Modus Operandi (1997)

Rupert Parkes, recording as Photek, built a dark, minimal record steeped in martial-arts imagery and film noir tension. Instead of brute volume, it relies on surgical breakbeat editing, cavernous reverb and tense sub-bass pulses; Ni-Ten-Ichi-Ryu shows how much drama he gets from a few precise drum hits. The headphone end of the genre's range.