Track Listing

1. Seven Samurai [Photek Remix]
2. Lightening [Digital Remix]
3. Rings Around Saturn [Peshay & Decoder Remix]
4. Margin '98 [Doc Scott Remix]
5. Resolution [Photek Remix]
6. UFO [J Majik Remix]
7. Knitevision
8. Santiago
9. Seven Samurai
10. Rings Around Saturn
11. Water Margin
12. UFO

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1302834 in Music
• Released on: 2000-07-24
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.com
Like the best drum & bass musicians, Photek explores the nuances of the rhythms that most jungle musicians, blinded by dance-floor strobe lights, take for granted. His rarefied electronic tracks rarely overlap more than a handful of discrete sonic elements. On "The Water Margin," for example, cetacean burbles bounce amid an extended percussion solo and a lone, vaporous, synthetic woodwind. And that's it. The composerly sense of musical development Photek brings to these skeletal constructions has lent his earliest recordings a reputation as the blueprint of avant-garde drum & bass. Four of those early recordings, "The Water Margin" among them, are collected on Form & Function, which also includes six appropriately uncluttered remixes (by J Majik, Doc Scott, Peshay, and others) and two brand new tracks, one spooky, one funky. --Marc Weidenbaum

Spin
The thing about Photek's production style, though, is that it often blinds you with science instead of catapulting you into orbit. Only "Water Margin" bristles with real excitement; the rest settle for merely impressing you with craftmanship.

URB
...Form & Function will not only brighten your memory, it'll also brighten your day, since it not only collects those singles, but puts remixes on the A-side and two new tracks ... on the flip, making for two distinct listening experiences.

Customer Reviews

Middle of the line release from master of musical precision
I bought this CD soon after I bought Modus Operandi. And I would have to say Form & Function was a disappointment, but after listening to Modus Operandi, anything is a disappointment. I suggest you stay away from this alnum until you listen to M.O. because of the overbearing mechanical precison of this album leaves you feeling dry. Too much uniformity can be a bad thing if it's not backed up with enough variety of sampling. This CD does not have much listening life to it unlike it's exceptional predecessor: Modu Operandi. Form & Funcion was good but could have been a lot better. It just doesn't sound complete, almost as it was released by Photek unfinshed.

Meticulous
About a year agoA friend of mine told me of his Photek addiction. His began with the closing credits of the movie Blade which features a Photek tune. I watched the credits just to hear it, and immediately understood. Photek's music takes elements of minimalism, jazz, and electro-acoustic composition to new realms (3 areas of music where the same works seem to be repeating for the last ten years). I can't get enough of this disc especially "UFO". The art is in the simplicity.

experimental breaks at their best
In this album Photek has shown that there is no limit for finding new ways to produce an experimental drum and bass compilation he is always breaking new grounds and is a constant inspiration.