Photek
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).
Biography
Education
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.
Photek Filmography
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2013, role: actor
Photek Filmography
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2006, role: composer
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2003, role: composer
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2003, role: composer
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2001, role: composer
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1999, role: composer
Photek
ALBUMS
- KU:PALM released: 2012
- DJ-Kicks: Photek released: 2012
- FACT Mix 226: Photek released: 2011
- Form & Function, Volume 2 released: 2007
- Solaris released: 2000
- Form & Function released: 1998
- Modus Operandi released: 1997
- Risc vs. Reward released: 1997
DJ-Kicks: Photek
Released 2012- Azymuth
- In 2 Minds
- I Need Love (Morgan Geist’s Love dub)
- Modern Man
- Here Come the Dark Lights
- Bare
- M25FM
- No Agenda
- Sexgas (Arnaud Le Texier remix)
- Say Something
- No Under but You
- Tomorrow Universe
- Taking You Back
- Levitation
- Fountainhead
- Look at Yourself
- 101 (Boddika remix)
- The Art of Nothing, Part 1
- Photek DJ-Kicks Mix
Princess In Disguise
(Verse 1:)
Like a perfect ten in a magazine were the girls that caught my eyes
Sophisticated queen with the sex appeal
Beauty no less than a dime
But the girl that really caught my heart wasn't anything like that at first glance you wouldn't see it...
But she was really bad
-papasito, venconmigo
-dejame demostrar a ti
-que tu no puedes ver
-la mujer (marya-dentro) de mi
(Chorus:)
She's just an average girl
Ain't got no mink and pearls still she's like royalty
She's a princess in disguise
She's got a heart of gold
Within a tale untold, that's where her beauty lies
She's a princess in disguise
Her smile is like a twinkle in the sky
A diamond in the ruff with the heart of a child
Her true beauty is more then skin deep
Because the essence of a women is hidden underneath
(Chorus)
(Verse 2:)
-tomame al castillo que estan en los nubes
Hasme princesa de tu corazon, mi serviente de amor
Desde alli, viajar a otros lugares
Para vivir momentos inolvidables
You stole my heart and sealed it with a kiss
No matter where i look, it can't get no better than this
My princess, my goddess, you came from up above
I'll treat you like royalty, with all my love
Your heart is pure, together we explore
We build on honesty, one solid core
You caught my eye, i can't deny
You're in my heart, you are my pride