#monotrax

Artist: Tuomas Rantanen

Title: Configuration Space EP

Release date: 2 February 2018

Cat.no.: DRE079

Record label: Dreizehn Schallplatten (Berlin, Germany)

Tracklist:

1. Configuration Space

2. Hyperbolic Manifold

3. Parameter Space

4. Sectional Curvature

https://soundcloud.com/dreizehn_schallplatten/sets/dre079-02-feb-2018-tuomas

https://www.beatport.com/release/configuration-space-ep/2206361

Artist: Tuomas Rantanen

Title: Sympletic Manifold EP

Release date: 9 November 2017

Cat.no.: NLD417

Record label: Naked Lunch (Portugal)

Tracklist:

1. Vector Field

2. Lensed Images

3. Sympletic Manifold

Artist: Tuomas Rantanen

Title: Chameleon EP

Cat.no: EMBRION 073

Label: Embrion Music (Warsaw, Poland)

Date: 9 August 2016

Tracklist:

1. Chameleon

2. Echelon

3. Sobek

https://www.beatport.com/release/chameleon-ep/1813515

Artist: Tuomas Rantanen

Title: Red Granite

Cat.no: TARA011

Label: Tara Music

Date: 15 July 2016

Tracklist:

1. Red Granite

2. Imentet & Ra

3. Hathor Among The Deities

4. Reliefs Of Horus & Geb

https://www.beatport.com/release/red-granite/1785785

Artist: Tuomas Rantanen

Title: Nostromo EP

Cat.no: IR007

Label: Intimist Records (Switzerland)

Date: 13 July 2016

Tracklist:

1. Part 1

2. Part 2

3. Part 3

https://soundcloud.com/intimistrecords/tuomas-rantanen-nostromo-ep-snippet

https://www.beatport.com/release/nostromo/1792540

Artist: Tuomas Rantanen

Title: Early Cretaceous Part 1

Cat.no: CW109x

Label: City Wall Records (Brighton, UK)

Date: 18 July 2016

Tracklist with commentary from City Wall Records:

1. Berriasian. “Tune into the beating heart of an ancient species, love the way the ride pulses.”

2. Paranthodon. “Mechanical beats, this one is all about subtlety.”

3. Valanginian. “Haunting!” 

4. Iguanodon. “Troubled and bitter, badly damaged yet struggling on.”

5. Wuerhosaurus. “Regular structure, strong build, ready for action.”

6. Craterosaurus. “More regular build work, nothing wrong with that.”

7. Hauterivian. “Spicy and choppy percussion.” 

8. Afrovenator. “Laid back.”

9. Barremian. “Another deep haunting journey, time is ticking.”

10. Neovenator. “Powerful thunder.”

Press release notes from City Wall Records:

“The journey into ancient times continues as TuomasRantanen steps into the Cretaceous period (that’s a section of time when dinosaurs were around in case you were wondering). Here stands a mixture of broken beats and deep, hard techno. Aside from the usual examples of extreme delays and reverbs we also see Tuomas playing with blatant over-filtering, serious over-compression and subtle yet provocative distortion, most obviously on the ride cymbals. Tuomas’s studio set up is still somewhat of a mystery, is he an analogue guy, or a digital don? What software does he sequence on? One day I’ll get these answers but so far the only information I have is that he is singing in choir performing works by Johann Sebastian Bach and Palestrina, which doesn’t surprise me because when I first started working with Tuomas in the days of MySpace, his page was a virtually a tribute to Bach and some of histories other greatest composers. Aside from the choir work Tuomas likes to keep physically on it with weekly running (30km-50km) in the forests near Tampere and playing/coaching Floorball (a form of floor hockey), phew!“

“The Cretaceous series follows on from Jurassic trilogy (2015), which in turn is a continuation of the Triassic trilogy (2014). This material all links in with Tuomas Rantanen’s pre-2014 works that explore the concept of auditory changes due to environmental mechanization. The pre-2014 releases include productions such as the Nychthemeron in Galapagos suite (2013), Gasoline Rainbow EP (2010), Dark Water EP (2008), Rocket Bay EP (2003). Rantanen has also dealt with the theme of societal change from the perspective of Cyberpunk. Rantanen wants to show how boundaries between man and machine, the natural and the artificial have become blurred. He also wants to reveal how a change in our audible environment might soon be a reality. These Cyberpunk themes of societal and audible change are explored in his more chaotic works such as Mechanised Incantations (2013), Robot Construction (2013), Biometrics (2013), Corporations (2012), Mutations (2012), Organisms (2012), Anarchy EP (2011), Robotan Elbows EP (2009), Memorising Every Phrase EP (2006), Kaotic EP (2002) and Access Denied EP (1999).”

https://soundcloud.com/citywallrecords/sets/cw109x-tuomas-rantanen-early-cretaceous-pt-1-city-wall-records

http://www.citywallrecords.com/cw109.pdf

https://www.beatport.com/release/early-cretaceous-pt-1/1812268

Artist: Tuomas Rantanen

Title: Tactical Telemetry

Cat.no: SUB805

Label: Subwoofer Records

Date: 20 May 2016

Tracklist:

1. Compact Spaces

2. Tactical Telemetry

3. Tactical Telemetry (Ross Harper Remix)

4. Metric Spaces

5. Continuum

https://pro.beatport.com/release/tactical-telemetry/1767038

Artist: Tuomas Rantanen

Title: Bark of Ra

Cat.no: WBM020D

Label: We Build Machines

Date: 19 March 2016

“When Ra, according to his desire, uttered the deep thoughts of his mind, that which he named had being. When he gazed into space, that which he desired to see appeared before him. He went about among men; he took form like unto theirs, and to him the centuries were as years.”

Tracklist:

1. Bark of Ra

2. Rear Wall

3. Phrase Often

4. Prometheus

5. First Gate

6. Osiris In Shrine Attended

https://pro.beatport.com/release/bark-of-ra/1726857