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Rupert Parkes (born 1972), known as Photek, is a Los Angeles–based British record producer, film & TV composer, and electronic music DJ.
Photek has contributed music to several film, TV and video game productions as far back as Blade in 1998. He also scored Fox Television's Gang Related (Imagine Entertainment) with director Allen Hughes.
He received three consecutive Grammy Award nominations in the category of Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical were for Daft Punk "End of Line" from the Tron: Legacy movie soundtrack in 2012, Moby "Lie Down In Darkness" in 2013 and Bob Marley "One Love/People Get Ready" in 2014.
Photek is currently the composer on the show How to Get Away with Murder (ABC).
Initially interested in hip hop, Parkes soon expanded his style with elements of Soul and Jazz. His first instrument was a tenor saxophone, but when a piano arrived in the family home his focus shifted to composition as opposed to performance. By 1992 he had switched from the saxophone to a sequencer. Within the next year he started to perform under the stage name Photek.
Daft Punk are an electronic music duo consisting of French musicians Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter. The duo achieved significant popularity in the late 1990s as part of the French house movement and were met with continued success in the years following, combining elements of house music with funk, techno, disco, rock, and synthpop. The group was managed from 1996 to 2008 by Pedro Winter (Busy P), the head of Ed Banger Records.
Bangalter and de Homem-Christo were originally in a rock band called Darlin' together, which disbanded after a short period of time, leaving the two to experiment musically with drum machines and synthesizers. The duo became Daft Punk, releasing their debut album Homework on Virgin Records in 1997 to highly-positive reviews. The 2001 release of Discovery was even more successful, driven by the club singles "One More Time", "Digital Love", and "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger". In March 2005, the duo released the album Human After All to mixed reviews. However, the singles "Robot Rock" and "Technologic" achieved success in the United Kingdom.
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Therapy? ~ LoOse (Photek Remix). All rights belong to A&M; records 1995
Photek's remix of "End Of Line" by Daft Punk. Original Score Soundtrack Credits: Music Composed and Produced By: Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel De Homem-Christo. Music Produced by Daft Punk for 'Daft Arts.' All Music Published By: Wonderland Music Company, Inc. (BMI)
Driveclub Official OST Developed by Evolution Studios & Published by Sony. Like, Share & Subscribe for more! My Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ShirrakoGaming My Twitter: https://twitter.com/ShirrakoGaming My Twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/shirrakogaming
FOR PODCAST: http://bit.ly/mxY8AH What a joy it is to have such legends as Photek up inside the Boiler Room. Let alone when they go ahead and smack it just like any young buck.
Drumprints Live @ Supersonic International Music Festival
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Check out the giant freighter floating by.
@ Postgarage on September 30th, 2011. w/ Photek, Cherry Sunkist, Fuckhead, Reflector, Id, NA (All Live), Slack Hippy, Henry Bootz, Citizens & Opcion http://2011.elevate.at http://www.postgarage.at http://photek.fm Sound: Photek feat. Linche - Sleepwalking (FaltyDL Mix) Image: Marlon T.L. Fink (http://emma-reveni.tumblr.com) © Elevate, 2011
The legend Photek absolutely murders it at Low End for easily the best set of 2011.
Richard Spaven playing "The Hidden Camera" by Photek - filmed at the Meinl Cymbals Factory in Gutenstetten, Germany. Richard's Meinl Cymbals set up for this track is from left to right: - 16" Byzance Extra Dry Medium Thin Hihat - 20" Byzance Extra Dry Thin Crash - 18" Byzance Vintage Trash Crash - 18" Byzance Extra Dry Thin Crash x-hat (top & bottom) w/ a Ching Ring on top - 22" Byzance Vintage Pure Light Ride - 16" R&D; Prototype Crash "The Hidden Camera" written by R. Parkes Rhodes by Kris Bowers Produced by Richard Spaven
Rupert Parkes is more a creator than a producer. Subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/ElectronicBeatsRadio?sub_confirmation=1 Find more LIVE Mixes here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3-PNin8teA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE6IuQEuwJM Visit us on: https://www.facebook.com/ElectronicBeats https://twitter.com/ebnet https://play.spotify.com/user/electronicbeats https://soundcloud.com/electronic-beats-radio http://instagram.com/electronicbeats/ Electronic Beats is the international music program of Deutsche Telekom, which owns an innovative media portfolio and live events across Europe. At electronicbeats.net, as well as in the award-winning EB magazine, which comes out quarterly, the readers find pioneering music-journalism. Through EB.TV and EB.Radio users can dis...
Photek - Form & Function Label: Science Format: CD Country: EU Released: 1998 Genre: Electronic Style: Drum & Bass 1. 00:00 Photek - "The Seven Samurai (Photek Remix)" 2. 07:00 Digital - "The Lightening (Digital Remix)" 3. 12:53 Peshay & Decoder - "Rings Around Saturn (Peshay & Decoder Remix)" 4. 20:52 Doc Scott - "The Margin '98 (Doc Scott Remix)" 5. 27:47 Photek - "Resolution (Photek Remix)" 6. 34:27 J Majik - "UFO (J Majik Remix)" 7. 40:45 Photek - "Knitevision" 8. 47:22 Photek - "Santiago" 9. 53:32 Photek - "The Seven Samurai" 10. 1:00:26 Photek - "Rings Around Saturn" 11. 1:07:48 Photek - "The Water Margin" 12. 1:13:17 Photek - "UFO"
Terminus 0:00 Junk 5:26 Glamourama 10:54 ~ Vocals - Marie-Jose Jongerius Mine To Give 16:24 ~ Vocals - Robert Owens Can't Come Down 23:06 ~ Vocals - Robert Owens Infinity 30:06 Solaris 38:37 Aura 43:50 Halogen 44:37 Lost Blue Heaven 49:16 ~Vocals - Simone Simone Under The Palms 52:30 https://pro.beatport.com/release/solaris/872225
A mix I did of purely Photek tunes - enjoy! Tracklist: 01) PHOTEK - Water Margin 02) THE SENTINEL - The Awakening 03) PHOTEK - Resolution 04) SENTINEL - Toulepleu 05) PHOTEK - The Rain (Photek Remix) 06) PHOTEK - Complex 07) PHOTEK - Ni Ten Ichi Ryu 08) THE SENTINEL - Pulse Of Life 09) THE TRUPER- Untitled 10) SYSTEM X - Untitled 11) THERAPY? - Loose (Photek Remix) 12) SYSTEM X - Mindgames 13) PHOTEK - First Sequence 14) THE SENTINEL - Heavy Vibes 15) SYSTEM X - Metamorphasis 16) PHOTEK - The Seven Samurai 17) PHOTEK - Consciousness 18) PHOTEK - U.F.O. Download link: http://manorizm.co.uk/mixes/sharpey/sHaRpEy%20-%20Rupert%20Parkes,%2028%20Gun%20Bad%20Boy.mp3
A history of Photek 1993 to 1997. Mixed and recorded by Law. Download: http://drumtrip.co.uk/mixes/exclusive-biography-of-photek-mix/ Tracklisting 1.) Photek -- Third Sequence -- Astralwerks 2.) Studio Pressure -- Jump Mk II -- Cert 18 3.) Goldie -- Still Life (Photek Remix) -- Razors Edge 4.) Studio Pressure -- First Sequence -- Photek 5.) The Truper -- Vol 1 A -- Street Beats 6.) System X -- Mind Games (Dub Mix) -- Entity 7.) Photek -- Consciousness -- Metalheadz 8.) Photek -- Hidden Camera (Static Mix) -- Science 9.) Photek -- Ni Ten Ichi Ryu -- Science 10.) Studio Pressure -- The Water Margin -- Photek 11.) Photek -- One Nation -- Sanctury 12.) Phaze 1 -- Natural -- Timeless 13.) Aquarius -- Drift To The Centre -- Looking Good 14.) Code Of Practice -- Infiltrate -- Cert 18 15.) The T...
Rare Drum & Bass 1996 documentary by Dutch TV program (Lola Da Musica). There are a few Dutch passages, but the interviews are in English. part1: SquarePusher http://youtube.com/watch?v=96PfTcGHZ4Q part2: Photek http://youtube.com/watch?v=TyKuzY52hWU part3: Source Direct http://youtube.com/watch?v=tVnm5cdNcus
Rare Drum & Bass 1996 documentary by Dutch TV program. There are a few Dutch passages, but the interviews are in English. part1: SquarePusher http://youtube.com/watch?v=96PfTcGHZ4Q part2: Photek http://youtube.com/watch?v=TyKuzY52hWU part3: Source Direct http://youtube.com/watch?v=tVnm5cdNcus Rare footage here of Photek in the studio during Modus Operandi period.
Rare Drum & Bass 1996 documentary by Dutch TV program. There are a few Dutch passages, but the interviews are in English. part1: SquarePusher http://youtube.com/watch?v=96PfTcGHZ4Q part2: Photek http://youtube.com/watch?v=TyKuzY52hWU part3: Source Direct http://youtube.com/watch?v=tVnm5cdNcus
Read more about this video and Photek here: http://thedolab.com/?p=1214 Leading up to Photek's August 2011 show in Los Angeles, The Do LaB went In the LaB and interviewed Photek in his LA studio. This is the extended cut, released for the fans. Music: Birdy - "Shelter (Photek Remix)" and Photek - "Sleepwalking" Video by Jordan ONeill For more information please visit http://thedolab.com
Following recent sessions with Ben UFO and Jamie Lidell, FACT TV went record shopping with drum'n'bass trendsetter Photek. Having started releasing records again in 2011 after several years of dormancy, the artist behind classics like 'UFO' and Modus Operandi took us to Soho's BM (Black Market) to talk about record shopping in his current home of Hollywood, his favourite soundtracks, first meeting Goldie and how Black Market was where it all started for him. Interviewed by Clare Considine, filmed by Anoushka Seigler, Pawel Ptak and Kamil Dymek
http://www.dj-kicks.com/photek/ Photek, a/k/a Rupert Parkes, is one of the recognized modern masters of electronic music. His DJ-Kicks mix sees the artist exploring some new territory, while getting back to the roots of what excited him most about the early days of rave culture. We were able to sit down in his Los Angeles studio to discuss the mix, his early DJ gigs, and the inspiration behind some of the exclusive tracks' titles. DJ-Kicks is out March 26th 2012, with a US release date of April 3rd. Interview shot by Garrett Shannon. http://garrettshannon.com
Drum n' Bass pioneer Photek is interviewed by performance artist Roxy Saint in part 1 of this episode of Desert Island Music. The show is produced by Bobby Owsinski and Bela Canhoto for 2b Media LLC.
More info - http://bit.ly/JWM0z7 Dubspot caught up with Photek at SXSW 2012 for a brief interview in which he discusses this early days as a rave DJ and music producer, learning about equipment and music production in magazines like Sound On Sound and Future Music, moving from Cubase to Logic Pro, using Ableton Live for for production and performance, and much more.
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