Photek

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Photek
Background information
Birth name	Rupert Parkes
Also known as	Photek Studio Pressure The Sentinel Aquarius Special Forces Code of Practice The Truper System Ex
Born	(1971-09-06) 6 September 1971 (age 53) Hatfield, Suffolk, England
Genres	Drum and bass downtempo deep house
Occupations	Record producer DJ film score composer
Years active	1992–present
Labels	Virgin Photek Good Looking Records Sanctuary !K7 Metalheadz Entity Records Tectonic

Rupert Parkes (born 6 September 1971),^[1] 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 Ipswich, Suffolk, England.^[1]

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^[2] "End of Line" from the Tron: Legacy movie soundtrack in 2012, Moby's^[3] "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.