Ralph Ruppert

Early life

Ralph Ruppert was born in Marburg a.d. Lahn, Germany in 1959, the first child to Heinz Ruppert and second child to Waltraud Magdalena Ruppert. Following the divorce of his parents in 1972, Ruppert grew up with his mother and four year older half brother Michael Mario Ruppert in the spa town of Bad Homburg, Germany where he spent his entire youth until the year 1985. There he attended the Friedrich Ebert Schule primary school from 1966 to 1969 and the secondary schools Realschule Bad Homburg and Gesamtschule Bad Homburg, Germany between 1970 and 1973. Ruppert completed his school years between 1973 and 1975 at the Georg Kerschensteiner-Schule, Bad Homburg, Germany. Following his school years, Ruppert successfully completed an apprenticeship and obtained a qualification in Business Management at Braun (company) AG in Kronberg im Taunus, Germany in 1977, Ruppert then attended the Fachoberschule Oberursel fuer Betriebswirtschaft for one year between 1978 and 1979 during which time he first discovered and developed his interest in Music and Sound Engineering.

Awards

March 1987 - Awarded by Polygram with "Gold Disc" for Engineering and Mixing on Wet Wet Wet’s "Popped In, Souled Out" album for the sales of more than 100,000 copies

Aug. 1987 - Awarded by Polygram with "Double Platinum Disc" for Engineering and Mixing on Wet Wet Wet’s "Popped In, Souled Out" album for the sales of more than 600,000 copies. The album finally reached "Quadruple Platinum Status" selling more than 2 million copies worldwide.

Oct. 1987 - Awarded by CBS Records with "Double Platinum Disc" for Engineering on Terence Trent Darby’s "The Hard-line According to..." " album for the sales of more than 600,000 copies. The album finally reached "Quadruple Platinum Status"

Nov. 1987 - Awarded by Ampex with the "Golden Reel Award" for "Priceless Performance Recording & Engineering" on Wet Wet Wet’s "Popped In, Souled Out" album

Sept. 1983 Awarded by Ampex with the "Golden Reel Award" for "Priceless Performance Recording & Engineering" on Sydney Rome’s "Dancing Aerobic" album

Sound Engineering - Remixes & Co-Production

Wishing Well / Elevators & Hearts (Cass, Single) Elevators & Hearts, El... CBS 1987 Soundclash (Champion Sound) (12") Kickin Records 1990 Champion Sound (The Best Of Kickin Records Volume One) (LP) Evil Surrounds Us, Wasted Kickin Records 1991 Johnny The Liar (12") Get Terminated (UK Clu... Polydor 1993 Johnny The Liar (CD, Maxi) Johnny The Liar (Acoustic... Polydor 1993 Paris Paris (CD, Maxi) Paris Paris (Secret Kn... No! 1994 Dance (CD, Maxi) Mascotte Music 1995 Dance (12") Mascotte Music 1995 Not What You Think (12") Not What You Think (Or... Millennium Records, Millennium Records 1996 Not What You Think (12") Not What You Think (Ex... Dance Pool 1996 Not What You Think (CD, Maxi) Not What You Think (Ra... Dance Pool 1996 Appears On: Banana Sausage (12") Kickin Records Please Take This Personal (CD) Right Track Records Ten Thousand Light Years / Remix II (CD) CD Maximum Popped In, Souled Out (CD) The Precious Organisation 1987 Popped In, Souled Out (LP, Album) Mercury 1987 Temptation (7") Temptation Mercury 1988 Wrong Direction (12") MZM Production 1988 The Bee (12") Kickin Records 1990 The Bee (Remix) (12") Kickin Records 1990 The Exorcist (12") Kickin Records 1990 The Exorcist II (The Remix) (12") Kickin Records 1990 Give Peace A Dance: A CND Compilation (2xCD) The Bee (Honeycombe Mix) Beechwood Music 1991 Give Peace A Dance: A CND Compilation (2x Cass) The Bee (Honeycombe Mix) Beechwood Music 1991 The Bee (Remix) (CD, Maxi) The Bee (Original Mix) Kickin Records 1991 The Bee (Remix) (Cass) The Bee (Original Mix)... Kickin Records 1991 Banana Sausage (12") Kickin Records 1992 Banana Sausage (CD, Maxi) Kickin Records, Kickin Records 1992 Evil Surrounds Us (12") Kickin Records 1992 Evil Surrounds Us (12", Promo) Kickin Records 1992 Times Of Addiction (CD, Maxi, 12") Pandemonium Records 1992 Charles Manson / Elvis In Shades (CD, Maxi, 12") Pandemonium Records 1993 Slug (CD, Album) Pandemonium Records 1993 Airborn (CD, Maxi) Eye Q Records, WEA Musik GmbH 1993 Airborn (12") Eye Q Records 1993 Airborn (12") Eye Q Records, WEA Musik GmbH 1993 Airborn (CD, Maxi) Eye Q Records 1993 End Of Part One - Their Greatest Hits (Cass, Album) The Precious Organisation 1993 Thunderdome (CD, Maxi) Warner Music UK Ltd. 1993 Thunderdome (12") Warner Music UK Ltd. 1993 Thunderdome (12", Promo) Warner Music UK Ltd. 1993 Thunderdome (12") Warner Music UK Ltd., Warner Music UK Ltd. 1993 Thunderdome (CD2) (CD, Maxi) Warner Music UK Ltd. 1993 Not What You Think (12") Dance Pool 1996 21st Century Media Blitz Vol. 2 (2xCD) Century Media 1999 Qilaash - How The West Was One (CD) Nation Records 2000 I'd Rather Shout At A Returning Echo Than Kid That Someone's Listening (CD, Enh) Some Bizzare 2001 TWAT v4.0: The War Against Terror (CD, Album) Intone 2003 URP Vol 1_ (CD, Album) Intone 2003 Auchtermatic (CD) Anacostia Bay (At The ... One Little Indian 2004 Meets The Truck Bombers Of Suburbia Uptown Vol. 1 (Feat. Pat Riot) (CD) Intone 2004 URP Vol 2_ (CD, Album) Intone 2004 URP Vol 3_ (CD, Album, Comp) Intone 2004 Subduing Demons In South Yorkshire Part 2 (CD, Album, Mixed) Intone 2005 The Bedsit Tapes (CD) Some Bizzare 2005 Demo Non Stop (CD) Some Bizzare 2006 Unofficial Releases: There Is No Law / Temple Of Dreams (Foreplay) (12") Kickin Records 1992

Personal life

Ruppert was never married and has two children with his then partner Claire Maria Mata between 1990 and 1994 whose names are Maximilian Michael Mata, born on 11 May 1991 and Felix Alexander Heinz Mata, born 24 January 1993. In 2012, Ruppert's father Heinz Ruppert died on 18 April 2012, ten days after his 89th birthday in the hospital 'Krankenhaus Nordwest' in Frankfurt/Main, Germany after a short suffering from a stroke.