South African Afro House producer KingTouch comes through with this fascinating track titled “Posthuman (Nostalgic Mix),”
The title “Posthuman” carries philosophical weight that goes beyond typical Afro House naming conventions. The posthuman concept speaks to a state of existence beyond conventional human limitations – a blurring of the line between the organic and the technological, the natural and the constructed.
For a producer working in electronic music, that concept maps cleanly onto the creative space KingTouch occupies. He builds sounds that feel both warmly human and precisely engineered at the same time.
Sitting at track five, “Posthuman” arrives right after “Five Flames” has held the album’s temperature steady at its midpoint. But where “Five Flames” kept things grounded and rhythmically familiar, this record pushes the sonic atmosphere slightly further outward. The Nostalgic Mix treatment gives the original a more layered, textured quality that suits a concept as expansive as posthumanism.
KingTouch has always been drawn to records that feel like they are building toward something rather than simply arriving fully formed. His extended runtimes across Nostalgic Archive: 1 reflect that philosophy. At just over six minutes, “Posthuman” does not rush its ideas. It lets the atmosphere develop gradually and trusts the listener to stay inside it.
Within an album built entirely around revisiting past work through a new lens, “Posthuman” is perhaps the most fitting title KingTouch could have chosen. Looking back at old records and rebuilding them is itself a kind of posthuman exercise – the original exists, but this version is something different entirely.
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