Yppah

Yppah (it's 'happy' spelled backwards, said 'YIP-ah') is Joe Corrales Jr., a Long Beach-based producer and multi-instrumentalist who started out playing guitar and bass in rock bands and DJing in the turntablist crew The Truth. His records fold shoegaze, 1960s psychedelia, soul and post-rock into warm, reverb-soaked downtempo, and he plays most of it himself. He released three albums on Ninja Tune (You Are Beautiful at All Times, 2006; They Know What Ghost Know, 2009; Eighty One, 2012), then Tiny Pause (Counter, 2015) and Sunset in the Deep End (Future Archive, 2020). 'Never Mess With Sunday' was written for Ninja Tune's 20th-anniversary XX box set in 2010, and its guitar line went on to be sampled in Lil Peep's platinum-certified 'Star Shopping'; Houston guitarist Mark Speer played in his live band and toured with him in 2010 alongside Laura Lee, the two who went on to form Khruangbin. Yppah's music has been placed in House, CSI, Altered Carbon and the film 21.

From the notes for Episode 04 · fact-checked Sep 23, 2026.