Rupert Parkes (born 6 September 1971), known as Photek, is a Los Angeles–based, British record producer, film and TV composer, and electronic music DJ.
The album comprised four tracks that had previously only been available on limited release vinyl in the early 1990s, plus six remixes and versions by Photek himself as well as other contemporaries Digital, Peshay & Decoder, Doc Scott, and J Majik. ===2000–2012=== In 2000, Photek released his Solaris album, turning his attention from drum and bass to Chicago house and minimal techno.
By 1992, he had switched from the saxophone to a sequencer.
Within the next year he started to perform under the stage name Photek. ===Early career 1993–1999=== Parkes began his first forays into releasing music in 1993 under a plethora of different names.
The first release under the Photek production name came in 1994 with Touching Down...
Photek's breakthrough release in 1995 was the Natural Born Killa drum'n'bass EP for Goldie's Metalheadz.
In 1996, Photek contributed two tracks on the Wipeout 2097/Wipeout XL soundtracks. Photek's debut album was Modus Operandi in 1997, through Virgin Records.
In 1996, Photek contributed two tracks on the Wipeout 2097/Wipeout XL soundtracks. Photek's debut album was Modus Operandi in 1997, through Virgin Records.
In 1997, Virgin Records released Photek's "Ni Ten Ichi Ryu".
Photek was born and raised in Ipswich, Suffolk, England. Photek has contributed music to several film, TV and video game productions, such as Blade in 1998.
The album comprised four tracks that had previously only been available on limited release vinyl in the early 1990s, plus six remixes and versions by Photek himself as well as other contemporaries Digital, Peshay & Decoder, Doc Scott, and J Majik. ===2000–2012=== In 2000, Photek released his Solaris album, turning his attention from drum and bass to Chicago house and minimal techno.
There are references to a more rock and industrial sound. After a four-year hiatus from releasing music under the Photek moniker, Parkes produced a series of EPs in 2011.
He was invited to contribute to BBC Radio 1's 'Essential Mix' series in October 2012.
In the same year, Parkes released the album KU:PALM. ===Grammy nominations=== Photek's remix of Daft Punk's "End of Line" for the Disney movie Legacy earned him a Grammy nomination for Best Remix in 2012.
He received Grammy nominations in the same category for the following 2 years, with remixes for Moby and Bob Marley. ===Recent activities=== Now based in Los Angeles, Photek scored the second season of ABC's How to Get Away with Murder in fall of 2015, and continued recording of the follow up to KU:PALM and various movie and computer game scoring projects. ==Remixes== Photek has remixed many artists in his career such as David Bowie, Björk and Goldie.
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