We suck.
We accidentally listed the Elliot Lipp show at Jazzbones as happening tonight rather than Sunday. The all ages show with Aaron Spiro will take place Sunday at 6 p.m.
We suck.
Here is our little preview:
- Back in the early ’80s I was
turned onto an album called League Unlimited Orchestra that was a remix
disc of the Human League’s groundbreaking debut, Dare! The recording
did two things for me: it introduced me to electronica and gave me an
appreciation for totally synthetic music. In the wake of acid house
and techno that followed, I explored such artists as 808 State, the
Future Sound of London, and Orbital. Tacoma native Eliot Lipp was
toddling around in diapers at the time I was discovering this music,
but nevertheless, he’s more knowledgeable about it than I. The
27-year-old composer was first influence by hip-hop artists such as RZA
and Hieroglyphics. After moving to San Francisco, he found underground
artist Dan the Automater and Madlib, and began honing his skills.
While his first record, Eastern Developments, showed promise, it would
be his self-titled sophomore effort that proved he could hold his own
in the electronica arena as he melded elements of ambient, breakbeat
and hip-hop. On Lipp’s third release, 2006’s Tacoma Mockingbird (Hefty
Records), he went back to basics using familiar beats that he overlaid
with vintage ’80s synth lines. [Jazzbones, with Aaron Spiro, 6 p.m., all ages, 2803 Sixth Ave., Tacoma, 253.396.9169]
