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Yip-Yip
Beat Kitchen, Chicago
Friday, February 16, 2007

“So what do you think of that Yip-Yip CD,” an acquaintance might ask. Your answer? Probably something like, “Well . . . it’s different.”

Yip-Yip are two gentlemen, Brian Esser and Jason Temple, who record fucked-up electronic freak-out soundtracks at their house in Winter Park, Florida, a town of roughly 24,000 people that, Wikipedia says, is home to the Charles Hosmer Morse Museum Of American Art and its fine collection of Tiffany glass. If their personalities are anything like the jittery, off-the-walls, restless tracks on In The Reptile House (the “Reptile House” is the name Yip-Yip appointed to their house/recording lab) the folks at the Morse Museum have long since banned Esser and Temple from the premises.

Though the duo have been together as Yip-Yip since 2001 and recorded a slew of self-released CD-R projects, The Reptile House (S.A.F.) is their first full-length recorded specifically for label release (S.A.F. also put out Pro-Twelve Thinker in 2005, but it was originally released a year earlier by the band). The result is 16 tracks of always-hyper, sometimes-interesting, sometimes-obnoxious electronica — the product of an array of synths, samplers, effects pedals, and even a digital toy saxophone. The only thing more intriguing than how they pull such a cluster-fuck off in the studio has to be how they do it live.

Yip-Yip, along with Brilliant Pebbles and The Show Is The Rainbow, open for J+J+J.

— Trevor Fisher

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