Despite his name, instrumental blip-hop producer Eliot Lipp don't give much lip, but his previous releases on Eastern Developments and Hefty Records have sported some sass. Lipp kicks cleanly delineated G-funk-influenced electro out of self-manipulated Italo-esque analogs, and has been cited alongside Boom Bip, Dabrye, Prefuse 73 and Anticon. Not one to claim one locale for long, Pacific Northwest-bred Lipp has always seemed to center on transience as an influence. Lipp's latest, however, feels even more disassociated. It's as if rain-shellacked midnight and glazed jazz-fusion are his current ...

While most of the groove space on Eliot Lipp's new EP, Steele Street Scraps, is eaten up by heady hip-hop instrumentals, this downtrodden detour veers into an 'I stopped taking my medication weeks ago' moment of sheer melancholy. Sure, it comes and goes without notice, but its wallpaper quality is kinda the point.