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.
Latest releases
20 recent albums and singles. Cover art links through to Spotify.
Listener trend
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Scene ranks
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Artists to compare
Acts at a similar level in drum & bass, and the biggest names from United Kingdom.
Photek in numbers
How many monthly Spotify listeners does Photek have?
Photek has 164,200 monthly Spotify listeners in the week of Aug 17, 2026, as published on their public Spotify artist page.
What is Photek's world ranking?
Photek is ranked #819 of 1214 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 #158 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 Aug 17, 2026. Listener figures come from Spotify's own public artist page and are rounded.