PHOTEK
: Modus Operandi
LABEL
: SCIENCE (1997) / VIRGIN / ASTRALWERKS
1. The
Hidden Camera
2. Smoke
Rings
3. Minotaur
4. Aleph
1
5. 124
6. Axiom
7. Trans
7
8. Modus
Operandi
9. KJZ
10. The
Fifth Column
One of the best artists of Drum & Bass for me at this moment
. His music is something new , a radical in one way. He bring on this album
a fusion of jazz with break beat - drum & bass and mixed with some piano
strings . Whole this album is in some kind dark mood ... with sound of contrabass
(?) . After a series of influential releases on his own Photek label,
as well as on Goldie's Metalheadz and LTJ Bukem's Good Looking imprints, he
has been snapped up by Virgin's new leftfield imprint Science.
Photek's
first musical love was jazz.. After buying his first sampler in 1991,
Photek began making hardcore rave music, the form which begat jungle,
before experimenting in the sub-genres of rave, breakbeat and ragga-jungle.
Following the release of several key tracks such as The Seven Samurai and The
Physical and his remix of the Therapy track, Loose, Photek now finds himself
feted as one of the champions of intelligent, ambient jungle. His music
has always been slightly removed from the jungle mainstream, operating in the
increasingly popular alternative or intelligent drum and bass slot. In
one word great tunes from great artist Rupert Parkes . Keep on doing like
that !!!