Ep 1+2 | Opaque Jade Vinyl, Indie-Retail Exclusive

Here is a collection of recordings by Kathy Yaeji Lee, originally released as a pair of EPs on March 31st and November 3rd of 2017, remastered for a belated vinyl edition for the first time. A lot has been said and repeated about the interiority of this club music - how the joyful tremor of the aRaingurl? refrain holds hands with such soft and doubtful verses. How special it is that house music so of New York can contain storytelling cultivated so far away. That repetition is born of people all over the world going out, and staying in, with this music as a compass; songs that define so many late night hangs for crews of friends, singalongs in DJ booths, contemplative 5am walks home from the club. What can get lost in that repetition, in the shifting canonization of these recordings as symbols of any one scene or moment, is what was behind the pair of round glasses reflecting so tirelessly outwards. Yaeji, an exceptional friend only at the very beginning of finding her path as a cross-disciplinary artist and collaborator. Yaeji wrote this music while going out nearly every night of the week to DJ and support her own NYC community of friends at their turns behind the decks. These tracks originated from explorations in dancefloor anonymity, growing from seeds planted by sharing her first musical experiments online. a?New York 93 was the first song I ever put out as Yaeji. It first came out on Soundcloud. I remember then every single listen was so surprising and important to

Tracks

1~1~Noonside
1~2~New York 93
1~3~Feel It Out
1~4~Guap
1~5~Full Of It
2~1~Feelings Change
2~2~Raingurl
2~3~Drink I'm Sippin On
2~4~After That
2~5~Passionfruit

Details

Format: Vinyl LP
Artist: Yaeji
Release Date: 14 March 2023
Genre: Dance & Electronic
Label: YAEJI
Distributor: Rocket Group