Which 8 current gems will make it on this Hip Cassette round-up? Plug that rusty tape player in, press play and make sure you keep notes…
by Christos Doukakis
SIDE A
Sol.Luna
‘Waiting To Die‘
cloud rap/autotune
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Royalty Mains
‘Ain’t No Love’
lo-fi rock/country
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Sorce Manifesto
‘Second Wind’
hip-hop
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Ari Voxx
‘Mean Old Winter’
nu jazz
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SIDE B
Ceé
‘WayWard’
trip-hop/chillwave
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Greetings Sugar
‘Love is but a song’
alternative rock
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ZEN Seraphine
‘Spirit Rising’
world music/ethnic
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Emily Coupe
‘Quarantined Christmas’
folk/pop/holiday music
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I had a boom box with a dual cassette deck and a mic, so I used to make pause tapes. I think a lot of people started like that because it was all I had. I would just take rap records that I liked and just loop the beat by pressing pause and record and make, like, five minutes of these beats.
El-P