Posthuman, cousins Richard Bevan and Joshu Doherty. Based in
Edinburgh, Scotland and London, England.
Their style is unrestricted by genre moving from techno, electro, and
breaks, to post-rock, IDM, and ambient. However, their overall
signature sound is often dark, brooding and melancholic.
Their debut release in 2000 was a series of hand made CDs simply
called "Posthuman" (though better known by the colour of the card
inserts - grey, black, blue and brown) which were sold at live shows
and via Rough Trade and Smallfish Records in London. The duo then went
on to host a number of parties in an abandoned underground train
station in London between 2001 and 2004, and founded their own label
Seed Records (2) with which they released 3 albums and several other
releases of their own and other artists material. They also were the
first act on Manchester based electronica label
Skam on their
SMAK series.
Doherty left Seed Records to help relaunch UK techno imprint
B12
Records in 2006, and now runs London clubnight "I Love Acid". He also
is a member of modern classical / electronica crossover outfit
Digitonal, and rave / hardcore breaks duo
AGT Rave Cru.
Seed Records continues under the stewardship of Bevan and long time
collaborator Bruce McClure, whose spoken word pieces feature
extensively throughout Posthuman's output.
Posthuman continue to release with various labels, and are currently
on the artist rosters of
B12,
Uncharted Audio, and
Handsette Recordings.