POSR “SXSW 2010″ Schedule
Well well well SXSW is rolling up on us this will be our first outing as POSR !
hard to believe we have been at this only 8 months..
anyways i hope to see you out sporting alcholic beverages and easy dates for the night…
enjoy and have FUN!!! i know We Will!!!
3.16 LOSE CONTROL @ Vice (POSR LIVE)
3.16 FROM THE MIND OF ADI @ Chupacabra (POSR DJ SET A.Warped)
3.17 HOUSE BY SOUTHWEST@ Silhoutte Sushi (POSR DJ SET A.Warped & Jake Childs)
3.18 HIGH FIVE! PARTY! @ Elysium (POSR DJs set w/Czech One) day party
3.18 AUSTIN ELECTRONIC MUSIC GRID Showcase @ Plush (POSR Live 9-10pm)
3.18 SXSW@House of Commons Co-op
3.19 DAMAGE ON THE DANCEFLOOR @ Barbarella (POSR DJ SET) day party
3.20 SXSW @ Chupacabra (POSR DJ SET)
3.21 SIX STAGES OVER TEXAS @ Couch Professor Compound/Block Party(POSR DJ SET A.Warped)
we have 2 more POSR live shows pending stay tuned!!!
Nice Mix From Our friend A.Ward! Nasty Nasty!
February 9, 2010 by POSR
Filed under Blog, Reviews/Mixtapes
Got a chance to sit down and chat with this fine young gentelman at the TX roller derbey after party . Very cool cat… you should def check this guys night
TILT: 2nd & 4th tuesaday @ BARCELONA_ATX
A. WARD – HYPERSONIC RADIO mix III 01/09/2010: latest of 3 hypersonic radio mixes originally broadcasted on 101x/101.5 fm &www.hypersonicradio.com. bass heavy electro all the way! enjoy!
tracklist:
1. Meat Katie – Tension
2. Rennie Pilgrim – Drumma (Zodiac Cartel remix)
3. Ice Ice Baby (The Disco Villains remix)
4. Designer Drugs – Drop Down
5. Break the House Down (The Integrals remix)
6. Crystal Fighters – I Love London (Paparazzi remix)
7. Vicious – Love Addict
8. Come On Feel the Noise (Kids at the Bar remix)
A. Ward – Hypersonic Radio III 01/09/2010 by tffkrwd
WE ♥ LOVE JC PENNY
POSR interview With Designer Drugs
February 4, 2010 by POSR
Filed under Blog, Featured, Reviews/Mixtapes, Video
illson:
Cool. You’re here with illson from your favorite band, POSR, spending time with the people that you really love to listen to. Right now I’m here with Designer Drugs. Why don’t you introduce yourselves, guys?
Theo:
I’m Theo.
Michael:
What’s up; I’m Michael.
illson:
They’re here to play this giant party called Mega Buzz this Thanksgiving weekend. It’s thrown by Massive Intent; you guys should keep an eye out for whatever they’re doing. So guys, we’ve got one hot minute in here and I just have a handful of questions to ask you…
Michael:
Sure.
illson:
… the first of which is: in your interviews, I’ve seen that back in the day you’ve run into some raves and listened to some rave music. From those early days, do you remember any kind of artist that kind of like, struck you, that you guys can mention?
Theo:
Bad Company. Drum ‘n Bass.
Michael:
Yeah, yeah, Bad Company was really good. They were awesome.
Theo:
Paul Oakenfold. Always. Umm… All the big drum ‘n bass d.j.’s. We used to both be really into drum ‘n bass.
Michael:
Like Dillinja, Bad Company and …
Theo:
Techtronics. Fresh from Bad Company. Adam Meth. Dieselboy, we we’re really into him, really early on…
illson:
He’s from your side of town, right?
Theo:
Yeah, yeah, yup. Just all those guys out there, especially the U.K. guys.
illson:
Does punk really figure into your music, or is that just something easy to say?
Theo:
Not from my perspective, no. Not much of an influence on me.
Michael:
Yeah, I think I listen to it more than he does. Some of the new tracks, though, are pretty heavy. They have more of punk rock vocals and stuff.
Theo:
I think a lot of it is we like a lot of high-energy stuff, and a lot of punk is high-energy. They’re kind of like a parallel universe.
Michael:
A lot of distortion and stuff, too.
illson:
I’d like to know how your original music is developing; not your remixes, but the music you guys make yourselves, and what should the public be expecting in your upcoming releases?
Michael:
It’s coming along really good, actually. I’m really happy … I’m more happy doing the originals than the remixes, so we’re cutting back on the remixes a lot, and doing original stuff. The new originals, they’re very diverse. We have some really pretty songs, and we have some really punk rock songs – some really heavy, nasty distorted stuff, but we also have some really pretty songs with some singing, and rapping, and …
Theo:
We have some slow, uh …
Michael:
(laughing) … love songs!
Theo:
Yeah, we got some love songs! We got some poppier stuff. We got some, uh … just a little bit of everything for everybody, I think. As far as developing, our production skills are getting better, we’re buying new stuff. We’re just learning a lot from listening to other people’s music, and we’re trying to make everybody happy and still lean towards better quality product for everybody.
illson:
Always growing in technique, I’m assuming?
Theo:
Yeah. Always learning; for sure.
illson:
We’re all looking forward to those originals.
Michael:
There’s actually a lot more real instruments. We recorded drums for some songs, we recorded guitars, vocals; more analog stuff going on.
illson:
You’re playing piano again on it?
Michael:
Uh, yeah, yeah! We’re always playing piano.
Theo:
(laughing) Always playing piano.
illson:
Is there a song of yours that you two felt really good about, where you said, ‘hey, we did a really good job at this.’ Is there a song that holds a special place in your hearts, that you guys made?
Michael:
We just shot a music video for this one called ‘Through the Prism,’ which really came together really quick. I think it’s really fresh sounding and it’s a uh, I think it’s a really solid song. I like it a lot. I feel the integrity of it is pretty good. Yeah. A lot of the new stuff I feel pretty happy about.
Theo:
Yeah. Some of the stuff that nobody’s heard of yet I feel pretty happy with. If I was gonna go back, I would say I really liked ‘Drop Down’ a lot; that was a good one.
Michael:
Yeah, ‘Drop Down’ is really good.
Theo:
It was a hard one.
illson:
We’ve looked at your discography a little and we can go back all the way to 2008. Amazing, isn’t it? We saw an early track from Warner Bros. How was that for you guys, since it was so early in your career and you were dealing with a major label, and how does that compare to being in a small, boutique label now? Working with I Heart Comix, of course.
Theo:
Right.
Michael:
It was cool for us; we were excited, you know? Because we always want to do big stuff, so it was cool to work with a big label, you know?
Theo:
It was our first experience with a major label, but most of our remixes are attached with a certain label; some are bigger than others, We’ve done stuff with, I don’t know – twenty other labels, maybe? I don’t know. A lot of labels.
Michael:
Maybe ten.
Theo:
Yeah, maybe ten, something like that. A lot of labels.
Michael:
Mostly smaller ones. They’ve all been cool. Everything’s been … good working with them.
illson:
And finally: Wes Anderson or Wes Craven?
(silence)
Theo:
(laughing) Who?
Michael:
(laughing)
Theo:
Wes Anderson? (laughing) Who’s Wes Anderson?
Michael:
Is that Diplo?
illson:
Rushmore.
Michael:
I don’t know, man. Honestly, I’m not familiar with either.
illson:
Ok. Finally …
Michael:
We’re more … I don’t know … what kind of movies? Oh, I like uh … Greg Araki’s movies.
illson:
Oh, cool! Yeah, ‘Doom Generation’!
Michael:
Yeah, been watching him a lot lately, actually.
illson:
He’s a favorite of mine, too.
Michael:
I like ‘Nowhere,’ too. ‘Nowhere’ is a really good one.
Theo:
Never seen him (laughing).
Michael:
Really? I think you might have seen some …
Theo:
Really? I don’t know.
illson:
You should try ‘Doom Generation.’
Theo:
I’d love to.
illson:
It’s a hot one.
Theo:
Sounds cool.
illson:
Well kids, that’s it! That’s a hot minute with Designer Drugs. Good luck with your set tonight. Four a.m., right?
Theo:
Four to five.
Michael:
Stay up.
illson:
Always good advice. Good night!
Download MIx From A-Trax Live On Power 106 (Feat Htowns GO GO GARCIA!!)
February 4, 2010 by POSR
Filed under Blog, Reviews/Mixtapes
peep this mix i just jacked from the fools gold blog ….
def a keeper and its feat a track from Houstons own GOGO GARCIA!
Way to go VATO!
from Trizzy’s guest appearance on DJ Reflex’s show on Power 106 in LA. Clubbers! Secret joints! Tracklist after the jump.
1. A-Trak x Drake x Birdman – Loonies To Blow
2. Armand Van Helden ft. Christian Rich – Ski Hard
3. Kid Sister – Big N Bad
4. (secret weapon…)
5. MSTRKRFT – Bounce (A-Trak Remix)
6. DJ Gant-Man – Juke Dat Girl
7. Green Velvet & Kid Sister – Everybody Wants
8. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Heads Will Roll (A-Trak Remix)
9. DJ Sega – Colours
10. Big Moe – I’ll Do It (Go Go Garcia Remix)
11. Donnis – Gone (DJ Craze’s Dookie Mix)
12. Travis Porter – All The Way Turnt Up
13. Ludacris – How Low Can You Go (Remix)
Franki Chan Interview
February 3, 2010 by POSR
Filed under Reviews/Mixtapes
We had Interviewed Franki at beauty bar and basically the video was no good cause the mic was bad, but we did transcribe it as best as we could .. it was such a great interview too we were going to not put it up but decided to do so for what its worth… thanks franki…
So here it goes….
illson, bass player for POSR. We’re here live at the Beauty Bar with Franki Chan of I Heart Comix. He’s gonna spare a couple of minutes to talk with us and well, here he is! How are you doing?
Franki Chan:
I’m good; how are you doing?
illson:
So your loyal fans have a number of questions here.
Franki Chan:
Ok, hit it!
illson:
O.K.! Is there anything in your boyhood that indicated that you would be in the position you are in now?
F.C.
I was always a pretty independent thinker, and rebelled constantly against my parents, my teachers, and everybody else – so much so that I was constantly in trouble. I wasn’t doing bad things; I wasn’t doing drugs or getting into fights or anything, but I always kind of knew what I have to do and what I wanted to do and never let anybody else tell me anything differently. I never imagined that it would lead me to a place where I was any kind of boss or anything but, looking back on it, I think those signs were right there.
illson:
So there was an independent streak in you, even as a child?
F.C.
Very much so. Independent streak, and wanting to be some sort of … uh … entertainer.
illson:
When the artists on your label speak of you and your company, they always speak of it very highly and with a great deal of enthusiasm. What do you think you and your company provides that inspires that kind of loyalty?
F.C.
Well, first and foremost, we’re all friends, and secondly I put their wants and needs and creative-ness first. We’ve kind of been able to develop everything as more of a family, and I don’t really take the same measures or play the same rules or even know the same rules as most labels or majors do. I don’t really come from a business background, but I do understand what its like to be an artist, what its like to make your own stuff, what its like to book your own shows, put out your own merchandise and all that, and I’m just trying to treat everyone fairly. I don’t try to charge them for dumb stuff or any of that kind of thing. I make sure folks get paid. I make sure we’re all getting taken care of, and I work from start to finish, no matter what project that is – versus some label who would only give someone lots of focus if it’s, uh … a full-length. I don’t treat any differently a full-length, versus a single. If no one had anything else out at the moment, I wouldn’t treat them any differently either. We’re all family, we’re all going towards the same goal, and ultimately treating them well and divvying everything up only goes back to making our accounts right, so it’s a win-win kind of thing.
illson:
In your interviews you often speak about ‘progressive politics,’ ‘D.I.Y.’ ideals, and re-shaping the business of music. Can you give an example, aside from the things you’ve already said, a specific example of the way you do business that may not be the norm, but that you feel is a real progression?
F.C.
We’ve figured out a lot of ways to do everything by … ourselves, or at least have intimate say on everything that we are doing and directing, so for example: because we come from a background of doing shows, because we have a blog, because we’re friends and I let the artists be involved in what we do, it gives us a lot of flexibility in what we’re able to do as a label… We can just be more creative and approach business in that way. And also it doesn’t make us as a label dependent on record sales. Because we have lots of little bits of money coming in from lots of different places, I don’t have to put pressure on “sell, sell, sell, sell, sell!”…
(tape noise)
…. and do all these things that …
(tape noise)
… I can do one thing and maintain it. I can give away things for free, and be very flexible on how …
(tape noise)
illson:
So you’re not bound by one approach, and you have several revenue streams?
F.C.
Yeah, we try to (tape noise) every thing for every artist. Even though everyones friends there’s still a wide array of what their sounds are or who their audience could be…
TApe.. Noise THE END
POSR Review In The Onion
A cute little review they did of us in the Onion. I don’t get that we are an “electro clash band” … did i miss something? 
PRESS RELEASE : POSR “Cocaine Nose Job” Feat. Larry Tee and Alexander Technique
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
WHAT KIND OF NOSE JOB? “COCAINE NOSE JOB”
THE UPCOMING SINGLE FROM AUSTIN’S
ELECTO-PUNK BAND, POSR
Austin-based POSR is poised to revolutionize dance floors and playlists with the release of “Cocaine Nose Job,” the first single off their forthcoming album Known Unknown, to be released by Houston’s Tierra Studios late spring/early summer 2010.
POSR, the latest musical brainchild of world renowned dance music producer Jake Childs, showcases Childs’ edgy post-punk vocals riding over a wave of pulsating, driving beats.
“Cocaine Nose Job” also features a “Blogula” remix by the world famous musical tastemakers Larry Tee and Alexander Technique. Larry Tee is well known for his effort in coining the term “electroclash” as well as launching the careers of many of New York based artists including RuPaul, Scissor Sisters, Fischerspooner, and Avenue D.
“When we started our blogula mix of ‘Cocaine Nose Job,’ we realized we were gonna have to go deep into our electro roots and drag some noise out,” says Tee. “But since electro alone isn’t a radical formula anymore, we are blasting in elements of a sticky bottom end, and a grindy new electronic weeze designed to make the floor go OFF.”
“For the remixes, I wanted to call upon a legend in the electroclash movement, and that would be Larry Tee,” says Childs. “He’s definitely a huge inspiration in attitude and the stuff he spins has hipped me onto a lot of new sounds and talents. PLUS HE’S A F@%$ING LEGEND! Viva electroclash!”
“Materialism is a beautiful thing, but it also can be a dangerous thing if you let it fully overtake you,” says Childs, “but so can be said true of non-materialism.” POSR is “id vs. ego in its purest form.”
You may preview songs from the album at http://weareposr.com
POSR and Larry Tee will be performing on February 11 at Beauty Bar (Austin, TX) and February 12 at The Minc Backroom (Houston, TX). POSR’s other Texas dates include January 28th at The Scoot Inn (Austin, TX), January 29th at Rooftop (Houston, TX), January 30th at Chupacabra Cantina (Austin, TX).
For more information, contact Edward Scott at Tierra Studios: 713.686.1953
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POSR(Live) At the Scoot Inn Jan 28th
Starring:
POSR (LIVE)
DAMON ALLEN
PREPMODE
DJ YAYYAY
ADAM WARPED
ZACK HIGHWIRE
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