The curse of game-changing music albums....

Rupert Parkes is kind of like the electronic music version of Nas and Dr. Dre. Nas has never been able to live up to the expectations set forth by his masterpiece album 'Illmatic'. Dr. Dre will never live up to the expectations for 'Detox', his long and often delayed follow-up to the legendary '2001'. And we all know what happened when Axl Rose finally quit effing around and released 'Chinese Democracy' Photek's music touched so many people, and he was releasing solid 100% raw bangers for so many years, that people really bugged out when he dissappeared to the US to pursue who knows what. While the crazy "I've-gone-hollywood" interview vibe didn't help at all, I can't really fault anyone for pursuing their dream. If it's in Hollywood so be it. Now he has finally returned, and you can listen to his new offering at the end of this blog drop, a cut off of an EP scheduled to come out in February of 2011. I dig it - I can hear elements of the Photek sound, but it's a totally different direction. But then I'm not a stan; apparently the pain is being felt greatly all around the drum n bass circles where every night they worship at the alter of 'Ni ten ichi ryu' Let's be honest, even if he created a brand new classic Photek sounding album today, in 2011; if Nas did the same with Illmatic, or Dre with his classics... these same stans would tear it apart. You can't live in the past. Respect it, learn from it, but move forward. This is the same reason I'm not mad at Rother for developing his sound - I'm glad he made those electro classics in the 90s, but I'm also glad he's making money in 2011 from the music scene. City of Bass: blogging daily about the electro music scene. Follow along via twitter or the RSS feed