About POSR

The beats grab you first. Straight outta the club, an earthquake of groove, big, bassy, house beats hitting you right where you feel it most. It’s hypnosis by drum machine. Rhythm as the warlord. But by the time the guitars and bass and vocals drop in, you know you’ve got something different—and new. Meet POSR, the brainchild of Mr. Jake Childs, infamous DJ/tech-house-producer/remixer gone punk. But it’s more than that. With POSR a whole new animal of music is born, combining the overcast industrial pulse of NIN with the party-readiness of Beck and the pure sex of new wave.

A talented collective of like-minded folks, with Adam Warped on keys & beats and Illson & Chris Casual on dueling basses POSR takes this wild stew of disparate influences and creates a kind of uniformity of vision. Says Childs, “POSR matches my multiple personality disorder and at the same time sooths my schizophrenic episodes to a minimum.”

Childs’ own creation myth is a great one. In an interview with UndergroundHouse.net he talks of his first encounter with house music, “In Houston, I used to live in these apartments, and there was a club right behind them. It was called Middle Earth. I was walking there, and we got robbed. They took our money. It was three dudes, and they had guns. Then my friend took off, and I went to the club by myself. So I walked in there, and I was like ‘what the fuck is this?’ People in big pants and shit. I had seen it before, just not all in one room. And then I heard ‘Witch Doctor.’ So I guess that was my first taste of house, because I was into more like techno and drum ‘n’ bass, but house, I was like ‘yeah.’”

But before house it was punk. Says Childs, “My cousin and I had battles of which cool bands we could find when we were 13 or 14. He showed me Danzig then I sought out Misfits, Samhain, then that lead to Dead Kennedys and so on and so on. Kind of a whirlwind.”

Known Unknown is POSR’s debut for Tierra Studios, whose clients include everyone from Burt Bacharach to Beyonce.

Childs, who calls his latest project “id vs. ego in its purest form,” brings a lot to the table. The Texas-based globe-trotting multi-instrumentalist delivers an album of anthems… deep and dirty. Live, a POSR show is something to behold, a true-blue ecstatic throw-down Childs describes as “a collage of liked-mind individuals reeking of talent and success and sometimes seen in drag.”

With a vast and successful past behind him and a heavy future ahead, Childs is nothing if not lighthearted about his career, saying, “I chose the name POSR because in actuality no one is real. They are just reflections of what they like and take on as their own. So who can really be real?”

Real or Warholian spectacle, punk or dance, one thing is for sure, 2010 will be the year of POSR…