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
Bentle
‘Darkest Blue’
bedroom pop/chillwave
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Lynda
‘Dingo’
electro pop/alt pop
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Life is Better Blonde
‘HABITS’
indie electronic/alt pop
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TEEJ
‘Millennial Gideon’ (feat. Fedd The God)
folktronica/hip-hop
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SIDE B
Qwiet Type
‘Too Good To End’
alt pop/electro pop
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BBASSI
‘New Money’
trap/rap
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Doctor Gosso & The Samplers x Telica
‘The Kicks’
lofi house/instrumental hip-hop
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KiKi Holli
‘It’s Chemical’
indie pop/soul
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At home I don’t really have any drum machines or anything like that, I just have a piano and a cassette machine, an old-fashioned one, an old relic which I’ve always used.
Bryan Ferry