Posthuman

UK veterans Posthuman are cousins Josh Doherty & Richard Bevan. Hosts & residents of I Love Acid.

The duo have done an Acid House special Boiler Room live show, featured on FACT’s ‘Against the Clock’, and provided DJ mixes for Crack Mag, Red Bull Music Academy, Rinse FM, NTS, The Lot Radio, DJ Mag On Cue and more. Their famous Ninja Tune Solid Steel show was part of the 30th anniversary of Acid House and featured tracks (chronologically in the mix) from each year 1984-2014. They've played everywhere from Tresor in Berlin to Smartbar in Chicago, Dada Club in Shanghai to Fabric in London.

First writing music together as teenagers in the late 90s, their debut album ‘Uncertainty of the Monkey’ was named by Pitchfork as “one of the best electronic albums of 2001”. They made a name for themselves playing at Warp Records’ NESH and Skam’s COMPRESSION parties, then founding their own label Seed Records and hosting events with the likes of Aphex Twin and Goldfrapp in an abandoned tube station in London, before starting their own famous clubnight ‘I Love Acid’ in 2007

Now regarded as spearheads of the modern UK Acid House scene alongside the likes of Ceephax Acid Crew, Paranoid London, Luke Vibert and Jerome Hill. The duo remain DJ residents at ‘I Love Acid’ – over 200 events since 2007: current residencies in London, Birmingham and Glasgow, previous events in Manchester, Leeds, Bristol, Liverpool, Plymouth, Edinburgh, Sheffield and more - in Europe; Antwerp, Ghent, Malta, Berlin, Dublin, Belfast, Barcelona, Lille, and reaching New York, Detroit, LA, Chicago and more in the USA, Beijing, Kunming and Bangkok in Asia - plus guest stages at festivals like Shindig, Bloc Weekend and Bangface. ‘I Love Acid’ won DJ Magazine’s Best British Club Event award in 2019. They also run a label of the same name, which has sold out 30 records in a row, often in less than an hour.

In 2018 their album “Mutant City Acid” was released on double random-coloured vinyl, the first ever fully randomised colour pressing – over 100 different colour combinations. The entire album pressing was livestreamed via video online, also a world first. The album sold out it’s entire vinyl (and cassette) run in just a couple of weeks – it joined a long list of Posthuman releases to sell out on vinyl. The 2021 album “Requiem For A Rave” was announced on double 12” via an anonymous “rave info line” phone number and featured a radio broadcast cassette version complete with host narration from Jane XI.

On their own label they have released music and collaborated with acid legends like Hardfloor, Lauren Flax, LFO and DJ Pierre, while also releasing records by contemporary producers like Hard Ton, Alinka, Elisa Bee, WTCHCRFT, Nightwave and Granary 12.

Their signature sound of raw acid house, oldskool rave and slo-mo moody techno has been released on vinyl on numerous imprints such as X-Kalay, Tusk Wax, Dixon Avenue Basement Jams, Chiwax, Shipwrec, Craigie Knowes, Food Music, plus their own labels Balkan Vinyl & I Love Acid