United KingdomPhotek is a Drum & Bass act from United Kingdom, ranked #1436 in the world on the DJ INDEX with 180,900 monthly Spotify listeners. That also puts them #259 in United Kingdom and #127 in Drum & Bass among the acts we track. Their monthly audience has grown 10% over the 6 weeks we have tracked them, from 164K to 181K. They have 72,024 Spotify followers and a Spotify popularity score of 39/100. Their most-streamed track on Spotify is “End of Line - Remixed by Photek”.
Who Photek is
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.
Biography from the Photek article on Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Most played tracks
The tracks Spotify surfaces first for Photek, with its own 0–100 popularity score alongside.
End of Line - Remixed by PhotekTRON: Legacy Reconfigured · 2011462
Into the 90'sNatural Born Killa (2015 Remaster) · 2015403
The Hand That Feeds - Photek Straight MixThe Hand That Feeds · 2005364
T'Raenon - Original MixT'Raenon (Remastered Edition) · 1996365The RainNatural Born Killa (2015 Remaster) · 2015366
30 Seconds OutPhotek · 2026367
Single - Photek RemixWalking Wounded (Deluxe Edition) · 1996298
The Hidden CameraModus Operandi · 1997339
Rings Around SaturnU.F.O. / Rings Around Saturn · 19953210Modus OperandiPhotek · 199732Latest releases
21 recent albums and singles. Cover art links through to Spotify.
Say It2026 · single30 Seconds Out2026 · single
Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare II Season 5 (Official Game Soundtrack)2023 · album
Aviator2022 · single
The Protégé (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)2021 · album
Security Measures2021 · single
Still Life / The Rain (2020 Remasters)2020 · single![Still Life / The Rain (2020 Remasters) [Photek Remixes] cover art](https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d00001e0206684b9d002a2dedefd04222)
Still Life / The Rain (2020 Remasters) [Photek Remixes]2020 · single
Mosul (Original Soundtrack)2019 · album
Need for Speed (EA Games Soundtrack)2016 · album
Natural Born Killa2015 · singleNatural Born Killa (2015 Remaster)2015 · singlePost this ranking
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7 weekly snapshots. Peak so far: 181K in the week of Sep 28, 2026.
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Photek in numbers
How many monthly Spotify listeners does Photek have?
Photek has 180,900 monthly Spotify listeners in the week of Sep 28, 2026, as published on their public Spotify artist page.
What is Photek's world ranking?
Photek is ranked #1436 of 4408 electronic music artists in the DJ INDEX, which ranks purely by monthly Spotify listeners.
Where is Photek from?
Photek is from United Kingdom, where they rank #259 among the acts we track.
What kind of music does Photek make?
Photek is categorised as Drum & Bass and House in the DJ INDEX. Spotify tags them as jungle, drum and bass, idm, trip hop.
Snapshot from the week of Sep 28, 2026. Listener figures come from Spotify's own public artist page and are rounded.