Eliot Lipp drops into the same space occupied by quasi-abstract beat makers
Prefuse 73 and
Dabrye, while continuing in the lineage staked out by some of the producers gathered on the Mo' Wax
Headz series. He stacks up to none of them, but not without leaving an impression, on his first album for Eastern Developments (the label run by
Prefuse 73, also the temporary home of
Dabrye). Though all of these tracks are sharply assembled without the use of overfamiliar sounds and overused samples, most aren't likely to stick in your head for any extended length of time. One exception is "Oneknot," where a twiney funk guitar rolls over a spare four-note bass riff and a drum break where you can practically see decades of collected dust popping off the kit with each hit.