Modus Operandi

Photek is Rupert Parks, an early progenitor of jungle and precision-driven drum & bass. While living in Ipswich, England, Rupert Parks began making electronic music with a record shop owner named Rob under the name Origination. Parks soon departed Origination for a solo career as Photek. After releasing a series of successful 12-inch records in England, Photek/Parks put out a highly acclaimed recording titled The Hidden Camera. On Modus Operendi, Parks enters into an even more minimalist phase of electronic composition while embracing disparate musical influences, including jazz and the hardened Detroit techno scene. Employing complex, intricate beats and a forbidding, tension-filled atmosphere, Photek's stripped-down sound on this recording establishes Parks as one of electronic music's premier experimental artists. --Mitch Myers