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SEED 012CD
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Third album from ex-Skam Records duo Posthuman on their own imprint Seed Records, featuring collaborations with Lukas Wooller of Maximo Park. Organic electronics & post-rock with a darker edge. "Posthuman have put together more than just a collection of tracks and presented a cohesive album. Its shape is that of a tale being told using all the colours of their crayons and the collaborations with Tom Brady, Jane XI, and Lukas Wooller only brighten their sonic spectrum." --Chantal Passamonte aka Mira Calix
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SEED 009CD
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"Posthuman are cousins Rich Bevan and Josh Doherty, formally cohorts of Manchester's guerilla cohorts Skam. The growth in their sound is shocking, a new found melancholic lyricism will really surprise even hardcore Seed aficionados, yet their attention to a tough bass and rhythm still shows their auspicious heritage. 'Purgatory' might seem a strange place to start an album, but the bad beats build in serious fashion, and very soon you just know this is a fitting opener to an epic. 'Walking from the gallows' opens like some of the best moments of Anthony Manning's work, before a squashed, other worldly sound, kinda like skinning a bullfrog, ushers in a darkly haunting piece. After this, the acoustic piano of 'Two Brothers Fall' offers a personal, grounded moment -- quietly beautiful, even autobiographical in its tone, Posthuman are moving through to the other side here. 'Up against the wall' steps back through the portal, bringing still the crystal melodies, until one wicked crisp break drops, pushing the center of the album on to new heights. 'A child after beating' sustains this strangely altered, disturbed but resilient mood, 'As Old As The Waterfall' revels in almost symphonic bliss, riding a deep, puttering electronic undertow, like an underground stream. 'The skull' brings a rude awakening, square bass as we like and a brooding, gathering, time is running out sensation. Ending with the title track, there's an eerie feeling of images seen, energy dissolving, time travelled -- the heightened beats' production bring to mind classic moments of the Boards' darker, more intense cousins."
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SEED 002CD
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"The return of PostHuman on their own Seed imprint, offering up a bit of a departure to say the least. The opener Kitchen attaches itself to a kinda 'Come to Daddy' darkcore aesthetic that finds us within the murkiest realms of dangerously tweaked breakbeats and guitar riffs that progressively come across as commercial in the best sense of the word. Yup, this is PostHuman doing a bit of a Prodigy while keeping their integrity firmly intact. 'It Started with a Kiss' rolls out deliciously maladjusted electronix that fit snugly between the b-boy eruptions of Autechre and Team Doyobi's developed analog melody stylings, while 'Billy Bob's Moustache Day' brilliantly evolves a glitched-up, bass-heavy break into a guitar-riffed hillbillytronix anthem that defies the cheese and comes on top in a blaze of vision. Killer stuff. 'The Absolute' is another winner, devastating beats around a treated vocal, the pop aesthetic draped with so much darkness a kind of delicious pop claustrophobia sets in with much enjoyment."
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SEED 002LP
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LP version, limited stock.
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SEED 001CD
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"The Uncertainty Of The Monkey is the debut album from the enigmatic cousins Posthuman, who are believed to be working with Skam records on various projects. The label 'seed' is an evolution of 'seed showcases', their live electronica night most recently acknowledged for their album launch, hosted in a disused tube station in London, which was joined by various artists from Skam records, Warp djs, Fuel records and Switzerlands Spezial Material. The Uncertainty of the Monkey comprises work they have produced since their first inception in which they debuted in a 5 hour live gig for Skam records 'Compression' night in Manchester last summer. Posthuman provide the avant-garde in electronica and this is their beginning."
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