Yppah

Yppah, the brainchild of Texas-born producer and multi-instrumentalist Joe Corrales Jr., began playing guitar and bass in rock bands during high school, and later became more involved in electronic music and turntablism. He was involved in the early creation of mashups, and was part of a turntablist group called The Truth. Yppah emerged onto the electronic music scene in the mid-2000s with a distinctive blend of intricate melodies, pulsating rhythms, and lush atmospheres. Drawing inspiration from a diverse range of influences spanning from shoegaze and trip-hop to psychedelic rock and ambient music, Yppah (pronounced "yippah") crafts a unique sonic landscape that transcends conventional genre boundaries. Corrales' musical journey began in his formative years, experimenting with various instruments and soundscapes. Influenced by the likes of Boards of Canada, DJ Shadow, and My Bloody Valentine, he honed his craft in his bedroom studio, meticulously layering electronic textures with live instrumentation.

His first album, titled You Are Beautiful at All Times, was released in 2006 on Ninja Tune records. The single "Again With The Subtitles" was released immediately prior to the album, and is featured in the film, 21. "It's Not The Same," a song from the album, was used in a trailer for Alone in the Dark, as well as the episode "Last Resort" from the series House. Similarly, the song "In Two, the Weakly" is featured in the CSI episode "Ending Happy".

They Know What Ghost Know released on May 18, 2009 in the UK, Japan, and Australia. The U.S. release date was June 23, 2009. Released to positive reviews, the album has a more pronounced shoegaze and psychedelic sound with "lush" instrumentation. The album crosses into numerous genres, with NME associating it with other DJ-based albums while other reviewers referring to it as "big beat".

Eighty One released on February 4, 2012 in Japan and April 2, 2013 worldwide to critical acclaim. Eighty One is Yppah's most widely received album to date, with the singles "Film Burn" (feat. Anomie Belle) and "D Song" (feat. Anomie Belle) charting on radio stations across North America and Japan. Eighty One features several guest appearances by Seattle artist Anomie Belle who Corrales met in 2010 while on tour with Bonobo. Anomie Belle has also appeared with Yppah during live performances, performing on guitar, keys, violin, drum machine and vocals in support of the album.

Tiny Pause, released on Counter Records on October 16, 2015 finds Yppah adopting an enormous technical shift in his writing process, moving away from largely software-based production and live instrumentation to modular synthesizers and samplers. Tiny Pause is informed in large part by shifts in Yppah’s life since his last work. Yppah soon found himself embracing hardware in a big way, buying and selling gear constantly while writing to find the best-suited combination for his workflow. The celestial dips and rises in “Occasional Magic,” the cascade of drums in “Little Dreamer,” the fractured ascent of “Spider Hands,” and the human-tinged glitches of “Neighborhoods” all point to an artist matured not only in sound but in perspective.

In 2020, Joe Corrales Jr. earned a RIAA Gold Certified Single for the use of the Yppah song, "Never Mess With Sunday" by Lil Peep on the song "Star Shopping". Sunset in the Deep End, the fifth album from Yppah was released on February 7, 2020 on Future Archive Recordings.