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Lusine, Arms and Sleepers, and Yppah

Date/Time:
Monday, November 4, 2024
8:00 pm – 11:00 pm

Offer:
2 Free Admissions — 2 Free Admissions to Lusine, Arms and Sleepers, and Yppah at 7th St Entry in downtown MPLS!

Event Details:

Lusine

From his early releases as Lusine onward, Jeff McIlwain?s electronic explorations make up one of the more diverse discographies of the past decade and a half.


Seattle-based producer Jeff McIlwain, aka Lusine, returns with his 9th full-length record, Long Light, marking twenty years since he first joined the Ghostly International roster. A cited influence for myriad electronic artists including London?s Loraine James and others, Lusine is known for visceral, kinetically-curious music that fuses techno, pop, and experimental composition. In recent years, McIlwain has pushed his craft skyward with more collaborative, song-forward work. Long Light shines the throughline; his signature looping patterns and textures are dynamic yet minimalist as ever. Structurally straightforward, tight, and bright, the material radiates as the most direct in his catalog, featuring vocal contributions from Asy Saavedra, Sarah Jaffe, and Sensorimotor collaborators Vilja Larjosto and Benoît Pioulard. Lusine found his sound early on, but he?s never stopped pushing and pulling at its potential, patiently deconstructing the distractions and solving the puzzles. With Long Light, a laser-focused, process-driven artist reaches an exceptionally satisfying level of clarity and immediacy.


Arms and Sleepers is the electronic music act founded in Boston, Massachusetts in 2006, formerly comprising Max Lewis and Mirza Ramic. In recent years, Lewis has become a less active member leaving Arms and Sleepers to continue with Ramic as the sole official member. Over the years, the group has amassed over 30 releases, 2,500 live performances, and countless TV and Film music placements in their 17-year history. 2020 was Arms and Sleepers? busiest year yet, with the release of a 6-part conceptual music series that included 3 full-length albums and 3 EPs. In 2021, Arms and Sleepers celebrated its 15th anniversary with a slew of re-releases and anniversary editions. 2022 saw the release of a new full-length record, former kingdoms, as well as a 15th anniversary vinyl repress of the 2007 album Black Paris 86. More recently in 2023, Arms and Sleepers released 3 EPs and a variety of singles and remixes, including collaborations with Poldoore, Koresma, Richard Houghten, and Sun Glitters. Arms and Sleepers? 14th studio album, titled What Tomorrow Brings, was released on March 1, 2024 via Berlin?s Pelagic Records, followed by a 10th anniversary release of Swim Team and 15th anniversary release of Matador ? each receiving a vinyl repress from Belgium?s Dunk! Records.


Since 2006, the group has explored trip-hop, electronica, downtempo, ambient, hip-hop, and subtle pop with deftness and grace. Arms and Sleepers? creative output has been vast: 12 full-length albums, 15 EPs, and a plethora of singles and remixes. The duo has remixed the likes of Emancipator, Robot Koch, Blockhead, Yppah, Sun Glitters, Caspian, Helios, Ef, From Indian Lakes, and many others, and has collaborated with numerous prominent artists including Tom Brosseau of Fat Cat Records, Serengeti of Anticon, and Philip Jamieson of Caspian, among others. Victor Ferreira of Sun Glitters has been a close collaborator over the last half a decade, co-producing and mixing the majority of the group?s recent releases. Ramic, who has been the group?s sole live performer since 2013, has taken Arms and Sleepers to stages across the world with concerts in North and Central America, Europe, and Asia. The group has also seen its diverse music catalog licensed by Apple, Amazon, Vice, HBO, Showtime, PBS, National Geographic, United Airlines, and countless others. Over the years, Arms and Sleepers has received glowing coverage from a variety of music outlets, including The New York Times, NPR, Earmilk, XLR8R, Huffington Post, Bandcamp Daily, The Line Of Best Fit, Clash, and others.


With a prolific and busy decade and a half, Arms and Sleepers has not showed any signs of slowing down. 2022 will bring a new album and a return to active post-pandemic touring, in addition to continued remix and collaborative projects. Such high rate of creative output has also coincided with Ramic co-founding Future Archive Recordings, an artist-run record label that has released music from the likes of Blockhead, Yppah, Sun Glitters, il:lo, Poldoore, and others. With a long and active history in the music industry, Arms and Sleepers has carved out its own unique place within the underground electronic music scene, building a loyal following along the way.


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 in?uences 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. In?uenced 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 ?rst 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 ?lm, 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 ?nds 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 ?nd the best-suited combination for his work?ow. 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 Certi?ed 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 ?fth album from Yppah was released on February 7, 2020 on Future Archive Recordings.

Location:
7th Street Entry
N 7th St
Minneapolis, MN 55402

Organization Details:

The 7th St Entry is a smaller venue attached to the historic First Avenue. This space was once used as a restaurant area (the “Greyhound Cafe”) in the former Greyhound bus station. “The Entry” opened its doors in March 1980 as a venue that catered to local bands. Today, national and local bands perform in the the 7th St Entry, and it’s known for its intimate vibe. Several recordings have been recorded live at The Entry, including The Scouting Report’s hit song “Over the Ocean”; Hüsker Dü’s first album, Land Speed Record; the song, “Cables,” on Big Black’s Atomizer album; Rifle Sport’s live album, Live at the Entry, Dead at the Exit; and Motion City Soundtrack’s Commit This to Memory live DVD.

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Offer: 2 Free Admissions — 2 Free Admissions to Lusine, Arms and Sleepers, and Yppah at 7th St Entry in downtown MPLS!

Date/Time: Monday, November 4, 2024 8:00 pm

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