The Samples of Photek

We continue to learn about the sources of inspiration of jungle and drum‘n’bass musicians. Without any words, requests or greetings, the YouTube channel Original Jungle Samples tells us what kind of instruments and voices we hear in our favourite tracks. Today—Photek.

“What I basically did was scrape a couple of grand together as a teenager when my parents moved out to Suffolk, as it was the Rave era and I didn’t really want to leave London at the time. I bought Future Music and went shopping. It was actually impossible for me to make music by reading magazines. I had no idea that there was such a thing as a sampler or a sequencer, but I had a feeling that there was, so I’d read magazines and just from the spec in the advertisements I got enough information to choose a Roland W30 workstation. So I bought it and just sat in my bedroom for about a year making beats. I took it from there basically; I didn’t know anyone else who made music.