It's always a bit of an event when local boy Eliot Lipp returns to Tacoma, an occurrence that now seems to be setting nicely into a roughly six-month cycle. Six months ago, I wrote of the delightful dustiness that seems to adorn Lipp's electronic music - referring to how he embraces an old-school approach to arranging beats and synths and samples to create the kind of mélange that would find itself perfectly comfortable in a DJ's box of go-to vinyl. Whether tackling ambient soundscapes or club-bumping jams, Lipp manages to leave his own identifiable imprint on whatever he creates. That he knows how to get a room going kind of goes without saying, so you would do well to hit that dance floor when he swings through Tacoma and doesn't return for another six months. 

[The New Frontier Lounge, with EvergreenOne, Todd Sykes, Killas Wit Kindness, 9 p.m., $10, 301 E. 25^th St., Tacoma, 253.572.4020]