Birth name Charlie Yin Years active 2011 – present Name Charlie Yin | Albums No Reason Remixes | |
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Occupation(s) Producer, performer, musician Labels Fool's Gold Records (current) Role Music performer · giraffage.com Similar People XXYYXX, Jhameel, A‑Trak, TOKiMONSTA, Le Youth Profiles | ||
Giraffage Boiler Room San Francisco Live Set
Charlie Yin, better known by his stage name Giraffage, is an American electronic music record producer. Yin, who is of Taiwanese descent, grew up in San Jose, California, and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a degree in political economics before pursuing his musical career. Most recently Yin has collaborated with other electronic music producers, including Porter Robinson. As Giraffage, Yin regularly performs at venues in his native San Francisco Bay Area and has performed both independently and along with other artists across the world.
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- Giraffage Boiler Room San Francisco Live Set
- Giraffage music sounds better with you
- Career
- Previous projects
- Albums
- EPs
- Singles
- Remixes
- Songs
- References
In addition to numerous remixes of various pop and R&B tracks, Giraffage has produced two full-length studio albums, including Comfort in 2011, and Needs in 2013. His latest EP, No Reason, was released on November 18, 2014.
Giraffage music sounds better with you
Career
Yin has received considerable attention for his remixes of popular R&B songs and solo tracks. He has performed as Giraffage at numerous locations worldwide, including the Boiler Room, Low End Theory, NYU Kimmel and more. His music has won praise from blogs such as Pitchfork, XLR8R, and The FADER. His songs have been described as "pleasantly ambient and sample-laden instrumentals," or "bedroom dream-pop," and feature "atmospheric pads...familiar, hip-hop-flavored 808 percussion," "looping guitars, 808 thuds and clacks, and diced-up vocals." His music is often compared with that of Shlohmo and Baths.
Giraffage released his debut EP Pretty Things in May 2011. He released his debut album, Comfort, later in 2011.
In 2012, he went on a 30-date European tour with Orlando producer XXYYXX after releasing the shared EP Even Though. In a review, The FADER wrote that Even Though "shines with swelling bass, surprise birdcalls and geysers of sound, like you tossed a penny in a well and $40 in quarters splashed up." Giraffage has also collaborated with other musicians, as he released the single "Move Me" with Jhameel and DWNTWN in 2013.
Giraffage signed to Alpha Pup Records in early 2013. In February 2013, he released his second album Needs. In fall 2013, he toured across the US in support of Phantogram. In February 2014, he remixed the entirety of The-Dream's Love/Hate LP, receiving approval from The FADER, who stated they could not "remember a moment of anticipation right before hitting the play button as happy as the one I just experienced." Among other festivals, he notably performed at the Treasure Island Music Festival 2013, the Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival 2013, Decibel Festival 2013, What the Festival in Oregon in June 2014 and UCSD's Sun God Festival in May 2014.
Giraffage performed as the main support during Porter Robinson's "Worlds" tour of North America from August 28 to October 18, 2014. In November of that year he released the No Reason EP through Fool's Gold Records.
In July 2015 Giraffage collaborated with producer Viceroy and vocalist Patrick Baker on the song "Impression of You", released through Dim Mak Records.
Previous projects
Prior to Giraffage, Yin produced chiptune music under the moniker "Robot Science" in 2009 with the debut EP Doodads. He followed this up with Square in 2010 and Good Luck in 2011.
Albums
EPs
Singles
Remixes
(*The R. Kelly remix was later reworked into an original track entitled "Be With You" and included on the No Reason EP.)
Songs
Feels
Tell Me
Be With You
ORGSM
Everything Is Going to Be Alright
LUV
Close 2 Me
All That Matters
Impression Of You [Original Mix]
Even Though
Home
Undress U
Chocolate
Hello
Checkmate
Thinking About You
Music Sounds Better With You
Waste Yr Time
Holy Mountain
Move Me
SLO
Anxiety
A Bird in Hand
Polar Bear
Fnord
Eschaton
Elysian
Visible
Money
Before
Before You Go
Girl