- 12inch
- Recommended
- New Release
Chris Korda
Primitive Man
YYK No Label
- Cat No: YYKORDAPM
- updated:2023-10-03
Even among a party scene teeming with all kinds of personalities, here's one artist who has reached the furthest horizon of all. A new release from Chris Korda.
Track List
Chris Korda’s latest EP “Primitive Man” interrogates the myth of human superiority and the barbarism that flows from it. Despite our current obsession with social justice, gross inequality persists between humans and non-humans. Our species supremacy echoes Biblical edicts to subdue the earth and have dominion over all its creatures. Many animals experience emotions identical to ours, including pleasure, pain, comfort, fear, curiosity and boredom, but that hasn’t stopped us from oppressing and murdering animals on an inconceivable scale.
The title track ironically contrasts primitive and civilized ways of life with sharp lines such as “No more swinging from trees, you’re done with that / Sit down, watch TV, drink beer and get fat.” “Lunch Break” is a thunderous breakbeat reworking of Korda’s pro-vegan anthem “Fleshdance.” The remaining tracks are instrumentals subtly influenced by traditional Turkish music. Korda pioneered complex polymeter—the use of multiple time signatures simultaneously—in electronic dance music, and “Primitive Man” continues that tradition, but in a stripped-down, minimal way.
The title track ironically contrasts primitive and civilized ways of life with sharp lines such as “No more swinging from trees, you’re done with that / Sit down, watch TV, drink beer and get fat.” “Lunch Break” is a thunderous breakbeat reworking of Korda’s pro-vegan anthem “Fleshdance.” The remaining tracks are instrumentals subtly influenced by traditional Turkish music. Korda pioneered complex polymeter—the use of multiple time signatures simultaneously—in electronic dance music, and “Primitive Man” continues that tradition, but in a stripped-down, minimal way.
Below is a translation of the words accompanying the label information.
"Chris Korda's latest EP 'Primitive Man' questions the myth of human supremacy and the savagery that flows from it. Despite our current preoccupation with social justice, striking inequality persists between humans and non-humans. Our species' dominance echoes the biblical commandment to subdue the earth and rule over all its creatures. Even though many animals experience the same emotions we do—joy, pain, comfort, fear, curiosity, boredom—we continue to oppress and kill them on an unimaginable scale.
The title track draws a heavily ironic contrast between primitive and civilized life. 'Lunch Break' reconstructs Korda's vegetarian anthem 'Fleshdance' with thunderous breakbeats. The remaining tracks are instrumentals subtly influenced by traditional Turkish music. Korda was a pioneer in bringing complex polymeter (the simultaneous use of multiple time signatures) into electronic dance music, and 'Primitive Man' carries on that tradition, though in a stripped-down, minimal fashion."
'Lunch Break' is described as a vegetarian anthem, but it has a raw, gnarly edge that feels rooted in something far more primal about life itself. (Original Japanese text by Saito)