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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 006CD
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"Uniting all the best elements of electro, breaks, 2 step, melodic electronics and serious bass, this is real London circa Spring 2003. Seed Records, co-founded by Skam artists Posthuman, and DJ & writer Bruce Mcclure, has fully grown from a label for their own productions to an engrossing, encompassing family of sound system challengers. Tracks from glitchy 2-step breaksmaster Ardisson -- the beautiful violins of sometime Toytronic operator Digitonal -- the twisted breakbeat, robotic humour of Chicago's [snyzch] and the unique sound of Germany's On/Off, this is a varied, comprehensive overview of Seed's next 12 months worth of killer releases. Newcomers The Video Age drop some bugging cut up booty style business, and on this evidence their first release proper should be a corker. Jazzfinger and Cold Fusion Mafia brandish a subtle inflection to jazz and digital dub, then check the impersonal electro and breaking data of Kansas City Prophets and the spannered junglisms of Peachfish's `Pushkin', and if there was any doubt in your mind, check the deliberate build up to the massive beats of Posthuman's awesome `Moment of weakness'."
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