Biography

Tuomas Rantanen comes from Finland and his musical style is dark industrial techno. He has created a very unique music expression where strong driving percussion techno combines to cold and dark atmosphere and ambience elements. Prior to his own techno music productions he studied classical guitar and theory of music at Tampere Conservatory, and in 1995 he also started to make his own music productions. In 1999 he released his first release on Template Records (England) with support by British techno producer Glenn Wilson. After that Tuomas Rantanen has released several techno releases also on other labels including Fresh Grind (England), Audio Assault (The Netherlands), Submissions (The Netherlands), Unknown Forces (England), Electracom (England), KK Traxx (Belgium), Definition Records (Germany), Maracas Records (Sweden), Emergence Records (Sweden) and Fak Records (Finland). Tuomas Rantanen has studied Philosophy at Tampere University. He wrote his Master's Thesis about the philosophy of Martin Heidegger; especially Heidegger's concept of understanding, language and art.

Discography

Tuomas Rantanen Discography AUDIO ASSAULT (Rotterdam, The Netherlands) Carl Max / Tuomas Rantanen Alliance I (12") AAR 006 Various Artists Battlefields (12") AAR 013 DEFINITION RECORDS (Leipzig, Germany) Various Artists Solid Players Part 1 (12") DEF 2007 Tuomas Rantanen Scapes (12") DEF 2010 Various Artists Solid Players Part 2 (12") DEF2013 Various Artists Remix Poison (12") DEF 2020 ELECTRACOM (London, UK) Kuniaki Takenaga / Tuomas Rantanen / Supagrupa / Damon Vallero Components III (12") ECOM21 EMERGENCE RECORDS (Malmö, Sweden) Tuomas Rantanen (12") Emergence Six IOU6 FAK RECORDS (Kajaani, Finland) Tuomas Rantanen Rocket Bay (12") FAK 015 FRESH GRIND RECORDINGS (London, England) Tuomas Rantanen Memorising Every Phrase EP (12") FRESH GRIND 011 KK TRAXX (Antwerp, Belgium) Tuomas Rantanen Kaotic EP (12") KKT 049 Tuomas Rantanen Shamanalogue (12") KKT 050 MARACAS RECORDS (Stockholm, Sweden) Tuomas Rantanen Disyllabic (12") MAR 008 OIKOSULKU RECORDS (Tampere, Finland) Various Artists Imaginary Fields Part 1 OIKOSULKU 1 pHinnMILK RECORDINGS (Tampere, Finland) Club Telex Noise Ensemble / Various Artists CTNERMX (CD-R) phnnmlk-3 SUBMISSIONS (Rotterdam, The Netherlands) Various Artists Submissions 9 (12") SUB 009 TEMPLATE/PLANET RHYTHM (Northants, UK) Tuomas Rantanen Access Denied EP (12") Template 8.9 UNKNOWN FORCES (London, UK) Staffan Ehrlin & Dean Rodell / Audioklinik /Patrik Skoog / Tuomas Rantanen Element EP Part 2 (12") UFO12.5

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