Eliot Lipp: Shark Wolf Rabbit Snake

    

     In the past decade or so, electronic music has gone from fringe genre, to critically viable milieu, to over commodified advertising slogans.  To be a (critically) respected artist in the electronic scene is to push the envelope and dabble in the myriad of subgenres that electronic music provides. One such musician is Eliot Lipp, a producer who continuously pushes his, and the industries, boundaries with each album.  With his newest Release, Shark Wolf Rabbit Snake, Lipp proves to be as innovative as ever. 
     One thing certainly proven on Shark Wolf Rabbit Snake, is that Eliot Lipp loves music. More so  than any of his previous efforts, Lipp experiments heavily with sound, blending a myriad of genres, electronic or otherwise, and adding his own trademark style and synths.  The result is a fluid LP that changes and morphs into a motley of styles.  Lipp experiments with 80's synth pop, and even some jazz.   Of course, he unifies these sounds with the blips and beeps that fans come to expect. 
     Although it is becoming more commonplace, especially within Pretty Lights Music, Lipp's new troupe, one thing that has always Eliot Lipp apart from the mass of DJs in the scene, is his emotive style of mixing.  His textures and strong sense of melody give the songs a contemplative pathos, while still being able to fill dancefloors.  As previously stated, the implementation of emotive beats is becoming a new trend in electronic music; a trend started by Eliot Lipp.  Shark Wolf Rabbit Snake shows that he can do as well as anyone else in the business, shadowing even his previous works. 
     Electronic music is a tough genre, in that there is a very fine line between inspired and terrible.  Too often, a DJ will come along with lots of noise and no musicality, and create a stir before fading into obscurity.  Staying power requires conceptualism and a acute sense of musical ingenuity.  For the last eight years, Eliot Lipp has shown this in spades, and judging from Shark Wolf Rabbit Snake, the future is looking skyward for the producer.