Artist: Photek Genre(s):
Electronic
Drum & Bass
Electronic
Drum & Bass
Discography:
Terminus Year: 2000
Tracks: 3
Solaris Year: 2000
Tracks: 11
Form and Function Year: 1998
Tracks: 12
Though Goldie became the showtime virtuoso of jungle, the recordings of Prince Rupert Parkes -- as Computer code of Pattern, Water Bearer, Studio apartment Imperativeness, the Truper and Sentry, but to the highest degree magnificently as Photek -- made him an soft piece for the style's most aesthetic and intelligent producer. Workings his way through street-level hardstep (on former productions for Credential 18 and Street Beats) and laputan, subaquatic "dolphinfish" tunes for L.T.J Bukem's Goodness Looking label, Parkes finally arrived at a well-grounded that pushed the boundary of drum'n'bass from the dancefloor into the region of breakbeat headspace; unlike to the highest degree jungle producers, Parkes has never DJed and rarely goes to clubs. His fabulously intricate beat programming -- oftentimes requiring weeks of ready reckoner homework -- and the unmissable glory of paranoid menace on recordings such as "The Hidden Photographic camera" and "Flight dish aerial" exerted quite an influence on the return of dark-style drum'n'bass during the recently '90s.
As a adolescent, Parkes listened to electro, techno and hip-hop as well as the to a greater extent than discharge conformation english of laze run-in and fusion. Thanks to a sampler bought with a £2000 loan from the Trust of the Prince of Cambria, he began producing tracks and first appeared on Saul of Tarsus Solomon's Certificate 18 Records with singles as Studio apartment Pressure. He besides recorded for Cellar (as Sentry) and Street Beatniks (the Truper) before initiating a series of 12-inch singles for his own Photek Records, which gave him credentials and lED to releases on Goldie's Metalheadz label and L.T.J. Bukem's Good Looking for, as well as a remix of the Therapy? one "Loosen."
Subsequently Parkes had released more than 80 tracks of drum'n'bass on half a 12 labels, he was approached by Virgin and signing to a five-album make out with the label's Science imprint (provided he was allowed to stay on recording for other self-employed person labels as well). Parkes' first freeing on Science was
The Hidden Camera EP, which appeared in May 1996. The bit Skill bingle "Ni-Ten-Ichi-Ryu" displayed an increasing stake in applying the lessons of martial humanistic discipline to his computer programming (the title is Nipponese for "deuce swords, single technique"). Virgin compiled the latter deuce releases on 1997's
Reduced command coiffe estimator Vs. Wages, and then released the debut Photek album
Modus Operandi in September 1997. Much-hyped though little-praised, the album was followed by 1998's
Form & Role, a compiling including various archetype Photek Records tracks addition remixes and fresh tracks. During the next deuce long time, Parkes focussed on his new Photek Productions label, and at long last released a second LP,
Solaris, in 2000.
