― K-reg, Tuesday, 15 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
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― Robin, Tuesday, 15 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 6 June 2004 22:42 (nineteen years ago) link
Yeah, I'd have to agree.
― Andrew (enneff), Sunday, 6 June 2004 22:48 (nineteen years ago) link
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― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 6 June 2004 22:49 (nineteen years ago) link
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― DJ Martian (djmartian), Saturday, 4 September 2004 01:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― tricky disco (disco stu), Saturday, 4 September 2004 01:19 (nineteen years ago) link
Title: Baltimore Label: Photek Productions Artist: Photek
Pounding vintage Bluenote biznizz picked up by Dom & Roland, Tech Itch, Teebee and Friction and all courtesy Photek.
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Saturday, 4 September 2004 01:24 (nineteen years ago) link
I have this track on an MTV drum n bass compilation I inherited, and it's okay. I've had a couple MRI's done and some of the sounds are similar (though I still think the MRI experience is more intense).
― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), Saturday, 4 September 2004 02:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― lethalfizzle, Saturday, 9 July 2005 09:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Saturday, 9 July 2005 15:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ô¿Ô (eman), Saturday, 9 July 2005 15:41 (eighteen years ago) link
photek = sort of underrated at this point. remember, for a while he was pretty much the only person not using a palette of straight amen and think breaks.
― vahid (vahid), Saturday, 9 July 2005 15:49 (eighteen years ago) link
pale scrawny white guys are always always always classic
― harshaw (jube), Saturday, 9 July 2005 15:53 (eighteen years ago) link
Hahaha this might be why people aren't holding him in higher esteem.
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Saturday, 9 July 2005 16:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Saturday, 9 July 2005 16:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― strng hlkngtn, Saturday, 9 July 2005 16:06 (eighteen years ago) link
I think the main reason was that he came off as so dry and serious.
I don't remember "Relics", but "Presha III" and "Jump (MK2)" are both pretty good.
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Saturday, 9 July 2005 16:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― strng hlkngtn, Saturday, 9 July 2005 16:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― latebloomer: the Clonus Horror (latebloomer), Saturday, 9 July 2005 16:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― jeffery (jeffery), Saturday, 9 July 2005 16:44 (eighteen years ago) link
Goldie's best moments often = Rob Playford's best moments. Whereas Photek's best moments = Rupert Parkes imagination.
― jeffery (jeffery), Saturday, 9 July 2005 16:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― jeffery (jeffery), Saturday, 9 July 2005 16:47 (eighteen years ago) link
Yeah yeah yeah and it's all Nico Sykes too and blah blah blah. Maybe Rupert might have benefited from an engineer.
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Saturday, 9 July 2005 16:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― jeffery (jeffery), Saturday, 9 July 2005 17:04 (eighteen years ago) link
wrong and insane
― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 9 July 2005 18:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Saturday, 9 July 2005 20:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Sunday, 10 July 2005 01:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 10 July 2005 01:23 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Sunday, 10 July 2005 03:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Sunday, 10 July 2005 04:29 (eighteen years ago) link
A lot of his stuff is fantastic though, yeah. I'd say his golden period was '95-'96 - ie. the golden age of the "Metalheadz" sound but just before Modus Operandi.
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 10 July 2005 06:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 10 July 2005 06:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― strng hlkngtn, Sunday, 10 July 2005 10:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― strng hlkngtn, Sunday, 10 July 2005 10:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 10 July 2005 11:13 (eighteen years ago) link
nothng but piles of asian drums on top of one another. nothing to do but twitch like a jellyfish on a butcher block
wow, probably the truest thing i ever said on ilm
some dude called "the law" assembled this all photek 93-97 mix. makes a pretty damn good case for photek's brilliance.
01.. Photek - Third Sequence - Astralwerks [1996] 02.. Studio Pressure - Jump Mk II - Certificate 18 [1993] 03.. Goldie - Still Life (Photek Remix) - Razors Edge [1995] 04.. Studio Pressure - First Sequence - Photek [1994] 05.. The Truper - Vol 1 A - Street Beats [1994] 06.. System X - Mind Games (Dub Mix) - Entity [1994] 07.. Photek - Consciousness - Metalheadz - [1994] 08.. Photek - The Hidden Camera (Static Mix) - Science [1996] 09.. Photek - Ni Ten Ichi Ryu - Science [1997] 10.. Studio Pressure - The Water Margin - Photek - [1995] 11.. Photek - One Nation - Sanctury [1997/2007] 12.. Phaze 1 - Natural - Timeless [1995] 13.. Aquarius - Drift To The Centre - Looking Good [1995] 14.. Code Of Practice - Infiltrate - Certificate 18[1995] 15.. The Truper - Vol 2 B - Street Beats [1994] 16.. The Sentinel - Pulse Of Life - Basement[1994] 17.. Therapy? - Loose (Photek Remix) - A&M [1995] 18.. EZ Rollers - Rolled Into One (Photek Remix) - Moving Shadow [1996] 19.. Everything But The Girl - Single (Photek Remix) - Virgin [1996] 20.. Photek - Rings Around Saturn - Photek [1996]
go geddit here: http://drumandbassmixes.com/thelaw.htm
― moonship journey to baja, Thursday, 27 March 2008 17:26 (sixteen years ago) link
is burial the new photek?
― tricky, Thursday, 27 March 2008 18:11 (sixteen years ago) link
yes ... sort of
― moonship journey to baja, Thursday, 27 March 2008 18:12 (sixteen years ago) link
photek >>> burial
― Jordan, Thursday, 27 March 2008 18:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Kind of odd to think that both Photek and Source Direct, before they established the sound(s) for which they're still known, were making floaty melodic mash-ups for Certificate 18 as Studio Pressure and Sounds of Life respectively. An LTJ Bukem mix I have from 1994 actually transitions from Sounds of Life's "Release The Bells" to Studio Pressure's "Relics". These records have a very similar vibe - actually the entire Bukem mix (on Fantazia Takes You Into The Jungle 2) is like an advert for the early Certificate 18 sound, moreso than the smoother Good Looking blueprint of the same period.
― Tim F, Sunday, 30 March 2008 10:22 (sixteen years ago) link
Bukem agressively cutting 'Can we change the future' (Sound of life remix) into the preceding track (Funky Technicians' - Airtight) on his Mixmag live mix is up there as one of my favourite d&b moments. I never seem to tire of that transition.
― sam500, Sunday, 30 March 2008 13:59 (sixteen years ago) link
Here's a Kryptic Mindz and Leon Switch track "Ocean Blue" from their album of last year. The rhythms on this are pretty amazing, if a lot like "Black Domina" or "Two Masks":
http://www.zshare.net/audio/97808377286d72/
― Tim F, Sunday, 30 March 2008 22:27 (sixteen years ago) link
-- sam500
http://www.sendspace.com/file/1vsa6g
― sam500, Friday, 8 August 2008 08:21 (fifteen years ago) link
Like the housey photek stuff.
― I know, right?, Friday, 8 August 2008 11:14 (fifteen years ago) link
Solaris never gets the props it deserves. Fuck those spoddy D&B purest wankers.
― Discordian, Friday, 8 August 2008 11:39 (fifteen years ago) link
yes!
― I know, right?, Friday, 8 August 2008 11:46 (fifteen years ago) link
erm, "purest wankers". Now there's an image for ya
― Discordian, Friday, 8 August 2008 14:02 (fifteen years ago) link
it gets the props it deserves for an album with 2 great tracks on it.
― jed_, Friday, 8 August 2008 14:12 (fifteen years ago) link
I can concede that "Junk" meanders a bit but this is an album that manages to cover all bases and never sounding awkward or disjointed.
I really can't understand what people have against it. The menace of his ealier stuff being stripped away perhaps? Why does it always have to be about dark vibes?
― Discordian, Friday, 8 August 2008 14:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Some people hate pretty tepid house music (generally) and Robert Owens (specifically) is what they have against it.
― Alex in SF, Friday, 8 August 2008 17:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Wow I don't remember hearing that LTJ Bukem mix, but I have definitely heard that transition before. Now I have to find that mix to figure out if it was something I may have recorded off the radio in like '97.
― rockapads, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 23:59 (fifteen years ago) link
That album is worth it just for Mine To Give
― I know, right?, Thursday, 14 August 2008 00:01 (fifteen years ago) link
"Goldie's best moments often = Rob Playford's best moments."Yeah yeah yeah and it's all Nico Sykes too and blah blah blah. Maybe Rupert might have benefited from an engineer.-- Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Saturday, 9 July 2005 16:52 (3 years ago) Link
-- Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Saturday, 9 July 2005 16:52 (3 years ago) Link
"Goldie's best moments often = Rob Playford's best moments. belong to 4 Hero"
― X-101, Thursday, 14 August 2008 16:38 (fifteen years ago) link
t'raenon sooooooooooo nice... my least favorite photek record for a long time but i am loving it these days.
― DONKEY CANCER in action (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 20 February 2009 14:03 (fifteen years ago) link
Has this been posted before? All Photek mix courtesy of Bailey on BBC 1xtra. Fine stuff - some of which I'd never even heard before.
http://www.mediafire.com/?yufyqxitmm0
Truper - Volume 2 (Street Beats)Studio Pressure - Jump Mark 2 (Certificate 18 Records)System X - Mind Games (3 rd Eye)Aquarius - Drift To The Centre (Looking Good)Studio Pressure - Fusion (photek)Aquarius - Dolphin Tune (Good Looking)photek - Rings Around Saturn (photek)photek - Say It (Prototype)photek - Consciousness (Metalheadz)Studio Pressure - Water Margin (photek)photek - One Nation (Prototype)photek - Seventh Samurai (photek)photek - Still Life (Remix) (Razors Edge)photek - Ni-Ten-Ichi-Ryu (Science)photek - Knite Vision (Science)photek - Something Else (Bleeps Tune) (photek Recordings)photek - Tuesday (Dub)Inta Warriors - Inta (Special Forces Remix) (Prototype)photek - Aleph 1 (Science)
― sam500, Monday, 23 February 2009 05:50 (fifteen years ago) link
huh, I am really enjoying Solaris
it only took 13 years for me to get to this point
― AMERICA IS ABOUT RESSLING (DJP), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 19:46 (ten years ago) link
I know the best little Vietnamese cybercafe...
― how's life, Tuesday, 14 May 2013 20:05 (ten years ago) link
i haven't felt like listening to Solaris since it came out
― Koné 2013 (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 20:08 (ten years ago) link
I only played it because I remember the overall reaction to it being similar to the backlash reaction to RAM; unsurprisingly I am enjoying it a lot more than RAM so maybe I'll be in the mood to really dig that album in 2026
― AMERICA IS ABOUT RESSLING (DJP), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 20:15 (ten years ago) link
Why did you check it out (at the time and now) Dan I thought you disliked Photek?
― Tim F, Tuesday, 14 May 2013 21:12 (ten years ago) link
What? I loved Photek up until Solaris came out; I bought "The Hidden Camera", "Ni-Ten-Ichi-Ryu", Modus Operandi and Form and Function when they were released. I think you are confusing me with someone else?
― AMERICA IS ABOUT RESSLING (DJP), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 21:17 (ten years ago) link
i dug it out, it's better than i remembered. it's weirdly all over the place tho.
― Koné 2013 (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 21:17 (ten years ago) link
the main reason I was not into Solaris was because I was so into the doomy drum n bass stuff he'd been doing before and was not at all in the mood to hear his take on loungy progressive house music
― AMERICA IS ABOUT RESSLING (DJP), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 21:21 (ten years ago) link
Okay must be confusing you with someone else from back in the old days.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 14 May 2013 21:25 (ten years ago) link
i've still never heard this because i loooooved photek and haaaaated house music at the time.
― precious bonsai children of new york (Jordan), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 21:27 (ten years ago) link
I haven't talked about Photek all that much here, I admit, but I am pretty sure he was among the names I would regularly drop on a.m.a as someone I loved (I'm sure I talked about Squarepusher more, though)
― AMERICA IS ABOUT RESSLING (DJP), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 21:28 (ten years ago) link
Yeah one of the old regulars used to complain that i'd put them onto Photek with a description that sounded more exciting than the music actually was and I was like I mostly preferred Source Direct anyway.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 14 May 2013 21:30 (ten years ago) link
haha OTM re: Source Direct
― AMERICA IS ABOUT RESSLING (DJP), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 21:30 (ten years ago) link
oh wow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyKuzY52hWU&feature=player_detailpage&list=PLUdmMccuxH2HJrCrFvMUa6g2VlyPvOpTI
― precious bonsai children of new york (Jordan), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 21:38 (ten years ago) link
Brilliant! He's such a lad/geezer/geek.
Never really stopped listening to KJZ and Mine to give since they came out, 17 and 13 years ago. Wowsers!
― inventionsforjohn, Wednesday, 15 May 2013 00:03 (ten years ago) link
Really wish there was a 10 minute version of the track Solaris.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jV1MoazXFNM
I think my favourite Photek aliases are Studio Pressure for the smoother stuff and Truper for the all-out layered chopped Amen/Helicopter assaults.
― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 15 May 2013 00:27 (ten years ago) link
fitting that the Photek doc clip there starts out like a car commercial
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 00:45 (ten years ago) link
"Knightvision" aside (it's just okay in a moody 1998 2-step dancing thinkpiece kind of way) the "originals" half of Form & Function is pretty much unf***withable, amirite?
Esp the "Rings of Saturn" --> "The Water Margin" --> "UFO" final victory lap stretch.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 21:29 (nine years ago) link
yes sir
tho i pretty much love all of F&F tbh
― Chimp Arsons, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 21:55 (nine years ago) link
Oh yeah the remixes are mostly fantastic too.
I was just thinking in the context of the discussion upthread, if someone wanted to "get" Photek, listening to the back half of Form & Function would be a much better option than listening to Modus Operandi (though I like MO too).
― Tim F, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 22:07 (nine years ago) link
yes, forever. F&F was the only Photek record i owned and i listened to it to death. still sounds amazing.
― festival culture (Jordan), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 22:10 (nine years ago) link
was just bumping MO like 30 mins ago
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 22:10 (nine years ago) link
watch straight ahead off my flashlight ... there it is again
― the late great, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 22:39 (nine years ago) link
Classic. If for that alone. It spookily moves me ,everytime
― Jessie Fer Ark (Mobbed Up Ping Pong Psychos), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 23:29 (nine years ago) link
THIS TUNE:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAZmerb5gS4
Should get around to a Photek POX.
― Tim F, Thursday, 23 April 2015 14:33 (nine years ago) link
Tentatively scribbled this ten down a while back.
Aquarius - Drift To The CentreStudio Pressure - The Water MarginPhotek - ComplexThe Sentinel - TouléPleuThe Truper - Volume 3 BPhotek - Rings Around SaturnPhotek - The Hidden CameraPhotek - UFOAquarius & Tayla - Soul SearchingPhotek - Consciousness
― Thank You (Fattekin Mice Elf Control Again) (Noel Emits), Wednesday, 9 October 2019 10:44 (four years ago) link
God how I love Photek
― Goose Witherspeen (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 9 October 2019 13:31 (four years ago) link
If I hadn't seen the record with my own eyes I'd have thought this was a joke.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3AVoBbzMsw
― feed me with your clicks (Noel Emits), Friday, 17 December 2021 18:30 (two years ago) link
Going back to Form & Function, this is still *the* Photek album for me. I got it on cd from Best Buy in high school, I don't know if I had somehow heard of him or was looking for drum & bass albums and chanced upon it. Still sounds incredible.
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 27 March 2023 15:20 (one year ago) link
Really enjoyed Philip Sherburne's Modus Operandi revisit, and going back to that record:https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/photek-modus-operandi/
Also I'm finally old enough to appreciate Solaris, especially if I just think of it as some house record. The blown-out quality of the kicks and basses is nice, and the dubbiness.
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Wednesday, 10 April 2024 20:15 (two weeks ago) link
I just rediscovered his 2012 DJ Kicks mix , so nice
― StanM, Wednesday, 10 April 2024 21:28 (two weeks ago) link
ooh, sounds like a good listen for the commute home
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 10 April 2024 22:04 (two weeks ago) link
Pitchfork piece was great. There’s a lot of electronic music from the mid/late 90s that I loved desperately at the time. These days a lot of it feels… of its time. I don’t want to say they’ve aged poorly but I just can’t separate them from their era (Squarepusher, u-Ziq, Bukem, Roni Size and others). All these years later this particular Photek album still captivates me. I always put it on when I really need to get into a state of intense focus (i.e. writing to deadline).
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Thursday, 11 April 2024 01:30 (two weeks ago) link