s Throne of Blood, and ahead of their upcoming "30 years of Acid" Solid Steel show in April marks another important milestone of this act’s ever evolving career.

"Full support, will definitely play these. Excellent acid tracks, my favourite being the HOBL remix, I love his work."
Maelstrom, ZONE Records, Paris

"A downtempo acid funk-fest. A great EP, albeit slightly demented by nature."
Mixmag, Worldwide

"Played ‘So Cruel’ in Paris last night - sounded great, went down a treat!"
Ewan Pearson

"Well good, really strong acid, just like black microdots back in the day...will be playing for sure! 10/10"
Keith Tenniswood, Radioactive Man

"These are PURE FIRE!!! So Cruel is the one!"
Kiwi, Need/Want

"Another proper acid belter from Posthuman - loving acid before it becomes cool (again)"
Mark Archer, Altern 8

"LOVE Decompression. Great work!"
Damon Martin, Disco Bloodbath

"Super duper dope as usual"
Hrdvision, Rinse / Wagon Repair

"This is wicked, serious production - proper club business!"
YoungTee, Joy Boys / Southern Fried

"Step back is great..."
Severino, Horse Meat Disco

www.posthumanmusic.com
www.bodyworkmusic.com

Posthuman - Back To Acid

You Saw It Coming

Praah - Thank You Satan (M.RUX REMIX)

today's sound started as an experiment in using the make noise wogglebug as a sample rate reducer... a trick of the module, which generally isn't known for doing that... where you can sample an incoming single based on the rate of a 2nd signal going in.

in this case i plugged the qubit nebulae into the wogglebug and sampled it with a waveform from the e350 oscillator. the pitch of the oscillator effectively becomes the same rate of the incoming sound, in this case, the nebulae.

the nebulae is in freeze mode and the make noise rene sequencer is sequencing the start/scan point of the frozen sample.

the whole thing goes into an intellijel korgasmatron filter to filter out some, but not all, of the harsher sample-rate-reduction effect. the signal is also being fed into a serge resonant EQ and a make noise erbe verb.

i play a bit with the pitch of the e350 to make those sweeping and bending sounds, which is basically turning the sample rate of the nebulae sample down and up.

the patch started as a simple experiment to try this use of the wogglebug out but i ended up being able to work out a nice looping sound by the end.

thank you to the excellent tutorial on this process by collin russell music on youtube, which is where i learned to do it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pws9rY9kUhw

July 22, 2014 (deep travel (wogglebug as sample reducer)

as a thank you to all for the support in 2023 <3 

three 'pay whatever' tracks from a new maps and diagrams album [Islands] - 2024

https://handstitched.bandcamp.com/album/islands

thanks for listening xx

Jura

Sounds of the Dawn is a monthly two hour session through new age, ambient, environmental, meditation and relaxation cassettes from the seventies to the nineties. Tune in and zone out. 
https://www.nts.live/shows/soundsofthedawn/episodes/soundsofthedawn-27th-january-2024

Sounds Of The Dawn - Lasos Special 270124

Left Blank return from a long hiatus with their first and only release of 2014, from Portland's Best Available Technology.

Kevin Palmer is someone the label has been in touch with and an admirer of for a long time now, and after acclaimed releases for Opal Tapes and Astro:Dynamics amongst others, we're thrilled to finally be able to put out some of his most uncompromising music yet. Headed up by the relentless metallic post punk of title track 'Neon Razer Chain', this EP moves effortlessly through experiments in billowing ambience, dubbed out machine jams and buzz saw techno, to make one of his most diverse releases to date. 

Released on vinyl & digital 17th November 2015.

LB009: Best Available Technology - Neon Razor Chain

Sti.ll

Recur (For Guitar, Cello, Double Bass, Flute, Lap Harp, & Percussion)

The Distance

T.O.R. (Snippet)

http://www.recitalprogram.com/dreams-of-india-china/
Limited LP Edition of 500
12-page color booklet with essays and photographs
OUT ON APRIL 19th

Purchase

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V.A - Davulun Sesi Vol.2
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Rumeli VS Balkanlar (Kosovali Erdi)

From upcoming album "Die Drift". Preorder via orcd.co/conny-frischauf

Conny Frischauf - Parapiri (Single Version)

With over 100 physical releases since its inception by Taylor Deupree in 1997, New York-based music label 12k has decisively defined and developed the concept of minimalism in the realms of electronic music for more than a decade. Fusing elements from Ambient and Electro-Acoustic Composition with carefully arranged digital textures and associative micro-noises, the label's aesthetics revolve around a precisely-outlined, yet deeply emotional concoction of the technological and the organic. Eschewing the typical marketing mechanisms of the commercial music industry, Deupree has sculpted a platform whose influence today extends well beyond the confinements of the experimental community. 12k's integral approach, in which the label's instantly recognizable, elegantly spartan artwork enters into an inseparable symbiosis with the music, has created a timeless audiovisual language respected and appreciated all over the world.

July 22, 2014 (deep travel (wogglebug as sample reducer)

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