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Review: Album SOUP 015 elevator monkey – lift off
Review by disquiet
When Rifa, on Elevator Monkey (Prison Soup, a French netlabel), isn’t channeling Tom Waits (“Penetrate”), or ramming a disco chestnut through a carton of cigarettes disguised as a granular synthesizer (“Don’t Rush”), it makes for some bracing electronic music. “Timewarp” presents a uniquely staunch take on dub, with a beat that’s little more than a struck match and a compulsory echo that could be approximated with an old coffee can. Rifa humanizes the environs on “Timewarp” with a breathy trip-hop diva, and does the same on “M1,” but that track has a more elegantly rattled rhythm, slipping up on occasion in a manner too low key to be truly called glitch. “Tapemeserios” is of a piece with those tracks, but it also sounds like it was recorded on the Orient Express, with a contact microphone glued to the undercarriage; it’s both fuller and noisier. And then there’s “Bling1,” the album’s finest track, which blends in some hip-hop, but also messes with the rhythms as if the whole composition had been laid on a shifting bed of ball bearings.
Rifa is described by Prison Soup as an Austrian electro and indie/alternative musician, born on 27th May 1977 in Vienna/Austria. Producing tracks since 2000 he has scattered a vast number of free tracks over the internet. Because of the varying styles of music, he uses different pseudonyms to divide his work.

rifa – [ #RIFA 002 ] sunshine fuzzy ft. marleen
artist: rifa
album: [ #RIFA 002 ] sunshine fuzzy ft. marleen
style/tags: electro/d&b/idm/house/dance
6 tracks 11´58
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rifa – [ #SOUP 015 ] elevator monkey – lift off´
artist: rifa
album: [ #SOUP 015 ] Elevator monkey – Lift off’
style/tags: electro, idm, alternative
6 tracks 31´18
05 timewarp | 10:25
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rifa – [ #RIFA 001 ] seeds of change (great spin)
artist: rifa
album: [ #RIFA 001 ] seeds of change (great spin)
style/tags: electro, idm, experimental, triphop
5 tracks 17´59

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