The fatality of today’s instrumental Hip Hop is, that it’s about to vanish into meaninglessness. Almost forgotten is the rejuvenating force which derived from non-vocal HipHop-productions around the turn of the millennium, when they tried to establish themselves as a fruitful sub-genre. Now it’s time for instrumental HipHop to prove that it has a uniqueness in a world of electronic music and that this uniqueness is more than what a popular rap-song delivers and that it can tell stories even without an MC. Just like a pure Dilla-break can contain world, heritage, past and future. Or like a Shadows-album used to be an encyclopedia of contemporary music and its variations. Maybe that is the problem at the moment – despite Scott Herren, Kid Kanevil or Elvin Estrella. But there is still Eliot Lipp, who constantly follows his own draft of electronically based Hip Hop with his releases on Hefty, Eastern Development and Metatronix. Phily-strings, Chicago-Jazz and the cool aloofness of Detroit-House mark the eclectic sound of the multi-instrumentalist from Brooklyn also on his new album »City Synthesis«.
City synthesis
