Los Angeles/ Brooklyn’s (Via Tacoma, Wa) Eliot Lipp might make quite a storm this year. Well it’s about time; what with the release of his excellent new album Peace Love Weed 3D dropping last month, and his current tour spanning most of the US with Ghostly International’s Michna.  While this cloud of hype and praise may cast a shadow on his earlier work, there is a reason his sixth official album will be his breakthrough.  Following a year that embraced genre-fuck artists like Ed Banger and Ghislain Porier, Eliot lipp comes to remind everyone culture clashing electronic music has been here for years.  Consequentally he also reminds us how it’s  done.  

Without the indicative and crippling self image movement like the aformentioned Ed Banger has attempted to popularize, (and as the album title suggests) Eliot Lipp’s approach is a laid back one.  Not that PLW3D doesn’t ‘bang’; rather, it does so in a manner that’s free of contention or care as to  how it’s labeled.  What Lipp has done with this new album is bring the shitstorm of electronic music back down to earth by reminding us that middle grounds need not always be defined.  On one end of the Eliot Lipp spectrum there are 9th Wonder and Jay Dee influences, on the other there’s Josef K & Gui Borrato. Where Peace Love Weed 3D lies is somewhere in between. We needn’t prefix it with tired terms like ‘Blog’, ‘Electro’, or ‘Psych’: lets just call it good, and leave it at that.

Download a bunch of his music: here and go see him play Holocene on the 26th of this month.

Peace Love Weed 3D is available now via Old Tacoma Records, and did I mention every track is 4 minutes and 20 seconds long? Nice Touch Eliot… Nice Touch.