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Photek

St Albans, United Kingdom • b. 1972-05-13

Photek is credited on 488 releases across 180 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1993–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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488

Pressings credited

180

Albums

4

Decades active

331

In collections

Biography

Rupert Parkes (born 6 September 1971), known as Photek, is a Los Angeles-based British electronic music DJ/record producer, and TV and film score composer. Photek was born and raised in St Albans, England. Photek has contributed music to several film, TV and video game productions, such as Blade in 1998. He also scored the show Gang Related with director Allen Hughes. He received three consecutive Grammy Award nominations in the category of Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical for Daft Punk's "End of Line" from the Tron: Legacy movie soundtrack in 2012, Moby's "Lie Down in Darkness" in 2013 and One Love/People Get Ready" in 2014. Photek composed the TV score for the show How to Get Away with Murder.

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Credited work

488 releases · 180 albums · active 1993–2025

  • Performance · 503
  • Production · 214
  • Engineering · 39
  • Other credits · 27

Studios: Technical Itch Studios · Nothing Studios · Grand Central HQ · The Toyshop, Manchester

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