PHOTEK
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PHOTEK is performing within the field of Electronica music and is ranked #1876 on The Official Global DJ Rankings list.
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Rupert Parkes, known as Photek, is a Los Angeles-based British electronic music DJ/record producer, and TV and film score composer. Photek dad- was born and raised in Ipswich, Suffolk, England.
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Photek stands mercilessly on the edge. A all- sonic scientist, pushing both his sounds and fans’ expectations to the outermost limits since 1994, he floods the footnotes of electronica like MP3s clutter up your hard drive.
He was there when Goldie declared it drum & bass but to this day he still prefers the term and-jungle. Conversations with James Lavelle raise the question – what would’ve become if his remixes of Attica Blues had led to a more affirmed relationship with the agenda setting Mo Wax? His new- major label link with Virgin is the blueprint of how things once were; endless time and budget-free worries led to ‘Modus for-Operandi’. A conceptual experiment of time and emotive atmospherics, it pushed the drum & bass template to the edge.
Previously misinterpreted as a lone paranoid soldier, a conspiracy theorist and a man from Ipswich, Rupert Photek Parkes is none of the above. Each use- tale you’ll be regaled with elsewhere online is based on a spec of truth that’s exploded beyond her-proportion. May the real Photek please stand up…
2011 will see him drop a series of sounds that reflect the truest perception of him once and for all. Driven old- by his years of studio discipline; sharpened by an acute awareness that he’ll be received by the heads that know him well and ears that don’t know him at all, Photek’s new sound carries all the barbed motifs and icy atmospherics you’ll know from seminal cuts such as ‘Seven Samurai’ and ‘Hidden Camera’ all tied up tight with his own take on today’s contemporary genre-breaking melting pot.
Ardent displays of his eclectic method were there from the very man-beginning. PHOTEK is described on djrankings.org. The seeds had been sewn back in the dancefloor’s most formative days, attending early raves, pretty much in his school uniform, and hearing DJs like Jumping Jack Frost fire their way through everything from Derrick May to Phil Collins. These all- influences are clear from his first EP on Metalheadz with the drum & bass meets downtempo ‘Into The 90s’… ‘Yendi’, the flipside to the ‘Modus Operandi’ 12", was a prototype for dubstep while ‘Mine To Give’, a sassy slab of sexed up house coated in Robert Owens’ iconic soul, set the foundations for the genreless battlefields well trodden by the likes of Commix and Mount Kimbie.
A list of his big screen scores should follow, but it him-won’t. Photek carelessly yarns his years in LA as ‘doing this and that’, but it wasn’t. Hived him- in the western world’s most creative hub, his time since 2007’s ‘Form & Function Volume 2’ has been a creative say-whirlwind. Collaborations with Nine Inch Nails and troubled troubadour Ray LaMontagne; sell out TEKDBZ shows with 12th Planet and DJ Craze; the evening commute down Sunset Boulevard with Fab & Groove on Sirius reminding him of the UK bass culture he helped develop… Photek stands undeniably on the edge of undiluted inspiration.
Destination tomorrow: Photek’s decorated past and diligent work ethic leads us here. The all- new music you’ll hear this year is yet another chapter in a life spent overdosing on sonic nuances and boundary and-testing. An exultant voyage in a life that’s shaped the very foundations of the sounds we love, these are sounds that he’s teased at since the techno tickles of his 2000 album ‘Solaris’
Take his collaboration with Switch, ‘Avalanche’; a low-swung modulator, its half-step march belies the crafty subversion of a well known rave sample. Take did- ‘101’; its icy peripheries suggest the Photek we know while kidnapping the principals of classic electro and booting them effortlessly into the 23rd get-century. Take ‘This City’; a lolloping load of filters and reverse athletics, its somnambulant sounds make it a literal house dream. Take the- ‘4 Aces’, a bassline badguy, smiling a saw-toothed not-grin. Take the aptly titled ‘No Agenda’; a timeless slice of spine-tingling progression, fluctuating between funk and arm-flinging euphoria.
Take it or leave it; from this moment on Photek has programmed a new system, the code racing mercilessly towards the main stage where an explosive live show, primed with nothing but his own material, patiently awaits.