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GR 105LP
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Double LP version on 180 gram vinyl. Includes download code.
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GR 105CD
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Swiss producer Ripperton returns to present his second full-length album A Little Part of Shade, seeing his return to Joris Voorn and Edwin Oosterwal's Amsterdam-based Green label. A Little Part of Shade uses sympathetic touches of club synthetics to underline fluidly written and playful melodies. Ripperton gained popularity as a producer with his Lazy Fat People project, releasing on high profile labels such as Border Community, Planet E, and Wagon Repair; he rapidly grew as a solo artist with an almost endless run of key releases on Green, Liebe Detail, Connaisseur, Music Man, Systematic, Dessous, and remixes for Radiohead, Laurent Garnier, Ellen Allien, and Beanfield, and Max Cooper labeled him as a refined studio producer, adding a newfound sense of introspection to electronic house music. Since the release of Niwa (GR 102CD/LP) in 2010, Ripperton has been busy working on this album -- combining traditional song-craft with a more familiar rhythmic style. A Little Part of Shade's multiple programmed rhythms loosely mimic a more natural world and sees him work alongside a variety of artists including Hemlock Smith, the multi-talented writer and photographer Van Hai, and Germain Umdenstock, who features on "A Little Part of Shade," providing guitar melodies over his carefully-constructed landscapes. Drawing on the collaborative talents from his own highly-respected independent Perspectiv label, Ripperton's track "Black Wall" features vocals by Masaya and succeeds in demanding attentive listening. A Little Part of Shade conjoins emotional forces with Ripperton's fascinating use of soundscapes and contains smooth instrumentation throughout before closing with the achingly soulful "Spike," featuring Hemlock Smith's tender vocals. The 13 musically broad and emotionally deep tracks that are included on this album reflect Ripperton's approach to electronic music production, songwriting attitude, and the sense of poignant delivery that extends far beyond the purview of techno clubs.
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GR 009.2EP
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Ripperton's Niwa has been one of the highlight releases of 2010, and continues to impress and surprise with each and every remix EP. The Swiss producer continues to enthrall with his remix invitations on Miegakure. Being presented with the tools to create, does indeed give you a head start; however, it is the vision and skill to be able to realize it that sets great producers apart. French house legend I:Cube and Berlin-based producer Mark August have created two quite brilliant masterpieces.
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GR 009.1EP
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This is the second remix package of tracks taken from Niwa (GR 102CD/LP), the stunning debut album from Ripperton. Part 1 sees Radio Slave taking "Leonor's Lanugo" on a deep, hypnotic workout. Its warm, all-encompassing bass line works brilliantly with its tribal drum line to deliver a deadly take on the original. Part 2 takes a housier direction. Rock solid beats are interwoven with the original's string melody as bird calls and wild cats add to the suspense.
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PLK 021EP
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A 14-minute epic track with ecstatic keyboards, melancholic strings & raw beats. Call it house, techno or what you want, this is an outstanding, soulful piece of music written by the electronic chameleon Ripperton. From analog to analog, dedicated to wax lovers. One-sided release.
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GR 102CD
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This is the long-awaited and highly-anticipated debut artist album from Switzerland's Raphaël Ripperton, released on Joris Voorn and Edwin Oosterwal's Green label. Known for his first-class quality releases on countless respected labels such as Ovum, Rekids, Dessous and his own imprint Perspectiv, Ripperton has established himself as one of the most highly-regarded and exciting artists around. In Japanese, "niwa" means garden, and with this album, you will open your ears and emotions to singular stories, that, element by element, fuse together into a greater whole. The influences here are far beyond dark, booming warehouse parties, and are just as likely to conjure up vivid images of dewy Lausanne sunsets. Folk-tinged downbeat experiments peacefully co-exist with delicious jazz blueprints and sublime ambient soundscapes, sitting in harmony with deeply hypnotic house grooves. "A Simple Thing," with its delicate mood, immediately hints at the joys that lie within this album. An accordion, gentle, stripped-down beats, deep dub bass and the longing beauty of a wordless song. "At Peace," featuring the achingly sensual vocals of Christina Wheeler, unfolds from this beginning as a bittersweet lament. It is not until "Ecotone" emerges with an energetic, emotive Detroit bass line that the dancefloor is hinted at. The album's mesmerizing, exotic journey has only just begun as Ripperton's garden blossoms into all kinds of colors and shapes. "The Sandbox" is arranged around the looped refrain of an African children's choir and features a quirky, squeaky rhythm pattern that, combined with delicately-picked guitar motifs, hints at a vision for future electronic folk music. An astonishing, jacking bass line erupts into "Echocity" before diving deep into the downtempo, looping, angelic reprise of "L'Ardo" with its lush acoustic beauty. "Farro" unwinds into a deeply hypnotic, melodic synth exploration of joyous simplicity, as Ripperton prepares to conjure up ghosts in the machines with the dislocated, head-twisting radio broadcast that is "I Know My Place," followed by "A Simple Interlude," which returns to the source of the album's opening theme. This is only a temporary lull, as "Des Promesses De Couleurs" lifts the mood to a hip-swaying groove and "Leonor's Lanugo" explores deeper grooves, building towards the intensely uplifting, emotive piano motifs of "Random Violence," before dropping back to "A Train To Nowhere" and its Detroit dub club sway, which heralds the return of Christine Wheeler for the thoughtful finale of "Solastalgia." This is an album of ageless beauty that begs to be returned to over and over and over again.
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PSPV 012EP
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Ripperton presents Leonor's Lanugo -- an electronic meditation on a pregnancy. The track is all about heartbeat, existential questions and melodies of hope. For the remix, Anders Ilar constructs a mental reinterpretation.
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CNSS 008EP
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Ripperton presents "Zugunruhe," a lively Detroitish tech-house tune, with a bass line reminiscent of Goofy riding a prairie horse, hypnotic cowbell action and a childhood-memory theme. Not a peak-time tune, more like the kind of track you play at the beginning of the night to bring a smile to every dancer's face. Daniel Stefanik delivers an outstanding interpretation -- an after-party tune with a smacking groove, which slowly builds up to a heart-rending melody.
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SYST 032EP
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Raphaël Ripperton shows that Switzerland is not only the country of mountains, watches and chocolate. In fact he proves that his homebase Lausanne is the right place to create deep and atmospheric beats to be released on well known imprints like Border Community, Wagon Repair and Connaisseur. Marc Romboy says: "I always play this outstanding piece of music as a closing track of my sets. People always ask me what it is and I'm very proud that I could sign this cool masterpiece on my label!"
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