Photek what a legend!! He's now producing music for HBO, Netflix and Hollywood. Such an accomplished producer. Respect!!!! Black Market Records was a community hub. It's deeply missed!!!

@profoundbathroomgraffiti

8 ай бұрын

@TakeMeBackPirateRadio love ur channel yoooo, you're a legend yourself doing really important and vital archival work. would love to email you if you have a contact?

The tunes he did on street beats are some of the deepest intense jungle you can hear. Real tunes for the heads

@TheXitone

5 жыл бұрын

yea man

@dansurlis4031

4 жыл бұрын

And basement later on... the reading guys put out some amazing tunes

Absolute Legend, guys like Photek, DJ Shadow, Calibre, Burial come along and just completely take the sound to a new level.

@kaidoluht1957

Жыл бұрын

Optical

@nickycotton6137

5 ай бұрын

Lemon D ❤

Photek- Legend! Remember when I used to work in a record shop in Sweden, and BMG launched is first album in 96. MY GOD! It was like a new world opened! Photek, big up!!!!

seems like a really great guy

A Special Force in this Music.

Photek as the special guest for black market records @ The End was one of the greatest DJ sets of my life, thank you Rupert👏

He never knew back then, that he would go on to become the greatest DNB producer ever.

What a fucking don! Made the most innovative, forward-thinking tunes in D&B. Only person who comes close these days is Ibunshi.

@933r7

9 жыл бұрын

lambd01d thanks for the tip.

@jrgenhvad9834

7 жыл бұрын

.. And in general the stuff from pinecone moonshine!

@evo636

7 жыл бұрын

jørgen hvad agreed. pcms absolutely brilliant brilliant label.

@filled_soda

3 жыл бұрын

@@jrgenhvad9834 I just happened upon your comment regarding Pinecone Moonshine. Amazing stuff!

@filled_soda

3 жыл бұрын

Cheers. Ibunshi is fucking great

I used to love walking into a record shop flicking through vinyl, miss those days.

The sound of jungle comes from this mind….love him

Shopping for vinyl in the early 90's was my life back then. Used to bunk off school with any cash I hustled and would spend the day on my own flicking through old stuff in reckless records. Great days.

@TakeMeBackPirateRadio

3 жыл бұрын

Big up!!

This man created the blue print for Jungle/drum and bass.. His music is absolutely brilliant.. Holds up so well today.. Big thank you Rupert 😊

@2ndmachine620

Жыл бұрын

His technique is razor sharp.

I remember seeing Roni Size in BM in about 1996. Only person I was taller than lol!

Seeing blackmarket again depresses me. Used to love going in there. Wont get a record shop like that again. Rip

He literally perfected a genre of music 20 yrs ago.

@dansurlis4031

4 жыл бұрын

Certainly was one of a handful of producers that brought credibility to the genre

@TakeMeBackPirateRadio

3 жыл бұрын

@@dansurlis4031 That's true!!

Modus operandi set a new standard, followed him ever since.....Photek DnB for life

Support your local vinyl record stores

Never forget where you came from 🙂 and the artwork that supported your beats✌️

Labyrinth at 4 aces and the nights at Tasco warehouse were special places.

@TakeMeBackPirateRadio

3 жыл бұрын

Big up!! Love those venues. Labrynth was my local. Big up all the school ravers. Good times at Roller Express, The Rocket, The Wax Club, and, Raw Club.

Black market records , I been there, it was amazing place, it's an shame it's gone.

I was so sad when BMS shut down. It was such a massive part of my life, such a shame. But big up to Blackmarket, thanks for the memories, and the records! 🙌🏻

@damianclarke8056

4 жыл бұрын

Same here man. Depressing aint it

I like it when my musical heroes are down to earth "normal" people, where as in the world of creative reality, this lovely man is a musical genius. ..... And I do not use that word "genius" lightly.

Awesome bit; superb Dj to interview!!

My Mum and Dad met on that street, in the late 60s....

Legendary producer

Great interview.

Brilliant!!

What a top bloke ,, much respect

Used to buy all my stuff from Record Basement in Reading (home of Vinyl Distribution), remember DJ Lee behind the counter always hooking me up with white labels, and being stood at the counter when Rupert came in, probably for a meeting with the Distro side...

great stuff

Cool, keep them coming! :))

Legend!😁

lovely chap.

LEGEND.

Modus Operandi is a pure classic! Desert record!

i remember being too scared to open my mouth in bm when i was 17. now days i bowl in and geezer it right up

@JeremyMcBane

4 жыл бұрын

American here, what does bowl in and geezer it right up mean (lol)?

@paulhurst8113

3 жыл бұрын

@@JeremyMcBane bowl is to walk with swagger and confidence and a geezer is a male who acts this way

Respect!.

LEGEND

its a fucking hairdressers now. Loved that place, although towards the end I was as guilty as any since I hardly bought any vinyl since 2013

R.I.P Black Market.

@stevehumphrey1850

6 жыл бұрын

it must have closed not long after this video?

@supersharpshots

6 жыл бұрын

2 years after

@BillSkinton

6 жыл бұрын

@lawze4409

3 жыл бұрын

Black Market is a barbers now sad times

@TakeMeBackPirateRadio

3 жыл бұрын

@@lawze4409 Proper sad times!!

Music Power in Ilford was my one.. and Boogie Times Tribe in Romford which I first visited on the day it shut down 😅😅

I used to buy records by mail from Basement in Reading. Every week I'd get half a dozen twelves from DJ Lee. Quick phone call every week to get the skinny on the new tunes and put in the order. They used to send me all the good shit, Photek/Source Direct/Metalheadz/GLR/Cert18/Basement/Street Beats and so forth, promos and new stuff. Still kept my D+B collection. Never get rid of em either. Great days.

@TakeMeBackPirateRadio

3 жыл бұрын

I hear you. I'll never part from my vinyl collection no matter how much the Mrs nags that it's taking too much space at home. We lived a golden era!! Big up!!

@TakeMeBackPirateRadio

3 жыл бұрын

Do you remember a venue called Gatzbys in Reading? Station Approach? I used to go to Hardcore raves in the early 90s there. It was a night called Menace. Then many moons later I had few mates that used to play out The Matrix, on London Street.

Into The 90's on the Natural Born Killaz Ep is sublime. Still sounds so fresh today.

4:30 he'll that's a dope record for sure. Got one for about 16 years. Ram records.

Living legend

his early shit was the dope

@trixtrix146

4 жыл бұрын

Gabriel U mean his earlier shit was dope not was THE dope lol

@nickycotton6137

2 жыл бұрын

Aye, them 'Studio Pressure' Tracks ❤ most, but yrs & yrs later that rmx of 'Ready She Ready' ("BASS'EY RIGHT NOW") is bl**dy brilliant. Geezer's done so many Classics (& gems) + hard to recall when off Face tbh

What a cool guy 👍

"You want the mic upside down or rightside up?" "Let's go with upside down."

Buying records (in my case tapes) sound unheard, then finding out what they were later? Been there done that a thousand times, and guess what? Nearly all of them were ok to excellent, hardly ever a bad apple. Virgin Megastore, 2 Stockton, San Francisco, 1994-97, I was a bike messenger, top days.

The Master

The greatest

Cool guy!

Going record shopping with Photek? Damn... lucky girl

Seven samurai 👌🔥🔥

the man

Does anyone know what track is playing in the background at 2:16 ??

im not sure who said it, but im almost certain its was Photek, but I grew up listening to jungle and im a house producer. sometimes I think I make house choons inspired by jungle. idk weird.

What a guy.

Rupert is the man, always will be!

🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤

I was going to say, isn't this Blackmarket Records in d'arblay street run by Ray Keith and Nicky Blackmarket. Top floor business. I have one of their records.

record shops... miss it.. now its something else...

Age of empires... take a bow photek.

I don't buy DnB music anymore unless i can get it on vinyl. I LOVED thumbing through stacks of records, now it's all MP3's...... YAWN...

The rain is my fave

❤

Shine on Rupert

made some of the best tunes

He definitely is a genius.

4:29 Is this normal, lol

great video, but he was a bit unclear in the clip. Was this place where it all started for him or not?

i know two large record shops local to me which i found accidently being lost looking for directions.

@diamondsdiamonds5188

5 жыл бұрын

Guess you can say you had to get lost before you found yourself

The smell of card board.....God i miss that

RIP Black Market Records (in the physical form)

Photek-Consciousness got me back into drum and bass when I was beginning to lose the faith…

It’s true about record shops, one I went to they took the records out the sleeves and out them on a rack behind the counter so they could play and decide what you bought. Completely off-putting and annoying when you’d see DJs come in and be given a pile of the best tunes. Used to try and go early and you’d get better tunes and could ask questions. On topic photek is one of my favourite producers hes up there with anyone who made jungle and drum and bass.

Handsome.

ОТЕЦ !

MODUS!!

I wonder? You still got the Ferrari?

an og

Dear Mr Parkes please make face melting choons like you used to..that is all for now thanks your pal L13

Is black market records still there

@Shahzadkhan-dm3cv

Жыл бұрын

Shut down it's a Barber 💈 shop Now unfortunately...

Tell him that next time yeah?

Shopping for MP3's.

@k.c.lejeune6613

7 жыл бұрын

modvs1 MP3's...Please. VINYL IS KING!!! ANALOGUE IS KING!!!

original unknown

It's a shame that the black market closed its doors permanently. I would have liked to have gone one day.

so sad :(

Rupert is the assassin

@_____________2607

3 жыл бұрын

what you mean by that

@jondazeishere

3 жыл бұрын

@@_____________2607 he kills it

uh what?

modus operandi

I got alot of respect for Photek but dont try to fucking tell me that LA is relaxed and easy

hes not actually doing any shopping, boooo, i wanted to see what he was buying

Scott Ferguson any day now ( electrovox mix ) at 2:30