So so true man! I was in my late teens to early 20's when this all exploded. Was an exciting time indeed. I'm privileged to have lived through it & bought the records. My only regret is that I never got to attend any DnB parties. Maybe a few house parties. Still...a great time for all of us who know! :)
1:45 This break beat is underrated, the way that transition happened was so smooth. The way the crashes, snares & cymbals collide along with that bass, absolutely perfect.
Photek is one of my favorites all of his tunes just don't get old cause of how much he put into it Photek is the got damn MAN you heard me that's real talk.
Sobbing gently but smiling all the while.. This tune is in-flufin-credible.. Cornwall Colliseum.. Oh my goodness.. -only you can give me what i want a lot-
@@Swindybobs79 I was probably feeling a bit hype when I wrote that. I shouldn't say for certain that one producer is better than another. I tend to go through phases even. To say Photek is the best would understate boys like Intense, Aquasky, Wax Doctor, Jonny L etc.
Jesus christ, I can remember the first time I ever heard this. Even as someone who grew up obsessed with rave & DnB, it knocked me off my feet. The most gut wrenching, soul shaking, goose bump inducing bassline of all time.
Tune I ain't heard it for a few years I stumbled across it looking on TH-cam at old-school dnb tunes I used to blast in the mid 1990s to 2006 era we don't get propper dark deep drum and bass tunes anymore sadly especially stuff like goldie/lemon d/metal headz but dnb vibes always take me back to happier better times as its the closest thing to a time machine we have got!!! 😎🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳
The second half of this track is so goooooood. Those of you that possibly heard this live or just out and about in an environment, I am jealous of you. What a vibe, now its just shitty trap music and pop everywhere. Big sad. But big happy I can listen.
Al Wilson why ? This stuff should only played on vinyl simple as that go and buy some technics 1210's and learn how to mix properly and buy this on vinyl simple.
@Soul Slip lmao I'd love to hear what the artist has to say about that. "Oh you love my music so much you're glad no one knows about it, and you don't want to share it... Sick, thanks." Kind of wonky sounding. But I do think it's the natural progression of popularity for gems like this to be overlooked. And that does make those of us who know of them feel a little more special.
I have no fucking idea if this is jungle or dnb...who really gives a fuck anyway?!! It’s all music!! Got shelf loads of tunes from 1991 to date and was informed that some of it ‘trance’!! Oddly I always considered it as hardcore (as I heard it on a Phantasy set from Dreamscape 4). Let’s agree on one thing. This is the fucking biz
![DJ SHARPEY presents, Photek [Rupert Parkes] - Showcase Mix | 1994 1995 | Vinyl Only](/img/n.gif)
We are so lucky to have lived through this era. London was some city back then, still live here but miss it.
London is no more
It was the era. The era was absolutely unbelievable & I pity anyone who didnt grow up through it.
So so true man! I was in my late teens to early 20's when this all exploded. Was an exciting time indeed. I'm privileged to have lived through it & bought the records. My only regret is that I never got to attend any DnB parties. Maybe a few house parties. Still...a great time for all of us who know! :)
Central London has been replaced with a shopping mall, RIP to all the independent shops and real people who used to live there
Photek made this in Ipswich…
66 and still into this groove.
Yes yes original
Big up the OG ina da area😎🔊🤜🏼🤛🏼
I’m 23 and I wish I was around for this error of music all people my age listen to is jump up I love the old school jungle /dnb real tunes
1:45 This break beat is underrated, the way that transition happened was so smooth. The way the crashes, snares & cymbals collide along with that bass, absolutely perfect.
one of my fav breakdowns at 3:00. rupert really loved himself some of that sound from the east
One of photek's best tunes!! Also one of my all time favourite jungle/drum n bass tracks. Pure gold this!!
Studio Pressure - First Sequence?
Ennhee, this one is niceness 🔥😝
But lets not forget 'Feeling Up' (unreleased)
Photek is one of my favorites all of his tunes just don't get old cause of how much he put into it Photek is the got damn MAN you heard me that's real talk.
The best to ever dot it. No boy test.
Photek: one of the best to ever do it. This tune: right up there as one of the best DnB tracks ever.
those bass stabs at the start will never leave my mind from going out mid-90's....
1995; I was 18 years old. Lived about a mile away from the Sanctuary and raving was everything. I'm so glad I lived through this.
I was 18 in 95!
Mate I lived in Hemel, and went to the Sanctuary all the time. Was 16 in 1995. Evolution, Dreamscape, and all that. Amazing.
hahaha pretty sure my mate had a fight with you.
Me too! I’m from Kent and used to trek up to the sanctuary back then. Loved it ❤
So gutted I missed this boat, you really witnessed a special time
Sobbing gently but smiling all the while..
This tune is in-flufin-credible..
Cornwall Colliseum..
Oh my goodness..
-only you can give me what i want a lot-
They don't make them like they use to..(Glad i lived, raved, Partied & DJ'd - in the late 1980s,90s ) !
ikr
Will never forget Bukem and others playing this at The Paradise Club. Pure carnage!
Intelligent DnB is a bit like speed balling the relentless charge of the amen, and the chilled pads and atmospherics. Love it ❤
I got shivers listening to this. Absolute MASTERPIECE!
My era x in love with this
riff @ 3:00 will always be one of the most epic and timeless ever.. then the snare and kick layer back @ 3:25, then bass drop @ 3:48... EEEEEPIC!
Very nice indeed
drift(ing) to the centre
Just doesn't gets old, constantly coming back to hear this. Top notch
Yes, this is top notch.
A true artist. Timeless.
Doesn't get any better than this 100% bliss listening
Rupert was way ahead of his time.
+Chris Doss way way ahead.......
He was on another level but when someone say's that I think of the early 90's The Prodigy.
Really? Explain why this tune was so ahead of its time?
@@onenation8707 Liam howlett was WAY ahead of his time when he made "the experience" album BEFORE 1991.
@Beeblebrox One spare me ok? I WAS there at the beginning. Sadly for your "argument".
Photek is without a doubt the greatest producer of intelligent jungle the world ever knew
To say it like that makes it sound like he died. No, but those are times we will never experience again
I do also rate Seba and LTJ Bukem for pioneering this style.
One Nation don’t forget, Fanu. Nobody mentions him. He’s got that vibe going on...
Big up this comment, it’s a tough call between him and PFM for me
@@Swindybobs79 I was probably feeling a bit hype when I wrote that. I shouldn't say for certain that one producer is better than another. I tend to go through phases even. To say Photek is the best would understate boys like Intense, Aquasky, Wax Doctor, Jonny L etc.
Badass track, from a golden era
Yes bro. Filthy ass track👊💥
THE golden era. We were so lucky.
Different level man jeez. That drop @3:48 makes me go silly. Big up Photek. Genius👊
Bennyob1 Bennyob1 Them feels!
Electrifying Finery 🔥🔥🔥 Absolute Tune
Ringing in my ears for years 🎉😊
Back again. Never gets old
It is impossible to listen to this without my brain adding the sound of MC Conrad's vocals gliding on over like a perfect combination
Showcased perfectly here at 16 minutes on the Dreamscape XI mix. Sublime > th-cam.com/video/678NH_Lr_qs/w-d-xo.html
Any chance you could tell me the mix you heard this from please?
Rip conrad.
@@DnBReece1th-cam.com/video/jVl7DY3FPPs/w-d-xo.htmlsi=xMu5DzL0Q2IIjSpQ
A rear wheel drive sports car in the rain at midnight + this song = you guessed it
it definitely equals a car accident but you'll be loving every moment of it before you crash lmao
@@Government-Psyop not if your a skilled professional.. also MY FWD is handling my power.
Still got this on vinyl from in the day.. Bukem smashed this at rocket 🚀 club Holloway Road..
Jesus christ, I can remember the first time I ever heard this. Even as someone who grew up obsessed with rave & DnB, it knocked me off my feet. The most gut wrenching, soul shaking, goose bump inducing bassline of all time.
This song is fucking perfect
Literally doesn't get any better
It’s a tune not a song
@@stuee_mk1stuee_mk169 I bet you reminded the teacher to pick up the homework in high school
@@Koizumifan-tw9dc just sounds corny af to call it a song. It's not a nursery rhyme either.
@@Vingul My apologies. This jingle is quite fetching
27 years later, Mr Parkes still running things, absolute chuggathon..
I have the original vinyl but still no digital! So i come here for old skool healing ❤️
Tune I ain't heard it for a few years I stumbled across it looking on TH-cam at old-school dnb tunes I used to blast in the mid 1990s to 2006 era we don't get propper dark deep drum and bass tunes anymore sadly especially stuff like goldie/lemon d/metal headz but dnb vibes always take me back to happier better times as its the closest thing to a time machine we have got!!! 😎🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳
Stonewall wall classic were it all began love it flamez 🔥 🔥 🔥 ❤
A fine piece it does help me find my centre when a bit lost, Top of the Range
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When hype scratched power to this 🔥
you can almost hear the transition from hardcore to jungle in this track, class tune
I'm still spinning this tune out since 95 fam. Love & Respect to the massive. ❤️👌❤️👌♥️💎
Ύμνος παρακαταθήκη το κομμάτι...❤️👊🔊🇬🇷
What a ride this tune!
Fucking hell, I never knew this was Photek. No wonder I was obsessed with it as a young lad. This is otherworld magic.
its not........
@@DjphobiaDnB it's Rupert Parkes, same dude who makes music as Photek.
@@Vingul nice to meet you........
Night time driving music you already know
oooofffff the metallic samurai moves three minutes in are legendary
Utter bliss 🙏
Still got this on vinyl, I always thought after the break the vocal was saying "The Terminator!"
( Beautiful peice of Music .. Wow !! & it gets Better & Better ... AL67*
Back again, and again, and again.
Photeks best for me up there with aquatic and first sequence.
True love for this one..!
Heard this track 20+ years ago on a rave mixtape. I used Shazam yesterday while listening to the same mixtape. Dope!
Really wish this tune was more available digitally
Download from you tube.. Done
Such an insane song
This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius
the king of rolling, 50 fathom deep mystic amen....
Well put indeed
The second half of this track is so goooooood. Those of you that possibly heard this live or just out and about in an environment, I am jealous of you. What a vibe, now its just shitty trap music and pop everywhere. Big sad. But big happy I can listen.
this tune is ridiculous. still!
sooo atmospheric!!!!
awesome........
Flawless
cant live without it
So good. Great for studying
Its a Jungle brother!
Thanks for sharing, 😊
Heavy Gratitude
Still have the vinyl. Sounds amazing on 33 and 45rpm.
3:00 I love this section
awwww yeaaaahhhh - eye of the storm
This track should be available digitally so everybody can have it!
Al Wilson why ? This stuff should only played on vinyl simple as that go and buy some technics 1210's and learn how to mix properly and buy this on vinyl simple.
"buy some equipment that costs hundreds of pounds and learn a skill that takes hours and hours of practice so u can listen to one tune" really simple
xpkc34 yes, you’ve got the right idea now.
You’re welcome.
Beats wanky cdjs or whatever
When you achieve it you will understand
Andrew Pink or 1200s eh.
The silvers are badass as y’like
(Sold mind in 1998, so now have 1210s meh)
@Soul Slip lmao I'd love to hear what the artist has to say about that. "Oh you love my music so much you're glad no one knows about it, and you don't want to share it... Sick, thanks." Kind of wonky sounding. But I do think it's the natural progression of popularity for gems like this to be overlooked. And that does make those of us who know of them feel a little more special.
aquarius on big man tune!
This tube defines what was cutting edge back in the day just like 1 & only by pfm! Old fart reminiscing 😁
In bits.. its bin a long time,but it feels like my colliseum buzz jus kikt bak in..🥲
Old school love it
Great track!
r.i.p.all fallen.drift to the centre.
God bless you Rupert Parkes
Drifting.... to sleep 🎶🎶
Wooooow....😮😮😮
Wow 🥰
its like a drift into the eye of the storm !
Dont know if your still out there? But thank you my friend.
It supossed this would be the future of music
SAFE TO SAY THIS IS TOP 5 ALL TIME DNB ?
+Bobby Cabbagestalk jungle please
I have no fucking idea if this is jungle or dnb...who really gives a fuck anyway?!!
It’s all music!!
Got shelf loads of tunes from 1991 to date and was informed that some of it ‘trance’!! Oddly I always considered it as hardcore (as I heard it on a Phantasy set from Dreamscape 4).
Let’s agree on one thing.
This is the fucking biz
Bobby Cabbagestalk yes
what a trip
Do we think the title is about the needle? Drifting from the edge of the vinyl to the centre?
James Dennis ... I'm with you.
... can't speak for the CDJ'er types tho
Tao Te Ching perhaps meant something else
its esoteric philosophy, but the record itself is a fractal iteration of a lifetime
but to call it mere philosophy does it a disservice
Yes, some kind of LSD guided meditation
Deeper than the NYC concrete jungle, taller than the twin tower's canopy.
This tune is/was mega! when it was released.
better than anything made nowadays
Niiiiiiiiceeeeee!!!!
See this is drum and bass not like what children put out these days you can't ever top this stuff 🤟😜
init
Photek!!!!!!!!! For those that dunno! Beast!
Drift to the center of your mind
Not sure about you guys, but that pan pipe was speaking to me.
Wow the progression of this track is akin to the wisdom of the ancients....undo dust we shall return...stunning track
insane that this dude was from my town
no,pekné človeče!!! Au !!
Got score lines so high my great great granny is Bono
So good.
Banger
Admiral Bryd -RIP
Blimey
Drift to the centre,Aqarius