Eliot Lipp, DJ Dab, Baloogz
Recommended
This event is in the past
Fri May 10, 2019, 9 pm
$13
Bursting with 253 pride, electronic producer Eliot Lipp named his 2006 album on John Hughes III’s Hefty label Tacoma Mocking Bird. I hear you groaning, but its tight, rhythmically springy, and deceptively melodic electro tracks punch above their weight. His self-titled 2004 debut on Prefuse 73’s Eastern Developments pops, locks, and does the splits with the sort of lithe-limbed funkiness you’d expect from glitch-hop maestro Guillermo Scott Herren. Later work like 2009’s Peace Love Weed 3D (every track lasts 4:20) on Lipp’s own Old Tacoma imprint slants toward the crasser, stiffer end of ’80s-electro fetishizing, but the last half of the album loosens up and becomes trippier and sexier. (Tip to musicians: Add more of both these qualities to your songs for the overall betterment of humankind.) I’d lost track of Lipp since Peace, and his 2014 full-length Watch the Shadows makes me feel that I’ve not missed much. Change can be good, but Shadows sounds like a descent into bland fodder for Orange County strip-mall dance clubs. Hope this is just a blip and not a permanent dip for Lipp.
by Dave Segal