With a background in techno and house, the Lausanne resident Ripperton is one of the winners of the 2022 Swiss Music Prizes awarded this Thursday evening at the Octagon in Pully. He has just published the album “Hysteresis” in a more ambient vein and is performing Friday evening in Lausanne at the Label Suisse Festival.
Raphaël Gros in civil status is one of the most creative Swiss producers of the techno and house genres. He was born in Lausanne in 1976 and started working as a DJ in 1993. In his three-decade career, he has released five albums as a soloist and produced various singles on the Border Community, Wagon Repair and Planet E labels. legendary Carl Craig. Ripperton has also produced successful remixes for Laurent Garnier or Radiohead.
Over the years, he has contributed to highlighting on the international scene with his own labels (Perspectiv Records, Tamed Musiq) various talents of the Swiss electronic scene. He is regularly invited to Asia, Australia and America, where he is particularly appreciated for his deep, melodic and sensual productions.
>> To see: a video portrait of Ripperton for his Swiss Music Prize 2022
Ambient turn of his productions
However, his recent productions are more in line with the ambient genre, music created and baptized in the 1970s by Brian Eno with a meditative tempo, sometimes in suspension, attentive to the textures of sound and conducive to dreamlike drift or “the sound furnishings”.
Ripperton has just released “Hysteresis”, an album in this more peaceful vein that accompanies an exhibition by photographer Matthieu Gafsou at the Pully Art Museum. “I have always loved ambient music. But in 2017 I reached the end of something in my professional life. I had a hundred dates a year around the world as a techno DJ for which I therefore traveled a lot, j “I was in the studio a lot during the week, I had two children and I reached a point of saturation. I also had travel anxiety which returned as well as ecological anxiety which developed”, explains to the RTS Ripperton which now seeks more of a balance between calm productions and DJ sets cut out for the dancefloor. An ambient turn that he also associates with more experimental musical quests and work as a sound designer.
>> To listen: “Nature” by Ripperton, from the album “Hysteresis”
The musician, producer and DJ from Lausanne also puts boundless energy into giving life to creative collaborations with Mirko Loko (under the name of Lazy Fat People) as will be the case in Lausanne on the D! Club as part of the Label Suisse Festival, Deetron (Roots Panorama) or Alex & Stephane Attias.
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Ripperton, “Hysteresis” (Tamed Musiq).
Ripperton and Mirko Loko: Lazy Fat People, a live and DJ set, as part of the Label Suisse Festival, D! Club, Lausanne, Fri September 16 from 11:30 p.m.