The easiest way to introduce Ripperton would be to mention that he was growing up as a teenager to the rhythms of Tony Humphries, Djaimin and Kid Bachelor, working in the well- known Lausanne record shop, Tracks, and generally drowning in all that was vinyl, Raphael started DJing in the early 90s.
Soon after, thanks to MPC3000 and dusty analogue synths, he began producing. His first releases came under the names of Soul Merge and Reasons, the latter won the Diesel U Music awards in 2003 and then led to the setting up of his first label, Lovearth Records.
He gained popularity with his side project Lazy Fat People that was signed to labels like Border Community, Wagon Repair and Carl Craig's Planet E, as well as new successes as a solo artist.
As Ripperton, he enjoyed collaborates with fellow Swiss producers friends like Quarion, Van Hai, Agnès, Chaton, Dachshund, Masaya, Crowdpleaser or Quenum on labels like Sthlm Audio and Plak Records.
He's also released tracks on major underground labels: Innervisions, Maeve, Systematic, Rekids, Cocoon, Liebe Detail, Connaisseur and many more top ones, and delivered more than 130 remixes for Laurent Garnier, Ellen Alien, Beanfield and even the band Radiohead.
Very popular with artists such as Steve Bug, Maya Jane Cole, Sasha, dj Koze, James Holden, Joris Voorn, Deetron, Radioslave in their compilations over the last few years.
In 2006 he started the well-known underground label, Perspectiv Records, soon followed by his beloved Tamed musiq in 2010 which brought out some fresh talent from Switzerland and around the world and nurtured some interesting interactions with amazing producer like dj Nature, Tobias, Soulphiction, Sebo K, DJ Koze, Matt Karmil, Baikal and Isolée.
His first LP arrived in 2010. Called « Niwa » he was soon followed by « A little part of shade » in 2013 both opus released on Joris Voorn’s Green records.
Around 2018 he felt that the time had come to let the wind enter and blow new modular and guitar experiments in the forms of « Sight seeing » and « Contrails » on the beautiful label ESP institutes in based in Los Angeles.
In 2022 Ripperton receives the prestigious Swiss Music Prize alongside the legendary duo Yello. He collaborates with the photographer Matthieu Gafsou for his exhibition « Vivants » at the Museum of Art from Pully and will present an orchestral version of his electronic pieces for the prestigious tonhalleLATE – classic meets electronic in collaboration with the Zurich Film Festival and the Filmphilharmony. He’ll also relaunch the duo Lazy fat people with Mirko Loko.
Definitively one of the most creative producer and Swiss DJs of today, Ripperton is a perfect electronic music chameleon.
