- Audio CD (14 Sep 1998)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Science
- ASIN: B0000248SJ
- Other Editions: Audio CD | Vinyl
- Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 88,531 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| 1. The Seven Samurai (Photek Remix) |
| 2. The Lightening (Digital Remix) |
| 3. Rings Around Saturn (Peshay & Decoder Remix) |
| 4. The Margin '98 (Doc Scott Remix) |
| 5. Resolution (Photek Remix) |
| 6. UFO (J Majik Remix) |
| 7. Knitevision |
| 8. Santiago |
| 9. The Seven Samurai |
| 10. Rings Around Saturn |
| 11. The Water Margin |
| 12. UFO |
Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
This 1998 collection of remixes, early singles and two new tracks complements Modus Operandi, the first album by Rupert Parkes, a.k.a. Photek. At the opposite end of the drum & bass spectrum to the jazzy R&B tinged music of Mercury Prize winner Roni Size and his ensemble of musicians and vocalists, these austere, almost minimalist compositions--often stripped down to intricate percussion, the occasional bass line, plus a few ghostly sonic embellishments--invite the listener to engage with the up-close textures of rhythm and timbre, and this approach is rigourously maintained by the various remixers (among whom are Doc Scott and Peshay). "Rings of Saturn" weaves in a sample from Pharaoh Saunders, and is perhaps the most immediately appealing cut here with its almost joyfully buoyant bassline. The early singles paved the way for a more cerebral, less dancefloor-orientated approach to drum & bass (a legacy taken up by Squarepusher, amongst others) and Photek's avant-garde sensibilities, as the title suggests, are structural, almost scientific in nature: rhythmic details rather than melodic hooks are what drive the music. The result is a record which, if a little ascetic on first encounter, has an appealing and rewarding complexity. --Burhan Tufail
From Amazon.com
Like the best drum & bass musicians, Photek explores the nuances of the rhythms that most jungle musicians, blinded by dance-floor strobe lights, take for granted. His rarefied electronic tracks rarely overlap more than a handful of discrete sonic elements. On "The Water Margin," for example, cetacean burbles bounce amid an extended percussion solo and a lone, vaporous, synthetic woodwind. And that's it. The composerly sense of musical development Photek brings to these skeletal constructions has lent his earliest recordings a reputation as the blueprint of avant-garde drum & bass. Four of those early recordings, "The Water Margin" among them, are collected on Form & Function, which also includes six appropriately uncluttered remixes (by J Majik, Doc Scott, Peshay, and others) and two brand new tracks, one spooky, one funky. --Marc Weidenbaum
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This is a very good drum and bass album by one of the pioeers of the scene. When I first started to buy this music Photek was a name that I would buy on sight.
4 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
About as minimal as music gets. This is often drum without bass. It goes even further than Modus Operandi in stripping down to the basics but become overly repetitive. It may well appeal to d'n'b afficianados but is a tough listen for your standard dance fan. There are a few moments of relief including a funky Peshay remix of Rings of Saturn and the hypnotic sampling of UFO. But on the whole it lacks the groove of more accessible drum'n'bass artists like Fabio or LTJ Bukem.
1 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Almost half of these tracks are not good at all, still minimal, but lacking the photek charm we have come to expect after Modus Operandi. The rest are up to his usual standard, well atmospheric tunes with really involving breaks lending themselves to some crazy mixing, perfect use of samples, well-spaced sounds, for dancing like mad or just sat chilling in amazement to.
He shouldn't really have anything to do with the other producers involved here; it is as if they have blunted his tools and hindered his technique. Worth it just for the better tunes, they are easily on a par with the tunes on Modus Operandi, but just less in number.
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