Eliot Lipp
is a Los Angeles based electronic music artist. He made a name for himself in the genre of electro when his work was picked up by Scott Herren of Prefuse 73 (Warp Records). Through Herren, Lipp was able to release his premiere album, S/T
, on the Eastern Developments label in November 2004.
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Beginnings
Eliot Lipp grew up in
Tacoma, Washington.
[1] He maintained a strong and passionate interest in
hip-hop and
rap music while living there and followed such artists as
RZA and
Hieroglyphics.
[2] He knew that he couldn’t have pursued a career in music if he continued to live there. Lipp described his hometown as, “always refreshing when you hang out up there, I couldn’t have done music if I stayed in Tacoma. It’s a nice place to visit but a bad place to be a musician.”
[3]
In the early stages of his music career, Lipp found himself moving from city to city across the country. Lipp made his first move to
San Francisco for art school.
[1] Influenced by the emerging
hip-hop scene of the time, Lipp found himself cutting tracks with
The Era in 2001.
Anxious for life in another city and to really start his music career, Lipp moved out to
Chicago [1]. Lipp’s musical roots were in hip-hop, but it was in Chicago that he discovered electronic/
techno music. The blending of these two genres is obvious throughout his music career as he has continued to find them influential in his music to this day. While living in Chicago, Lipp would record his tracks in his small apartment and feature them at night clubs.
In 2004, along with his cats and girlfriend at the time, Eliot Lipp packed up his life and music once more to make his next move to
Los Angeles, because it was there that Lipp felt he could reap in the most opportunities of making an electronic music career along with all of the other artists in search of the same success.
Music career
Los Angeles was very much a temporary home for Lipp. It was a move that he made for his love of music and his pursuit of making it his career. He was able to juggle his time between a job at a coffeehouse and his time recording in his cramped studio.
After long and hot days of recording in the summer, Lipp finally got the break he was looking for. His work (the same tracks that were rejected by the club-goers of Chicago) found their way into the hands of
Scott Herren (
Warp Records) and Savath+Savalas (
Hefty Records), or better known as
Prefuse 73.
[6] Herren loved Lipp’s work and happily signed him onto his
Eastern Developments record label in November 2004.
Lipp released the
S/T
LP that already displayed signs of what is now his signature sound by utilizing Sequential Circuits and Korg ms-20 synths. Music became such a huge part of his life, consuming all of his time and energy, that he left his coffeehouse job on
New Years day so he could devote all of his time to music production.
Tacoma Mockingbird
, released in January 2006
[1] , was Lipp’s next LP and released on
Hefty Records, who has signed
Savath & Savalas,
Telefon Tel Aviv, and
Smaze.
Tacoma Mockingbird
, Eliot’s second album, is all music which reminds him of his home Tacoma, Washington. The album took him an entire year to record.. On Lipp's third LP,
Steele Street Scraps
, he was able to collaborate with renown electronic musicians John Hughes and Earmint. He recently released a new album in January of 2009 called, "Peace Love Weed 3D", which features the single, Beamrider. It was first reported in urb.com.
Eliot Lipp once again relocated, leaving for
Brooklyn, where he currently resides and is currently working on a side project Lipp service.
Musical influences
In his hometown, Lipp was influenced by mostly
hip-hop artists such as
RZA and DJs who have strong roots in
hip-hop such as
Madlib a.k.a.
Quasimoto. When asked what musical genres he found the greatest influence from, Lipp responded, “Bay Area and
Detroit rap, classic
electro, 70's fusion, early 90's
techno, and
Chicago post-rock bands are all styles that influence my music.”
[3]
Tour
Eliot Lipp recently toured with
Sound Tribe Sector 9 in November of 2008.
Discography
- Peace Love Weed 3D
CD/Digital Release, Old Tacoma Records (January 27, 2009)
- Beamrider
single, Old Tacoma Records (November 18, 2008)
- The Outside
CD/Digital Release Mush Records (2008)
- City Synthesis
CD/Digital Release Metatronix (2007)
- Steele Street Scraps
CD/Double LP Hefty Records (2006)
- The Days
Digital Release Only (2006)
- Tacoma Mockingbird
CD/Double LP Hefty Records (2006)
- Immediate Action #10
12" single Hefty Records (2005)
- Rap Tight
EP 12" single (2005)
- S/T
Eastern Developments (2004)
Other Releases
- Wanna Be Nuero
Collaboration with John Hughes (2006)
- Nakes Ninja Remix
HIB1 (2006)
- Heat
(exclusive track)- HIB2 (2006)
- Dice
Hefty 10 12" EP (exclusive track) (2006)
- Remix
for STS9-Artifact:Perspectives(1320 Records) (2005)
- Eliot Lipp
(Eastern Developments) (2004)