Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Purchasable with gift card
€4EUR or more
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Mycrotom Solo debut album "Ratoratiyo". Vinyl record one of 200 Numbered incl. liner notes 165gr Crystal-Clear-Look it is a high-quality eye-catcher.
You will get the immediate download in Bandcamp all Formats. Plus a QR code for the VR video.
Includes unlimited streaming of Ratoratiyo
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
ships out within 3 days
edition of 200
Purchasable with gift card
€20EURor more
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
Numbered CD of Ratoratiyo in a cardboard pocket. Plus immediate download for all Formats on Bandcamp. Additionally a QR Code to the VR-Video is printed here.
Includes unlimited streaming of Ratoratiyo
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
ships out within 3 days
Purchasable with gift card
€6EURor more
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Are you interested in music and VR visuals? You will receive cardboard virtual reality glasses printed with Hanna's motif for viewing the VR content with your own smartphone. With instructions on how to watch the VR music video.
Includes Download of Ratoratiyo via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, WAV and more.
Includes unlimited streaming of Ratoratiyo
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
RATORATIYO.
A quite unusual album title yet well fitting for this album debut created by mycrotom, because every and anything the Augsburg-based Italo- Canadian Tom Simonetti a.k.a. mycrotom has done throughout his 20+ years spanning exploration in sonic musings is somewhat, well... unusual and well different, in the most positive of all meanings, that is. Starting with him being involved in media- art, education projects or bands like Das Hobos, H and Rhytm Police, his app-focused approach to workshops for and lectures in music production, leading towards his love for 45 rpm records being played on a wrong, slower speed in his DJ sets.
Not to mention the influence of the Mongkong Music Network once co-founded by Simonetti many years ago. An ever growing, meandering network of friends, bands and music activists which makes a camo appearance in the albums catalogue number – MKNG-01.
To illustrate this artistically, a VR music video from Wide Horizon Films was crowd-funded. But this is just a side note.
RATORATIYO.
The phrase – spelled out as “RA-TO RA-TI YO” in its orginal form – originates in the language of the Mohawk tribe and translates to “the great hunter”, a phrase used for Simonetti by a Canadian Mohawk Native living in an area known as Goldenhorseshoe located in Ontario, who probably had no idea about how fitting and suitable a description it might turn out when applied to musical works of the artist at some point.
mycrotom is a great hunter of sorts, to some degree at least. A hunter for tiniest details, ever- lasting progress and sonic evolution. A hunter for polyrhythms and (mycro)melodies, for small but pivotal changes in a tunes low end, a hunter for everything new and different, yet keen to stay true to musical influences gathered over the course of years and decades prior to the release of this album. #balance and all that. This said, RATORATIYO is an album equally created for dancing and listening.
For dancing, even though some tracks on this longplay piece are based on a 5/4 foundation not necessarily referred to as suitable for (club) DJ use and abuse. But this low key subliminal difference won›t keep anyone from dancing at all because there’s an element of groove and swing everywhere. One track might be influenced and infused by Electro as a genre, another one sees IDM lurking, proving that so-called “intelligent dance music” is called “dance music” for a reason. And of course there’s the UK-centric “hardcore continuum” weighing in in terms of deepest sub frequencies derived from its gazillions of deri- vatives, especially those defined by the prefix of “post-”. Think Post-Garage x Post-Dubstep x Post-Whatever for a specific kind of dancefloor functionality which, all in itself, is very unique and most of all very mycrotom.
And listening, because RATORATIYO is an album
for headphone consumption as well. Because every- thing is moving and happening simultaneously. There›s way more going on than one could fully grasp and embrace in one session only, not to mention the obvious limitations of two ears being connected to one single brain only. Every moment, every second of musical evolution provides a new layer, new depth, new effects and probably a new additional groove. A certain kind of sonic infor- mation overdose which, catered and arranged in this specific mycrotom way, is not taxing or demanding at all, but rather slowing down and dissolving time in well a friendly, playful and comforting manner, hovering and floating beyond our three dimensional realm and providing an explorative journey into new territories for each and every listener.
This is RATORATIYO. A piece of music. Lasting a total of 2375 seconds. Shaped, sculpted and perceived in Augsburg. RATORATIYO reflects on an entire universe. The sonic universe of one Tom Simonetti.
The sonic universe of mycrotom.
_ baze.djunkiii / Hamburg / 2k21
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credits
released June 4, 2021
Illustration by Hanna Verwohlt
Mastered by Bernhard Kühne
Laquer Cut: Moritz Illner
Layout: Tommy Schmid
VR Video by WIDE HORIZON FILMS
everything is fine. nothing is ok. dog and i are on a late night walk. we are together. we are in our own worlds. all is well. nothing is certain. there is the rhythm of street light, shadow, street light, shadow, street li--- we should go home now, Maggie is sleeping. artistreader
Track 6 caught me off guard then I heard the rest of the tracks at two different times. Bought the entire DISCOGRAPHY!
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