ARTIST...: Posthuman
TITLE....: Decompression
YEAR.....: 2014
LABEL....: Bodywork Music
CAT.NO...: BW011
GENRE....: House
TIME.....: 37:08
SIZE.....: 85,09 MB
QUALITY..: 320kbps/44,1kHz/Joint Stereo
ENCODER..: LAME
SOURCE...: WEB
RLS.DATE.: 2014/07/26
WEBSITE..: http://www.bagpak.net
TRACKLIST
01) (06:38) Decompresssion
02) (06:57) Back to Acid
03) (07:52) So Cruel
04) (07:14) Decompression (House of Black Lanterns Remix)
05) (08:27) Step Back
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 rfom 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 Posthuman still kept at least one foot on the dancefloor throwing a
series of now-near legendary parties in Aldwych's disused tube station that featured
everyone from Aphex Twin and Luke Vibert to Goldfrapp and Mark Moore of S'Express -
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, and marks
another important milestone of this act's ever evolving career.
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