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MH-258 Eliot Lipp - The Outside  Eliot Lipp continues his impressive retooling of analog infused electro-funk with his latest full-length, The Outside, his first for Mush Records. Techno and hip-hop in their earliest, formative stages have inspired Eliot throughout his career, and form the common thread running through the album. Slick analogue synth work and tight drum programming abound, as Eliot deconstructs his influences to create something that is both recognizable and completely futuristic. For listeners who remember a time when electronic music had a little dirt under its fingernails, The Outside will truly capture your imagination. |
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| Indelibly outsized themes sear themselves into your brain... He’s an unabashed crafter of bangers - Pitchfork / Most mature and focused and release to date - Turntable Lab / Heavy doses of gritty electro-funk that are bound to get heads nodding - Remix / Will keep you going back for more - Pop Matters |
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| For Eliot Lipp, stepping into The Outside is an exercise of restraint, in a good way. Like all the roaming U.S. producer's releases, his latest is one that embraces simplicity and straightforwardness, dropping deliberately minimal electro funk peppered with vintage tones and murky audio drones. However, for Lipp, simple does not equal boring, nor has it ever. Since Prefuse 73 took him under his wing a few years back, Lipp has proved to have a knack for stripping his electronics to the bare essentials while still sucking you in with synth-driven melodies and shifting grooves. It's an approach that's worked before and it's one that works again on The Outside, an uncluttered affair that shows just as much love for the Factory releases of old as for modern break beats and IDM. And while the record by no means reinvents any wheels, it is a solid listen, as well as one of Lipp's stronger pieces of work. - Exclaim! |
