Yppah
Label Biography
Landscape and memory have always played a central part in the music of Joe Corrales Jr. aka Yppah (pronounced “yippah”). It’s what gives his tunes their sense of place, their physicality, and their ethereal – almost nostalgic – sweetness. Drawing on a cultural heritage that took in My Bloody Valentine alongside hip hop and heavily influenced by various forms of electronic music, psychedelic soul and rock, his music often mixes guitars shoved through massive reverbs/delays, keyboards/synthesizers, live drums, and other techniques. Alluring, uplifting and imbued with natural, unaffected warmth that cuts through the most biting cold, Yppah’s music gives listeners an experience that is both rooted and revitalizing.
Yppah currently has three albums available on Ninja Tune; You Are Beautiful All The Time (2006), They Know What Ghost Know (2009), and Eighty One (2012).
His third album reflects a change in the landscape around him. Midway through the process of recording the demos for what became Eighty One, Corrales started making regular trips to Galveston, on the Texas Gulf coast, to surf. So energized was he by his experiences, he left his home in Texas and moved to Long Beach, California. Unsurprisingly then, he says that the images he had in his head as he made his new music were of the sea and the beach. “I wanted a lot of the songs to feel like a warm wash,” he explains. The record takes its title from the year Corrales was born and, perhaps the very act of moving away from childhood locales stirred up “memories from random times in my life. Like I was trying to recreate certain feelings I had at different points in my life with melodies, if that makes any sense.” And he goes on to ask, “You know how when you’re a child you feel your life has a certain melodic theme that you can’t really put your finger on and you can almost hear it, but it’s not anything you’ve ever heard before?” Eighty One is his attempt to capture those melodies.
Yppah is now performing material from Eighty One with a live band with rotating members sometimes featuring singer, producer and classically trained violinist, Anomie Belle.
Photo Credit: Theo Jemison
Discography
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- Artist
- Yppah
- ReleaseProduct
- Occasional Magic Remixes EP
- Label
- Counter Records
- Catalogue Number
- COUNTDNL078
- Release Date
- December 18, 2015
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- Artist
- Yppah
- ReleaseProduct
- Tiny Pause
- Label
- Counter Records
- Catalogue Number
- COUNTDNL069
- Release Date
- October 16, 2015
- LP
- CD
- Download
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- Artist
- Yppah
- ReleaseProduct
- Eighty One
- Label
- Ninja Tune
- Catalogue Number
- ZENDNL179
- Release Date
- April 2, 2012
- LP
- CD
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- Artist
- Yppah
- ReleaseProduct
- Never Mess With Sunday (Edit)
- Label
- Ninja Tune
- Catalogue Number
- ZENDNL179EA
- Release Date
- April 2, 2012
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- Artist
- Yppah
- ReleaseProduct
- Some Have Said (Edit)
- Label
- Ninja Tune
- Catalogue Number
- ZENDNL179EC
- Release Date
- April 2, 2012
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- Artist
- Yppah
- ReleaseProduct
- Film Burn (inc. Kwes remix)
- Label
- Ninja Tune
- Catalogue Number
- ZENDNLS307
- Release Date
- March 23, 2012
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- Artist
- Yppah
- ReleaseProduct
- D. Song
- Label
- Ninja Tune
- Catalogue Number
- ZENDNLS315
- Release Date
- January 16, 2012
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- Artist
- Yppah
- ReleaseProduct
- They Know What Ghost Know
- Label
- Ninja Tune
- Catalogue Number
- ZENDNL147
- Release Date
- May 17, 2009
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- Artist
- Yppah
- ReleaseProduct
- Gumball Machine Weekend (Edit)
- Label
- Ninja Tune
- Catalogue Number
- ZENDNL147EA
- Release Date
- April 13, 2009
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- Artist
- Yppah
- ReleaseProduct
- Gumball Machine Weekend
- Label
- Ninja Tune
- Catalogue Number
- ZENDNLS237
- Release Date
- April 12, 2009
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- Artist
- Yppah
- ReleaseProduct
- You Are Beautiful At All Times
- Label
- Ninja Tune
- Catalogue Number
- ZENDNL130X
- Release Date
- November 20, 2006
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- Artist
- Yppah
- ReleaseProduct
- Again With The Subtitles
- Label
- Ninja Tune
- Catalogue Number
- ZENDNL130S
- Release Date
- November 20, 2006
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- Artist
- Yppah
- ReleaseProduct
- Again With TheSubtitles
- Label
- Ninja Tune
- Catalogue Number
- ZENDNL130S
- Release Date
- November 20, 2006
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Appears On
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- Artist
- Various
- ReleaseProduct
- The Fifth Estate (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
- Label
- Lakeshore Records
- Catalogue Number
- 886444250719
- Release Date
- October 8, 2013
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- Artist
- Various Artists
- ReleaseProduct
- Ninja Tune Retrospect
- Label
- Ninja Tune
- Catalogue Number
- ZENDNL165BN
- Release Date
- May 5, 2008
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- Artist
- Various Artists
- ReleaseProduct
- Ninja Tune XX 2
- Label
- Ninja Tune
- Catalogue Number
- ZENDNL160R
- Release Date
- September 20, 2010
- CD
- Download
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- Artist
- Various Artists
- ReleaseProduct
- Zentertainment 2006
- Label
- Ninja Tune
- Catalogue Number
- ZENDNL2006
- Release Date
- July 16, 2006
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Remixer
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- Artist
- Double Wish
- ReleaseProduct
- Fever Dream (Yppah Remix)
- Label
- Hit the North Records
- Catalogue Number
- HTN0012
- Release Date
- June 22, 2023
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