Location: | Chicago, Illinois |
Year(s): | 2005 - 2103 |
Categorized as: | Experimental, Hip-Hop |
Members: | Justin K Prim and family |
Website: | www.justinusprimitive.com |
Label: | Perpetual Motion, Joyful Noise |
Total Request: | 7953 (7273 downloads, 680 plays) |
Total Request: | 7953 (7273 downloads, 680 plays) |
About: | Justinus Primitive is the musical moniker for Justin K Prim, wandering mystical nomad and a former resident of Muncie, Indianapolis, Bloomington, and Chicago. He has released records ranging from experimental hip hop to experimental electronic to experimental vocal tape music. The Kid Primitive Family collective has enjoyed musical help from Lindsay Lee, Erick Sherman, Castle Oldchair, Lisa Fett, Jon Rogers, Eric Alexander, and Will Johnson. |
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2012, I Had An Accident Records,
Nomadic drone hip hop artist and mantra vocal entrapaneur Justinus Primitive produces his most prolific album "Children of the Law of One". Backpacker style Justinus has experienced the world and connected with the souls of the youth and has channeled it through the stories and mantra beats. Taking a modern approach to the Bob Dylan ideology - a traveler, a poet, a hip hop artist and mystic spiritual seeker. The journey to knowledge. Limited to 100 black cassettes on chrome tape. Mp3 download with purchase.
2011, Perpetual Motion,
"A Musical Instrument" was written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning in 1862. The music was recorded in 2009 at the Berkley House in Indianapolis, Indiana. The vocals were recorded in my apartment on 18th St. in Chicago, Illinois in 2010.
"The Celebration of Pan & Estra" was written by Justin K Prim in 2008. All voices were recorded at my aparment on Allport St. in Chicago, Illinois in 2010. Includes a sample of “With Werdzen Mumouth” by Castle Oldchair. Includes lyrics from the Four Winds of Estra: The Poison Prophet (Chris Barth), Xiawn the Xmelt (Castle Oldchair), The Dolphin Brother (Eric Alexander), and Golden Moses (Jon Rogers).
"Pan - Double Villanelle" was written by Oscar Wilde in 1913. The music was recorded in 2009 at the Berkley House in Indianapolis, Indiana. The vocals were recorded in my apartment on 18th St. in Chicago, Illinois in 2010.
"Pan with Us" was written by Robert Frost in 1913. The music was recorded in 2009 at the Berkley House in Indianapolis, Indiana. The vocals were recorded in my apartment on 18th St. in Chicago, Illinois in 2010.
Released on November 8, 2011
2011, Perpetual Motion,
On Side A, Justinus Primitive reworks your favorite Jookabox track from some years back. It's a dance hit and it's got a new ill verse, too.
The B side of this Jookabox obsessed single is a live all vocal cover of XXXiawn Shell from Jookabox's Dead Zone Boys.
2010, Perpetual Motion,
The fifth and final release for 2010 is a four-way split on cassette with Kid Primitive Family, Sweet Baby BBQ, Paul Smith, and Sagan Victoria Stier. These Bloomington, IN natives contributed spliced sound collages made from ambient field recordings, thrift store tape cuts, noisy keyboard drones, stolen radio bits, and more. This 60 minute tape is possibly the most interesting release of the year. The Prim Family contribution is a 10 minute piece called "Tour Lifestyle" It consists of field recordings that I did in 2009 while on tour for a year. I recorded 30-second 4-track songs outside, anywhere that I found myself in strange acoustics or with a droning air conditioner, etc. I skewed the songs, cut em up a bit, re-orientated their sounds and sweetened them with a bit of delay and reverb. The cove is a double sided collage made from magazines and art that I found as we moved out of our Chicago apartment.Released: 06/2010 (50 hand dubbed cassettes with hand cut art)
Download the entire split with art here: http://cllct.com/release/cutinsups
2010, Perpetual Motion,
Four new Prim Family tracks coupled with four new p.o.n.s. tracks. The Prim side featues four all vocal songs. Recorded in an experimental style full of tape saturation and mega bass. The voice is loud and clear. Includes a Stooges track reworked as a magick spell. Includes a Normanoak cover. Includes alternate versions of alternate versions. p.o.n.s. is wild band from Indianapolis! What else can I say? We Love the Light! p.o.n.s. did the artwork for this one and it turned out great.
Released: 04/2010 (100 cds with hand screened cases)
2010, Joyful Noise,
Three new Prim tracks. Three new Jookabox tracks.
1: Sun Dance Vocal/Beat ritual.
2: A return to hip hop with the tale of my spiritual warrior training.
3: A taste of the training with four teachers over droning voices.
100 White Printed Cassettes on Joyful Noise records.
Released: 3/2010
2010, Perpetual Motion,
On the Prim side you will find ten tracks that have never been heard before. It's a nice mix of instrumental beats, live recordings, remixes, covers, and other weirdness, including a few tracks from the aborted concept album entitled "The Way." On the Oak side you will find a "Sunday Afternoon in Normanoak's Kitchen." These eleven tracks range from new songs, spontaneous kitchen improvisation, strange chant sounds, and even a kid's song or two. Tapes and cases painted in hand cut Runes, created by Lindsay.
Released: 02/2010 (46 hand painted tapes and cases)
2010, Perpetual Motion/Graymalkin,
This album was created as a tribute to Castle Oldchair’s “Newborn Slime” album. I was so enchanted by that record and its complete outsider weirdness that I had to create a sister album for it. I spent eight days at Lindsays moms house in rural Indiana recording these eight songs. Each track was created in the spirit of its sister track on Newborn Slime. I think of these albums like a Yin/Yang pair. White Light focuses on the transcendental experience and the ecstasy of ascension. It sounds like strange voices from another dimension moving freely as they Will in the light of creation.
Released: 01/2010 (100 Split cd's with Castle Oldchair’s “Newborn Slime”)
2008, Perpetual Motion,
While on spiritual work-retreat in upstate New York, I recorded this five song solo record. Picking up where the Prim Fam Split left off, I started working with the voice in a new way. I started making rhythmic loops with my voice and then singing over it. The song structures are completely removed from the pop format, creating something really different than I’ve done before. I wrote all these songs as magickal spells and also incorporated energy healing techniques I was learning at the time so produce some powerful music.
Released: 11/2008 (20 cd’s with hand silk screened sleeves)
2008, Perpetual Motion,
After returning from Europe, inspired, we spent the winter in Chicago and recorded this. This was our first experiment with all-vocal songs. We recorded these three songs and asked our friends Castle and Lisa to do a split with us. They were delighted. They recorded three songs and we painted the cases and then sent them the them to finish. Eventually it all came together so make this unique creation. Our side is all vocals; layered, delayed and droned. Their side is a mix of weird vocals, bass and guitar. All very experimental and pretty weird. We released it as Prim Family split because Castle and Lisa wanted to go under the name Prim Family also, extending the Family to double it’s size and giving us a way to do a split with ourselves.
Released: 4/2008 (100 cd’s in individually hand painted cases.)
2007, Perpetual Motion,
By the time that Cinnabar Fields was released, those songs were old news. I was already onto a new batch of songs. These tracks were made in a basement in Bloomington, Indiana. Some of the songs are hip hop and some are starting to move us in a new direction that is more atmospheric, droney, and experimental. This whole tape has a dark mood to it. One track blends into the next creating a cohesive experience that I really like. Lots of droned out singing, whispering, and rapping too. We put this out a few weeks before we left the country for Europe.
Released: 5/2007 (100 hand dubbed, finger printed cassette tapes. Art drawn by Lisa K Fett)
2007, Perpetual Motion,
This is what really started Kid Primitive Family. I spent a year making this, all over the country. The production is based in New York City and Muncie, Indiana. The stories are based in New York, California, Connecticut, Indiana, and in between. I wanted to make a hip hop album and I wanted to make it a little weird. I based most of the songs around jazzy bass lines and funk drum samples. There is also some live instrumentation and some noise. Samples, re-samples, and edits. Then right when I finished it, I met Lindsay, got married and made her part of the group. So we went back and remixed the whole record, adding her voice on most of the songs.
Released: 3/2007 (1000 cd copies in hand cut/folded/sewn cases)
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