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Rupert Parkes , known as Photek, is a Los Angeles-based British record producer and DJ. He joined the drum and bass scene relatively early , and is... still one of its most respected players. In the mid-to-late Nineties he was a very active remixer, and he has also done some soundtrack work, most notably for The Animatrix. His early tracks are somewhat ambient, but already feature the rhythm pattern of his seminal 1997 work Modus Operandi, which embodies most of his mid-nineties style: atmospheric, but at the same time very cold and paranoid, consisting mostly of jazz-influenced, highly complex drum patterns and sequenced double bass lines, sometimes with minimalistic synth melodies on top. Photek is also influenced by traditional Japanese music and culture, with song titles as "Ni-Ten-Ichi-Ryu " and "The Seven Samurai" . His 1998 follow up to Modus Operandi was the Form & Function compilation album, featuring older tracks, in both original and remixed form.
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