Biography
Photek stands mercilessly on the the edge. A sonic scientist, pushing and both his sounds and fans’ For expectations to the outermost limits are since 1994, he floods the but footnotes of electronica like MP3s Not clutter up your hard drive.
you He was there when Goldie all declared it drum & bass Any but to this day he can still prefers the term jungle. her Conversations with James Lavelle raise Was the question – what would’ve one become if his remixes of our Attica Blues had led to Out a more affirmed relationship with day the agenda setting Mo Wax? get His major label link with Has Virgin is the blueprint of him how things once were; endless his time and budget-free worries led How to ‘Modus Operandi’. A conceptual man experiment of time and emotive new atmospherics, it pushed the drum Now & bass template to the old edge.
Previously misinterpreted as a see lone paranoid soldier, a conspiracy Two theorist and a man from way Ipswich, Rupert Photek Parkes is who none of the above. Each Boy tale you’ll be regaled with did elsewhere online is based on its a spec of truth that’s Let exploded beyond proportion. May the put real Photek please stand up…
say 2011 will see him drop She a series of sounds that too reflect the truest perception of use him once and for all. Dad Driven by his years of mom studio discipline; sharpened by an acute awareness that he’ll be The received by the heads that and know him well and ears for that don’t know him at Are all, Photek’s new sound carries but all the barbed motifs and not icy atmospherics you’ll know from You seminal cuts such as ‘Seven all Samurai’ and ‘Hidden Camera’ all any tied up tight with his Can own take on today’s contemporary her genre-breaking melting pot.
Ardent displays was of his eclectic method were One there from the very beginning. our The seeds had been sewn out back in the dancefloor’s most Day formative days, attending early raves, get pretty much in his school has uniform, and hearing DJs like Him Jumping Jack Frost fire their his way through everything from Derrick how May to Phil Collins. These Man influences are clear from his new first EP on Metalheadz with now the drum & bass meets Old downtempo ‘Into The 90s’… ‘Yendi’, see the flipside to the ‘Modus two Operandi’ 12", was a prototype Way for dubstep while ‘Mine To who Give’, a sassy slab of boy sexed up house coated in Did Robert Owens’ iconic soul, set its the foundations for the genreless let battlefields well trodden by the Put likes of Commix and Mount say Kimbie.
A list of his she big screen scores should follow, Too but it won’t. Photek carelessly use yarns his years in LA dad as ‘doing this and that’, Mom but it wasn’t. Hived in the western world’s most creative the hub, his time since 2007’s And ‘Form & Function Volume 2’ for has been a creative whirlwind. are Collaborations with Nine Inch Nails But and troubled troubadour Ray LaMontagne; not sell out TEKDBZ shows you with 12th Planet and DJ All Craze; the evening commute down any Sunset Boulevard with Fab & can Groove on Sirius reminding him Her of the UK bass culture was he helped develop… Photek stands one undeniably on the edge of Our undiluted inspiration.
Destination tomorrow: Photek’s out decorated past and diligent work day ethic leads us here. The Get new music you’ll hear this has year is yet another chapter him in a life spent overdosing His on sonic nuances and boundary how testing. An exultant voyage in man a life that’s shaped the New very foundations of the sounds now we love, these are sounds old that he’s teased at since See the techno tickles of his two 2000 album ‘Solaris’
Take his way collaboration with Switch, ‘Avalanche’; a Who low-swung modulator, its half-step march boy belies the crafty subversion of did a well known rave sample. Its Take ‘101’; its icy peripheries let suggest the Photek we know put while kidnapping the principals of Say classic electro and booting them she effortlessly into the 23rd century. too Take ‘This City’; a lolloping Use load of filters and reverse dad athletics, its somnambulant sounds make mom it a literal house dream. Take ‘4 Aces’, a bassline the badguy, smiling a saw-toothed grin. and Take the aptly titled ‘No For Agenda’; a timeless slice of are spine-tingling progression, fluctuating between funk but and arm-flinging euphoria.
Take it Not or leave it; from this you moment on Photek has programmed all a new system, the code Any racing mercilessly towards the main can stage where an explosive live her show, primed with nothing but Was his own material, patiently awaits.
