P.H.O.R.K. Artist Bio

PHORK (a.k.a. P.H.O.R.K.) is the Los Angeles-based producer of mutant techno Neal Reinalda. PHORK stands for the “People’s Higher Order of Royal Kinship”. Since 2012 Reinalda has dropped several album-length cassette releases, showcasing a funky, glossy experimental sound heavy on vocal samples and bass.

PHORK succeeds in injecting a warmth and humanity into a dance music framework that is wholly original, keeping a global influence in its sampling studies, while receiving guidance from the worlds of noise, hip-hop, ambient, and sound art. Reinalda’s Baltimore roots shine through in his informed conceptual framework, holding a mirror to daydreams of post-consumerism and dark ecology. Mood and atmosphere are established through ultra-tight production and focused composition, pulsing with life even in the absence of rhythm. The result reaches new depths in contemporary electronic music, gaining power and magnitude through sonic texture, repetition, and the matrimony of inhuman and organic worlds. Systems are questioned, interconnectedness is examined, and yet still nothing is as it seems. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.