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

notsure

‘Coarsed’

downtempo/experimental electronic

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SHYAWAY

‘Smile For the Camera’

indie pop

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Vector, Mastaa

‘No Worries’ ft. DJ Magnum

rap/afro-fusion

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Everything But The Everything

‘The Story’ featuring Sophia Prise 

indie electronic/post punk

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SIDE B

Divorce Court

‘Same Same’

chillwave

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Gregor Klamra

‘Floreana’

melodic house

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Myoon

‘Jump’

electro pop

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Zingg

‘Psychedelics’

emo rap

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I was driving across Georgia with a warlord and his bodyguards riding shotgun with their Kalashnikovs in a convoy of Mercedes and Land Rovers. The guy put on Pink Floyd’s ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ on a cassette, which they played on loudspeakers as we raced across the mountains, and I remember thinking, ‘This sure beats respectable life in England.’

Simon Sebag Montefiore