You Are Beautiful at All Times

Yppah

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 28, 2006)
• Original Release Date: November 28, 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Ninja Tune
• ASIN: B000HDRABC
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #120,209 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Product Description

Unlikely places can sometimes breed unlikely music. Joe Corrales is from Texas, a place synonymous with country and western, slide guitar, classic rock and good ol' boys. Yet his debut as Yppah (pronounced "Yippah") draws on a cultural heritage that took in My Bloody Valentine alongside hip hop and has resulted in a unique sensibility.

Corrales early teen years were spent playing guitar and bass in rock bands, his later ones as a scratch DJ who mixed hip hop and house in club sets, produced weird mashups (Outkast v Ted Nugent anybody?) and was part of a turnttablist group called The Truth.

However, when he sat down to write "You Are Beautiful At All Times" his aim was to combine all these influences and it's an aim he has achieved with some aplomb. Mixing in guitars shoved through massive delays, keyboards and loops sampled from real drums, Corrales has created intricate, multi-layered soundscapes of real beauty, which also have the catchy, insistent hooks of the music of his childhood.

Corrales' music has a certain air of melancholy to it and perhaps the wide open spaces of Texas have influenced the airiness of his tunes, the feeling that you are looking down onto tiny people from high in the sky. Certainly, he manages to make his modesty into something epic.

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Whoah!, April 4, 2007

By	Music Luuuver (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews

Absolutely brilliant album! Mix of Squarepusher-esque drum samples with shoegazer guitar and dub production. Soooo good.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Buy this album!!!, February 1, 2007

By	T. Cook "Beat Tea" (Denver, CO) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I don't write a whole lot of reviews, but sometimes I feel an album is good enough that I have to, so here goes...This is an astonishing debut from Ninja Tune's newest signee, producer Joe Corrales a.k.a. Yppah, from Texas of all places! Seriously though, this is an impressive blend of electro beats and post-rock guitar & bass. The ringing, delayed guitars and tinges of synth conjure up images of a starlit night in the wide open spaces of the southwest, but the choppy, looping beats bring an urban, post-modern feel. What a beautiful paradox! The CD is kind of hard to find right now, but do whatever you can to buy it!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Ninja Tunes releases another great album, January 6, 2007

By	Richard Sanchez "El Comadante" (Houston, TX United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Sounds like: Thrill Jockey gone hip hop (without the rapping)laced with heavy shoe-gaze tones. Somber and beautiful all into one great CD.