Grammy-nominated producer Photek welcomed the challenge of composing the score for "How to Get Away with Murder." As he recalls during our recent webcam chat, his original idea -- "to have different ...
Last November, Rupert Parkes was having coffee when KCRW's Jason Bentley called to congratulate him. “For what?” asked the Hollywood electronic music producer and DJ, known as Photek. Turns out his ...
Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today we revisit Photek’s 1997 debut, a breathtaking, transcendent ...
3 HARD CORE SYMPHONY to Bring Lil' Kim's Debut Album to Kings Theatre One of the pioneers of drum & Bass and electronic music, Photek, will be performing in Baltimore at E-Villa. Photek started making ...
Photek, AKA Rupert Parkes, has been MIA from the music world since approximately 2000, the year he dropped Solaris on an unsuspecting listening audience. At the time, Solaris seemed like some kind of ...
Rupert Parkes is a pioneering force in electronic music. Achieving both critical and commercial success over the last two decades, he remains an elusive figure with an ever-changing sound. I remember ...
His socials post doesn’t give away much but states clearly “New music” with an accompanying 43 second clip soundtracked by some unmistakable Photek d’n’b business. Two of the hashtags included in the ...
Digitised drums thrust and parry generating explosive, yet disciplined rhythms. Unsettling interjections of sharp noises and Japanese percussion jab away at claustrophobic textures. That's the Photek ...
This DJ-Kicks mix marks a new era for Rupert Parkes (aka Photek), who seemed to withdraw from the music scene in 2007. He had long been disillusioned with the constraints of the drum’n’bass scene ...
Drum and bass titan Rupert Parkes has used his Photek moniker to push the genre forward for an astonishing 20 years. Despite a five-year dry spell on the full-length front, however, the artist is set ...
The MoMA PS1 Warm Up series continued this weekend, with sets by Photek, Shlohmo, Morgan Geist as Storm Queen, Autre Ne Veut, and more. Photos by Erez Avissar. Check out a selection of shots after the ...
Initially Photek didn't plan a sequel to F&FV1, but over the years it just seemed the thing to do. As with the previous collection, F&FV2will once again see Photek bringing out tracks from the vaults ...