Posthuman - Live PA - Studio Session - Oct 2008

Biography of Posthuman

We are Rich & Josh. We are cousins, our family is from Scotland and the North East of England. We write music as Posthuman. Our first release was with a Manchester based record label called Skam Records. We sent them a demo with a note saying 'will gig for vodka'. They offered us a release and a gig, supporting Altern8 in Manchester in 1999. We had a good time, but are still waiting for the vodka.

We started Seed in London, in the year 2000. It was a series of nights in a local venue aimed at showcasing up & coming artists, allowing them to grow (hence the name 'Seed') Since then everything has snowballed, the night turned into a label, and released our first album 'The Uncertainty of the Monkey' in late 2001, 9 tracks of aggressive, melodically driven electronic music. It did well, the label grew, and the next thing we knew we were gigging all over Europe, and releasing other people's music.

Taking breaks from writing, we would head out and explore London, becoming quite fascinated with its lost rivers. This led us to finding Aldwych Disused Tube Station on The Strand, and upon meeting the curator, a man who had worked for London Underground for nearly 40 years, we managed to persuade him to allow us to hold a party there. From 2001 to 2004 we hosted a number of live extravaganzas there, featuring many of our musical heroes, influences, and contempories - including Plaid, Aphex Twin, Goldfrapp, Luke Vibert, Mark Moore, Richard X, and many more. These have been some of the best nights of our lives, one of those rare things we were lucky enough to be a part of. More releases followed, we made many new friends, Seed continued to flourish, and we played many more live shows.

Our second album, the quiet and introspective 'Lagrange Point' signaled the end of Seed's first golden age and the beginning of harder times. Soon after the album was released, the labels finances came to a halt through a poor business deal and the last minute cancellation of our final tube station party, combined with the deaths of two of the planned performers: legendary Dj John Peel, and Coil front man John Balance, (who died on the very night Coil were meant to be playing at our party) left us devastated, disheartened, and totally broke.

Now we have just completed our third album, which features session musician Tom Brady on guitars, and Lukas Wooller (of Maximo Park) on keyboards, as well a spoken word piece from the mysterious Jane XI. It's a massive departure from our previous output - we stepped away from the machines, writing simple songs on our guitars, then spending months taking those songs apart and recontructing them until they became an entirely new entity - and we hope, more than the sum of their parts.

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