Showing posts with label drum and bass. Show all posts
Showing posts with label drum and bass. Show all posts

Wednesday, 6 July 2011

New(ish) Music



I purchased this remix of a couple of Photek tracks a few weeks back and have been meaning to post one of the tracks from it.

A while ago I featured Rupert Parkes' absolutely brilliant 1995 single UFO. Here we have Addison Groove's bang up to date take on the track where he turns it into a banging piece of real techno which retains the feel of the original but is a different beast entirely.

Nice!

Photeck - UFO (Addison Groove's Almost Headhunter remix)

Friday, 27 August 2010

It's Friday . . . Let's Dance



Well you can dance to this if you want, I however have no idea how you would go about dancing to drum & bass as I've never been to a drum & bass night. I prefer to listen to it either through headphones or with the volume cranked right up so that the walls start to shudder.

Photek is the alias of one Rupert Parkes who has been making what would come to be termed as drum n bass since 1992. In the mid 90s he released some absolutely brilliant 12" singles such as Rings Around Saturn, The Seven Samurai and Hidden Camera. Parkes' style was to use atmospheric samples and bits of jazz noodling with mental drum patterns and huge bass sounds.

UFO was the double a side of Rings Around Saturn and was released in 1995. It starts with a real sample of the dialogue between two American soldiers who appear to be encountering a UFO while stationed in the UK. This single was definitely of it's time as this was when the X Files popularity and interest in everything extra terrestrial was at it's height.

If you like the track, the best thing to buy would be the Form and Function album which collects together all the early singles and remixes of these tracks.

I think that it is an absolutely brilliant track.

Have A Good Weekend

Photek - UFO